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It’s Tuesday, July 11, and today we’re covering Netflix that uses AI to revolutionise the movie world, Twitter traffic that’s declining (due to the Threads app?), Sarah Silverman and other authors who sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT, and much more.

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🚀 BIG TECH & STARTUPS

Netflix Taps AI To Push Visual Effects (2 min read)

Researchers at Netflix say they may have rendered the green screen obsolete. Described as an innovative advancement in the application of AI in the film and television industry, the Magenta Green Screen (MGS) leverages the power of artificial intelligence to enhance visual effects, making them more realistic and precise in real time. Lately, AI has also helped Netflix create engrossing highlights, recaps, and trailers to increase viewership.

The introduction of AI into allows for the green channel to be replaced in real-time, which means actors can be realistically and instantly placed in the foreground of another scene. More remarkably, this AI technology can work accurately with transparent objects and intricate details like individual hair strands, which have been challenging with traditional methods.

Twitter traffic is ‘tanking’ as Meta’s Threads hits 100 million users (2 min read)

User traffic on Twitter has slowed since the launch of Meta’s text-based platform Threads, which has already surpassed 100 million sign-ups since its debut last week. Twitter appears to have taken a hit. Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, shared a screenshot to Twitter Sunday showing that traffic on the platform was “tanking.”

According to Similarweb, a data company that specializes in web analytics, web traffic to Twitter was down 5% for the first two full days Threads was generally available compared with the previous week. The company said Twitter’s web traffic is down 11% compared with the same days in 2022.

🧑‍🚀 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals (2 min read)

Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI tool designed to answer questions about medical information, has been in testing at the Mayo Clinic research hospital since April 2023, The Wall Street Journal reported. Med-PaLM 2 is a variant of PaLM 2. It still suffers from some of the accuracy issues we’re already used to seeing in large language models. Still, in almost every other metric, Med-PaLM 2 performed more or less as well as the actual doctors.

AI, quantum and nuclear technologies are key to Lockheed Martin’s vision for Space 2050 (3 min read)

Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and nuclear power are among the key technologies Lockheed Martin sees as important for future space missions. Through a project called Destination: Space 2050, Lockheed Martin executives are exploring the use of new technologies for future endeavours:

• AI could assist scientific exploration of locations where communications with remote sensors would be disrupted by high latency.

• Data gathered by hundreds or thousands of satellites creates a vast amount of date: Use AI to determine truly optimal and trusted decisions from that raw data.

• Use of “quantum algorithms” for quantum computers, quantum remote sensing and quantum communications that will benefit fast and reliable calculations and communication.

• Advancements in power and propulsion, including nuclear technologies.

To achieve Lockheed Martin’s Space 2050 vision, new infrastructure including computational capacity in space will be needed.

🧠 MISCELLANEOUS

Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT (2 min read)

Award-winning novelists Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, and, separately comedian Sarah Silverman and novelists Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, have sued OpenAI and accused the startup of training ChatGPT on their books without consent, violating copyright laws.

OpenAI trains its large language models by scraping text from the internet, and although it hasn't revealed exactly what resources it has used, the startup has admitted to training its systems on hundreds of thousands of books protected by copyright, and stored on websites like Sci-Hub or Bibliotik.

All of the authors believe that their books have been ingested by ChatGPT without their permission, and that OpenAI is profiting from their work without attribution.

Is artificial intelligence advancing too quickly? What AI leaders at Google say (10 min read)

The revolution in artificial intelligence is the center of a debate ranging from those who hope it will save humanity to those who predict doom. Google lies somewhere in the optimistic middle, introducing AI in steps so that civilization can get used to it. In an interview with CBSNews, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that AI will be as good or as evil as human nature allows. The revolution, he says, is coming faster than you know.

China’s AI Regulations and How They Get Made (12 min read)

Chinese AI governance is approaching a turning point. After spending several years exploring, debating, and enacting regulations that address specific AI applications, China’s policymaking community is now gearing up to draft a comprehensive national AI law.

That process echoes the evolution of Chinese regulations governing the internet. For much of the 2000s and early 2010s, Chinese internet governance took the form of narrow regulations issued by government ministries.