Despite our intrinsic distrust of AI in space taught to us by movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey (“I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave“), it offers large advantages to both manned and unmanned missions. To that end, NASA is developing a system that will allow astronauts to perform maneuvers, conduct experiments and more using a natural-language ChatGPT-like interface, The Guardian reported.
“The idea is to get to a point where we have conversational interactions with space vehicles and they [are] also talking back to us on alerts, interesting findings they see in the solar system and beyond,” said Dr. Larissa Suzuki, speaking at an IEEE meeting on next-gen space communication. “It’s really not like science fiction anymore.”
NASA aims to deploy the system on its Lunar Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and provide support for NASA’s Artemis mission. It would use a natural language interface that allows astronauts to seek advice on experiments or conduct maneuvers without diving into complex manuals. — Read More
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Unity launches Sentis and Muse AI platforms for real-time 3D creation
Unity today revealed two new AI-based products for creators to enhance their real-time 3D (RT3D) content. The two products are called Sentis and Muse and are currently available in closed beta, with plans to launch them globally later this year. In addition, Unity also announced it’s launching a dedicated AI marketplace in the Asset Store that offers several other tools for creators.
Sentis is a cross-platform runtime inference solution, meaning that it can embed AI models into any Unity project without creators having to worry about high latency. Muse is a set of tools that help users make RT3D content easily and more efficiently. At the moment, one of those tools is Unity Muse Chat, which lets users find information and answers to support questions in documentation by typing a prompt in a chat box. — Read More
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Integrated AI – The sky is entrancing (mid-2023 AI retrospective)
Google DeepMind’s CEO Says Its Next Algorithm Will Eclipse ChatGPT
In 2016, an artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo from Google’s DeepMind AI lab made history by defeating a champion player of the board game Go. Now Demis Hassabis, DeepMind’s cofounder and CEO, says his engineers are using techniques from AlphaGo to make an AI system dubbed Gemini that will be more capable than that behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
DeepMind’s Gemini, which is still in development, is a large language model that works with text and is similar in nature to GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. But Hassabis says his team will combine that technology with techniques used in AlphaGo, aiming to give the system new capabilities such as planning or the ability to solve problems.
“At a high level you can think of Gemini as combining some of the strengths of AlphaGo-type systems with the amazing language capabilities of the large models,” Hassabis says. “We also have some new innovations that are going to be pretty interesting.” Gemini was first teased at Google’s developer conference last month, when the company announced a raft of new AI projects. — Read More
Introducing: Voice Library
Today, we [Eleven Labs] are releasing our latest development at the intersection of research, product and community: the Voice Library.
Voice Library is a community space for generating, sharing, and exploring a virtually infinite range of voices. Leveraging our proprietary Voice Design tool, Voice Library brings together a global collection of vocal styles for countless applications. — Read More
A New Kill Chain Approach to Disrupting Online Threats
If the internet is a battlefield between threat actors and the investigators who defend against them, that field has never been so crowded. The threats range from hacking to scams, election interference to harassment. The people behind them include intelligence services, troll farms, hate groups, and commercial companies of cyber mercenaries. The defenders include investigators at tech companies, universities, think tanks, government agencies, and media outlets.
… As long as the defenders remain siloed, without a common framework to understand and discuss threats, there is a risk that blended and cross-platform operations like these will be able to find a weak point and exploit it.
To help break down those siloes between investigators in different fields, companies, and institutions, we have developed a framework to analyze, map, and disrupt many different sorts of online threats: a kill chain for online operations. — Read More
Amazon’s vision: An AI model for everything
Matt Wood, vice president of product for Amazon Web Services, is at the tip of the spear of Amazon’s response in the escalating AI battle between the tech giants.
Much of the internet already runs on AWS’s cloud services and Amazon’s long game strategy is to create a single point of entry for companies and startups to tap into a rapidly increasing number of generative AI models, both of the open-source and closed-source variety.
Wood discussed this and other topics in an edited conversation. — Read More
Get a clue, says panel about buzzy AI tech: It’s being ‘deployed as surveillance’
Earlier today at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco, some of the biggest names in AI turned up, including, briefly, Sam Altman of OpenAI, who just ended his two-month world tour, and Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque. Still, one of the most compelling conversations happened later in the afternoon, in a panel discussion about AI ethics.
Featuring Meredith Whittaker (pictured above), the president of the secure messaging app Signal; Credo AI co-founder and CEO Navrina Singh; and Alex Hanna, the director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute, the three had a unified message for the audience, which was: Don’t get so distracted by the promise and threats associated with the future of AI. It is not magic, it’s not fully automated and — per Whittaker — it’s already intrusive beyond anything that most Americans seemingly comprehend. — Read More
YouTube video translation is getting an AI-powered dubbing tool upgrade
YouTube is going to help its creators reach an international audience as the platform plans on introducing a new AI-powered dubbing tool for translating videos into other languages.
Announced at VidCon 2023, the goal of this latest endeavor is to provide a quick and easy way for creators to translate “at no cost” their content into languages they don’t speak. This can help out smaller channels as they may not have the resources to hire a human translator. To make this all possible, Amjad Hanif, vice president of Creator Products at YouTube, revealed the tool will utilize the Google-created Aloud plus the platform will be bringing over the team behind the AI from Area 120, a division of the parent company that frequently works on experimental tech. — Read More
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