• Meta announces new AI model that can generate video with sound

    Meta announces new AI model that can generate video with sound
    Facebook owner claims Movie Gen can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips that rival competitors’Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Friday it had built a new artificial intelligence model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to user prompts, claiming it can rival tools from leading media generation startups like OpenAI and ElevenLabs.Samples of Movie Gen’s creations provided by Meta showed videos of animals
  • Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing

    Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing
    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.
    IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAEICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARKCybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICHHumanoids 2024: 22–24 November 2024, NANCY, FRANCEEnjoy today’s videos! Not even ladders can
  • ChatGPT has become the ‘best teammate’ to these Sydney university students – but is there a limit?

    ChatGPT has become the ‘best teammate’ to these Sydney university students – but is there a limit?
    Universities are pivoting to incorporate generative AI into academic life – without the plagiarism – in the belief it will become a intrinsic part of life and workGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThird-year student Jack Quinlan was confident he knew what I was going to ask before we conducted our interview. He wasn’t psychic, and I hadn’t fed him questions – he’d just done a trial run on ChatGPT.Prior to our meeting, the software engi