How Human Digital Twins Will Disrupt Entertainment

MetaHuman Creator produces incredibly lifelike digital humans with applications in movies, games, and corporate training. While digital actors enable new creative possibilities, their emergence raises concerns about job loss for human actors and control over image rights.

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Is your AI navel-gazing or just number-crunching?

Researchers have thrown caution to the wind and embraced "the C-word"—consciousness—to explore whether AI can actually experience existence. But even as they piece together a rubric to identify 'presence' in a machine, they're left grappling with the "hard problem" of consciou...

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AI's art: from Picasso to puffer pope.

AI's newfound skill in image generation has dazzled the internet, scoring wins in photography contests and even causing stock market hiccups with convincing fakes. While critics worry about copyright woes and the precarious future of human artists, the real star here is the di...

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AI surpasses human champions in FPV drone racing.

In a landmark achievement, an AI system has outperformed top human contenders in First Person View (FPV) drone racing. Utilising only embedded technology like cameras, inertial sensors, and onboard processing, the system leveraged cutting-edge advances in machine vision.

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Avatar pop star sparks virtual music revolution.

Teenage virtual influencer Noonoouri just landed a major record deal, becoming the first AI-generated artist with a unique synthetic singing voice. As virtual idols like Noonoouri gain acceptance among young fans, the music industry faces disruption from AI performers who won'...

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