A fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon in Washington DC, which may have been created using AI technology, caused a brief market selloff.
The image purported to show a large cloud of smoke near the headquarters of the Department of Defense on Monday, and was shared by a string of online accounts on Twitter.
But the image and claims of an explosion were quickly branded fake by the Arlington Fire Department. — Read More
Daily Archives: May 23, 2023
Bill Gates says A.I. could kill Google Search and Amazon as we know them
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes the future top company in artificial intelligence will likely have created a personal digital agent that can perform certain tasks for people.
The technology will be so profound, it could radically alter user behaviors. “Whoever wins the personal agent, that’s the big thing, because you will never go to a search site again, you will never go to a productivity site, you’ll never go to Amazon again,” he said.
This yet-to-be developed AI assistant will be able to understand a person’s needs and habits and will help them “read the stuff you don’t have time to read,” Gates said Monday during a Goldman Sachs and SV Angel event in San Francisco on the topic of artificial intelligence. — Read More
Preserving the World’s Language Diversity Through AI
Many of the world’s languages are in danger of disappearing, and the limitations of current speech recognition and generation technology will only accelerate this trend. We want to make it easier for people to access information and use devices in their preferred language, and today we’re announcing a series of artificial intelligence (AI) models that could help them do just that.
Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100 — more than 10 times as many as before — and can also identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than before.
… We’re open-sourcing our models and code so that others in the research community can build on our work and help preserve the world’s languages and bring the world closer together. — Read More
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