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Huge search operation for dozens of sailors ‘in the water’ after warship rolls over and sinks in rough seas off Thailand
A FRANTIC rescue mission is underway after a warship sank during a powerful storm in the Gulf of Thailand.
The Royal Thai Navy said at least 28 sailors are still “in the water” waiting to be rescued after HTMS Sukhothai sank at 11.30pm on Sunday night.
HTMS Sukhothai sank at 11.30pm on Sunday night[/caption]
Sukhothai is one of only seven corvettes in the Royal Thai Navy[/caption]
Officials said Sukhothai was on patrol 20 miles from the port of Bang Saphan when it ran into choppy waters and took on water.
The ship’s electrical system was wiped out, leading to engine failure.
Terrifying footage taken on board shows the vessel drifting on its side while crew members dressed in life jackets desperately holding onto a railing.
The Navy dispatched three ships to help – but only one could reach the scene before the warship sank.
Shocking radar images showed half the 76-metre vessel submerged underwater in a near-vertical position.
The Royal Thai Navy said 78 sailors and crew members have been rescued – but it’s understood 28 are still waiting to be pulled out.
It’s not clear whether the crew members are in the water, or waiting in lifeboats.
Footage showed a group of sailors in red life jackets sitting in a huge black lifeboat waiting to be rescued.
Three crew members are understood to be injured.
No deaths have been confirmed.
Strong winds and the size of the waves have hampered the rescue efforts, the Royal Thai Navy said.
The search for any missing sailors will continue throughout the night, officials said.
Sukhothai, commissioned in 1987 and built in the United States, is one of only seven corvettes in the Royal Thai Navy.
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DeepMind created an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scripts
Have you ever thought up an idea for a movie or play that you just know will be a smash hit, but haven’t gotten around to writing the script? Alphabet’s DeepMind has built an AI tool that can help get you started. Dramatron is a so-called “co-writing” tool that can generate character descriptions, plot points, location descriptions and dialogue. The idea is that human writers will be able to compile, edit and rewrite what Dramatron comes up with into a proper script. Think of it like ChatGPT, but with output that you can edit into a blockbuster movie script.
To get started, you’ll need an OpenAI API key and, if you want to reduce the risk of Dramatron outputting “offensive text,” a Perspective API key. To test out Dramatron, I fed in the log line for a movie idea I had when I was around 15 that definitely would have been a hit if Kick-Ass didn’t beat me to the punch. Dramatron quickly whipped up a title that made sense, and character, scene and setting descriptions. The dialogue that the AI generated was logical but trite and on the nose. Otherwise, it was almost as if Dramatron pulled the descriptions straight out of my head, including one for a scene that I didn’t touch on in the log line.
Playwrights seemed to agree, according to a paper that the team behind Dramatron presented today. To test the tool, the researchers brought in 15 playwrights and screenwriters to co-write scripts. According to the paper, playwrights said they wouldn’t use the tool to craft a complete play and found that the AI’s output can be formulaic. However, they suggested Dramatron would be useful for world building or to help them explore other approaches in terms of changing plot elements or characters. They noted that the AI could be handy for “creative idea generation” too.
✏️ We interviewed 15 industry experts including playwrights, screenwriters and actors who produced work using Dramatron.
Canadian company @TheatreSports edited co-written theatre scripts and performed them on stage in Plays By Bots to positive reviews. https://t.co/FlGzIdCuqXpic.twitter.com/6gqnB8e1L9
— DeepMind (@DeepMind) December 9, 2022
That said, a playwright staged four plays that used “heavily edited and rewritten scripts” they wrote with the help of Dramatron. DeepMind said that in the performance, experienced actors with improv skills “gave meaning to Dramatron scripts through acting and interpretation.”
Use of the AI tool may raise questions about authorship and who (or what) should get the credit for a script. Last year, a UK appeals court ruled that artificial intelligence can’t be legally credited as an inventor on a patent. DeepMind notes that Dramatron can output fragments of text that were used to train the language model, which, if used in a script that was produced, could lead to accusations of plagiarism. “One possible mitigation is for the human co-writer to search for substrings from outputs to help to identify plagiarism,” DeepMind said.
Gorilla Glass Victus 2 is designed to better survive drops on rough surfaces like concrete
In lab testing, Corning said Victus 2 survived drops of up to one meter on a surface replicating concrete. Competing aluminosilicate glasses from other manufacturers typically failed when dropped from half a meter or less, Corning noted. Victus 2 is also said to have survived drops up to two meters…