With its second (and final) season set to be released sometime this November, the new trailer dives deeper into the escalating conflict between the cities of Piltover and Zaun, and the sisters Vi and Jinx fighting on either side.
It also introduces Ashnikko’s new single “Paint The Town Blue,” which will feature on the show’s soundtrack.
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) executive director Joel Bamford said that while Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff “does qualify as a merger under UK law,” the transaction was unlikely to significantly reduce competition in the consumer chatbot market.
Additional details about the shuttered investigation are available here.
Our latest video runs through the issues involved in resolving that conundrum, and the problems we may encounter if we can’t. Stick around till the end for a bonus “find the AI image” challenge!
If you struggle to understand why so many artists, writers, and other creatives find generative AI objectionable, just read this essay from Ted Chiang. Creativity itself is complex and subjective, but Chiang makes a good argument for why its absence is a notable flaw in AI-generated content.
Here’s one of many thought-provoking excerpts:
The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning.
[The New Yorker]
