#Davis Bosch

[suziegallagher]

Intersection of ‘being’ and ‘doing’

“Grace shows up in all of us asking the hard questions to break new ground. Grace is generous and, when we lean into it, we can’t help but extend it to others.”[1] Benbow goes on to explore what it looks like to see through the lens of grace to recognise the brokenness of others and self. Session, quoting Stacy, a stripper, “This is the first time I’ve ever felt seen.”[2] in a sermon from 2020…

[foreverknightalways]

Nick has a memory from past coming on...

Flashback: Hertogenbosch, Holland (Brabant) 1503-1504

Nicholas comes across Ilsa's lifeless body and Master Bosch tipping a silver wine goblet over with his cane. Bosch says, They call it, "Lady Killer." It's the most popular with the ladies because it's the cheapest. Nicholas embraces a dead Ilsa's hand.

Nick returns from his memory of the past and tells Natalie, Not luck, Nat. Courage.

[simplymariac]

From Season 1, Episode 112 Dead Issue - Flashback: Nicholas and Ilsa pose, for Master Painter Bosch. #ForeverKnight #GeraintWynDavies #NatalieRadford

Just having fun with these screenshots. Sony has all the rights to this screenshot set. 😉

[pepeplaza]

COMER SANO, ES VIVIR SANO...

No hay nada más… Lo demás, solo serán excusas… No tengo tiempo… Comer sano es caro… Me agobio… Es muy difícil… No tengo dinero… Uno tiene que decidir, en algún momento de su vida entre salud o enfermedad, cuanto antes se apueste por la salud, antes llegará la felicidad… Cuanto antes elijan ustedes queridos lectores, que aún no lo han hecho, apostar por la salud, antes se sentirán más felices,…

[rebootgrimm]

Brands that are Pro-Israel under cut!!! Boycott them!!

Accenture

AccuWeather

ActionIQ

Ahava

AirBnB

Alaska Air

AllianceBernstein

Allianz

Amazon

Amdocs

American Airlines

American Eagle

American Wire Group

Amwell

Apollo

Apple

Aramis

ArentFox Schiff

Ariel

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Authentic Brands

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Axel Springer

Bain & Company

Bank of America

Bank of New York Mellon

Baskin Robins

Bath & Body Works

Baupost Group

Bayer

BBC

BCG

Bioventus

Blackrock

Blackstone

Black & Decker

Bloomberg

Bobby Brown Essentials

Boeing

Bosch

Bounty

Bristol Myers Squibb

Bumble and Bumble

Burger King

Cadbury

Caltex

Capri Holdings

CareTrust REIT

Caterpillar

CeraVe

Chanel

Chapman and Cutler

Cisco

Citadel

Citi

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CNN

Coca-Cola

Comcast

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Deutsche Bank

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DeviantArt

DHL Group

Disney

Donna Karan Cosmetics

Douglas Elliman

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EY

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General Motors

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Google

Hardee’s

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L’Oréal

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Merck

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Meta

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Microsoft

Milo

Morgan Lewis

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Motorola

MRC

Nasdaq

National Basketball association (NBA)

National Geographic

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Nescafé

Nestle (and anything that stems from them)

Netflix

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Novartis

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Oracle

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Paramount Global

Paul Weiss

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Troutman Pepper

Twin

UBS

United Airlines

Universal Music Group

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US Chamber of Commerce

Verizon

Victoria’s Secret 

Vim

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Wall’s

Walmart

Warby Parker

Warner Brothers Discovery

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WhatsApp

Winston & Strawn

WiX

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Zara

Zoff Davis

Zoom

[ironworked]

60 Sec Rec: Halt and Catch Fire

I'm going to borrow from a Vox article for the summary and a reason to watch:

"[...] originally set up the series as a conventional antihero drama about the sneering, self-proclaimed genius Joe Macmillan, who hijacks a small Texas computer manufacturer in the early 1980s and tries to get it to build his dream machine. He’s joined in this by two computer whizzes who can do the work while Joe offers the Steve Jobs-style bravado — Gordon Clark and Cameron Howe. These early episodes struggled to stand out from the glut of other antihero dramas rattling around in the 2010s. Yet they’re also necessary for setting up the series’ larger idea, which is that Joe might think he’s a genius, but the thing he really needs is to be tempered and improved by the people around him." [Vox]

"It also absolutely nails a tone that’s tricky to manage: optimism, tempered with a sense of how hard it is to accomplish anything with real meaning in this world." [Vox]

This show is a stand-out for the way it focuses on its characters and their relationships. Very rarely have I seen a show that lets all its protagonists be brilliant, and assholes, and sad, and flawed, much less one that lets them not just evolve but change their dynamics. Their arguments make sense, you can see why they're drawn to each other and also why they fight.

