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Voice actors and motion capture performers to strike over AI protections after nearly two years of negotiationsHollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections.The strike – the second for video game voice actors and motion capture performers under the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation o

Prototype, initially launching with select publishers and users, set to challenge Google’s dominance of online searchOpenAI is testing a new search engine that uses generative artificial intelligence to produce results, raising the prospect of a significant challenge to Google’s dominance of the online search market.SearchGPT will launch with a small group of users and publishers before a potential wider rollout, the company announced on Thursday. OpenAI ultimately intends to incorpo

Team of two new AI systems score one point short of gold medal in global maths contest for gifted studentsEven though computers were made to do maths faster than any human could manage, the top level of formal mathematics remains an exclusively human domain. But a breakthrough by researchers at Google DeepMind has brought AI systems closer than ever to beating the best human mathematicians at their own game.A pair of new systems, called AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2, worked together to tackle q

Research commissioned by Google estimates 31% of jobs would be insulated from AI and 61% radically transformed by itAlmost two-thirds of British jobs could be “enhanced” with AI, Google has claimed, with only a tiny proportion at risk of being “phased out” entirely.Instead of worrying about job losses caused by AI, the focus needed to be on making sure the millions of Britons who could work in smarter and faster ways with AI tech got the support to use it, the company sai

AI tools look for patterns in data over years to forecast weather accurately and faster than traditional methodsIn the past year, something of a revolution has hit the world of weather forecasting as artificial intelligence-based weather forecasts have come to the fore. Traditional weather forecasting methods rely on creating a digital three-dimensional grid that replicates as closely as possible the state of the atmosphere at the start of the forecast.Once this “initialised state” i

Generative AI risks further erosion of public discourse, undermines political accountability and contributes to ‘information rot’As long as there have been deepfakes, there has been political deepfake panic. Concerns about the use of deepfakes – that is, artificially generated or manipulated material to depict something that never happened – in politics have circulated since at least as early as 2018, when the technology was used to impersonate Obama calling Trump a &ldqu