Meta to Help People Craft More Zuck Deepfakes With ‘Voicebox’ AI
According to Meta, Voicebox can take an audio sample as short as two seconds long and then match that audio style for text-to-speech generation. If true, it’s more sophisticated than…
Google parent Alphabet tells workers to be wary of AI chatbots
Alphabet has told its employees not to enter confidential information into Bard, the generative-AI chatbot created and operated by Google, which Alphabet owns. The company’s warning also extends to other…
AI ‘godfather’ says fears of existential threat are overblown
AI pioneer Yann LeCun. Jérémy Barande/Wikimedia Commons AI pioneer Yann LeCun has described talk of artificial intelligence (AI) posing an existential threat to humanity as “preposterously ridiculous.” Speaking to the…
Amazon deploys AI to summarize product reviews
Amazon has started using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate summaries of reviews for some of its listings. The idea is that it will speed up the shopping experience for time-pressed…
Senators to get AI lessons ahead of regulation decisions
Joe Maring/Digital Trends Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has set up a series of briefings aimed at educating senators about artificial intelligence (AI), insisting that his colleagues must “deepen our…
Black Mirror Creator Says He Used ChatGPT to Write an Episode. It Was Terrible.
Black Mirror: Season 6 | Official Trailer | NetflixWhile his experiments with generating an episode of Black Mirror with AI might have been deemed a failure, Booker told the outlet…
How to use Google SGE — try out the search generative experience for yourself
Google’s Search Generative Experience, or SGE, is an in-development tool for finding information faster and more readily in Google search. It involves an AI summary of some of the results…
Instagram may be preparing an AI-powered chatbot
Ever since ChatGPT took the world by storm after its release in November, other tech companies have been scrambling to release their own AI-powered chatbots in a bid to stay…
This GPT-powered Discord bot can teach you a new language — here’s how to use it
In some cases, the main hurdle to learning a new language is simply convenience. That’s the issue Memrise is trying to tackle with its new Discord bot. If you’re unfamiliar,…
Video Game Voice Actors Say AI Has Put Their Jobs ‘On the Chopping Block’
Over Twitter, Clarke told Gizmodo that she got the job in 2019 from an open call on major casting site Voices.com. Only after she got the gig did they reveal…