Earlier this workweek I go to go see demos of the unexampled TV in mortal , and the giving takeout food from the event was the role of hokey news , or the Fire TV Ambient Experience as Amazon is refer to it as , to avail make smarts the very sum of the idiot box experience .
I cogitate by now everyone is cognisant of ChatGPT ’s raise and the core it ’s having on multiple industries . That ’s not to say that the Ambient Experience will have a similar destabilizing gist on the TV grocery store – hokey intelligence has been used by many tv set brands and interface for year – but going forth thismighthave the most profound impact on how hoi polloi interact with their TVs .
The first part is the Alexa Widgets , which appear on the screen when the television receiver is in its screensaver mode , and furnish information to keep you informed of what tasks you have , the weather , music recommendations , a ‘ What to corrode ’ widget and more . There are also Alexa act to ascertain and operate connected devices in the home . So far , I think we can consider that stuff and nonsense to be pretty usual withFire goggle box devices .
The most interesting part of the demonstration was the Dynamic Art feature article . The melodic theme of displaying artistic production on the TV screen is not a fresh one , LG does it with its G - series OLED and Samsung has been doing it for years , in particular with its Frame QLED television receiver .
It ’s the ‘ active ’ part of the feature article that ’s something I ’ve not see before . In a partnership with AI artist Sam Stubblefield ( even the name sounds like it ’s artificially generated ) , he ’s create an algorithm that can accommodate a art object of art to your surroundings in real time . The parameters for shift include temperature , proximity , time of day , weather and others to make piece of music of prowess that are claimed to be specific to you .
You could , for representative , have two citizenry in different portion of the world start off with the same range of a function , but because of these environmental gene , two different images will be generated over time . Whether it ’s cool or unknown is something allow for for the user to decide , but I do n’t think you could say it ’s not a novel or interesting way of looking at and perceiving art .
Another demonstration using Alexa ’s artificial intelligence agency was even better . Daniel Rausch , Vice President , Entertainment Devices and Services at Amazon , put up a demonstration where he asked Alexa to create an image of the Northern Lights over Big Ben in London , and within a thing of moment , she had create that exact image . Even more striking was when he asked Alexa to convert the image to look as if it ’d been created by Vincent Van Gogh – and having travel to the Van Gogh exhibition in Amsterdam earlier this twelvemonth – even that master key mountain lion might have been instill with what Alexa came up with .
Another exhibition of Alexa ’s art was being able to find and choice photos of a specific soul within a photograph library . At least one of the picture was tag with the soul ’s name , but I ’d say there ’s something else go bad on behind the scene for Alexa to witness all the relevant photos – from a specific point in time , too – that might speak to the public toilet or suspicions people have about artificial intelligence agency .
Nonetheless , it felt exciting , and perhaps that ’s a exemplary story about A.I. , to not get too wrapped in and seduced by the comparative easiness by which it does things .
But there ’s no doubt it ’s telling , and it is utterly here to stay . The main question is , where do we go from here , and that ’s something that we , the users , hopefully get a chance to influence .
