Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking toldLast Week Tonights John Oliver a chilling but memorable hypothetical story a decade ago about the potential dangers of AI. The gist is a group of scientists build a superintelligent computer and ask it, Is there a God? The computer answers, There is now and a bolt of lightning zaps the plug preventing it from being shut down. Lets hope thats not what happened with OpenAI and some missing evidence from the New York Times plagiarism lawsuit.Wired reported that a court declaration filed by the New York Times on Wednesday says that OpenAIs engineers accidentally erased evidence of the AIs training data that took a long time to research and compile. OpenAI recovered some of the data but the original file names and folder structure that show when the AI copied its articles into its models are still missing.OpenAI spokesperson Jason Deutrom disagreed with the NYTs claims and says the company will file our response soon. The Times has been battling Microsoft and OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement with its AI models since December of last year.The lawsuit is still in its discovery phase when evidence is requested and delivered by both sides to build its case for trial. OpenAI had to turn over its training data to the Times but hasnt publicly revealed the exact information it used to build the AI modes.Instead, OpenAI created a sandbox of two virtual machines so the NYTs legal team could conduct its research. The NYTs legal team spent more than 150 hours sifting through the data on one of the machines before the data was deleted. OpenAI acknowledged the deletion but the companys legal team called it a glitch. Although OpenAI engineers tried to correct the mistake, the restored data was missing the NYTs work. This led the NYT to essentially recreate everything from scratch. The NYTs lawyers said they had no reason to believe the deletion was intentional.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-new-york-times-says-openai-deleted-evidence-in-its-copyright-lawsuit-231805285.html?src=rss

2025 could be a tense year for Amazon. Reuters reports that, according to its sources, Amazon will likely be investigated by the European Union (EU) for violating the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by allegedly promoting and offering its own products ahead of others in its online store.The decision to launch the investigation will be made by incoming EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera. Her term will start next month following outgoing chief Margrethe Vestager, who is stepping down after serving two terms.Amazon denies that it violated the DMA. The EUs antitrust regulators launched an investigation into Apple, Meta and Google in March over issues such as fees and preferential presentation of its own apps on its online stores. The European Commission also hinted that it might be looking into Amazons business practices under the new laws.The DMA took effect last year and establishes criteria for large online platforms to behave in a far way online and leave room for contestability, according to the EUs website. The guidelines prevent big tech companies like Amazon from giving preferential treatment to their own products and services on their platforms.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/report-amazon-is-likely-to-face-an-eu-antitrust-investigation-next-year-214556510.html?src=rss

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It includes the return of William Shatner as James T. Kirk.You may have already seen some of the intriguing Star Trek-related shorts produced by OTOY as part of The Archive from the Roddenberry Archive.The latest is 765874: Unification, which celebrates the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: Generations. It launched on the web and via the Apple Vision Pro app. In it, we see live-action footage and CG images, with actors portraying characters like James T. Kirk and Spock during the shoot. According to OTOYs blog, performances came from Sam Witwer as James T. Kirk, with Lawrence Selleck as Spock. Witwer and Selleck were filmed in costume, performing as Kirk and Spock on set, aided by both physical and digital prosthetics resulting in period-accurate portrayals matching the appearance of the characters as they originally appeared in TV and Film at the time.Watching the short, and seeing a few behind the scenes images and videos here and there, really boggles the mind how they handled the face replacement work (which, as noted above, they call digital prosthetics). The visual effects supervisor was Mark Spatny.Heres a fun video from production designer Dave Blass. For folks using terms like "AI" and "Deep Fake" #Unification was all done in camera with @SamWitwer performance captured along with his Kirk version LIVE. This next level of Digital Prosthetic technology used by actors and craftsmen will be huge. It's technology in the hands of pic.twitter.com/OnDXQux3cD Dave Blass (@DaveBlass) November 20, 2024 Head to OTOYs blog post for more info.The post You really dont want to miss this latest OTOY short as part of the Roddenberry Archive appeared first on befores & afters.

Watch the reels for the first time right here.James Mangolds Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny has been out for some time, but were now able to bring you a first look at previs and postvis reels from Proof. As you can see, the studio delivered previs for the film in an animated comic-book quality to help inform the technical and storytelling. The postvis reel is also fascinating to see how plates and bluescreen photography was filled in with temporary visual effects to help the editorial process.Check out the reels, below. The post First look: see previs and postvis reels for Dial of Destiny appeared first on befores & afters.