• AI-Generated Drake and The Weeknd Song Submitted to the Grammys

    AI-Generated Drake and The Weeknd Song Submitted to the Grammys
    As the tidal wave of hare-brained AI innovation continues to slam into our society, music is proving to be a battleground. After an AI-generated song called “Heart on My Sleeve” mimicked Drake and The Weeknd’s vocals and stylings, that same song has been submitted to the Grammys. Read more...
  • Musk Reportedly Wants to Fold Neuralink and Tesla Into One Big Weird AI Company

    Musk Reportedly Wants to Fold Neuralink and Tesla Into One Big Weird AI Company
    Anyone who’s spenttime observing the erratic, often contradictory behavior of billionaire Elon Musk in recent years could be forgiven for believing he’s lost a sense of direction. That tale of chaotic mismanagement and petty personal vendettas, however, isn’t the narrative told by acclaimed journalist and biographer…Read more...
  • ChatGPT can’t be trusted. The Guardian is right to block its web crawler | Letters

    ChatGPT can’t be trusted. The Guardian is right to block its web crawler | Letters
    Jeanne Warren, Dr Theo Stickley and Owen Fraser on the artificial intelligence chatbot and the decision to stop its owner OpenAI trawling Guardian contentMixing Guardian content into the training material for ChatGPT (Letters, 4 September) would be like putting some healthy food into a poisonous batch of baby food in the hope that it will become safe to eat. The only solution is to get rid of the poison. In practice, this may spell the end of ChatGPT as a serious intellectual tool, since poisono
  • Clearpath Robotics Acquired by Rockwell Automation

    Clearpath Robotics Acquired by Rockwell Automation
    Yesterday, Clearpath Robotics of Kitchener, Ontario in Canada (and Clearpath’s mobile logistics robot division OTTO Motors) announced that it was being acquired by the Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation for an undisclosed amount.The press release (which comes from Rockwell, not Clearpath) is focused exclusively on robotics for industrial applications. That is, on OTTO Motors’ Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in the context of production logistics. If you take a look at what Rockwell
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  • AFP calls on public to donate childhood photos in bid to combat child abuse with AI

    AFP calls on public to donate childhood photos in bid to combat child abuse with AI
    Project with Monash University will use images to train system to recognise pictures of children on dark webFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesThe Australian federal police want the public to donate their childhood photos to an artificial intelligence project aimed at helping save children from abuse.The project, run by AFP and Monash University, will help detect child abuse material on the dark web, or on devices that have been seized during criminal investigations. Continue