Mashable Monday March 25, 2024
Ray-Ban's Meta smart glasses are getting smarter, notes Mashable: The camera-equipped glasses, which launched in December, can now use their multimodal AI smarts to retrieve information on popular landmarks. For example, if you were to ask the glasses (through the built-in mics) for "a cool fact" about the Golden Gate Bridge, while looking at the bridge, they might tell you about the bridge's famous International Orange color. There are other updates as well.
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Marlborough Gallery Monday March 25, 2024
The exhibition “Nightlife,” on view at New York’s Marlborough gallery through April 20, brings together the works of six photographers known for chronicling the nocturnal hours of city life: Berenice Abbott, Brassaï, Bill Brandt, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Weegee. Their work, notes the gallery, illuminates “underground subcultures, illicit activities, subversive fashions, and those otherwise existing on the fringes of society searching for hedonistic escapism.” In other words, people looking a good time and freedom from dusk to dawn.
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Monday March 25, 2024
As we noted recently, OpenAI’s upcoming video-generating artificial intelligence AI model, Sora, is freaking out a lot of people, with many wondering about what data was used to train the technology. During a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, left the question unanswered. “We used publicly available data and licensed data,” she noted. But when asked whether Sora had been trained with data from social media platforms like YouTube, Instagram or Facebook, Murati said, “I’m actually not sure about that.” The Verge notes that Sora will be available sometime later this year. See also: Cointelegraph.
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British Wildlife Photography Awards Monday March 25, 2024
What makes for a compelling wildlife image in 2024? Ryan Stalker’s shot of a floating soccer ball encrusted with invasive goose barnacles is the overall winner of the 2024 British Wildlife Photography Awards competition. “Above the water is just a football. But below the waterline is a colony of creatures,” Stalker says. “The football was washed up in Dorset after making a huge ocean journey across the Atlantic.” More than 14,000 photos were submitted to this year’s competition. The award, in its 12th year, showcases Britain’s natural world.
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