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S9S10Will generative AI change everything for filmmaking?  From coding and art design to customer service and education, seemingly countless professions are adopting AI systems. With the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its text-to-video system, Sora, and rumors of partnerships with big studios, will Hollywood be the next frontier for AI innovation?
We asked an experimental filmmaker, an MIT economist, and an AI startup executive how generative AIs could impact the world of filmmaking. We’re presenting their unique perspectives — as a user, analyst, and creator of these tools, respectively — as a way to uncover the depth and impact of this potentially transformative technology. Here’s what they had to say.
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S11S12How AI is Changing the Legal Landscape in Business As AI grows in global adoption and impacts spheres of human endeavor, it raises pertinent ethical concerns and legal implications. It is important that we get ahead of the curve and develop a robust legal framework to regulate the dynamic landscape of AI without stifling its development.
I sat down with Dr. Nick Oberheiden, founder of Oberheiden P. C., and a legal luminary with extensive experience to wrestle through these ethical and legal issues that come with AI advancement. Some highlights:
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S13The CEO of Chipotle Just Gave Some Bad Advice, and It's Probably the Worst Idea I've Seen In a While I like Chipotle, but I've never had an issue with this, so I ignored the controversy. But then, the CEO of Chipotle, Brian Niccol, gave an utterly bizarre interview this week that bothered me more than I'd like to admit.
In short, Niccol denied that there's any shrinking going on, but he also suggested that if you want bigger portions at Chipotle, the way you're supposed to get them is by sending some kind of quiet, subtle, nonverbal signal to the Chipotle employee putting together your order.
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S143 Ways to Avoid Chargeback Losses on E-Commerce Sales A chargeback--when funds are returned to a customer after they've disputed a charge--is just one example of fraud merchants in the e-commerce space might face. While some customers may initiate a chargeback if they haven't received the right product, others may intentionally do so to keep their purchase without having to pay for it. Juniper Research projected that the global loss due to e-commerce fraud would exceed $48 billion in 2023. A study by fraud detection company Kount that surveyed its own clients found a 2.3 percent loss in revenue due to chargebacks in 2021.Â
While not all chargebacks are deliberate cases of fraud--Inc. spoke to founders who say many of their chargebacks are due to consumer confusion--there are several steps you can take to avoid and manage potential disputes.Â
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S15With 5 Short Words, Walmart Just Taught a Brilliant Lesson In Leadership I'm bringing this up because of the new pay structure that Walmart rolled out earlier this year for its 4,700 U.S. store managers. The top performers can now earn as much as $530,000 annually in total compensation.
Let's set the stage: $530,000 is an eye-opening number. In fact, one Walmart Supercenter manager who was interviewed this week by Bloomberg said that he "almost fainted" when he realized how much he could make under the plan.
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S1610 Summer Vacation Destinations for Entrepreneurs Sometimes, all a founder wants to do on vacation is decompress and relax on a beach. According to Van Lai-DuMone, founder of worksmART Advantage, a professional training and coaching business in Los Angeles, the charming town of Todos Santos on the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico offers the perfect blend of relaxation and inspiration.
"On my last trip I had the opportunity to see breaching whales, and watch baby turtles being released into the sea," says Lai-DuMone. "Todos Santos boasts stunning beaches, a vibrant arts scene, and delicious cuisine."
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S17What to Look for in an AI Training Provider If you are in a leadership role today, chances are that your organization is already working to harness artificial intelligence for higher productivity, efficiency, and quality. But how do companies move from recognizing the promise that AI holds to actually creating a more productive, AI-empowered workforce?Â
From my experience in working with large organizations on their AI training needs, the key factor in successful AI adoption is not whether staff are using AI, but rather how they are using it. One MIT study found that while GenAI usage can improve a worker's performance by up to 40 percent, it can actually reduce performance when used to tackle a task beyond AI's capabilities. Â
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S18Why You Should Advertise Your Business's Security These days, customers and business partners alike are highly critical. Many only want to work with organizations with reliable privacy and security standards, protecting them in an era of distrust and security vulnerabilities. Your business may take privacy and security very seriously, but unless you have a good marketing and advertising strategy in place, your customers won't know it.
Higher standards for security and privacy protect your customers, securing their data and helping them feel safer as they navigate whatever problems your business helps them solve. Data security posture management, or DSPM, helps you continuously monitor your data security policies so you can proactively detect and act on risks.
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S19Mysterious Hack Destroyed 600,000 Internet Routers If you have a crypto wallet containing a fortune but forgot the password, all may not be lost. This week, a pair of researchers revealed how they cracked an 11-year-old password to a crypto wallet containing roughly $3 million in bitcoins. With a lot of skill and a bit of luck, the researchers uncovered a flaw in how a previous version of the RoboForm password manager generates passwords that allowed them to accurately figure out the missing login and access the buried treasure.
Police in Western countries are using a new tactic to go after cybercriminals who remain physically out of reach of US law enforcement: trolling. The recent takedowns of ransomware groups like LockBit go beyond the traditional disruption of online infrastructure to include messages on seized websites meant to mess with the minds of criminal hackers. Experts say these trollish tactics help sow distrust between cybercriminalsâwho already have ample reason to distrust one another.