It has some scenes that will have you teary-eyed even if you're not a crier, because they're just so... they feel so real, so true.

Created by Christopher Cantwell and Christipher C. Rogers (Paper Girls, Lodge 49). Written by the showrunners, plus Jamie Pachino (Chicago PD, Fairly Legal), Zack Whedon (Southland, Fringe), Jason Cahill (Fringe, The Sopranos), Mark Lafferty (White Collar). Directed by Juan José Campanella (Law & Order SVU), Karyn Kusama (In Treatment, Yellowjackets), Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Yellowjackets, Bosch). Starring Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, Kerry Bishé, Mackenzie Davis, Toby Huss, Annabeth Gish, ... Kathryn Newton (10 eps).

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[ambrossart]

Paper Men Poll: Vote for Your Favorite Characters!

All right, this is the last poll to conclude my break from Paper Men. Get ready to vote for a bunch of characters you probably don't remember. 😂

[justforbooks]

The actor Lance Reddick, who has died suddenly aged 60, played figures of authority with such panache that no matter how many times he was handed such roles, he never seemed typecast. He is best known on film for his part as Charon, the all-seeing fixer in the John Wick movie franchise, but his image was forged playing two ambitious high-level cops on television, Cedric Daniels in The Wire (2002-08) and Irvin Irving in Bosch (2014-21).

In each case he was contrasted with a main character: his anguish at the plight of Baltimore as portrayed in The Wire was expressed with internal restraint, opposed to the knee-jerk reactions of Dominic West’s chronic screw-up, McNulty. In Bosch, he was the politician tormented by Titus Welliver’s relentlessly uncompromising Harry Bosch.

Bosch author Michael Connelly said Reddick “took a character who was paper-thin in the books and made Irvin Irving”. He used his tall, angular frame to express authority; moving his body precisely, deliberately stiff and controlled, his face echoing that pose, covering up the machinations inside his head. Audiences watched as he took in, contemplated, and finally reacted, in a voice pitched with the deep tone of authority. His work in Bosch’s second season, where the death of his undercover cop son opens huge cracks in his closely controlled persona and makes him the centre of the show, is a lesson in transcending ensemble play.

Reddick’s highlights in variations of authority-figure themes came in the TV series Fringe (2008-13), running a unit of Homeland Security; Corporate (2018-20), as a CEO; and Intelligence (2014), where he was head of the CIA. On film he was head of the secret service in Angel Has Fallen (2019), and he played Albert Wesker, boss of the Raccoon Police special tactics unit, in the Netflix TV adaptation of the zombie video game Resident Evil (2022).

He was so good that the star of Wick, Keanu Reeves, given a day off from shooting for his birthday, told his girlfriend he wanted to visit the set, just to watch Reddick in action. Reeves then handed him a note thanking him for “what he brought to the character of Charon”.

Bosch also afforded Reddick the chance to play the piano, thoughtfully improvising at home as if to sort out his thoughts; this might be seen to reflect his own hard path to acting success. Reddick was born in Baltimore to Solomon, a lawyer, and Dorothy (nee Gee), a teacher. His musical talent was apparent at Friends School of Baltimore, and he went on to study at the city’s Peabody Institute, a secondary school specialising in the performing arts. He took a degree in composition at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and moved to Boston, intending, in his words, to become a rock star.

But his style of music, influenced by Miles Davis and Sting, never fitted a rock star template, and having married his college sweetheart, Suzanne Louis, in 1986, and had two children, he found himself working odd jobs, including as a singing waiter on a riverboat. Crucially, on a night shift at a newspaper delivery depot, he injured his back shifting bundles of papers. Forced to lie in bed, he contemplated how he could support his family, and decided to turn to acting, where he noticed there were more auditions available.

He wound up gaining a master of fine arts degree at Yale Drama School in 1994, and two years later landed his first television role, on New York Undercover; he debuted on-screen in 1998’s ill-judged modern-set Great Expectations.

