How a manually misconfigured and untested server continued running old test code during a live trading session, lead the bot to make $8.65 billion in unintended stock trades in just 28 minutes.
“We combine these two optical systems in a single camera by splitting the aperture: one half applies application-specific modulation using a diffractive optical element, and the other captures a conventional image. This co-design with a dual-pixel sensor allows simultaneous capture of coded and uncoded images — without increasing physical or computational footprint.”
The EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, which went into effect on August 1, 2024.
This act implements a risk-based approach to AI regulation, categorizing AI systems based on the level of risk they pose. High-risk systems, such as those used in healthcare, transport, and law enforcement, face stringent requirements, including risk management, transparency, and human oversight.
Key provisions of the AI Act include:
Transparency and Safety Requirements: AI systems must be designed to be safe, transparent, and easily understandable to users. This includes labeling requirements for AI-generated content, such as deepfakes (Engadget).
Risk Management and Compliance: Companies must establish comprehensive governance frameworks to assess and manage the risks associated with their AI systems. This includes compliance programs that cover data privacy, ethical use, and geographical considerations (Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP) (Passle).
Copyright and Data Mining: Companies must adhere to copyright laws when training AI models, obtaining proper authorization from rights holders for text and data mining unless it is for research purposes (Engadget).
Prohibitions and Restrictions: AI systems that manipulate behavior, exploit vulnerabilities, or perform social scoring are prohibited. The act also sets out specific rules for high-risk AI applications and imposes fines for non-compliance (Passle).
For US tech firms, compliance with the EU AI Act is critical due to the EU’s significant market size
FLUX (or FLUX. 1) is a suite of text-to-image models from Black Forest Labs, a new company set up by some of the AI researchers behind innovations and models like VQGAN, Stable Diffusion, Latent Diffusion, and Adversarial Diffusion Distillation
You’ve been in the VFX Industry for over a decade. Tell us about your journey.
It all started with my older brother giving me a Commodore64 personal computer as a gift back in the late 80′. I realised then I could create something directly from my imagination using this new digital media format. And, eventually, make a living in the process. That led me to start my professional career in 1990. From live TV to games to animation. All the way to live action VFX in the recent years.
I really never stopped to crave to create art since those early days. And I have been incredibly fortunate to work with really great talent along the way, which made my journey so much more effective.
What inspired you to pursue VFX as a career?
An incredible combination of opportunities, really. The opportunity to express myself as an artist and earn money in the process. The opportunity to learn about how the world around us works and how best solve problems. The opportunity to share my time with other talented people with similar passions. The opportunity to grow and adapt to new challenges. The opportunity to develop something that was never done before. A perfect storm of creativity that fed my continuous curiosity about life and genuinely drove my inspiration.
Tell us about the projects you’ve particularly enjoyed working on in your career
An exposure stop is a unit measurement of Exposure as such it provides a universal linear scale to measure the increase and decrease in light, exposed to the image sensor, due to changes in shutter speed, iso and f-stop.
+-1 stop is a doubling or halving of the amount of light let in when taking a photo
1 EV (exposure value) is just another way to say one stop of exposure change.
Same applies to shutter speed, iso and aperture.
Doubling or halving your shutter speed produces an increase or decrease of 1 stop of exposure.
Doubling or halving your iso speed produces an increase or decrease of 1 stop of exposure.
