Chatbots help lonely, suicidal students with mental health
Loneliness is a global epidemic with people increasingly relying on AI companions to fill the absence of human friends. Researchers…
Google unveils Lumiere, a text-to-video diffusion model
Google Research unveiled Lumiere, a text-to-video diffusion model that creates remarkably realistic videos from text or image prompts. The still…
UK parcel firm disables AI bot after it goes rogue
A disgruntled customer of UK parcel delivery company DPD got its customer service chatbot to misbehave to the point where…
SAG-AFTRA called out for approving AI voices for video games
Actors union SAG-AFTRA has announced an agreement with AI voice studio Replica Studios outlining how AI voices can be used…
AI imitation of George Carlin raises awkward questions
An AI ‘comedian’ called Dudesy just released a full-length comedy show imitating the late comedian George Carlin without his family’s…
FTC offers $25,000 reward in AI voice cloning challenge
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is tasked with protecting consumers from fraud and scams but ever-improving AI voice cloning is…
Generative AI’s plagiarism problem a legal risk to users
AI companies are being sued for copyright infringements but AI-generated images also present a potential legal risk to end users.…
The upcoming World Conference on Data Science & Statistics 2024
The World Conference on Data Science & Statistics 2024 on the 17th to 19th of June brings together industry leaders,…
LimeWire makes a comeback with AI-generated music
LimeWire started as a peer-to-peer music-sharing tool in 2000, was shut down in 2010 for copyright violations, and has now…
Imagine with Meta AI released as a standalone platform
Meta’s AI image generator has moved beyond the company’s social media platforms and is now a standalone product. “Imagine with…