Babbitt | Metaverse Daily Must-Read: More than 90% of short play scripts can be generated by AI? Will "AI Shakespeare" appear and deal a heavy blow to screenwriters?

Abstract: According to a report from Snow Leopard Finance and Economics, in May of this year, the largest screenwriter strike broke out in Hollywood in the United States in 15 years. One of the demands was to exclude AI from film and TV creation and not try to replace screenwriters. Some manufacturers said that many MCNs that produce short plays have five or six screenwriters. If the AI system they developed is used, two screenwriters can complete the same work. Keyboards and computers won't replace human typewriters, but will "AI Shakespeare" come along and hit screenwriters hard?

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Shanghai Jiaotong University released the open source "Magnolia Science Model", which includes three fields: chemical synthesis, neurofluids, and scientific evaluation benchmarks

According to news from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University News Academic Network on July 11, the school released the "Magnolia Scientific Model Version 1.0" at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. According to reports, the "Magnolia Scientific Model 1.0" includes three domain models, among which chemical synthesis (BAI-Chem) represents the subject direction centered on molecular structure, and neurofluid (BAI-NeuroFluid) represents the direction centered on dynamics. The disciplinary direction of the center, the Science Assessment Benchmark (BAI-Sci) is an interdisciplinary and cross-modal basic model.

The European Commission develops a metaverse plan to take a leading position in the metaverse field

Reuters reported on July 11 that the European Commission has drawn up a metaverse plan to take a leading role in metaverses (shared virtual worlds accessible via the internet) and prevent big tech companies from dominating the nascent field. The plan includes bringing together creators, media companies and others to create an industry ecosystem and establishing a regulatory sandbox to help companies test the Metaverse, launching skills development programs and virtual public services. "We want to ensure that Web 4.0 is an open, secure, trustworthy, fair and inclusive digital environment for all," said European Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager.

EU executives said its initiative aimed to reflect the bloc's values and fundamental rights and create an open and interoperable metaverse, a global market expected to grow to more than 800 billion euros by 2030 from 27 billion euros last year.

Report: The global AI computing market will grow from $19.5 billion in 2022 to $34.66 billion in 2026

According to Jinshi's report on July 12, Inspur Information, Tsinghua University Global Industry Research Institute and IDC released the "2022-2023 Global Computing Power Index Evaluation Report" on July 12. The "Report" shows that AI computing represented by generative AI will show a skyrocketing trend in the future. In IDC's forecast, the global AI computing market will grow from $19.50 billion in 2022 to $34.66 billion in 2026, of which the generative AI computing market will grow from $820 million in 2022 to $10.99 billion in 2026 Dollar. Generative AI computing will grow from 4.2% to 31.7% of the overall AI computing market. In the field of AIGC, artificial intelligence algorithms and technologies are applied in various fields and industries, such as self-driving cars, medical diagnosis, financial forecasting, etc.

Stability AI test SDXL 1.0 version, image generation is more stable and efficient

Babbitt News, on July 11, Stability AI announced the launch of the Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 version update, which is being tested on Discord. The new version further improves the quality of text-generated images. It is reported that the main features of the new version include faster generation and higher quality; more control elements, enhanced customization; more feedback and guidance, and more integration and compatibility.

Google Restricts Bard AI Features to Prevent Social Abuse

According to news from IT House on July 12, Google CEO Sundar Pichai (Sundar Pichai) warned against the use of AI to make fake videos of public figures. He said that the current AI will soon make large-scale fraud " easy". It is reported that Pichai made this comment in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" before. He also said that Google has actually restricted many functions of Bard AI, and will gradually open these functions in order to make society adapt. , and can give Google more time to develop a more reliable security mechanism.

American unicorn company Jasper AI announces layoffs

Babbitt News, on July 12, Dave Rogenmoser, co-founder and CEO of the American AI unicorn company Jasper AI, announced on LinkedIn that he would reshape the team, centralize and integrate resources. Rogenmoser said that the laid-off employees are the first batch of people in the industry to develop, promote and support artificial intelligence products. If a team is recruiting, it will be recommended.

