Victoria Turk

1 month ago | wired.com | Reece Rogers |Victoria Turk

Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, are as conspicuous as ever. A WIRED investigation, which included a review of hundreds of AI-generated videos, has found that Sora’s model perpetuates sexist, racist, and ableist stereotypes in its results. In Sora’s world, everyone is good-looking. Pilots, CEOs, and college professors are men, while flight attendants, receptionists, and childcare workers are women.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Reece Rogers |Victoria Turk

I'm a published author and I tested Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Grok 3 at creative writing — here's my verdictHave you ever wondered why Shakespeare is considered one of the best writers ever? He obviously has quite the fanbase even though he died in 1616. …

2 months ago | technologyreview.jp | Victoria Turk

デンマークのオーデンセを訪れる観光旅行客は、この都市の豊かな歴史と文化を目的にやって来る。ここは、11世紀にデンマーク最後のバイキング王であるクヌート王が殺害された場所である。また、その700年ほど後に、有名な童話作家ハンス・クリスチャン・アンデルセンが生まれた場所でもある。 しかし現在、人口21万人強のオーデンセには、150社以上のロボット工学、オートメーション、ドローン関連企業の所在地でもある。この都市は特に、協働ロボット（コボット）で知られている。コボットは人間と共に働くために設計されたロボットのことで、多くの場合、産業環境で使用される。ロボットはこの都市にとって「最も大切な産業」であり、市民の誇りであると、ピーター・ラーベック・ジュエル市長は言う。 オーデンセのロボット産業の成功は、より伝統的な産業である造船にルーツを持つ。1980年代、マースク・グループ（Mærsk...

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Victoria Turk

I’m watching artificial intelligence order my groceries. Armed with my shopping list, it types each item into the search bar of a supermarket website, then uses its cursor to click. Watching what appears to be a digital ghost do this usually mundane task is strangely transfixing. “Are you sure it’s not just a person in India?” my husband asks, peering over my shoulder. I’m trying out Operator, a new AI “agent” from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

2 months ago | prsformusic.com | Victoria Turk

Jessica Curry got her break in composing for video games quite by accident. It came about after her husband, Dan Pinchbeck, asked if she would write some music to accompany an experimental project for his gaming-related PhD. That turned into Dear Esther, a video game set in the Hebrides that follows a man reading letters to his dead wife. Initially put online for free, Jessica and Dan then released a revised version through their own game development studio, The Chinese Room, in 2012.