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19 Nov

AI cloning of celebrity voices outpacing the law, experts warn

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It’s the new badge of celebrity status that nobody wants. Jennifer Aniston, Oprah Winfrey and Kylie Jenner have all had their voices cloned by fraudsters. Online blaggers used artificial intelligence to fake the Tiggerish tones of Martin Lewis, the TV financial adviser. And this weekend David Attenborough described himself as “profoundly disturbed” to have discovered that his cloned voice had been used to deliver partisan US news bulletins.AI-generated David Attenborough voice used to report on Donald Trump – videoNow experts have warned that voice-cloning is outpacing the law as technologists hone previously clunky voice generators into models capable of emulating…

19 Nov

Judging Them Blind, Humans Appear to Prefer AI-Generated Poems

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Suck it, Shakespeare.Dead PoetsScientists have found that readers have a lot of trouble telling apart AI-generated and human-written poetry — even works by the likes of William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson.Even more surprisingly, the researchers found that humans generally prefer the former over the latter, which could bode poorly for the role of human creativity in the age of generative AI.As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, University of Pittsburgh researchers Brian Porter and Edouard Machery conducted two experiments involving "non-expert poetry readers."They found that "participants performed below chance levels in identifying AI-generated poems. Notably,…

19 Nov

Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades Le Chat into full-on ChatGPT competitor

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Mistral, the French startup that made waves last year with a record-setting seed funding amount for Europe, has launched a slew of updates today including a new, large foundational model named Pixtral Large. The company is further upgrading its free web-chased chatbot, Le Chat, adding image generation, web search, and an interactive “canvas,” matching the features of and turning it into a more serious and direct competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. As Mistral AI CEO and co-founder Arthur Mensch wrote on his…

19 Nov

Internal OpenAI Emails Show Employees Feared Elon Musk Would Control AGI

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"The goal of OpenAI is to make the future good and to avoid an AGI dictatorship."Absolute PowerDuring the discovery process in Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman, email exchanges from early in the group's history show that even early on, tensions flared over who would control the company's powerful creations.In one of these early emails submitted as evidence exhibits in the Musk vs. Altman trial, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever took him to task for his egoistic need for control — and the dangers it could pose for any forthcoming human-level AI, better known as artificial general intelligence (AGI)."The current structure…

19 Nov

AnyChat brings together ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and more for ultimate AI flexibility

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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 tool called AnyChat is giving developers unprecedented flexibility by uniting a wide range of leading large language models (LLMs) under a single interface. Developed by Ahsen Khaliq (also known as “AK”), a prominent figure in the AI community and machine learning growth lead at Gradio, the platform allows users to switch seamlessly between models like ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Meta’s LLaMA, and Grok, all without being locked into a single provider. AnyChat promises to change how developers and…

18 Nov

David Attenborough Disgusted by AI Clone of His Voice

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"I am profoundly disturbed."Velvet VoiceAfter discovering that his voice has been cloned by artificial intelligence, veteran documentarian David Attenborough has been moved to genteel fury.In a new BBC segment, two near-identical clips — one generated by AI, the other recorded by the twice-knighted man himself — are heard promoting Attenborough's new special, "Asia."According to host Kasia Madera, the first of the two segments was an AI clone that the broadcaster's researchers found online. The actual Attenborough is less than pleased."Having spent a lifetime trying to speak what I believe to be the truth," Attenborough told the BBC in a statement, "I am…

18 Nov

AI poetry rated better than poems written by humans, study shows

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Poems written by AI are preferred to those written by humans, according to a new study.The non-expert poetry readers who participated were more likely to judge AI-generated poems as being written by humans than those actually written by humans.The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, showed participants poems written by 10 famous English-language poets along with poems generated in the style of those poets by ChatGPT 3.5.Real and imitation poems by Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Dorothea Lasky were presented to participants.Results showed…

18 Nov

Cryptocurrencies are making investors very rich – and making it harder to stop financial scammers

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Fraudulent payments – where people are tricked into sending money to criminals – cost consumers £460 million in England and Wales last year. To give consumers more protection, the UK government now plans to give banks 72 hours to delay completion of potentially fraudulent transfers. The growth of the decentralised finance sector – including cryptocurrencies and the platforms that facilitate their trade – offers an alternative to mainstream finance. But as well as new opportunities, the growth of DeFi (as it’s known) has brought serious risks of financial crime and scams. On the one hand, the blockchain technology used in…

18 Nov

Nvidia accelerates Google quantum AI design with quantum physics simulation

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nvidia it is working with Google Quantum AI to accelerate the design of its next-generation quantum computing devices using simulations powered by Nvidia. Google Quantum AI is using the hybrid quantum-classical computing platform and the Nvidia Eos supercomputer to simulate the physics of its quantum processors. This will help overcome the current limitations of quantum computing hardware, which can only run a certain number of quantum operations before computations must cease, due to what researchers call “noise.” “The development of commercially…

18 Nov

Sam Altman Points Out That Elon Musk’s “Anti-Woke” Grok AI Seems to Actually Support Kamala Harris

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had a very simple question for xAI CEO Elon Musk's foul-mouthed Grok chatbot: who would make for a "better overall president for the United States?"The chatbot, which Musk has long positioned as the "anti-woke" alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT, had an equally simple answer: Kamala Harris.Grok listed a number of reasons as to why, ranging from "abortion and women's rights" to "inclusivity" and the risk of the disastrous economic policies president-elect Donald Trump has threatened the country with.In other words, Grok made a compelling case against Trump — the exact kind of argument the extreme right, including…