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Best AI Voice Generators in 2024
AI is evolving with access to a lot of things. In recent years, AI voice generators have undergone advancements to generate human-like voices from written text. From virtual assistants to audiobook narrators, these tools can now create lifelike and expressive synthetic voices, mimicking human speech patterns.
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Scarlett Johansson AI: What the fight over her voice reveals about OpenAI
OpenAI, the research firm whose 2022 launch of ChatGPT single-handedly pushed “artificial intelligence” into the mainstream, isn’t often inclined to back down from the knotty disputes—over copyright, safety concerns, appropriate regulations—that its innovative tech has raised. Yet this month, it antagonized someone much more powerful, and is already retreating just a touch.
AI pioneer LeCun to next-gen AI builders: ‘Don’t focus on LLMs’
AI pioneer Yann LeCun kicked off an animated discussion today after telling the next generation of developers not to work on large language models (LLMs).
Patronus AI secures $17M to tackle AI hallucinations and copyright violations
As companies race to implement generative AI, concerns about the accuracy and safety of large language models (LLMs) threaten to derail widespread enterprise adoption.
Applied use cases
Seven hours in Geneva hotel highlight U.S.-China struggle on AI
For seven hours at a Geneva hotel earlier this month, top U.S. and Chinese officials locked into talks on collectively managing their biggest fears around artificial intelligence — while keeping up a cutthroat competition to dominate technology that promises to reshape the global economy.
Is AI going to upend the face of gambling?
AI has made some – to put it mildly – big changes in our world in recent years, and although nobody can say for sure what it’s going to do next or what kind of impact it’s going to have on many aspects of our lives, people are eagerly looking out for those alterations (some with slight trepidation). What does it mean for those who love the buzz and thrill of the casino world?
Marketing Automation and AI Take Marketing to the Next Level
In today's data-driven marketing landscape, efficiency and personalization are king. This is where marketing automation and artificial intelligence (AI) come in, forming a powerful duo that can revolutionize your marketing efforts. Let's delve into how these technologies work together to elevate your marketing game.
Ethics
Meta’s new AI council is composed entirely of white men
Meta on Wednesday announced the creation of an AI advisory council with only white men on it. What else would we expect?
Council of Europe adopts first international treaty on artificial intelligence
The Council of Europe has adopted the first-ever international legally binding treaty aimed at ensuring the respect of human rights, the rule of law and democracy legal standards in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems
AI and Gender Equality
Although globally more women are accessing the internet every year, in low-income countries, only 20 per cent are connected. The gender digital divide creates a data gap that is reflected in the gender bias in AI.
Robotics
With a fresh $13m, Niqo Robotics aims to help smallholders ‘lead the innovation curve’ in AI farming
Bangalore, India-based Niqo Robotics has closed a $13 million (Rs 109 crore) Series B for its AI-powered spot-spraying technology that integrates with existing agricultural equipment.
New Cumbria Robotics Cluster to focus on nuclear decommissioning, field robotics
Among the ingredients for a successful regional robotics cluster are an industry focus and institutional support. The Cumbria Robotics Cluster yesterday marked its official launch in the U.K.
Vienna-based robotics startup Silana raises €1.5 million to optimise the clothing production puzzle
Vienna-based Silana, a startup that has developed the world’s first sewing robot, aiming to counter the precarious working conditions in garment manufacturing, just raised €1.5 million.
Research
A guide to artificial intelligence for cancer researchers
AI-based tools can boost research productivity in daily workflows, but can also extract hidden information from existing data, thereby enabling new scientific discoveries.
How AI helps programming a quantum computer
Researchers from the University of Innsbruck have unveiled a novel method to prepare quantum operations on a given quantum computer, using a machine learning generative model to find the appropriate sequence of quantum gates to execute a quantum operation.
A Critical Review of Artificial Intelligence Based Approaches in Intrusion Detection: A Comprehensive Analysis
The selection of an appropriate approach depends on the specific use case, and this work provides insights into which method is best suited for various network sizes, data availability, privacy, and security concerns, thus aiding practitioners in making informed decisions for their ID needs.
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