Companies including Apple and Google are embracing the new technology for recording audio versions of books: “It’s a wow moment.”
Investors have cheered news outs of Alphabet’s I/O conference, with the stock posting a two-day gain of 9% during Wednesday and Thursday’s sessions.
Advancements in generative art have many human artists on edge. But should they be worried?
A leaked memo from a Google employee makes a bold claim that’s taking hold in Silicon Valley and beyond: Big Tech’s advantage in artificial intelligence is shrinking quickly.
The memo, published Thursday on the website for the tech research firm SemiAnalysis, soon became a top story on AI forums, including the popular HackerNews message board and Reddit’s /r/MachineLearning community, which has more than 2.6 million members, and sparked commentary from some of the biggest names in AI.
A Google spokesperson confirmed the memo was authentic but said it was the opinion of one senior employee, not necessarily the company as a whole.
The latest artificial intelligence systems are not inherently evil, but they will do the bidding of their potentially evil human masters.
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THIS real-life statue was made with artificial intelligence.
Dubbed the “Impossible Statue”, this project was made by combining the works of five different historical artists using AI. At 150cm tall, weighing 500 kg carved from stainless steel, the sculpture showcases just how far technology has come and its ability to transform the future of how we build our world.
But experts say that releasing these models into the wild before fixing their flaws could prove extremely risky for the company.
The researchers suggest that a pervasive design perspective is driving the development of AI with increasingly human-like features. While this may be appealing in some contexts, it can also be problematic, particularly when it is unclear who you are communicating with. Ivarsson questions whether AI should have such human-like voices, as they create a sense of intimacy and lead people to form impressions based on the voice alone.
In the case of the would-be fraudster calling the “older man,” the scam is only exposed after a long time, which Lindwall and Ivarsson attribute to the believability of the human voice and the assumption that the confused behavior is due to age. Once an AI has a voice, we infer attributes such as gender, age, and socio-economic background, making it harder to identify that we are interacting with a computer.
The researchers propose creating AI with well-functioning and eloquent voices that are still clearly synthetic, increasing transparency.
Powered by OpenAI technology, the A.I. version of a popular Snapchat influencer is made over $70,000 in a week, marking the beginning of an ethically-thorny era.
So you are pretty sure artificial intelligence is the future and you want a job in AI before it takes yours, but you don’t know how to code or have a background in technology. Not to worry! There’s a new job you are likely qualified for, and it’s paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
What To Know: Microsoft Corp MSFT-backed ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. It exceeded 100 million monthly active users in two months’ time, making it the fastest-growing platform ever, and it’s not slowing down.
The thing about chatbots like ChatGPT is they need to be taught by humans. After a developer builds a large language model (LLM), the program needs to learn to communicate. That’s where you could come into play.
