Disney and OpenAI’s new $1 billion partnership feels emblematic of the terrible times we’re living through. In exchange for access to the generative AI firm’s APIs and tools like ChatGPT, the studio plans to let users of OpenAI’s Sora AI video generator create clips featuring hundreds of Disney-owned characters. Sora AI users will be able to generate as much uncanny Pixar / Marvel / Star Wars slop for themselves as they want, and Disney will share some of it in a special section on the Disney Plus platform. It’s not hard to see where this is going to go.
When you think of what makes us human, would you say it’s our powers of prediction? I probably wouldn’t have, at least not until my conversation with Mark Miller, a philosopher of cognition and research fellow at both the University of Toronto and Monash University in Melbourne. He studies how new ideas about the mind […]
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<p>Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, has reportedly appointed a ‘Kayanmata’ vendor, Aminat Ayeni Onisiwo, as his senior legislative aide. ‘Kayanmata’ refers to herbs or potions women use in different forms as sexual pleasure, enhancers, or aphrodisiacs in northern Nigeria. Many married women use ‘Kayanmata’ to spice up sexual relations, but over time, it has been […]</p>
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