Snapchat is releasing its AI chatbot to everyone for free
Snap is releasing its “My AI” chatbot to all of its 750 million monthly users for free. It can be added to group chats, changed with a custom Bitmoji avatar, and can recommend AR filters and places to visit.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23688913/snapchat-my-ai-chatbot-release-open-ai
Google Brain merges with DeepMind to take on OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Alphabet could fall behind Microsoft in the AI race due to OpenAI funding.
Alphabet and OpenAI are combining to work on “multimodal” AI, which could challenge Google’s dominance in the search market.
ARTEMIS is a humanoid robot ready to play football.
ARTEMIS is a first-of-its-kind robot with cutting-edge technology that can maintain its balance against heavy kicks and shoves, withstand objects being thrown at it, and is capable of running.
It also has the ability to kick a ball, which could be used for other applications like firefighting and disaster relief. ARTEMIS will be revealed at RoboCup in Bordeaux, France, in July.
Student copies an essay from ChatGPT and the teacher replies to it..
An essay by a student was created using ChatGPT, an AI chatbot that has been used to perform tasks.
The teacher asked the student to rewrite the assignment in their own words, as the AI model was not able to help.
Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation
Boris Eldagsen’s Pseudomnesia: The Electrician won the creative open category at the Sony World Photography Award, but organisers of the award said he misled them about the extent of AI involved. He will not accept the award.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65296763
AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song goes viral
Heart On My Sleeve is a song that uses Artificial Intelligence to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd.
It has been viewed more than 8.5 million times on TikTok and 254,000 times on Spotify, and includes a call-out to producer Metro Boomin’. Drake recently expressed displeasure at his voice being cloned, but neither artist has responded yet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65298834
AI must be well-regulated to avert harmful effects, says Google CEO Sundar Pichai
In a 60 Minutes interview about what keeps him up at night with regard to AI, Pichai said “the urgency to work and deploy it in a beneficial way, but at the same time it can be very harmful if deployed wrongly”.
Based in Mountain View, California, Google is one of the leaders in the development and implementation of AI in services. While software like Google Lens and Google Photos rely on the company’s image recognition system, the Google Assistant benefits from years of research into natural language processing.
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Deepfake porn could be a growing problem amid AI race
Deepfakes are videos or images digitally created or altered using artificial intelligence/machine learning, and experts fear the darker side of the tool will mostly harm women.
Experts say the problem has grown as it has become easier to create sophisticated and visually compelling deepfakes. And things could get even worse with the development of generative AI tools that train billions of images on the web and use existing data to spit out new content, they say.
