🎨 Outrage after AI-Generated Nude Artwork Fetches $340,000.

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Outrage over AI-generated artwork, UN wary of killer robots and the US Air Force talks AI.

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• 🎨 AI-Generated Nude Artwork Fetches $340,000.

• 🤖 UN Braces for Rapid Advancement of Robots

• ✈️ U.S. Air Force Emphasizes Role of AI in Future Aircraft

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ART
🎨 AI-Generated Nude Artwork Fetches $340,000

Brief: An AI-generated artwork by Robbie Barrat, a pioneer in the AI and generative art universe, recently sold for a staggering $340,000.

Details:

• Robbie Barrat, known for his early experiments with ML and GANs (generative adversarial networks), created a series of 300 AI-generated nude art portraits in 2018.

• The recently sold piece, "AI-Generated Nude Portrait #7 Frame #111" is part of this series.

• The artwork was sold for 175 ETH ($343,761), inciting criticism from those who view AI-generated art as lacking aesthetic appeal and human narrative.

• The collection, "The Lost Robbies," was created for a Christie's Tech Summit in 2018. Many of the pieces were lost as only some attendees redeemed their gift cards containing the art, adding to the rarity and value of the remaining pieces.

Why It Matters: The sale of Barrat's artwork highlights the ongoing debate about the value and legitimacy of AI in the art world. This sale not only shows the financial potential but also raises questions about the definition of art and the importance of human involvement in its creation.

REGULATION
🤖 UN Braces for Rapid Advancement of AI-Powered Robots

Brief: The UN recently held a global AI summit, "AI for Good," to address the rapid growth of artificial intelligence.

Details:

• Around 3,000 experts from various fields attended the summit, including experts from Amazon and Microsoft.

• The attendees were startled by the humanoid robots present at the summit, which could track movement, answer questions, and display human-like expressions.

• The robots present at the summit were not just humanoids, but also robotic dogs, farm machinery, and avatars.

Looking Ahead:
The UN's initiative to bring together experts to discuss these issues is a step towards understanding and managing the impacts of AI. However, the questions raised at the summit indicate that we’re still in the early stages of figuring out exactly how it all will work.

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MILITARY
✈️ U.S. Air Force Emphasizes Role of AI in Future Aircraft

Brief: The U.S. Air Force is investing heavily in autonomous technologies for future aircraft. This includes the Autonomous Aircraft Experimentation (AAx) initiative, which focuses on testing and refining AI and machine learning-driven autonomous capabilities for uncrewed aircraft.

Details:

• The AAx initiative focuses on integrating artificially trained neural networks into real-world applications, such as airplane control.

• The AAx testing ecosystem also includes simulators and other supporting elements on the ground, allowing the Air Force to develop new capabilities and test them in a live flight test environment.

Looking Ahead: 
The Air Force expects to kick off its CCA (Collaborative Combat Aircraft) competition, which will be highly classified, sometime next year. In the meantime, experimentation teams are working hard to prove that AI-driven technologies will support advanced drone programs.

The focus on AI and autonomy reflects a broader trend in the military using these technologies in the future.

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Quick Hits

🚀 SoftBank Fuels Robot Revolution with $170M Investment

SoftBank invested in Telexistence's $170M funding round, aiming to expand robotic operations in the US and increase headcount, despite previous robotics investment setbacks.

🍇 A Harvard Genetics Professor Reverses Bio Age by a Decade

Harvard professor David Sinclair credits resveratrol, intermittent fasting, and a low-sugar, plant-based diet for his biological age being 10 years younger than his actual age.

🧰 Alibaba Launches Tool to Generate Images from Text.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba on Friday launched Tongyi Wanxiang, an artificial intelligence tool that can generate images from prompts.

AI text-to-image tools such as Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are already available, but this is the first from a Chinese company.

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