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S20Who Wants to Have Children in a Warming World? This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Jade S. Sasser has been studying reproductive choices in the context of climate change for a quarter century. Her 2018 book, Infertile Ground, explored how population growth in the Global South has been misguidedly framed as a crisisâa perspective that Sasser argues had its roots in long-standing racial stereotypes about sexuality and promiscuity.
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S21The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning One of the biggest hacks of the year may have started to unfold. Late on Friday, embattled events business Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, confirmed it suffered a data breach after criminal hackers claimed to be selling half a billion customer records online. Banking firm Santander also confirmed it had suffered a data breach impacting millions of customers and staff after its data was advertised by the same group of hackers.
While the specific circumstances of the breachesâincluding exactly what information was stolen and how it was accessedâremain unclear, the incidents may be linked to attacks against company accounts with cloud hosting provider Snowflake. The US-based cloud firm has thousands of customers, including Adobe, Canva, and Mastercard, which can store and analyze vast amounts of data in its systems.
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S22How a Samsung Washing Machine Chime Triggered a YouTube Copyright Fiasco YouTube's Content ID systemâwhich automatically detects content registered by rights holdersâis "completely fucking broken," a YouTuber called "Albino" declared in a rant on the social media site X that has been viewed more than 950,000 times.
Albino, who is also a popular Twitch streamer, complained that his YouTube video playing through Fallout was demonetized because a Samsung washing machine randomly chimed to signal a laundry cycle had finished while he was streaming.
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S23Nitrogen-using bacteria can cut farms' greenhouse gas emissions Fritz Haber: good guy or bad guy? He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his part in developing the Haber-Bosch process, a method for generating ammonia using the nitrogen gas in air. The technique freed agriculture from the constraint of needing to source guano or manure for nitrogen fertilizer and is widely credited for saving millions from starvation. About half of the world’s current food supply relies on fertilizers made using it, and about half of the nitrogen atoms in our bodies can be traced back to it.
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S24S25The Cases Against Trump: A Guide Thirty-four felony convictions. Charges of fraud, election subversion, and obstruction. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate's legal troubles.Donald Trump has become the first former president to be convicted of a felony, found guilty of 34 counts in a Manhattan court on May 30.
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S26The Women Who Caused a Revolution in Cooking This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors' weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. This week, Lily Meyer offered readers a beautiful ode to Judith Jones, the legendary publishing figure who essentially created the modern cookbook. It's a review of Sara B. Franklin's new biography of Jones, The Editor, but it's also an explanation of how the writers Jones gathered around her, including, most famously, Julia Child, were at the center of a revolution in cooking. They wrote about the preparation of meals as an act of exploration. As Meyer put it, "They were a group of curious, courageous thinkers who, with Judith's guidance, turned food into an intellectual project, writing books that, far from denigrating cooking as drudgery, presented it as a daily necessity that also, per Judith, 'empowered you, that stimulated you.'"
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S27Biden's Bold Gaza Cease-Fire Gambit The president has pushed events as far as he can, but even American presidents have their limits.For weeks, American officials have referred to an "extraordinarily generous" offer made by Israel to secure a cease-fire and hostage deal with Hamas in Gaza. Today, President Joe Biden told the world what that offer actually is. Speaking from the White House, Biden laid out a multistage "Israeli proposal" for ending the current war and called on Hamas to accept its terms, and for the Israeli leadership to stand behind the deal despite internal right-wing pressure to fight on.
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S28America's Fingers-Crossed Strategy for Hurricane Season According to forecasts from a range of sources, the hurricane season that begins today could be the direst in recorded history. Abnormally warm waters in the Atlantic Ocean, coupled with the persistently strong winds formed by an emerging La Niña weather front, create dangerous conditions that could lead to as many as 25 named storms in the North Atlantic, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Amid the continuing threat of climate change, Americans can easily become inured to alarming projections year after year. Both the potential size of this year's hurricanes and their expected frequency threaten to overwhelm society's ability to help those in danger and make whole anyone who suffers losses.
America's disaster-preparedness system doesn't consist only of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and state and local first-response agencies; it also involves logistics supply chains, private and public insurers, and the regulators who shape the built environment. But none of these entities has the muscle or the resources to prepare for disasters that keep on comingâone after another after another.
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S29The Rise of Poverty Inc. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared "unconditional war on poverty," and since then, federal spending on anti-poverty initiatives has steadily ballooned. The federal government now devotes hundreds of billions of dollars a year to programs that exclusively or disproportionately benefit low-income Americans, including housing subsidies, food stamps, welfare, and tax credits for working poor families. (This is true even if you exclude Medicaid, the single-biggest such program.)
That spending has done a lot of good over the yearsâand yet no one would say that America has won the War on Poverty. One reason: Most of the money doesn't go directly to the people it's supposed to be helping. It is instead funneled through an assortment of private-sector middlemen.
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S30Seeing Your College Friends Grow Up "No one's life turned out exactly as anticipated, not even for the most ardent planner."
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.
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