For his explosion event in Los Angeles, Cai Guo-Qiang built his own version of
ChatGPT and employed a drone army to answer the question: what is the fate of
humanity and AI?
For decades, Cai Guo-Qiang has been the world’s foremost fine artist of
explosions. He is famous for his massive fireworks displays, from his glowing
footsteps in the sky at the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, to his 2015
Sky Ladder, a 1,650-foot flaming ladder to heaven featured in a Netflix
documentary.
Recently, the gunpowder artist has become obsessed with a new threatening
technology: artificial intelligence.
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Workers picket at Warner Bros Studios against what they say is unwillingness
from firms to protect union members
More than 300 video game performers and Hollywood actors picketed in front of
the Warner Bros Studios building on Thursday to protest against what they call
an unwillingness from top gaming companies to protect union voice actors and
motion capture workers equally against the unregulated use of artificial
intelligence.
Standing before the crowd, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, national executive director
of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
(Sag-Aftra), said that AI has become the most challenging issue in many of the
union’s negotiations.
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Voice actors and motion capture performers to strike over AI protections after
nearly two years of negotiations
Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part
of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new
contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence
protections.
The strike – the second for video game voice actors and motion capture
performers under the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and
Radio Artists (Sag-Aftra) – will begin at 12.01am Friday. The move comes after
nearly two years of negotiations with gaming giants, including divisions of
Activision, Warner Bros and Walt Disney Co, over a new interactive media
agreement.
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