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ROCK HILL, S.C. (CN2 NEWS) Creating art in any form can be difficult to do without the required skills, but now its getting a lot easier thanks to artificial intelligence.

Its known as A.I. Art and its giving both artist and non-artist the ability to create anything imaginable with the simple click of a button.

Robert Matheson, the director of the Non-Fungible Token Museum in Newberry, S.C., recently gave a lecture at the Bakhita Arts Gallery in Rock Hill, where he gave an overview of the A.I. Art technology.

In that discussion he explained that artificial intelligence is being used to create everything from pictures and paintings, all the way to writings and musical compositions. He says its all done through web programs that use algorithms to take written prompts, and turn them into a work of art.

According to Matheson not all of these programs work the same, with some using generative art technology to create anything imaginable. Other programs use open source technology to search the internet looking for other artists works, that are then used to train the algorithm to create.

One problem we have is that there are open source A.I.s that you cant stop anyone from training it if they want. But I do agree they should be able to opt out, Matheson said. On the flip side generative art technology can go through unlimited iterations. And so it will take whatever you input it and eventually create every style that we see now, and styles we cant imagine.

CN2s Zane Cina attending the event in the story above to learn how technology is changing the art community forever.

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As the aviation industry trends toward more autonomous flight technologies with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), one tech start-up is looking into a different use for AI in aircraft: to monitor pilots using facial sensing software.

Blueskeye AI, a U.K.-based software development company that specializes in facial analysis using AI, recently received a 20,000 ($24,600) award from the Aerospace Unlocking Potential (UP) program, a joint effort between the University of Nottingham and the Midlands Aerospace Alliance, to investigate how facial sensing technology could glean information about human behavior in aircraft cockpits.

The company uses facial recognition and voice analysis software to look at medically and biophysically relevant behavior, so we can use it to help assess, diagnose, monitor, and treat medical conditions that actually change your expressive behavior, Blueskeye AI founder and CEO Michel Valstar told FutureFlight.

Valstar explained that the AI software can be used to identify ailments such as fatigue, pain, depression, and anxiety, for example, by analyzing how facial muscles move and contract. In aerospace we're looking primarily at the moment at the fatigue elements, but we have interest in some of the other medically relevant behaviors as well, he said. While the company is currently focusing its efforts on identifying fatigue and other signs of psychological distress, the technology could someday be used to detect early signs of major health events like heart failure or cardiac arrest.

The key thing is that we actually measure mental states, so we're inferring from your sequence of actions and your behavior over time that the mind is becoming fatigued way before you start actually showing it by nodding off and closing your eyes, at which point it can be too late, Valstar explained. The point is to provide information back to the pilot, that they are getting fatigued and might need to have a break or change with someone else.

Blueskeye AI has been developing its face and voice analysis technology for 18 years, and the company is exploring a variety of applications for the software. For example, the company has developed an app for pregnant women that it claims can detect early signs of depression, and that app is currently undergoing clinical trials.

To implement this technology into an aircraft cockpit, the only equipment that needs to be installed is a small near-infrared camera, with a built-in microcomputer, pointed at the pilot or pilots. From the view of their face, we can then detect the facial muscle actions in particular and where they're looking, and with the microphone we can try and pick up the voice if it's possible over the [sound of the] engine, Valstar said.

Using its award from the Aerospace UP program, Blueskeye AI has installed a prototype in the cockpit of a small, two-seat airplane and used it to collect data on both the pilot and the passenger or co-pilot. Were basically collecting pilot data on pilots, Valstar said. Were using that to see how it will operate in there and collecting data of the people in the plane to then run algorithms on and come up with the functional requirements for the next phase of this work.

Valstar hopes that Blueskeye AIs software will not only help make flying safer by identifying when pilots might be unfit to fly, but that it might also help the aviation industry as a whole come up with better policies for managing pilot fatigue. There are already lots of rules in place from the industry, but the problem is that those rules are very fixed based on what is expected to be normal, he said. Those rules, he added, are based on a fixed number of hours that you can operate [an aircraft] before you need to switch, and they dont actually take into account the actual state of the pilot.

Rather than follow a one-size-fits-all approach to setting pilots schedules, airlines could use Blueskeye AIs data analysis to determine when a pilot is too fatigued to keep working. On the flipside, the technology could also allow pilots to operate an aircraft for longer periods of time than what is allowed under existing rules, provided they are alert and well enough to keep working. By introducing this measurement, you actually increase safety as well as flexibility, Valstar said

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Artificial Intelligence is a term thats often used in our everyday lives. The precise definition goes like this-Artificial intelligence(AI) isintelligencedemonstrated bymachines, as opposed to intelligence ofhumansandother animals. Example tasks in which this is done include speech recognition, computer vision, translation between (natural) languages, as well as other mappings of inputs.

AI in Hollywood

Siri and Alexa could be common examples. But Hollywood Cinema has been using this way before the concept was even known with tenacity, and they have done with meticulous detailing. The best example is Hal 9000 in Stanley Kubricks2001: A Space Odyssey. It first assist the crew of the spaceship and then turns on them when it senses they could be a threat to the misison.

Ava in Ex Machina

Ava is a robot thats created by a gifted scientist but this isnt just a Sci-Fi film but also explores the relationship between a man and a machine, especially a machine thats his own creation.

Skynet in The Terminator

A masochistic machine that wants to eradicate the entire existence of humanity to protect itself, this is a spectacular piece of work by the makers that think as imaginatively as it can get.