In 2000 he was cast in David Simon’s The Corner, which led to his part on The Wire, while he also attracted attention with a memorable role as an undercover police officer gone bad in the prison drama Oz (2000-01). Recurring parts in CSI:Miami (2005-06) and Lost (2008-09) followed, and he played James Baldwin in the 2004 movie Brother to Brother. He was the voice of the Falcon in the animated Avengers (2012), and of the villain Ras Al Ghul in Beware the Batman (2013), as well as voicing Commander Zavala in the Destiny video game series, and Sylens in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) and Horizon Forbidden West (2022).

Along the way he finally got to be a rock star, playing a cop in the music video of Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s ’03 Bonnie & Clyde. In 2007 he released an album of his own music, Contemplations and Remembrances.

John Wick 4 has just been released, and he also leaves behind a store of work that has yet to be seen. Reddick will appear in a remake of White Men Can’t Jump; as Charon in a Wick spin-off, Ballerina; in the Shirley Chisholm biopic, Shirley, and as Capt Blakely in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He also voiced the ultimate authority figure, Zeus, in Percy Jackson and the Olympians for Disney+.

Reddick is survived by his second wife, Stephanie (nee Day), whom he married in 2011, and the two children, Yvonne and Christopher, from his first marriage, which ended in divorce.

🔔 Lance Solomon Reddick, actor, born 7 June 1962; died 17 March 2023

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[maximiliano-aedo]

What could've been Animaze ..iNC during the 2010s

Talent pool (Note: any voice actor marked with * is union-only):