KPMG plans to invest $2 billion in artificial intelligence and cloud services by expanding cooperation with Microsoft

According to a Wall Street Journal report on July 11, KPMG plans to invest $2 billion in artificial intelligence and cloud services in its global business line over the next five years by expanding its partnership with Microsoft. KPMG said the partnership is expected to bring in more than $12 billion in revenue over five years. As of September 30, 2022, KPMG's global revenue totaled $34.64 billion. With new investment, KPMG will further automate tax, audit and advisory services, aiming to empower staff to provide faster analysis, spend more time providing strategic advice and help more firms integrate artificial intelligence to its operation.

The gallery website Shutterstock officially announced the expansion of cooperation with OpenAI

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press on July 12, the US listed company Shutterstock announced that it has signed a 6-year long contract with OpenAI, and will expand cooperation in the supply of high-quality training data and the construction of AIGC products.

According to the official announcement, this agreement consolidates Shutterstock's position as a major supplier of high-quality training data for OpenAI. Now that OpenAI has obtained permission to access additional Shutterstock training data, related metadata such as pictures, videos and music libraries, Shutterstock will give priority to the latest OpenAI technology and will continue to use (OpenAI's) DALL・E's text-to-picture generation capabilities Directly integrated into the copyright image platform. In addition to text-to-image generation, the partnership will also provide Shutterstock customers with synthetic editing capabilities: not only to create new content, but also to simply edit and alter any image in the Shutterstock library to accelerate ideation and production.

Google faces privacy infringement lawsuit for allegedly illegally collecting user data to train AI

Google is currently facing a broad class action lawsuit alleging that the tech giant illegally collected data on millions of internet users to train its flagship chatbot Bard and other artificial intelligence programs.

The Clarkson law firm filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday (July 11), alleging that Google violated a series of privacy and intellectual property laws, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. A few weeks ago, the law firm similarly sued OpenAI, claiming that the company used "unprecedented" illegal web scraping tactics to create its chatbot ChatGPT and image generator DALL-E.

"Transformer eight sons" all leave Google, and the last resigners will devote themselves to AI entrepreneurship

According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on July 12, eight Google researchers previously jointly published a paper explaining the Transformer architecture, and they were known as the "Eight Sons of Transformer". Now one of the authors, Llion Jones, will leave Google at the end of this month. With his resignation, all the authors of the paper have left Google. Jones said that leaving Google was not an easy decision, but given the momentum of AI development, it was time to try something different. According to reports, he himself plans to take a break before starting a company. It is reported that the Transformer architecture is the most important part of Google's famous algorithm BERT, and it is the "T" at the end of ChatGPT.

Microsoft's Bing chat new feature exposed, using natural language to control the Edge browser

According to a report by IT House on July 12, Microsoft Edge browser is about to launch a new feature that allows users to control the operation of the browser through the Bing chat panel on the right. This feature is similar to Microsoft's upcoming AI assistant Windows Copilot, which executes commands through simple text prompts. Shared on Twitter by Edge enthusiast @Leopeva64, this feature lets users type some short words into the Bing chat panel, and the browser will act accordingly based on the meaning of the words. For example, a user could type "v tabs" to open a vertical tab page, or "down hub" to open a download page. This feature can also open pages inside Edge, or bookmark all open pages. It is reported that this feature that can control Edge through the Bing chat panel is still in beta and has not yet been officially launched.

Investment and Financing:

AI startup Alphasense raises funding at $2.5 billion valuation

Alphasense Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven market research and data company, is raising money at a valuation of $2.5 billion, people familiar with the matter said. The New York-based company is in talks to raise about $150 million, which will be used for growth opportunities for the company, including potential acquisitions. The pending round of talks could be announced within weeks. Alphasense previously raised $100 million in April at a valuation of $1.8 billion from investors including Viking Global investors, Alphabet Inc. and a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

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"AI Stefanie Sun is here, can AI Shakespeare be far behind?" "

The joys and sorrows swept by the new wave are equally clear. Some people are excitedly waiting for the arrival of the wind, looking forward to standing on the cusp of the technological revolution; some people are worried that the craft that survives being subverted by technology will eventually be abandoned by the times. In May of this year, the largest screenwriter strike broke out in Hollywood in the United States in 15 years. One of the demands was to exclude AI from film and TV creation and not try to replace screenwriters. Liu Xiaoyi told Snow Leopard Finance and Economics that many MCNs that produce short plays employ five or six screenwriters. If the AI system developed by them is used, two screenwriters can complete the same work. Keyboards and computers won't replace human typewriters, but will "AI Shakespeare" come along and hit screenwriters hard?

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