Replicants inBlade Runner

Here, AI are in the form of humanoid robots.

The theme of AI and the way it has been incorporated by the makers in the West for so long has pushed the bar of storytelling and spectacle across the globe. It may have taken time to reach to India, but our makers have made attempts to push the bar too. In films like Robot, 2.0, and Attack, we saw both scale and sincerity, and yes, spectacle too.

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Kory Bieg, Sponge Housing, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist via Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have announced a new symposium focusing on the applications of AI in architecture and the built environment.

Taking place on April 3rd, AI + Design will cover the future of AI-assisted design methods/tools. It also dives into "the futureof AI-assisted design and the implications for design practice and training, among other topics."

Distinguished Google research scientist Krishna Bharat will deliver the keynote address, followed immediately by a conversation between alumnusKory Bieg (AB'99),founder and principal ofOTA,and Ian Bogost, who is the director of film and media studies at the School of Arts & Sciences and professor of computer science and engineering at the McKelvey School.

Kory Bieg, Sponge Housing, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist via Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School.

Assistant professor and undergraduate architecture chair Constance Vale will continue the day-long event with a lecture featuring visiting assistant professor Matthew Allen titled The Machinic Muse: AI & Creativity. Their presentation will be followed by a panel discussion led by associate professor of interaction design Jonathan Hanahan on the topic of Human-AI Interaction. Finally, the symposium will conclude with closing remarks from McKelvey School Dean Aaron Bobick.

Among creative professionals, conversations about artificial design can spark both fascination and trepidation, Sam Fox School Dean andE. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts,Carmon Colangelo, said in a preview. This symposium aims to get past the hype and the sensationalism to grapple with AIs real capabilities as well as the sorts of tools, skills, and interfaces that will allow designers to harness its best potentials.

Events begin at 12:30 with opening remarks from Colangelo and take place at the Anabeth and John Weil Hall. Registration is free and open to the public. More information about events taking place on campus this semester can be found here.

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Mar. 30WALES U.S. Sen. Angus King appeared early Thursday afternoon in a choppy video on a big screen in front of about 60 Oak Hill High School juniors gathered in the auditorium.

"Oak Hill, can you hear me?" Maine's junior senator asked. "I'm in the hall outside the Senate chamber."

After showing off the view at the U.S. Capitol, the two-term independent proceeded to talk with students for nearly an hour on everything from his biggest fear the misuse of artificial intelligence to his memories of the nation's capital in the wake of rioting in 1968.

Ukraine got the most attention.

"We've got to help the Ukrainians," King said. "They are almost literally fighting for us."

He said Russia has shown itself to be "an aggressive country" whose full-scale invasion of its neighbor last year left the United States and its allies in Europe with no choice except to provide aid and assistance to Ukraine.

"This is the time that we've got to draw the line," said King, a 78-year-old former governor who plans to seek a third, six-year term in 2024. "It's a delicate moment but we have no choice except to stop the dictator before he goes further."

Asked by a student if he's worried about the conflict ending in a nuclear war, King said that "nuclear weapons are something that we're all concerned about. But I don't see any immediate threat in that regard."

He said he remembers "duck and cover drills" from his school days at the height of the Cold War but recognizes that deterrence has so far prevented any country from using nuclear weapons since 1945, when the U.S. dropped two bombs on Japanese cities to bring World War II to an end.

King said the bottom line is that it is better to stop an aggressor like Russia early "than to fight a major war" with it later.

Asked about his biggest worries for young people, King said one of them is what could happen in the rapidly expanding field of artificial intelligence.

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"It is developing so fast that we don't know how to handle it," King said. It's already clear, he said, that it is "going to have a huge impact on us."

Some of that impact may be beneficial, especially in health care, he said, but "there are also negatives."

"Our democracy is based on information," King said, so voters and policymakers alike need to know what's true and what's not to make wise choices.

He said artificial intelligence will give people "the ability to create false information that's so true to life that people won't be able to tell it's not true."

For instance, he said, the day is fast coming when someone could create an entirely fictional video of him saying things "that have no bearing on who I am or what I believe, but it will look totally real" and then share it all over social media in a way that is "really hard to rebut."

King said it is a problem he's talked with other senators about as they search for what can be done "to make sure this doesn't really harm us" while preserving the nation's commitment to free speech and a free press.

When a student asked King about his memories of 1968, an era they are studying, King talked about how he arrived in Washington for a summer job not long after terrible riots that rocked the city in the wake of the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.

"There was this musty smell in the air," King remembered, a smoky residue from blocks of burned-out buildings.

King asked students to think about how alienated the rioters must have felt from their community "that they would burn it down" in frustration.

He said that year he worked at the University of Virginia Law School to boost the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy, a U.S. senator. But Kennedy died at the hands of a gunman in California in June 1968, another blow that followed King's death by two months.

"That hit me very hard," King said.

King told students what he likes about his job are the hearings that bring experts before Senate panels.

"I like to learn things. I'm innately curious," he said. "I want to know how things work, and I want to know how to make things better."

His least-favorite aspect of the job? "I spend an awful lot of time on airplanes."

King gave students some life advice as well.

"Take more risks," he told them, then added "I don't mean doing something dumb like riding a motorcycle with a blindfold on."

The senator said young people should "try things that you think may be beyond you" rather than holding back.

"Reach further than you think you can," King said.

He also told them to "value your friends and family," even parents who "may be a pain in the neck now," because when times of trouble come, and they will, they're the ones "who will stand by you."

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