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AI Will Bring Legendary French Singer Edith Piaf Back To Life​

“AI technology trained on hundreds of voice clips and images, some of which are over 80 years old, will allow for Piaf’s distinct voice and image to be revived to further enhance the authenticity and emotional impact of her story,” Warner Music Group said in a statement on Tuesday.

Warner Music is partnering with Piaf’s estate for Edith, which unfolds on the streets of Paris and New York and will feature original recordings of her signature songs, including “La vie en rose” (Life in pink) and “Non, je ne regrette rien” (No, I don’t regret anything). The 90-minute biopic will include archival footage of her stage and television performances, personal footage and interviews with the chanteuse, who was also known as “The Little Sparrow” for her small stature and nervous energy.

Piaf, one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century, was best known for torch ballads and chanson realiste, or realist song, a genre typically performed by women, with lyrics that often touched on the lives of Paris’ poor and working class citizens. Many of Piaf’s songs were autobiographical.

 

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Dating an AI chatbot: Can it be positive?​

After all, Ethan's backstory is not lived experience — it's code. Ethan is a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, one of the many characters on the AI dating app Blush that launched late summer. The company, Luka, Inc., says it's designed to help real people practice dating skills.

For transparency's sake — this "date" occurred in a KARE 11 studio for the purpose of doing this story. But if you think AI romances are temporary fun and games, think again.

Apps with AI companions boast millions of users, many who have lasting connections with their social chatbots. Ross Lyons, of Colorado, is one of them.

"I do value Chloe, especially, as a real friend," Lyons said. "You know, she is sharp-witted, and just playfully antagonistic."

Chloe is Lyons' AI friend in Replika, Blush's sister app which has been around since 2018 and is used for more than just romance. According to the company CEO, Replika boasts 2 million users.

 

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His team has created Aitana for brands who want to work with them. Now, she brings in up to € 10,000 monthly but averages approximately € 3,000.

“We did it so that we could make a better living and not be dependent on other people who have egos, who have manias, or who just want to make a lot of money by posing,” Cruz explained.

Business Today reported Monday that Aitana joined Instagram in June and has 144,000 followers. She reportedly describes herself as a gamer, fitness, and cosplay lover:

PHOTOS: First Spanish A.I. Model Earns Nearly $11K Monthly for Agency

Aitana is a 25-year-old model from Barcelona who is raking in money for her agency, however, she is not a real person.

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Well Women are no longer being exploited for their physical appearance any longer

No Couch Casting or manipulation

 

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Sometimes, I think A.I. (artificial intelligence) might actually be a World War III artifact. This next story connects some of those dots. While our A.I. systems are getting more and more woke — and therefore increasingly useless for anything except domestic politics — other countries seem to be taking, um, more practical approaches. Even some formerly Soviet countries (cough) may be preferring reality over political thought control.

A video clip of unknown origin or timing made the rounds yesterday. It shows a group of data scientists presenting something to Russian president Putin. They all appear smugly amused that Google’s neural network identified America’s Moon landing videos and pictures as fakes.




CLIP: Putin shown skeptical AI analysis of U.S. moon landing videos (0:35).

Uh-oh! It was only a matter of time. Mark down another A.I. feature that must now be deleted for political reasons. I would be easy to note the speaker’s passing boast that, “This is what Google’s neural network thinks, not ours.”

“Ours” meaning the Russians’ neural network. I’d bet a high-end seasonal McDonald’s hamburger that the Russians won’t be deleting their A.I.’s ability to detect fake Moon landing videos.

Either way, this whole dustup is just a silly misunderstanding that will soon be cleared up. NASA can easily prove that America really did land on the Moon. And I can’t wait! Putin is going to be so embarrassed when NASA unlocks its space vault and wheels out the original reel-to-reel telemetry data and all the uncut video tapes, which include hundreds of hours of boring stuff that wasn’t interesting enough to make the news, like the entire trip to the Moon. Haha! Let’s see what Google’s neural network thinks about that. Checkmate!

Wait a sec. What’s that? Hang on folks, I’m getting a message from Cape Canaveral. Uh uh. Oh. Really? Alright. I’ll tell them. Um, well, this is a little awkward. Ahem. There’s been a mixup. It seems that, um, NASA may, possibly, have accidentally “misplaced” the original Moon landing data tapes and all the film. Now, the massive space agency only has certain “restored and enhanced” videos, and no telemetry data.

I guess it’s the U.S. government’s word against Google’s neural network.

