Known best to some for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movies, the British actor had an extensive career spanning over seven decades across screen and theatre. Her passing was reported by the BBC.
Below is one of my favorite clips, in which she discusses getting cast in roles as an older actor alongside fellow Dames Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins.
A new regulation drafted this month aims to legally enforce a similar system to voluntary global initiatives like C2PA Authentication.
If enacted, AI providers in China must add explicit labels and metadata encryption to AI content, or face government penalties. Social media companies will also need to scan for these watermarks to label content on their platforms, and add more information to help track its journey online.
The AI Act came into law on August 1st, but some rules for “high risk” systems won’t be enforced until August 2027. Now, companies like Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and Samsung are promising to make a head start.
Meta and Apple (which have been critical of the EU’s AI stance) are notably absent, but OpenAI has signed the pledge despite previous grumblings.
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In an interview with The New York Times, Nintendo design guru Shigeru Miyamoto says the company has no interest in ditching originality to follow AI fads:
“It might seem like we are just going the opposite direction for the sake of going in the opposite direction, but it really is trying to find what makes Nintendo special,” Miyamoto said. “There is a lot of talk about A.I., for example. When that happens, everyone starts to go in the same direction, but that is where Nintendo would rather go in a different direction.”
Other companies like Embracer have embraced AI, and the likes of Ubisoft, Nvidia, and Microsoft are already experimenting with generative AI characters.
