Confessions of an AI deepfake propagandist: using ElevenLabs to clone Jill Biden’s voice
Filmmaker and producer Kenneth Lurt’s video depicts Jill Biden delivering a speech critical of President Biden’s policy on Israeli-Palestine.Read More
The Destruction of Gaza’s Internet Is Complete
As Israel increases its ground operation in Gaza, the last remaining internet and mobile connections have gone dark.
Applying a neuroscientific lens to the feasibility of artificial consciousness
The rise in capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has led to the view that these systems might soon be conscious. However, we might be underestimating the neurobiological mechanisms underlying human consciousness.
Cranium raises $25M to fund enterprise AI monitoring, security, and compliance platform
The round was led by Telstra Ventures with participation from KPMG LLP and SYN Ventures, taking Cranium’s total to $32 million.Read More
Best Cocktail Gear: Shakers, Strainers, Juicers, and More (2023)
Steal the show at your next party with a display of cocktail mixology mastery with the right bar tools, books, and glassware.
Engineers develop breakthrough ‘robot skin’
Smart, stretchable and highly sensitive, a new soft sensor opens the door to a wide range of applications in robotics and prosthetics. When applied to the surface of a prosthetic arm or a robotic limb, the sensor skin provides touch sensitivity and dexterity, enabling tasks that can be difficult for machines such as picking up …
Robot stand-in mimics your movements in VR
Researchers from Cornell and Brown University have developed a souped-up telepresence robot that responds automatically and in real-time to a remote user’s movements and gestures made in virtual reality.
MIT, Cohere for AI, others launch platform to track and filter audited AI datasets
Researchers from MIT, Cohere for AI and 11 other institutions launched the Data Provenance Platform today in order to “tackle the data transparency crisis in the AI space.”Read More
Can AI grasp related concepts after learning only one?
Researchers have now developed a technique that advances the ability of these tools, such as ChatGPT, to make compositional generalizations. This technique, Meta-learning for Compositionality, outperforms existing approaches and is on par with, and in some cases better than, human performance.
The UK Lists Top Nightmare AI Scenarios Ahead of Its Big Tech Summit
Ahead of a global summit on how to keep artificial intelligence from doing harm, a UK government report warns that the tech could be used to help create bioweapons, or escape human control altogether.