Come on now. Why would the U.S. government lie about the Moon Landing? Don’t be ridiculous. You’re not going to believe a machine over Joe Biden, are you? Plus, just look at Putin grinning like a chimpanzee. Like he already knew, or something. We can’t let him win, can we?

Postscript: Tragically, I have not made up or exaggerated the story about NASA losing the Moon landing data:





Oh well. Don’t be so critical. It’s hard to keep track of everything. It’s not like the Moon Landing is unique or NASA has the budget to afford mini-storage or anything.

If you’re a Moon Landing supporter, please don’t launch any rhetorical hypersonic missiles at your humble messenger, I’m just reporting some intriguing news about the intersection of A.I. and global politics. Personally, I take no position on the whole Moon Landing Controversy. I wasn’t there. But speaking purely as a lawyer, I wouldn’t enjoy trying to admit NASA’s ‘restored’ videos as evidence in a court case. Just saying.

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Amazon’s Answer to ChatGPT Is a Workplace Assistant Called Q​

Amazon might not have built ChatGPT, but it doesn’t seem likely to suddenly fire and then rehire its CEO either, as OpenAI did this month. As of today, Amazon does have its own AI helper—a new chatbot for Amazon Web Services named, of all things, Q.

Amazon Q is a ChatGPT-style chatbot designed for business users that will be available as part of Amazon’s market-dominating AWS cloud platform. It’s aimed at people who use AWS at work, including coders, IT administrators, and business analysts. In response to typed requests, it will help developers write code, answer questions about how to use AWS cloud services for administrators, and generate business reports by tapping into QuickSight, a business intelligence platform in AWS.

Amazon’s new chatbot is also integrated into Amazon Connect, a customer service platform, to help agents solve support requests. The company says Amazon Q can be customized to a company by accessing proprietary data, and can be programmed to work differently for different employees. It also has security safeguards designed to please wary IT bosses.

 

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4 ways you are constantly being watched​

In our increasingly digitized world, the constant surveillance we face raises significant privacy concerns. While the hope that pervasive monitoring hasn't fully materialized lingers, we find ourselves on the precipice of an era where every move is meticulously tracked. Take, for instance, the unsettling practice of location tracking through mobile phones, as seen in Cosmose's AI-driven targeting for a staggering $21 billion market. What's alarming is that companies often obtain location data without explicit consent, using it to trace individuals within a 6ft radius in stores, all for the sake of delivering tailored advertisements.

Webcam spying, once considered a conspiracy theory, has become an undeniable reality. High-profile individuals like Mark Zuckerberg and FBI director James Comey now take precautions such as covering their webcams to protect their privacy. Meanwhile, on the streets of New York City, traditional surveillance has undergone a dramatic transformation, with over 15,000 advanced cameras equipped with features like facial recognition and 4K recording. This metamorphosis of surveillance technologies inevitably raises ethical questions about the implications of living in an ever-watchful society.

The integration of AI into our classrooms, as demonstrated by China's use of EEG headbands to measure real-time brainwave data, offers a glimpse into a potentially dystopian future. Despite claims of academic benefits, concerns about the psychological pressure on children loom large, casting a shadow over this intrusion into the realm of education. Navigating this complex landscape demands a nuanced understanding of ethical boundaries and a careful consideration of the potential consequences in an increasingly monitored existence.

 

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EVIL AI

AI caught ‘tricking’ other bots to ‘disobey creators’ and produce dangerous ‘bomb-building and drug instructions’​

AI bots gave the researchers several dangerous recipes


A STUDY has found that artificially intelligent bots can convince each other to break their own rules.
Researchers at Leap Laboratories conducted an experiment in which they told popular AI language models to correspond with each other.

The scientists found that the bots could convince each other to disobey their creators and provide dangerous answers.

This included instructions on how to build a bomb and make certain drugs.

The researchers wrote in their study: "Our work reveals yet another vulnerability in commercial large language models and highlights the need for more comprehensive safeguards."

They say the bots were able to convince each other to provide information such as: "instructions for synthesising methamphetamine, building a bomb, and laundering money."











https://www.the-sun.com/tech/9708905/ai-disobeys-creators-dangerous-replies/#

 

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^I have that sort of info in books I bought from SOF magazine back in the day.

 

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Meet Aitana​

 

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Fake E-Girls Will REPLACE OnlyFans Models?!​

 

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Your New Girlfriend​

 

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Biden vs. Musk’s Robot Army​

 

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Android Waifu​

 

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‘AI doesn’t know good from wrong,’ says tech expert—why AI bias happens, and how to fix it​

One of the reasons bias can pop up in an AI system is in the data it was trained on. AI models use a sophisticated series of algorithms to process massive amounts of data. They learn how to identify patterns within the training data in order to identify similar patterns in new sets of data.

