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Fox News AI Newsletter: OpenAI updates ChatGPT to let AI tool 'see, hear and speak'

FOX News

OpenAI is rolling out the ability to carry on conversations with a human-sounding robot on the ChatGPT app. ERA OF AI: AI tools are set to transform work, Goldman Sachs CIO says. Goldman Sachs Chief Information Officer Marco Argenti told FOX Business that AI is poised to transform workflows and boost productivity. AI JERRY: Dallas Cowboys give team owner an AI version of himself. AI-POWERED FRAUD: AI voice cloning scams targeting families are on the rise.


DJI Mavic 3 Pro Cine Review: A Movie Studio in the Sky

WIRED

The "Pro" moniker gets thrown around a lot on gadgets that are, at best, built for hobbyists with some disposable income. The original Mavic 3 was already a fantastic drone, but the newest variation packs an entire film studio into a small, flying package (and a high price to match its power). At $4,799, this drone is not cheap, but you can capture high-quality aerial shots! This is just not something that's really feasible without spending tons more. The most stark change in the Pro Cine variant of the Mavic 3 is its triple-camera array.


My Books Were Used to Train Meta's Generative AI. Good.

The Atlantic - Technology

When The Atlantic revealed last month that tens of thousands of books published in the past 20 years had been used without permission to train Meta's AI language model, well-known authors were outraged, calling it a "smoking gun" for mega-corporate misbehavior. Now that the magazine has put out a searchable database of affected books, the outrage is redoubled: "I would never have consented for Meta to train AI on any of my books, let alone five of them," wrote the novelist Lauren Groff. The original Atlantic story gestured at this sense of violation and affront: "The future promised by AI is written with stolen words," it said. Still I was mystified, at first, by the Sturm und Drang response, and by the claim that generative AI is "powered by mass theft." Perhaps I was just jealous of the famous writers who were being singled out as victims--Stephen King, Zadie Smith, Michael Pollan, and others who command huge speaking fees and lucrative secondary-rights deals.


Newspaper runs robot-written op-ed opposing AI in journalism

FOX News

Fox News contributor Dr. Marc Siegel weighs in on how artificial intelligence can change the patient-doctor relationship on'America's Newsroom.' A St. Louis newspaper decided to take on the artificial intelligence debate by allowing a robot to pen an op-ed arguing against the use of AI in journalism. The article, featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was written entirely by Microsoft's Bing Chat AI program, according to a disclaimer in the article. The bot was instructed to "write a newspaper editorial arguing that artificial intelligence should not be used in journalism." The paper then let the AI platform take over from there.


The WGA strike ends with protections against AI set in place

Engadget

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has voted to officially lift its strike order, over half a year since it stopped work and demanded a better contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). Writers can officially go back to work after 12:01 AM PT on September 27, even though the organization has yet to hold the final ratification vote. WGA's decision comes shortly after it held a series of negotiation sessions with producers and reached a tentative agreement, with one of the key sticking points being the use of generative AI. Now, the WGA has released a summary of the terms of its new contract, and it prominently features protections against the use of generative AI in the writing process. To start with, generative AI can't be used to write or rewrite literary material, and anything it produces cannot be considered source material. Writers can choose to use AI if the company or studio consents to it, but studios can't force writers to use AI software like ChatGPT.


"ChatGPT, a Friend or Foe for Education?" Analyzing the User's Perspectives on the Latest AI Chatbot Via Reddit

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data gave rise to Artificial Intelligent agents like Open AI's ChatGPT, which has recently become the fastest growing application since Facebook and WhatsApp. ChatGPT has demonstrated its ability to impact students' classroom learning experience and exam outcomes. However, there is evidence that ChatGPT provides biased and erroneous information, yet students use ChatGPT in academic tasks. Therefore, an accurate understanding of ChatGPT user perception is crucial. This study has analyzed 247 Reddit top posts related to the educational use of ChatGPT from a prominent subreddit called "ChatGPT" for user perception analysis. Descriptive statistics, sentiment analysis using NLP techniques, and LDA topic modeling were used for analysis to gather a contextual understanding of the data. Results show that the majority of the users took a neutral viewpoint. However, there was more positive perception than negative regarding the usefulness of ChatGPT in education.


Single and Multi-Speaker Cloned Voice Detection: From Perceptual to Learned Features

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Synthetic-voice cloning technologies have seen significant advances in recent years, giving rise to a range of potential harms. From small- and large-scale financial fraud to disinformation campaigns, the need for reliable methods to differentiate real and synthesized voices is imperative. We describe three techniques for differentiating a real from a cloned voice designed to impersonate a specific person. These three approaches differ in their feature extraction stage with low-dimensional perceptual features offering high interpretability but lower accuracy, to generic spectral features, and end-to-end learned features offering less interpretability but higher accuracy. We show the efficacy of these approaches when trained on a single speaker's voice and when trained on multiple voices. The learned features consistently yield an equal error rate between 0% and 4%, and are reasonably robust to adversarial laundering.


Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.

The New Yorker

On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion of automated machinery. Knitting machines known as lace frames allowed one employee to do the work of many without the skill set usually required. In protest, the beleaguered workers had begun breaking into factories to smash the machines. "Nine Hundred Lace Frames have been broken," the newspaper reported.


The 7 Best Conspiracies About Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

WIRED

First thing's first: Misinformation and disinformation are bad. False tweets that go viral, government conspiracy theories, lies about vaccines--these are all huge problems online, and they're poised to get worse thanks to generative AI. There are a few exceptions, though. The best of these came to light over the weekend when Taylor Swift showed up at a Kansas City Chiefs game. Sports internet and Swiftie internet promptly collided--and collapsed into chaos.


Creepy ChatGPT 'voice conversation' mimics a human with a convincing personality and knows almost everything

FOX News

OpenAI is rolling out the ability to carry on conversations with a human-sounding robot on the ChatGPT app. Alexa and Siri are about to get really jealous. The voice technology smart speakers are being taken on by a full-fledged humanoid AI robot being rolled out on the ChatGPT app for Plus paying customers. Starting this week, a new feature will be available on the iOS and Google Play ChatGPT apps that could potentially eliminate the need for keyboards. Let's dive in and see exactly what is going to be at our fingertips.