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A.I. Being Used To "De-Age" Some Well Known Actors In New Movie
It's called "Here" and it won't be in theratres until November. But its future is 'here' now. It stars marquee box office star Tom Hanks and Robin Wright and tells the story of a lifetime of people who occupy the same area of land throughout history.
The movie, from Robert Zemeckis, of "Back To The Future" and "Forrest Gump" fame, uses a new artificial intelligence technique to effectively "de-age" the two stars to show what they looked like when they were younger. And while you only get a small idea of it from the trailer below, it looks incredibly convincing. 
If this is the future, it could eliminate the use of heavy make-up or using younger actors to play those parts. Either way, and for better or worse, it's pretty amazing.
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This trend was first noticed back in 2019, when Robert De Niro and a few other stars were de-aged for their roles in The Irishman, the Netflix movie about the death of Jimmy Hoffa. As this article points out, while the initial efforts were clumsy and weren't particularly successful, the technology has gotten much better and more realistic. The danger comes when AI is used by unscrupulous people to distort reality.
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Speaking of A.I. and its benefits and dangers, this story from a South Korean English news site is food for thought. I hadn't actually pondered this, but the professor they quote might be right. Not even remotely radio related, but some news you can use in these changing and troubled times.
Why you shouldn’t speak first if you get a call from an unknown number
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RadioActive wrote:
Speaking of A.I. and its benefits and dangers, this story from a South Korean English news site is food for thought. I hadn't actually pondered this, but the professor they quote might be right. Not even remotely radio related, but some news you can use in these changing and troubled times.
Why you shouldn’t speak first if you get a call from an unknown number
That's just plain common sense. You don't need a friggin' prof to tell you that.
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True, but it's still so new that maybe some didn't get the message or simply don't think about it when their phone rings. It's just too easy to say Hello, because that's what we've done for eons.
It gives a whole new meaning to the old "I Listen To CHUM" contest - "Don't say Hello.' "
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I never thought I'd hear a 50+ year old Yes track used in a movie trailer.
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Speaking of A.I. and its benefits and dangers, this story from a South Korean English news site is food for thought. I hadn't actually pondered this, but the professor they quote might be right. Not even remotely radio related, but some news you can use in these changing and troubled times.
Why you shouldn’t speak first if you get a call from an unknown number
I never pick up calls from unknown/blocked numbers.
Come to think of it, I very rarely pick up calls from people that I know. 
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Nifty trailer RA, quite the ambitious project and while the A.I. effects aren't too distracting, a few of the noticeably inexpensive wigs some of the characters are sporting kinda are. Wonder how well the youthful appearances will stand up on the big screen.
Here's Fatboy Slim's latest song Role Model, featuring an impressive cast of iconic pop culture stars, many of them deceased, mouthing the lyrics thanks to the faux magic of A.I.
I can't decide if it's a good use of the technology? Echoes of the trippy 80's video from Godley and Creme?
Warning: the song can be a bit of an earworm.
Also, a certain section of it would make a heck of a fun bumper for talk radio.
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