• Microsoft Reportedly Building ‘Stargate' to Transport OpenAI Into the Future

    Microsoft Reportedly Building ‘Stargate' to Transport OpenAI Into the Future
    Microsoft is drawing up plans to build a $100 billion supercomputer, allegedly named “Stargate,” to power OpenAI’s next generation of artificial intelligence systems, according to a report from The Information Friday. Read more...
  • OpenAI Clearly Nervous About Its New Voice Cloning Tool Being Used for Scams

    OpenAI Clearly Nervous About Its New Voice Cloning Tool Being Used for Scams
    OpenAI announced a new AI-based audio cloning tool called Voice Engine on Friday. While the company is obviously proud of the potential of this technology—touting how it could be used to provide reading assistance for kids and give a voice to those who’ve lost theirs—OpenAI is clearly very nervous about how this could…Read more...
  • Video Friday: Co-Expression

    Video Friday: Co-Expression
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
    RoboCup German Open: 17–21 April 2024, KASSEL, GERMANYAUVSI XPONENTIAL 2024: 22–25 April 2024, SAN DIEGO, CAEurobot Open 2024: 8–11 May 2024, LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, FRANCEICRA 2024: 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPANRoboCup 2024: 17–
  • Vernor Vinge obituary

    Vernor Vinge obituary
    Sci-fi author and computer scientist who coined the term ‘the Singularity’ to describe the rapid acceleration of AIOne day in 1979, while logged in to San Diego State University’s principal computer from his home, Vernor Vinge found himself chatting to another user via the TALK program, both using implausible names and trying to figure out each other’s true name. “Afterwards, I realised that I had just lived a science-fiction story – at least by the standards
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  • We Tested AI Censorship: Here’s What Chatbots Won’t Tell You

    We Tested AI Censorship: Here’s What Chatbots Won’t Tell You
    When OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, it may not have realized it was setting a company spokesperson loose on the internet. ChatGPT’s billions of conversations reflected directly on the company, and OpenAI quickly threw up guardrails on what the chatbot could say. Since then, the biggest names in technology—Google,…Read more...
  • ‘It’s very easy to steal someone’s voice’: how AI is affecting video game actors

    ‘It’s very easy to steal someone’s voice’: how AI is affecting video game actors
    The increased use of AI to replicate the voice and movements of actors has benefits but some are concerned over how and when it might be used and who might be left short-changedWhen she discovered her voice had been uploaded to multiple websites without her consent, the actor Cissy Jones told them to take it down immediately. Some complied. “Others who have more money in their banks basically sent me the email equivalent of a digital middle finger and said: don’t care,” Jones r