Steve Blum*

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn*

Crispin Freeman*

Kari Wahlgren*

Johnny Yong Bosch

Yuri Lowenthal*

Dave Wittenberg*

Roger Craig Smith*

Laura Bailey*

Travis Willingham*

Cherami Leigh

J.B. Blanc*

Sam Riegel*

Liam O'Brien*

Amy Kincaid*

Troy Baker*

Matthew Mercer

Joe Romersa*

Fleet Cooper*

Dyanne DiRosario*

Jennifer Love Hewitt*

Brian Hallisay*

Spike Spencer

Amanda Winn Lee*

Jaxon Lee*

Kyle Hebert

Ben Pronsky

Bob Buchholz

Richard Cansino

Murphy Dunne*

Carolyn Hennesy*

Jerry Gelb*

Adam Sholder

Ezra Weisz

Cristina Vee

Bryce Papenbrook

Michael Sorich

Richard Epcar

Ellyn Stern

Tony Oliver

Kirk Thornton

Lexi Ainsworth*

Aria Noelle Curzon

Grace Caroline Currey*

Michael Forest

Erik Davies

Adam Bobrow

Joshua Seth

Junie Hoang*

Kirk Baily*

Tom Fahn

Jonathan Fahn

Dorothy Elias-Fahn

Melissa Fahn

Stephen Apostolina*

René Rivera*

Deborah Sale Butler

Kevin Brief

Michael Gregory*

Riva Spier*

Cassandra Morris

Erica Mendez

Erika Harlacher

Erica Lindbeck

Marieve Herington

Kira Buckland

John Rubinstein*

Kim Matula*

Brittany Lauda

J. Grant Albrecht*

Michael McConnohie

Steve Bulen*

Dan Woren

Derek Stephen Prince

Wendee Lee

Edie Mirman

Jason C. Miller

Taliesin Jaffe*

John Snyder

Robbie Daymond

Ray Chase

Kaiji Tang

David Vincent

Christina Carlisi*

Christopher Corey Smith

Cindy Robinson

Rachel Robinson

Jessica Boone

Lauren Landa

Megan Hollingshead

Jalen K. Cassell

Doug Erholtz

Michelle Ruff

Gregory Cruz*

John Bishop*

Matt Kirkwood*

Lara Jill Miller*

Carol Stanzione

Steve Staley

Dave Mallow

Mona Marshall*

Darrel Guilbeau

Robert Martin Klein

Robert Axelrod

William Frederick Knight

Lex Lang

Sandy Fox

Joey Camen*

Randy McPherson*

Jad Mager

Richard Miro

Milton James

Anthony Pulcini

Douglas Rye

Patrick Seitz

Keith Silverstein

Jamieson Price

Skip Stellrecht*

Stoney Emshwiller*

G.K. Bowes

Alyss Henderson

Patricia Ja Lee

Peggy O'Neal

Carrie Savage

Melodee Spevack

Jennifer Alyx

Julie Ann Taylor

Sherry Lynn

Brad Venable

Christine Marie Cabanos

Greg Chun

LaGloria Scott

Steve Kramer

Melora Harte

Rebecca Forstadt*

Kyle McCarley

Mela Lee

Karen Strassman

Faye Mata

Laura Post

Kayla Carlyle*

Brina Palencia

Connor Gibbs

Brianne Siddall*

Barbara Goodson

Loy Edge

Jay Lerner

Jennie Kwan

Max Mittelman

Jessica Straus*

Alexis Tipton

Fryda Wolff

Michele Specht

J.D. Garfield

Debra Jean Rogers*

Julie Maddalena

Carrie Keranen

Tara Sands

Matthew Hustin

Cody MacKenzie

Bridget Hoffman*

Colleen O'Shaughnessey

Grant George

Jessica Gee

Jeff Nimoy*

Peter Lurie*

Brian Beacock

Paul St. Peter

Chris Jai Alex

Dan Lorge*

Ewan Chung*

Steve Cassling*

Philece Sampler

Stephanie Sheh

Sam Fontana

Ben Diskin

Juliana Donald*

Michael O'Keefe*

Christina Gallegos*

Tara Platt

Keith Anthony*

Beau Billingslea

David Lodge*

Kim Strauss

Eddie Jones*

William Bassett*

Kim Mai Guest*

Caitlin Glass

Hannah Alcorn

Ron Roggé*

Camille Chen*

Ethan Rains*

Yutaka Maseba*

Joe J. Thomas

Michael Sinterniklaas

Erin Fitzgerald

Joe Ochman

Marc Diraison

Xanthe Huynh

Brianna Knickerbocker

Dean Wein*

Michael McCarty*

[allroadsleadhomerpp]

The Founding Families

The Founding Families were the first to move in and settle in what would become Stackhouse in the following years. The families are old, and many surnames died out in the male lines, but their descendants still live on. Many prevalent founding families are still surviving in Stackhouse, and many have their hands in local government, education, medical and human services, and tourism. Then, there is the Founder’s Board that helps control the events and annual traditions in the town. They’re well known for their connections and tend to be the first to step forward to help their neighbors because they feel responsible.

The Founder's Board helps organize, orchestrate, and maintain all the community traditions and relations between the communities known in Stackhouse. They are exclusively the founding families that still have the family names from the original families that settled in the area and have yet to have their names die out in the male line. They actively seek volunteers and ideas on improving events but also have the final say on things as a committee. They also have their hands in other areas of the town, but they're known for their events, their charity work, and their work in education and politics. If you have any questions about the founding families, please get in touch with an admin. We're more than happy to answer any questions!

Below are the remaining founding family names that have not died out in Stackhouse currently: 

Anderson, Buckner, Chandler, Cutshall*, Davis, Evans, Fox, Franklin, Gentry, Gunter, Harper, Hensley, Honeycutt*, Ledford*, Mace, Metcalf, Norton, Peek, Ramsey, Rice, Shelton*, Stackhouse*, Wolf, and Zimmerman.

The founding families are available to claim and play on the site. Currently, Deaa has claimed the Stackhouse family, Allie has claimed the Cutshall family, Billie had claimed the Shelton family, Bosch has claimed the Ledford family, and Kay has claimed the Honeycutt family. You can speak to them if you're interested in joining the family or creating another branch. You are highly welcome to claim a founding family, put your own spin on them, and help bring these crucial families to life.

[ulkaralakbarova]

Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield must battle a rogue warrior seeking revenge after unleashing the deadly G-Virus, whilst a mutated monster goes on a rampage. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Leon S. Kennedy (voice): Paul Mercier Claire Redfield (voice): Alyson Court Angela Miller (voice): Laura Bailey Curtis Miller (voice): Roger Craig Smith Frederic Downing (voice): Crispin Freeman Senator Ron Davis (voice): Michael Sorich Ingrid Hunnigan (voice): Salli Saffioti Rani Chawla (voice): Michelle Ruff Rani’s aunt (voice): Mary Elizabeth McGlynn Greg Glenn (voice): Steve Blum WilPharma CEO (voice): Michael McConnohie U.S. President (voice): Kirk Thornton Various (voice): Cindy Robinson Various (voice): Dave Wittenberg Various (voice): Kari Wahlgren Various (voice): Kyle Hebert Various (voice): Barbara Goodson Various (voice): Keith Silverstein Various (voice): Yuri Lowenthal Various (voice): Megan Hollingshead Various (voice): Skip Stellrecht Various (voice): Troy Baker Various (voice): Karen Strassman Various (voice): JB Blanc Various (voice): Johnny Yong Bosch Greg Glenn / G-Curtis (motion capture): Derek Mears Film Crew: Executive Producer: Masao Takiyama Screenplay: Shoutarou Suga Director: Makoto Kamiya Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka Editor: Ryuji Miyajima Layout: Nobuhito Sue Sound Designer: Koji Kasamatsu Production Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama Costume Design: Kuniko Hôjô Compositor: Naoyuki Fujii Stunts: Satoshi Hakuzen Executive Producer: Haruhiro Tsujimoto Executive Producer: Keiji Inafune Original Music Composer: Tetsuya Takahashi Co-Producer: Hidenori Ueki Story: Hiroyuki Kobayashi CGI Director: Atsushi Doi Casting Producer: Michelle Ladd Stunts: Naohiro Kawamoto Storyboard Artist: Shinji Nishikawa Casting Producer: Thom Williams Producer: Taro Morishima Associate Producer: Scott Dolph Video Game: Shinji Mikami Stunts: Jersey Maki Itosu Sound Editor: Yoshiki Matsunaga Casting Producer: Hiroyuki Yoshida Compositor: Hiroki Ando Storyboard Artist: Kiyoshi Okuyama Production Manager: Sareana Sun Associate Producer: Daisuke Gomi Stunts: Koji Kawamoto Video Game: Kenichi Iwao Story Editor: Father Video Game: Tokuro Fujiwara Video Game: Takahiro Arimitsu Modelling Supervisor: Yoshiaki Hirabayashi Producer: Seiji Iseda Associate Producer: Aki Kiuchi Executive Producer: Ivan C. Shih Co-Executive Producer: Toshi Tokumaru Associate Producer: Mareo Yamada Production Design: Shiho Tamura Production Manager: Alena Fang Production Manager: Kumiko Oguri Second Assistant Director: Kentaro Fujisawa First Assistant Director: Gaku Nagao Prop Designer: Takumi Sakura Storyboard Artist: Hiromitsu Soma Dialogue Editor: Les Claypool III Character Designer: Kazuhiro Asakawa VFX Artist: Wu Bin Lighting Artist: Zhang Bei Modeling: Stacy Chang Lighting Artist: Peng Chao Modeling: Hsin-Che Chen Modeling: Soyoung Cheng Modeling: Chaucer Chiu Lighting Artist: Liu Dexin Compositor: Nobutaka Emoto Lighting Artist: Le Gao Compositing Lead: Tsubasa Harikae Lighting Artist: Yifang He Lighting Artist: Zhang Hongkun Animation: Ni Hongtao Stunts: Nobuhiro Inohara Post Production Producer: Yuuki Hashimoto Assistant Editor: Narihiko Kôno Movie Reviews: Andre Gonzales: It’s just like if I was watching the video game. Pretty cool movie. These are the 2 characters I remember the most because I loved Code Veronica so much.

[foreverknightalways]

Flashback: Hertogenbosch, Holland (Brabant) 1503-1504

Nicholas comes to the conclusion that Ilsa died and says, Of course. Why would you trust me? I'm a man. Nicholas bends over a deceased Ilsa and gives her a gentle kiss on the cheek. Nicholas looks over as Master Painter Bosch comes into the room.

[simplymariac]

From Season 1, Episode 112 Dead Issue - Flashback of Nicholas in Hertogenbosch, Holland 1503-1504. #ForeverKnight #GeraintWynDavies

Just having fun with these screenshots. Sony has all the rights to this screenshot set. 😉

[lastchance1art]

Here are my Headcanon Cast ideas if I ever decide to do an adaptation of Dead-End's Love or Childhood Friends. Cast list with origins of the audio clips I used

Arta Chance: Cassandra Lee Morris (Audio from Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans fun fact Atra got her name from Atra Mixta who is a character in the show) or Imshadow007 (best known for her My Little Pony video and voice of Fandom Twilight Sparkle however I got the audio from a Little Witch Academia x Owl House comic dub)

Emma Daaé: Cristina Vee (Audio from the Redub of Sailor Moon) or Heidi Tabing (Best known as Marinette and other female voices in Phantom Savage's comic dubs and Liliya Reznya from Moonshine Animation and the Reznya Iron Man MKI Review is where the audio comes from)

Suki Honda: Sarah Anne Williams (Audio from Kill la Kill)

Craig "Dead-End" Ryan Jr: Jacob Takanashi (Audio from Far-Fetched Pilot Teaser and Jacob Takanashi just popped in my head as I was editing the video)

Adam Taylor: Ben Diskin (Audio from Beastars)

Michael Davis: Johnny Yong Bosch (Audio from Transformers: War For Cybertron)

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

serving what i like to call "Gregg Davies realness" by putting on a kimono and flaunting my big ham hock hands. i am still Unwell, but putting on a kimono remains the best way to deal with the horrors

oh, this mug?

thank you for noticing. i got it at the St. Louis Art Museum (my second favorite art museum in the states after The Art Institute of Chicago) because it has my favorite painting of all time, Jean Martin's Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblvion. this painting makes me feel the way i wanted the Barsoom books to. it might make me basic, but quite frankly, i don't want to hear it if you're a Hieronymus Bosch girlie. leave me be.

