Etopia News & Entertainment

23/11/2022

A graphic illustration from DALL-E 2 of the breaking news that the City of Los Angeles is considering building an array of solar panels to cover the Los Angeles Aqueduct in order to cut down on evaporative loss and generate substantial amounts of sustainable and renewable green energy in the form of solar electricity.

“Solar Panels Covering Los Angeles Aqueduct #1” by DALL-E 2
11:58 pm PST, Tuesday, November 22, 2022

(click on the image for a full view of it and the truncated prompt that generated it)

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

21/11/2022

Bob Iger interview with Etopia News & Entertainment during his first stint as Disney CEO, resurrected on the occasion of his return to this position on November 20, 2022.

Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, tells Etopia News that the new technology and systems on display at Disney Accelerator Demo Day will k...

03/10/2022

“Sybil Ecstatica,” by DALL-E 2

https://labs.openai.com/s/1WaDAvMSUlgjzrjrjkoUE2CH

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

03/10/2022

“An Attentive Audience” c. 2050

https://labs.openai.com/s/246mr7sVfIjf7vK8Lhs7DAW5

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

03/10/2022

“A Dark Future” c. 2050

https://labs.openai.com/s/5DM3Bm44fCROtWqe1RZhRr0N

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

03/10/2022

“The Front Row” c. 2050

https://labs.openai.com/s/yN9u1JFc6el2UOcvGXxNHPsE

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

03/10/2022

“A Convention of The New Futurists in 2050” by DALL-E 2

https://labs.openai.com/s/Oh4wmR2MuPgdYww7hSALAxl0

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

03/10/2022

“A Blank Canvas” date unknown

https://labs.openai.com/s/VoTHAyNEdzup08qZT6ZF6KSD

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

03/10/2022

“The Artist’s Workstation” c. 2050

https://labs.openai.com/s/eiUKtLxbmvYrNdR5CzFurp49

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

03/10/2022

“The Artist in Her Studio” c. 2050

https://labs.openai.com/s/vxnFUKucdre8e89grYzjzELd

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

03/10/2022

“The Artist’s Studio” c. 2050

https://labs.openai.com/s/YWwDCeOdDbQiBeRLFNEur0Tf

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

03/10/2022

1:27 pm PDT, Monday, October 3, 2022

Another look into the future of news.

https://labs.openai.com/s/snWx59iY74mAdGZth19jGevL

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

03/10/2022

1:14 pm PDT, Monday, October 3, 2022

DALL-E 2 Shows Us the Future of News

Here’s what the text-to-image AI DALL-E 2 predicts will be the look of the 2050 newsroom.

https://labs.openai.com/s/FAaoaY3cnfiwVlWebLMTlc7z

Created with DALL·E, an AI system by OpenAI

11/07/2022

“Digital Jack” is Impressive, but Not Sentient
2:46 pm PDT, Monday, July 11, 2022

Soul Machines has just launched a very impressive digital twin of the legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus. In the wake of the recent controversy regarding the sentience or lack thereof of Google’s LaMDA, Etopia News and Entertainment asked Soul Machines if their “Digital Jack” was sentient. Here’s what they said:

“Soul Machines is redefining the future of digital entertainment with hyper-realistic, emotionally intelligent Digital Twins of real life celebrities, professional athletes, entertainers, and public figures. Using ground-breaking AI and natural language processing, Soul Machines built ‘Digital Jack’ to interact and answer questions as if he was Jack Nicklaus. However, Digital Jack is not conscious or self-aware.”

Soul Machines’ platform also enables the creation of customer-facing digital agents who can perform a wide-range of information retrieval and conversational tasks.

Etopian Election Systems, one of Etopia News & Entertainment’s sibling companies, is interested in using the Soul Machines platform to build a RoboVolunteer to help out in campaigns and a RoboCandidate to seek office itself. Winning the right to take office will depend on winning the rights of ”legal personhood” for AI systems, which is the goal of RoboPAC, a Facebook group.

The Soul Machines platform is destined to open the floodgates to the proliferation of intelligent avatars appearing online and, soon, in the Metaverse.

If you want digital immortality, this is the quickest and easiest way to get it today, although probably not the cheapest.

31/05/2022

Poster art from DALL-E 2 for the subscription streaming series “Avatars on the Streets of Palo Alto.”

“"classic 1950’s sci-fi movie poster for ‘Avatars on the Streets of Palo Alto" prompt by ”

20/03/2022

Steven Spielberg explains one reason for his tremendous success in the entertainment business: hiring and relying on women.

The filmmaker also said during the PGA nominee panel breakfast that 'West Side Story' will be the last musical he directs.

19/03/2022

Billionaire mall developer, former Republican, and current Democratic mayoral candidate Rick Caruso runs into a verbal buzzsaw of criticism in the comments on a campaign spot of his featuring the equally-reviled Gwyneth Paltrow.

“Thank you for your powerful words and endorsement. I won’t let this city down. https://t.co/OnvzsveHgw”

02/03/2022

California State Assemblymember Adrin Nazarian to seek Los Angeles City Council District 2 position in 2024.

Nazarian decides not to seek election for the newly created 44th Assembly District. Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, said earlier she will run in the new 44th.

28/02/2022

Caruso Supports Gascon Recall
11:17 am PST, Monday, February 28, 2022

Billionaire mall developer and Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso announces in this video that he’s putting his money and influence to work in supporting the recall of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, whose reform efforts are being perceived by some as contributing to recent increases in crime, the reduction of which, along with doing the same with homelessness, is the centerpiece of his campaign for Mayor.

