teaching AI + ethics from elementary to high school
/ A.I.

codeorg.medium.com/microsoft-code-org-partner-to-teach-ai-ethics-from-elementary-to-high-school-4b983fd809e3

At a time when AI and machine learning are changing the very fabric of society and transforming entire industries, it is more important than ever to give every student the opportunity to not only learn how these technologies work, but also to think critically about the ethical and societal impacts of AI.

Autodesk Shotgun running generative scheduling based on machine learning
/ A.I., software

www.awn.com/news/autodesk-shotgun-taps-new-tech-future-production-management

With Autodesk’s acquisition of technology known as Consilium, machine learning-driven generative scheduling is coming to Shotgun Software, which will enable more accurate bidding, scheduling, and resource planning decisions.

Machine learning is being brought to production management with generative scheduling in Shotgun, currently in early testing. For producers and production managers, this will make the manual and complex challenge of optimized scheduling and resource planning more dynamic, controllable, and predictive. This feature set will allow producers to plan faster, with greater accuracy and agility to help their teams produce the best work possible.

9 Key Machine Learning Algorithms Explained in Plain English
/ A.I.

www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-no-code-intro-to-the-9-most-important-machine-learning-algorithms-today/

Recommendation Systems

Linear Regression

Logistic Regression

K-Nearest Neighbors

Decision Trees and Random Forests

Support Vector Machines

K-Means Clustering

Principal Component Analysis

A question of ethics – What CG simulation and deepfakes means for the future of performance
/ A.I., production, ves

www.ibc.org/create-and-produce/re-animators-night-of-the-living-avatars/5504.article

“When your performance is captured as data it can be manipulated, reworked or sampled, much like the music industry samples vocals and beats. If we can do that then where does the intellectual property lie? Who owns authorship of the performance? Where are the boundaries?”

“Tracking use of an original data captured performance is tricky given that any character or creature you can imagine can be animated using the artist’s work as a base.”

“Conventionally, when an actor contracts with a studio they will assign rights to their performance in that production to the studio. Typically, that would also licence the producer to use the actor’s likeness in related uses, such as marketing materials, or video games.

Similarly, a digital avatar will be owned by the commissioners of the work who will buy out the actor’s performance for that role and ultimately own the IP.

However, in UK law there is no such thing as an ‘image right’ or ‘personality right’ because there is no legal process in the UK which protects the Intellectual Property Rights that identify an image or personality.

The only way in which a pure image right can be protected in the UK is under the Law of Passing-Off.”

“Whether a certain project is ethical or not depends mainly on the purpose of using the ‘face’ of the dead actor,” “Legally, when an actor dies, the rights of their [image/name/brand] are controlled through their estate, which is often managed by family members. This can mean that different people have contradictory ideas about what is and what isn’t appropriate.”

“The advance of performance capture and VFX techniques can be liberating for much of the acting community. In theory, they would be cast on talent alone, rather than defined by how they look.”

“The question is whether that is ethically right.”

Best A.I. Image Upscaler? Top 7 Software Compared
/ A.I., software
  • 1. imglarger.com
  • 2. letsenhance.io
  • 3. bigjpg.com
  • 4. deep-image.ai
  • 5. imageupscaler.com
  • 6. GigaPixel AI
  • 7. Photoshop