[jcmarchi]

Pace of innovation in AI is fierce – but is ethics able to keep up? - AI News

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Pace of innovation in AI is fierce – but is ethics able to keep up? - AI News

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If a week is traditionally a long time in politics, it is a yawning chasm when it comes to AI. The pace of innovation from the leading providers is one thing; the ferocity of innovation as competition hots up is quite another. But are the ethical implications of AI technology being left behind by this fast pace?

Anthropic, creators of Claude, released Claude 3 this week and claimed it to be a ‘new standard for intelligence’, surging ahead of competitors such as ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. The company says it has also achieved ‘near human’ proficiency in various tasks. Indeed, as Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert pointed out, during the testing phase of Claude 3 Opus, the most potent LLM (large language model) variant, the model exhibited signs of awareness that it was being evaluated.

Moving to text-to-image, Stability AI announced an early preview of Stable Diffusion 3 at the end of February, just days after OpenAI unveiled Sora, a brand new AI model capable of generating almost realistic, high definition videos from simple text prompts.

While progress marches on, perfection remains difficult to attain. Google’s Gemini model was criticised for producing historically inaccurate images which, as this publication put it, ‘reignited concerns about bias in AI systems.’

Getting this right is a key priority for everyone. Google responded to the Gemini concerns by, for the time being, pausing the image generation of people. In a statement, the company said that Gemini’s AI image generation ‘does generate a wide range of people… and that’s generally a good thing because people around the world use it. But it’s missing the mark here.’ Stability AI, in previewing Stable Diffusion 3, noted that the company believed in safe, responsible AI practices. “Safety starts when we begin training our model and continues throughout the testing, evaluation, and deployment,” as a statement put it. OpenAI is adopting a similar approach with Sora; in January, the company announced an initiative to promote responsible AI usage among families and educators.

That is from the vendor perspective – but how are major organisations tackling this issue? Take a look at how the BBC is looking to utilise generative AI and ensure it puts its values first. In October, Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC’s director of nations, noted a three-pronged strategy: always acting in the best interests of the public; always prioritising talent and creativity; and being open and transparent.

Last week, more meat was put on these bones with the BBC outlining a series of pilots based on these principles. One example is reformatting existing content in a way to widen its appeal, such as taking a live sport radio commentary and changing it rapidly to text. In addition, editorial guidance on AI has been updated to note that ‘all AI usage has active human oversight.’

It is worth noting as well that the BBC does not believe that its data should be scraped without permission in order to train other generative AI models, therefore banning crawlers from the likes of OpenAI and Common Crawl. This will be another point of convergence on which stakeholders need to agree going forward.

Another major company which takes its responsibilities for ethical AI seriously is Bosch. The appliance manufacturer has five guidelines in its code of ethics. The first is that all Bosch AI products should reflect the ‘invented for life’ ethos which combines a quest for innovation with a sense of social responsibility. The second apes the BBC; AI decisions that affect people should not be made without a human arbiter. The other three principles, meanwhile, explore safe, robust and explainable AI products; trust; and observing legal requirements and orienting to ethical principles.

When the guidelines were first announced, the company hoped its AI code of ethics would contribute to public debate around artificial intelligence. “AI will change every aspect of our lives,” said Volkmar Denner, then-CEO of Bosch at the time. “For this reason, such a debate is vital.”

It is in this ethos with which the free virtual AI World Solutions Summit event, brought to you by TechForge Media, is taking place on March 13. Sudhir Tiku, VP, Singapore Asia Pacific region at Bosch, is a keynote speaker whose session at 1245 GMT will be exploring the intricacies of safely scaling AI, navigating the ethical considerations, responsibilities, and governance surrounding its implementation. Another session, at 1445 GMT explores longer-term impact on society and how business culture and mindset can be shifted to foster greater trust in AI.

Book your free pass to access the live virtual sessions today.

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