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29 Oct

Universal strikes AI data training deal, still suing AI companies for using it’s data

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Universal Music Group (UMG), one of the largest recording labels in the world, has been vocal about the impact of AI in the music industry, going as far as to sue AI companies. But even UMG wants its data to help train generative AI as long as it can control who gets to use its copyright and build AI models. UMG announced it will work with AI company Klay Vision to help train generative AI music models “ethically and fully respectful…

29 Oct

Gartner predicts AI agents will transform work, but disillusionment is growing

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Very quickly, the topic of AI agents has moved from ambiguous concepts to reality. Enterprises will soon be able to deploy fleets of AI workers to automate and supplement — and yes, in some cases supplant — human talent. “Autonomous agents are one of the hottest topics and perhaps one of the most hyped topics in gen AI today,” Gartner distinguished VP analyst Arun Chandrasekaran said at the Gartner Symposium/Xpo this past week. However, while autonomous agents are trending on the…

29 Oct

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s path to the open metaverse is via enlightened self-interest

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney still believes that the path to the open metaverse will yield bring together the entertainment, games and technology industries together in a bright future. But to get there, Sweeney believes the monopolistic platform owners need to embrace enlightened self-interest. He spoke about these topics with me in a recorded video fireside chat that we aired today at the sold-out GamesBeat Next 2024 event in San Francisco. Sweeney has pressured the major platforms like mobile leaders Google…

28 Oct

The scale of fraud against seniors is huge, and still growing — here’s why

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With technology evolving rapidly, the amount of fraud against seniors is increasing at an alarming rate. Fraud is now the leading crime committed against seniors in Canada. Today’s scammers are taking advantage of new technological tools that make their schemes both more credible, and harder to detect. From fraudulent phone calls using voice simulation systems, to sophisticated online hustling, scams are becoming increasingly complex. Despite alerts and warnings, fraud continues to flourish in the age of technology. As an expert in the field of technological fraud, I will try to provide some answers to the following question: Why is fraud…

28 Oct

What is AI superintelligence? Could it destroy humanity? And is it really almost here?

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In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) with the ominous title Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. It proved highly influential in promoting the idea that advanced AI systems – “superintelligences” more capable than humans – might one day take over the world and destroy humanity. A decade later, OpenAI boss Sam Altman says superintelligence may only be “a few thousand days” away. A year ago, Altman’s OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever set up a team within the company to focus on “safe superintelligence”, but he and his team have now raised a…

28 Oct

Moondream raises $4.5M to prove that smaller AI models can still pack a punch

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Moondream emerged from stealth mode today with $4.5 million in pre-seed funding and a radical proposition: when it comes to AI models, smaller is better. The startup, backed by Felicis Ventures, Microsoft’s M12 GitHub Fund, and Ascend, has built a vision-language model that operates with just 1.6 billion parameters yet rivals the performance of models four times its size. The company’s open-source model has already captured significant attention, logging over 2 million downloads and 5,100 GitHub stars. “What makes it special…

28 Oct

MIT breakthrough could transform robot training

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MIT researchers have developed a robot training method that reduces time and cost while improving adaptability to new tasks and environments. The approach – called Heterogeneous Pretrained Transformers (HPT) – combines vast amounts of diverse data from multiple sources into a unified system, effectively creating a shared language that generative AI models can process. This method marks a significant departure from traditional robot training, where engineers typically collect specific data for individual robots and tasks in controlled environments. Lead researcher Lirui Wang – an electrical engineering and computer science graduate student at MIT – believes that while many cite insufficient…

28 Oct

Using avatars in psychosis therapy can help those who hear voices, study finds

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Digital characters – avatars – could help people with psychosis hear voices less often and reduce the distress caused, research suggests.The therapy involves a series of guided sessions during which patients are able to have a conversation with an animated digital representation of their distressing voice.Often in psychosis, as in other conditions, the voices people hear can be abusive or bullying and affect people’s day-to-day life.The voices can be experienced as powerful and almost omniscient, seeming to know what the person is thinking and feeling, and preventing them from taking the steps they want to every day.According to the research…

28 Oct

Enterprise AI moves from ‘experiment’ to ‘essential,’ spending jumps 130%

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A new study reveals that generative AI has rapidly transformed from an experimental technology to an essential business tool, with adoption rates more than doubling in 2024. The research, conducted by AI at Wharton, a research center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with GBK Collective, provides a comprehensive look at AI’s integration across American businesses. The research team surveyed more than 800 enterprise decision-makers across the United States, examining AI adoption patterns, investment trends, and…

28 Oct

Man who used AI to create child abuse images jailed for 18 years

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A man who used AI to create child abuse images using photographs of real children has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.In the first prosecution of its kind in the country, Hugh Nelson, 27, from Bolton, was convicted of 16 child sexual abuse offences in August, after an investigation by Greater Manchester police (GMP).Nelson had used Daz 3D, a computer programme with an AI function, to transform “normal” images of children into sexual abuse imagery, Greater Manchester police said. In some cases, paedophiles had commissioned the images, supplying photographs of children with whom they had contact in real life.He…