NVIDIA helps bring more lifelike avatars to chatbots and games
You may talk to many more digital people in the future.
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Meta unleashes BlenderBot 3 upon the internet, its most competent chat AI to date
The conversational algorithm has been specifically hardened against network toxicity.We have two newsletters, why not sign up for both?
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Free AI tool restores old photos by creating slightly new loved ones
It works wonderfully, but there's a risk of a 'slight change of identity.'
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Google fires researcher who claimed LaMDA AI was sentient
Lemoine went public with his claims last month, to the chagrin of Google and other AI researchers.
DALL-E's powerful AI image generator is now available in beta
OpenAI's system will be available to 1 million people.
Meta's 'Make-A-Scene' AI blends human and computer imagination into algorithmic art
It combines cutting-edge text-to-image generation with hand-drawn sketch inputs.
Tesla's Director of AI is leaving the company (Updated)
Andrej Karpathy headed up the company's Autopilot development program for half a decade.
Meta made a fact-checking AI to help verify Wikipedia citations
The tool could one day allow editors to correct footnotes at scale.
Meta's latest AI can translate 200 languages in real time
The new model beat existing benchmarks by as much as 70 percent.
Amazon's new pitch: let Alexa speak as your relatives from beyond the grave
The prospective feature seeks to clone voices with minimal training data.
Microsoft will phase out facial recognition AI that could detect emotions
The move comes as Microsoft pushes for more responsible uses of AI.
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Microsoft Teams is using AI to prevent awkward interruptions in video calls
The technology can also minimize echoes and other voice chat hassles.
Spotify buys an AI startup that turns text into 'realistic' speech
Sonantic's tech could share recommendations when you aren't looking.
AI trained on 4chan's most hateful board is just as toxic as you'd expect
The hyper-racist bots posted 15,000 times in one day.
Oregon is shutting down its controversial child welfare AI in June
The algorithm screened families for neglect investigations by state social workers.
Koala Sampler now uses AI to automatically create song stems
Grab the bass or vocals without the usual hard work.
