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Industry group says rise of vocal technology could upend many creative fields, including audiobooks – the canary in the coalmine for voice actorsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVoice actors say they’re on the precipice of their work being replaced completely by artificial intelligence, with corporate and radio roles already beginning to be replaced by cheap generative AI clones.While a high-profile actor like Scarlett Johansson can make the mo

The organisation responsible for monitoring digital falsehoods is reportedly being wound down after pressure from Republicans and conspiracy theoristsFor most of us, the word “medium” means “a channel or system of communication, information, or entertainment”. For a biologist, though, the term means something rather different: “the nutrient solution in which cells or organs are grown”. But there are times when the two conceptions fuse, and we’re living i

The Google futurist talks nanobots and avatars, deepfakes and elections – and why he is so optimistic about a future where we merge with computersThe American computer scientist and techno-optimist Ray Kurzweil is a long-serving authority on artificial intelligence (AI). His bestselling 2005 book, The Singularity Is Near, sparked imaginations with sci-fi like predictions that computers would reach human-level intelligence by 2029 and that we would merge with computers and become superhuman

Tech firm’s bid to remove more CO2 than it produces is being tested as AI spawns new energy-hungry datacentresBill Gates: AI will help rather than hinder climate targetsIf you want evidence of Microsoft’s progress towards its environmental “moonshot” goal, then look closer to earth: at a building site on a west London industrial estate.The company’s Park Royal datacentre is part of its commitment to drive the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), but that ambit