First, a definition from the article: “The term visual effects (VFX) is often mistakenly used interchangeably with CGI, but the two are distinct. VFX can include CGI, but it also includes other techniques such as matte painting, or compositing different images — sometimes computer-generated, sometimes live-action — together using blue or green screens.”
An interesting and fun look at the VFX in Severance, Wicked: For Good, Avatar, and Jurassic Park Rebirth: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/interactive/2025/wicked-severance-avatar-jurassic-world-rebirth-cgi-effects/. About 2,700 words.
Good news from Fix the News:
But seriously, what is AI even good for? Is this all just in aid of search summaries and ChatGPT girlfriends? Well, not entirely. Five years of AlphaFold has caused a global shift in how biology is done. Humanity now has a public database of 200 million predicted protein folds used by millions of researchers, faster pathways for drug design, and the tool has been cited in more than 35,000 papers. AI can now predict not just protein structures, but full molecular interactions, accelerating discovery far beyond what labs alone could achieve.
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