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‘Alien: Romulus’ director defends AI version of dead actor’s likeness after fan backlash
Jacqueline Choi
September 21, 2024
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📽️ ‘Alien: Romulus’ director defends AI version of dead actor’s likeness after fan backlash
🧠 New AI can ID brain patterns related to specific behavior
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Controversy comes as new legislation regarding AI and actors is set to be signed in California soon.
Fans of the "Alien" franchise had a few concerns about the appearance of a beloved actor brought back to life by artificial intelligence. A humanoid android (dubbed a "synthetic" in the movie) named Rook bears the likeness of the late Ian Holm, who appeared in the original 1979 "Alien."
Holm also starred as Bilbo Baggins in "The Lord of the Rings" films as well as movies like "Brazil," "Chariots of Fire" and "The Fifth Element." He died in 2020 at 88. Many fans reacted to his surprise appearance and were none too thrilled.
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Maryam Shanechi, the Sawchuk Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of the USC Center for Neurotechnology, and her team have developed a new AI algorithm that can separate brain patterns related to a particular behavior. This work, which can improve brain-computer interfaces and discover new brain patterns, has been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
"Our AI algorithm, named DPAD, dissociates those brain patterns that encode a particular behavior of interest such as arm movement from all the other brain patterns that are happening at the same time," Shanechi said.
In addition to movement, this algorithm has the flexibility to potentially be used in the future to decode mental states such as pain or depressed mood. Doing so may help better treat mental health conditions by tracking a patient's symptom states as feedback to precisely tailor their therapies to their needs.
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