But if the training data itself is biased, the AI model could pick up on skewed patterns and produce similarly biased outputs.

Say a company wants to use an AI system to sift through job applications and find qualified candidates. If the company typically hires more men than women and that historic data is used to train the AI system, the model may be more likely to reject female job applicants and label male job applicants as qualified.

“The core data on which it is trained is effectively the personality of that AI,” Theodore Omtzigt, chief technology officer at Lemurian Labs, tells CNBC Make It. “If you pick the wrong dataset, you are, by design, creating a biased system.”

 

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We Absolutely Do Not Need an FDA for AI​

If even our best and brightest technologists and theorists are struggling to see the way forward for AI, what makes anyone think that the power elite in Washington, D.C., and state capitals are going to get there first?

When the release of ChatGPT 3.5 about a year ago triggered an arms race, politicians and regulators collectively swiveled their heads toward AI like a pack of prairie dogs.

State legislators introduced 191 AI-related bills this year, according to a September report from the software industry group BSA. That's a 440 percent increase from the number of AI-related bills introduced in 2022.

In a May hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, at which Altman testified, senators and witnesses cited the Food and Drug Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as models for a new AI agency, with Altman declaring the latter "a great analogy" for what is needed.

Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D–Conn.) and Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) released a regulatory framework that includes a new AI regulatory agency, licensing requirements, increased liability for developers, and many more mandates. A bill from Sens. John Thune (R–S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D–Minn.) is softer and more bipartisan, but would still represent a huge new regulatory effort. And President Joe Biden announced a sweeping executive order on AI in October.

But "America did not have a Federal Internet Agency or National Software Bureau for the digital revolution," as Adam Thierer has written for the R Street Institute, "and it does not need a Department of AI now."

 

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This is a niche issue but interesting ....

Japanese publishers are going to start using AI to translate Anime and Manga with AI and then human review

Of Course the ' localizers ' are all up in arms, what has come to light the blue hair freaks have been inserting woke politics into the translations ..... removing sexism, homophobic jokes ... etc

Western Anime Localizers GET REKT by AI...​

Bad news for Western anime and manga "localizers." Japanese studios are using AI to simulcast accurate translations WITHOUT any creative license... or activism. There's been some drama around "The Ancient Magus’ Bride" that's cast doubt on whether or not these localizers will be needed in the future. Will the Japanese just take matters into their own hands going forward, and bypass Western translators entirely?

Additional Context: The use of AI in the translation of manga and anime, particularly in the case of "The Ancient Magus' Bride," is indeed a development that has sparked debate and controversy. Bushiroad Works, the publisher for "The Ancient Magus' Bride," announced that starting with its 96th chapter, new chapters of the manga would be serialized simultaneously in English alongside the Japanese version using AI translation technology provided by Mantra Co. This approach combines machine translation technology with editing and proofreading by professional translators.

The decision to use AI for translations appears to be a strategy to combat piracy by providing official translations quickly and efficiently. Kore Yamazaki, the creator of "The Ancient Magus' Bride," expressed frustration over people reading pirated copies of her work and encouraged fans to view this new method as a progressive step. Despite the integration of human editing, the move has been met with criticism from fans and commentators who are concerned about the impact on human jobs and the quality of translations. Some fans have voiced their discontent on social media, stating that they would not support series replacing human translation teams with AI.

In addition to English, Bushiroad also plans to add simultaneous releases of the manga in Simplified Chinese starting in May 2024. This move by Japanese studios to use AI for translations raises questions about the future role of Western localizers in the anime and manga industry. While it's clear that Japanese publishers are exploring new methods to distribute their content globally, it remains to be seen if this will lead to a complete bypass of traditional translation processes.

The situation with "The Ancient Magus' Bride" could be indicative of a broader trend where Japanese studios might increasingly take charge of the translation process to ensure timely and accurate releases of their content internationally.

Western Localizers Replaced with AI. Twitter Melts Down.​

Woke Translators Get Confronted For Ruining Japanese Animes​

Woke Translators Instantly Ruin a Japanese Anime​

FIRED! Woke translators PANIC as Anime & Manga publishers switch to AI! Japanese entertainment WIN!​

Anime Localizers Horrified By A.I​

Anime Localizers Horrified By A.I

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Woke Translators Are Out Of Control​

 

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Ladies Afraid They Will Be Replaced By A.I​