Media
HRC wants big pause on AI
Slowing down facial recognition and AI, CIOs need a better grasp of HR needs, Twitter sub pricing revealed, plus Acer, Zwift and more.
AI
Health
Australian AI bot aims to help us better understand individuals with dementia
Dementia Australia and Deakin University have launched an AI bot with dementia to help train carers to better help humans with the disease.
AI and avoiding digital phrenology
Giving AI too much credit is a big issue that needs to be considered in the mix of how we improve the ethical structures around its use. If it isn’t as good as we’re told it is, why is it allowed to play such a big role in parts of our lives?
Culture
Deep Nostalgia AI tech uses photos to bring back the dead (sort of)
Deep Nostalgia, an AI tool from genealogy company MyHeritage lets you upload photos and transform them into fascinating and creepy animations.
Big Ideas
New chess AI makes mistakes like a regular player, grandmaster it is not
A new chess AI called Maia plays like a normal person, with mistakes and all, so you can learn how to play better.
Networks
Compete to convince this AI you are the best artist
What better way to feel good about your artistry than be judged by an AI asking for wildly specific drawings?
Media
Make GLaDOS, SpongeBob and other friends say what you want with this AI text-to-speech tool
This AI website lets you make characters, including from games like Persona 4 and TF2, say whatever you want with scary accuracy.
Politics
NPCs may be smart enough to have anxiety in GTA6
A new patent filed by Take-Two talks about a new way to give NPCs more divergent AI for future games like GTA6.
Big Ideas
DeepMind AI claims massive breakthrough in protein folding
New advances in AI are smashing the competition and determining the structure of proteins which has huge implications for scientific research.
Culture
AI Frank Sinatra sings Britney Spears, gets copyright takedown
When a song written by an AI riffing on two separate artists gets a copyright strike, who owns it? Or is it just another case of AI vs AI.
Big Ideas
AI bias isn't going away anytime soon
Another day, another example of artificial intelligence judging people unfairly based on their appearance.
Technology
Nvidia RTX Voice software is incredible, even cleans pre-recorded audio
Nvidia RTX Voice software not only officially supports GTX cards now but you can even use it to clean pre-recorded audio, with a little help.