• These AI Companies Want to Bring You Back From the Dead

    These AI Companies Want to Bring You Back From the Dead
    Fantasies of immortality and extended life preservation are likely as old as humanity itself, but new advances in robotics and advanced artificial intelligence models are inching those transhumanist tales closer to reality at a rapid pace. AI researchers and entrepreneurs eager to cash in on our deepest-rooted anxiety…Read more...
  • OpenAI offers to pay for ChatGPT customers’ copyright lawsuits

    OpenAI offers to pay for ChatGPT customers’ copyright lawsuits
    At its first showcase, the ChatGPT creator unveiled an app store, a new AI model, and a legal strategy for copyright infringement suitsRather than remove copyrighted material from ChatGPT’s training dataset, the chatbot’s creator is offering to cover its clients’ legal costs for copyright infringement suits.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Monday: “We can defend our customers and pay the costs incurred if you face legal claims around copyright infringement and this applies b
  • Balancing the risks and rewards of AI will be key | Letters

    Balancing the risks and rewards of AI will be key | Letters
    Readers on the artificial intelligence summit in London and Elon Musk’s comments about the impact of AI on all our livesBeyond the “Bletchley declaration” and leaders’ speeches at the AI summit (Report, 2 November), the lack of a global AI governance arrangement is starkly absent. It would seem that we now have three (rival) attempts to coordinate and lead – the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute based in Washington DC, the Global Partnership on Artificial
  • Enter ‘Grok,' Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke Chatbot

    Enter ‘Grok,' Elon Musk’s Anti-Woke Chatbot
    Elon Musk unveiled ‘Grok’ Saturday, a snarky, anti-woke AI chatbot that has access to all tweets, giving real-time knowledge about the world – if you can call everything on X ‘knowledge’. It’s built on Grok-1, the first large language model from the billionaire’s artificial intelligence company, xAI.Read more...
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  • More new Beatles music ‘conceivable’ after Now and Then, Peter Jackson says

    More new Beatles music ‘conceivable’ after Now and Then, Peter Jackson says
    Get Back director who helped with AI technology that isolated John Lennon’s vocals in new single says there are more song fragments in archiveThe film-maker Peter Jackson has hinted at the possibility of more Beatles music to come after the release of their “final” song Now and Then, calling the idea “conceivable”.Now and Then was built from a recording made by John Lennon shortly before his murder in 1980, using the same AI technology that Jackson used in his docum
  • How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content

    How Chinese influencers use AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content
    Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earningsIn September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed footage of himself eating chicken feet for a jaw-grinding 15 hours.His followers were suitably wowed – until some started to question if such a feat was humanly possible. The small print on the video stream confirmed their suspicions: “For display purposes only, no
  • Chinese influencers using AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content

    Chinese influencers using AI digital clones of themselves to pump out content
    Questions over honesty and legality as livestreamers, particularly in online shopping, use avatars to boost their earningsIn September, Chen Yiru, a Taiwanese influencer with nearly nine million fans on Weibo, livestreamed footage of himself eating chicken feet for a jaw-grinding 15 hours.His followers were suitably wowed – until some started to question if such a feat was humanly possible. The small print on the video stream confirmed their suspicions: “For display purposes only, no