Voice Actors Are Fighting Back Against Generative AI
“We’ve got to reject the idea that [AI] is just something that’s going to happen to us and we can’t say anything about it,” said SAG-AFTRA national executive director, Duncan…
These 9 States Are Trying to Block Kids From Social Media
Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images) States from every part of the country are racing to pass new legislation barring young users from accessing social media and other online services without…
NASA Says No to Lithium Mining in Area of Nevada Where Satellites Are Calibrated
A vast and barren lakebed in eastern Nevada has become an unexpected battleground in a spaceflight vs. battery tech showdown. A portion of land slated for lithium mining in the…
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…
The Summer of Smoke Is Just Getting Started
For Minnesota, and other Midwest states, wildfire pollution is forecast to return Tuesday through at least Thursday morning, according to NWS Twin Cities. Advertisement In both these instances, the smoke…
This Shape-Shifting Robot Could Help Astronauts Transport Objects on the Moon
Mori3: A polygon-based modular robotThe researchers believe that Mori3 can one day assist astronauts on colonies on the Moon, and perhaps on Mars in the farther future. “Our aim with…
Can ChatGPT Host a Christian Sermon? Apparently, It Can.
Advertisement This isn’t the first time humankind, in all its hubris, has tried to mix AI and religion. Notorious ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski who was at the center of a…
Meta’s Open-Source ‘MusicGen’ AI Is Like ChatGPT for Tunes
As described by Kreuk, the model uses an EnCodec audio tokenizer based on a transformer language model. Users can demo MusicGen through Hugging Face’s API, though, generating some music could…
How AI Could Take Over Elections—And Undermine Democracy
How reinforcement learning works. Third, over the course of a campaign, Clogger’s messages could evolve in order to take into account your responses to the machine’s prior dispatches and what…
Here’s What Health Experts Want You to Know About This Week’s Wildfire Smoke
Two days later, much of the smoke throughout the region has cleared up, but some health experts want residents to stay informed and prepare for future events. Advertisement Advertisement Peter…