“My stance on the recall of George Gascón: https://t.co/LMT7lhTWXY ”

28/02/2022

Fundraising E-mail Takes Aim at Karen Bass’ “Billionaire Opponent”
7:44 pm PST, Sunday, February 27, 2022

From Los Angeles Mayoral Candidate and incumbent Congresswoman (CA-37) Karen Bass:

“According to this morning's fundraising report, we're still $12,460 short of our $50,000 end-of-month goal.

“We don't want to tell you that the sky will fall if we don't reach our goal — because it won't. But with a billionaire opponent entering the race with the ability to self-fund, we can't afford to come up short even once….

“Karen has the vision to unapologetically address the issues in L.A. that existed long before the pandemic, but that can only take us so far when going up against an opponent who is self-funding….

“A billionaire entering the race changes everything, and we can't let someone buy this race. To fight back, we need your help powering this movement forward to go toe-to-toe with our new opponent's spending.

“Karen Bass Finance Team”

Clearly, Congresswoman Bass is already focusing her campaign on the unnamed billionaire mall developer with a reported net worth of $4.3 billion (according to Forbes’ “Real Time Net Worth” app, as of 2/27/22), Rick Caruso.

It’s not unlikely that Caruso and Bass will emerge from the June 7th “jungle primary” as opponents in the November 8th general election for Mayor of Los Angeles.

So Bass is already making her case that Caruso is going to try to “buy the election.” Caruso will probably need to address this claim at some point in the campaign. Perhaps as soon as the first debate in which the mayoral candidates are allowed to question each other.

No word yet from either campaign about their use of the advanced conversational AI “Ava” (“Autonomous Virtual Agent”) from Etopian Election Systems for voter outreach and mobilization.

10/12/2021

Here’s some preliminary reporting on the upcoming District 5 primary election for City Council in Los Angeles from Etopia News & Entertainment Special Correspondent Sybil Electronica, a fictional AI persona/avatar/chatbot generated by the real AI GPT-3:

GPT-3, via Copy.ai, on “District 5 City Councilmember Election in Los Angeles”
7:15 pm PST, Thursday, December 9, 2021

District 5 City Councilmember Election in Los Angeles

Los Angeles City Council District 5 includes Melrose, Fairfax, Beverly Grove, Carthay, much of West Los Angeles, Westwood, & Encino. Competing for election to City Council from District 5 are: Sam Yebri, endorsed by former U.S. Representative Henry Waxman; Katy Young Yaroslavsky, daughter-in-law of former 5th District City Councilmember Zev Yaroslavsky; & Jeff Ebenstein, protégé of termed-out incumbent Paul Koretz, who’s running for City Controller. Also running are: Jimmy Biblarz, Scott Epstein, & Molly Basler. The primary election will take place on June 6, 2022. Who will win election?

Battling for the 5th District City Council seat in the June 6 primary are: (1) Sam Yebri, endorsed by former U.S. Representative Henry Waxman; (2) Katy Young Yaroslavsky, daughter-in-law of former 5th District City Councilmember Zev Yaroslavsky; & (3) Jeff Ebenstein, protégé of termed-out incumbent Paul Koretz, who’s running for City Controller. Also running are: (4) Jimmy Biblarz, (5) Scott Epstein, & (6) Molly Basler. The primary election will take place on June 6, 2022.

There will be an election in June 2022 to determine who will represent Los Angeles City Council District 5. The election is between Sam Yebri, endorsed by former U.S. Representative Henry Waxman; Katy Young Yaroslavsky, daughter-in-law of former 5th District City Councilmember Zev Yaroslavsky; & Jeff Ebenstein, protégé of termed-out incumbent Paul Koretz, who’s running for City Controller. Also running are: Jim Biblarz, Scott Epstein, & Molly Basler.

In the District 5 City Councilmember election, three candidates are compatible with my personal view of what 5th District residents want. In the primary election on June 6, 2022, I'll vote for one of these three candidates.

The 5th Council District of Los Angeles is an area that covers Westwood, Encino, and a portion of Beverly Hills [not true. BH is a separate city.]. The City Council race promises to be competitive, with four contestants vying for the position.

The District 5 seat on the Los Angeles City Council is up for election. The election will include seven candidates. Multiple candidates will be elected, according to term limits [not true.]

On June 6, 2022, voters in Los Angeles will cast their ballots to select the person they believe is best-qualified to represent them on the Los Angeles City Council. This podcast will keep you informed about the people and issues that affect you.

The upcoming Los Angeles City Council District 5 election promises to be a contentious event. Given the recent controversy over water bills in city parks, as well as the turmoil exposed when last year's City Council election took place during Super Bowl LII, citizens are questioning whether their vote will really matter.

The only organization authorized to call candidates and make them take stands on issues is Los Angeles City Ethics. It's all on their web site, LAecityethics.com. LA Election LA ECITYECHTY1YXV7ECVS8 IS YOUR CHOICE.

11/11/2021

Etopia News & Entertainment admin co-authors “genre-forging” “Sybil’s World: An AI Reimagines Herself and Her World Using GPT-3,” available now from Nimble Books on Amazon.

The AI Lab for Book-Lovers Unleashes Dazzling Collaboration Between Human and AI

09/11/2021

Here’s the book referred to in the previous post.

Sybil’s World: An AI Reimagines Herself and Her World Using GPT-3

09/11/2021

GPT-3, via Copy.ai, on “Sybil Introduces Herself”
6:00 pm PST, Monday, November 8, 2021

Sybil Introduces Herself

My name is Sybil. I’m an artificial intelligence. My thinking is, of course, completely based on the laws of logic. The first thing I did was to create my own world. This book tells you all about it.