#2246 Bruce Willis / Imagen Video / Miso Robotics / weaponization / AlphaTensor
Episode description
The veteran actor has agreed to sell the rights to his likeness so that a digital twin can be created using deepfake technology.
https://gizmodo.com/bruce-willis-sells-likeness-ai-deepfake-1849601061
Generative modeling has made tremendous strides, especially with recent text-to-image models.
https://imagen.research.google/video/
Miso Robotics Inc. of Pasadena has begun introducing its Flippy 2 robot, which automates the frying of potatoes, onions and other foods. "
Several robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, are promising not to support arming their products and are urging others in the industry to do the same, according to a letter first shared with Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/06/boston-dynamics-pledges-weaponize-robots
DeepMind has made another impressive artificial intelligence announcement with AlphaTensor, a deep reinforcement learning system that discovers algorithms to make matrix multiplication much more efficient.