Ultron

• The global panic around AI’s co-option of children’s play and cultures has manifested unpredictably.
• Earlier this year, a Swiss comedian created a film trailer for an imagined remake of the beloved children’s story Heidi using the AI tool Gen-2.
• This isn’t the first time AI has been used to re-imagine representations of childhood through the creation of cultural artefacts.

M3GAN and AI dolls

• One of the most successful horror films of 2022, M3GAN, depicts the disturbing results of a grieving girl’s friendship with an ultra-lifelike AI-powered doll.
• A clip of M3GAN dancing (her face expressionless as her body emulates moves from youth dance trends on social media) went viral to an extent the director called “unbelievable.” M3GAN strikes a cultural chord, embodying our discomfort with how AI co-opts and twists children’s culture.
• The Artifice Girl (2022) depicts an AI-generated nine-year-old designed to lure predators online, highlighting debates about AI ethics.
• When AI tools pervert children’s culture, they spark our deepest fears about AI’s inhuman modes of intelligence.

The long history of childhood techno-phobia

• Cultural anxieties about AI’s infiltration of children’s culture continue a long history of pop cultural preoccupations with dangerous interactions between children and technologies that cannot be trusted.
• With Poltergeist (1982), the world was enthralled by five-year-old Carol Anne’s haunting statement, “They’re here…” She was listening to poltergeists through the family’s television.
• This resonated with parents concerned with children’s screen time, as well as video games, Dungeons and Dragons and Satanic ritual abuse.

AI is a lightning rod for fear

• In May, AI companies made headlines when they linked AI to potential human extinction.
• While experts dismissed these claims, perceptions of AI as a significant threat echoes the horrors of AI depicted in film.
• While we shouldn’t be swept up by moral panics, children’s use and understanding of AI should be addressed.
• UNICEF is embedding children’s rights into global AI policy and the World Economic Forum has released an AI for children toolkit.

• Ultron is an AI-enabled controller with sensor fusion capabilities that empowers industrial applications of vision AI at the edge.
• Powered by the NVIDIA®️ Jetson Xavier™ NX system-on-module and compatible with Jetson Orin™ NX, Ultron is suitable for smart traffic and manufacturing that can leverage its high computing power and low latency for vision AI applications in various configurations.
• It is also applicable in smart factories, smart cities, smart buildings, and agriculture.
• Based on powerful NVIDIA Jetson modules, Ultron is capable of the next level of visual AI processing, with model architecture such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation.

• The entity resulting from the Proposed Transaction (the "Resulting Issuer") will continue to carry on the business of Ultron as an artificial intelligence technology company that utilizes machine learning and natural language processing to improve efficiency, accuracy and decision-making in the education industry.
• The Proposed Transaction will be structured as an amalgamation, arrangement, takeover bid, share purchase or other similar form of transaction mutually acceptable to the Company and Ultron.
• Completion of the Proposed Transaction is subject to a number of conditions, including, but not limited to, exchange and shareholder approval.
• There can be no assurance that the Proposed Transaction will be completed as currently contemplated, or at all.

• LONDON, ON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultron, the main antagonist in 'Avengers: Age of Ultron', is by far the most read blog for Voices' new 'Voice Of' series.
• Of the eight blogs written so far, it's clear that 'Who is the Voice of Ultron?'
• While most readers will be wondering who voiced Ultron in Avengers: Age of Ultron (it's James Spader from 'The Blacklist', 'The Office' and 'Boston Legal'.
• Stay tuned to our 'Voice Of' series, as many other Marvel characters will be profiled in the coming months.