Anyone who’s spent a moment observing US political chatter in recent months has probably encountered the following prediction: 2024 will yield the world’s first deepfake election. Rapidly evolving AI video and audio generators powered by large language models have already been used by both Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaigns to smear each other … Read more
Headlines This Week A new report from Politico suggests a “billionaire-backed network” of Silicon Valley-linked AI “advisors” are working to control the regulatory agenda in Washington D.C. Boy, I sure wish stuff like that were illegal instead of just business-as-usual. Despite apparently having lobbying money aplenty, it looks like the AI industry is still struggling … Read more
When protests in Pakistan earlier this year escalated into clashes between pro-government forces and supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the now-imprisoned leader turned to social media to bolster his message. Khan shared this brief video clip on Twitter showing his supporters holding up signs with his face on them and chanting his name. … Read more
Artificial intelligence has proved a costly endeavor—well, yes, in terms of money, but AI requires massive amounts of energy, and water consumption to operate at scale. That hasn’t stopped big tech companies such as Google and Microsoft from putting that energy-hungry AI into practically every single one of their user and enterprise end-products. Big daddy … Read more
Picture: Antlii (Shutterstock) YouTube desires that will help you make “music” with AI. The Google-owned video platform launched an AI music incubator this week that guarantees to “defend artists.” The brand new platform, which was created in partnership with music business big Common Music Group (UMG), seems to be designed to guard well-known musical artists … Read more
That sounded to me like he was anthropomorphizing these synthetic programs, one thing scientists continuously inform laypeople and journalists to not do. “Scientists do exit of their approach not to try this, as a result of anthropomorphizing most issues is foolish,” Hinton concedes. “However they’re going to have discovered these issues from us, they’re going … Read more
Final weekend, I turned to Google Seek for assist determining what number of stamps I wanted to placed on an 8-ounce piece of mail. (Naturally, I used to be sending a duplicate of the most recent concern of WIRED!). It’s the precise form of query that I hoped Google Search’s new generative AI characteristic, which … Read more
Seven of the world’s main tech companies engaged on synthetic intelligence are assembly with the Biden Administration in the present day the place they are going to comply with a set of latest commitments supposed to handle potential dangers posed by AI. Why is Everybody Suing AI Corporations? | Future Tech The brand new voluntary … Read more
January 20 began out like commonest Friday afternoons for Scottsdale, Arizona resident Jennifer DeStefano. The mom of two had simply picked up her youngest daughter from dance follow when she obtained a name from an unknown quantity. She nearly let the quantity go to voicemail however determined to choose it up on its ultimate ring. … Read more