The Obtain: Veo 3’s subtitles drawback, and the way forward for our planet’s assets

Google’s generative video mannequin Veo 3 has a subtitles drawback

As quickly as Google launched its newest video-generating AI mannequin on the finish of Might, creatives rushed to place it by means of its paces. Launched simply months after its predecessor, Veo 3 permits customers to generate sounds and dialogue for the primary time. It sparked a flurry of hyperrealistic eight-second clips stitched collectively into adverts, ASMR movies, imagined movie trailers, and humorous avenue interviews.

However others shortly discovered that in some methods the instrument wasn’t behaving as anticipated. When it generates clips that embody dialogue, Veo 3 typically provides nonsensical, garbled subtitles, even when the prompts it’s been given explicitly ask for no captions or subtitles to be added. And eliminating them isn’t easy—or low cost. Learn the complete story.

—Rhiannon Williams

MIT Expertise Evaluation Narrated: This uncommon earth metallic reveals us the way forward for our planet’s assets

We’re in the course of a doubtlessly transformative second. The supplies we have to energy our world are starting to shift from fossil fuels to vitality sources that don’t produce the greenhouse-gas emissions altering our local weather. Metals found barely greater than a century in the past now underpin the applied sciences we’re counting on for cleaner vitality, and never having sufficient of them may gradual progress. 

Take neodymium, for instance. Its potential future reveals lots of the challenges we’ll doubtless face throughout the availability chain for supplies within the coming century and past. 

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