Google has just taken its first steps towards transparency when it comes to AI-generated images, by announcing SynthID; a watermarking tool for generative art. The announcement came from Google DeepMind today, which says the new technology will embed a digital watermark that’s ‘invisible to the human eye’ directly onto the pixels of an image. As […]
The End of the World by AI: Artificial Intelligence takeover apocalypse
Ultimately, the possibility of an AI takeover is a sobering one. It is a reminder that we are not the only intelligent species on Earth, and that we are vulnerable to threats that we cannot fully understand.
It may not be time to freak out about AI just yet
Generative AI, often talked up by doomsayers as a world-ending job bomb, definitely has its limitations. Even the people who create these large language models (LLMs) have already said that we’re very fast approaching the limits of what it can do. Open AI’s CEO, Sam Altman, stated very clearly at an MIT event in April […]
D&D’s Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants! uses AI art, and WotC has changed the rules
Fans spotted details in the illustration, tell-tale signs that a machine had rendered the image in the D&D sourcebook.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #216
Gen Con is this week, and Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly RPG news roundup that provides a one-stop shop for reviews, discoveries, tips, and interviews.
Clippy is back with a new app that brings AI to Windows 11
In the beginning, there was Siri, Google, Alexa… our AI overlords are assembling, and now it seems they include – Clippy?! Is that you?! Of course, most of us remember good ol’ Clippy. They were the assistant you’d find in Microsoft Office, usually trying to correct your spelling in the late ’90s and early 2000s. […]
Collaboration, not substitution: 5e’s most successful non-fantasy publisher on AI in RPGs
Chris Dias owns Dias Ex Machina, the creator of Ultramodern5, the most successful non-fantasy book for 5th Editions D&D not published by WOTC.
This giant nose can smell with the aid of a Raspberry Pi
Not one to be sniffed at, this interactive nose sculpture from multimedia artist Adnan Aga – called the Adnose – can ‘smell’ any object held in front of it. How do we know? I mean, how does a nose on its own even tell us what it’s smelling? Well, a paper poetically describing the smell […]
Watch the fan-made trailer for Wes Anderson-Style Alien Movie ‘EXTRATERRESTRIAL EXPEDITION’
We’ve seen a few AI-generated fan trailers in the style of Wes Anderson now, but this one might very well be my favourite. The trailer for Extraterrestrial Expedition shows us what classic sci-fi horror film Alien might have been like if Wes Anderson was in the director’s seat. It’s got all the good makings of […]
OpenAI roll out ChatGPT iOS upgrades – including Siri integration
It seems everyone’s talking about ChatGPT in some form or other, especially since the iPhone app has been released, allowing us AI access literally at our fingertips – whatever you need it for. Now, it’s been announced that the iOS app is to benefit from some fairly robust updates, including a Siri integration. Editor’s note: Because […]
