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An AI startup is driving 3,400 miles to film how Americans live with AI

The founder of a US AI software company is taking a camera crew on a road trip to ask ordinary Americans how AI is changing their lives. The documentary, called America vs. AI, will cover about 3,400 miles and more than 20 cities this month, AskBobAI said in a press release. TNW has not independently verified […]

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Netflix’s Wonka show uses an AI Gene Wilder voice, and viewers object

Netflix’s new reality competition, Wonka’s The Golden Ticket, uses an AI recreation of Gene Wilder’s voice, and viewers have pushed back. The voice narrates the show and explains the rules to contestants. Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 film, died in 2016. The show premiered on 23 September. The AI voice was made […]

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Hollywood studios want film graduates who already use AI, Semafor reports

Hollywood studios are turning to film schools for graduates who already know how to use AI video tools, rather than training their own staff, Semafor reported on Thursday. “How do we find people who already know how to use this?” studios are now asking, Runway chief executive Cristóbal Valenzuela told Semafor. Runway, which makes AI tools […]

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Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary premieres in Venice with an AI-simulated interview

Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday. As its subject declined to sit for an interview, the film built one. In a fine irony, a CGI avatar of Musk, driven by AI voice syncing, delivers statements he made in real interviews elsewhere. A man who has spent a […]

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The team behind Paddington 2 could’ve made a Star Wars droid movie

Paul King and Simon Farnaby, the directing and writing team behind Paddington 2, were approached by Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars film. The pair pitched a story centered entirely on a droid, with none of the franchise’s established characters. It did not happen. Farnaby revealed the project in a Variety interview promoting his latest […]

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Minions & Monsters wins July 4 box office with a franchise-low $64M debut

[tldr]Universal’s Minions & Monsters topped the US July 4 box office with roughly $64m over its first five days, the weakest opening in Despicable Me franchise history and far below the $120m-plus debuts of its two predecessors. The soft start raises franchise-fatigue questions for Comcast’s most reliable animation machine.[/tldr] Universal’s Minions & Monsters led the […]

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