Randy Travis, who lost much of his speech in a 2013 stroke, used artificial intelligence technology to clone his voice for his first recording in more than a decade.
Travis, his longtime producer Kyle Lehning, Travis’s wife Mary, and Warner Music Nashville co-chair and co-president Cris Lacy spoke with CBS Sunday Morning to detail how AI helped create “Where That Came From,” Travis’s new song that released on Friday. The full report will air Sunday. — Read More
Monthly Archives: May 2024
Washed Out “The Hardest Part” – Made with OpenAI’s Sora
Meet the humanoids: 8 robots ready to revolutionize work
In 2015, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, asserted that we were on the brink of a “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” one powered by a fusion of technologies, such as advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things.
“[This revolution] will fundamentally alter the way we live, work, and relate to one another,” wrote Schwab in an essay published in Foreign Affairs. “In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation will be unlike anything humankind has experienced before.”
The recent surge of developments in AI and robotics — and their deployment into the workforce — seems right in line with his predictions, although almost ten years on. — Read More
Meet Amazon Q, the AI assistant that generates apps for you
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has long offered generative AI solutions to optimize everyday business operations. Today, AWS added to those offerings with the general availability of its AI assistant Amazon Q.
AWS first announced Amazon Q in November 2023; on Tuesday, the company made the AI-powered assistant generally available for developers and businesses, as well as released free courses on using the AI assistant and a new Amazon Q capability in preview. — Read More
BBC presenter’s likeness used in advert after firm tricked by AI-generated voice
There was something strange about her voice, they thought. It was familiar but, after a while, it started to go all over the place.
Science presenter Liz Bonnin’s accent, as regular BBC viewers know, is Irish. But this voice message, ostensibly granting permission to use her likeness in an ad campaign, seemed to place her on the other side of the world.
The message, it turns out, was a fake – AI-generated to mimic Bonnin’s voice. Her management team got hold of it after they saw the presenter’s face on online ads for an insect repellant spray this week, something for which she did not sign up. — Read More
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