• Claude 3.5 suggests AI’s looming ubiquity could be a good thing

    Claude 3.5 suggests AI’s looming ubiquity could be a good thing
    If you don’t like chatbots popping up everywhere, then get ready to be peeved. But the latest version of Anthropic’s shows AI is becoming more useful – and, crucially, affordableThe frontier of AI just got pushed a little further forward. On Friday, Anthropic, the AI lab set up by a team of disgruntled OpenAI staffers, released the latest version of its Claude LLM. From Bloomberg:The company said Thursday that the new model – the technology that underpins its popular chat
  • Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot

    Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot
    Unsettling documentary considers whether the increasingly popularsimulations of lost loved ones are really helping the bereavedIn the future, it’s possible that you won’t have to die. You’ll simply upload yourself. Or download a deceased loved one. In fact, some of this stuff isn’t even in the future; AI griefbots are already imitating the dead. Canadian writer Joshua Barbeau, devastated after the death of girlfriend Jessica, brought her back virtually using the website P
  • Music labels sue AI song generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement

    Music labels sue AI song generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement
    Software steals songs to ‘spit out’ similar tunes, lawsuit says, asking for $150,000 a work in compensationThe world’s biggest record companies are suing the artificial intelligence song generators Suno and Udio for copyright infringement, alleging that the AI music startups are exploiting the recorded works of artists from Chuck Berry to Mariah Carey.The Recording Industry Association of America announced the lawsuits on Monday, brought by labels including Sony Music Entertain