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Creepy new Siri voice cloning coming to iPhone
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak joined'Your World with Neil Cavuto' to discuss the dangers of artificial intelligence, comparing Steve Jobs to Elon Musk and more. In this era of hyper-personalized technology, Apple's Siri is making a leap from responding to your voice to mimicking it. Picture this: you're lounging on your couch, half-watching "The Crown," half-scrolling through your endless emails, and then you hear it - your voice reminding you about tomorrow's early morning meeting. It's as if you've stepped into an episode of "Black Mirror." CLICK TO GET KURT'S FREE CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Welcome to iOS 17, where Siri will not just be your assistant but your voice twin too.
Will AI impact your job? Some industries the technology is likely to have major impacts on
Doctors believe Artificial Intelligence is now saving lives, after a major advancement in breast cancer screenings. A.I. is detecting early signs of the disease, in some cases years before doctors would find the cancer on a traditional scan. No matter what industry you work in, it is more than likely that artificial intelligence is going to impact your job in some capacity. That being said, it is going to affect some industries more than others. Predicting what jobs will look like 20 years from now or even ten for that matter is tricky. There are jobs that exist now that we couldn't have imagined ten years ago.
Rick Scott leads push to help parents keep kids safe from unrestricted AI
A bipartisan panel of voters weighed in on the future of artificial intelligence and growing concerns surrounding the potential dangers of the emerging technology. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is hoping to give parents more control over their kids' access to AI chatbots as Congress starts to wrestle with how to put guardrails around rapidly advancing artificial intelligence systems. Scott introduced the Artificial Intelligence Shield for Kids (ASK) Act, and told Fox News Digital in an interview that he's already winning support for the bill from Senate colleagues as well as American parents. I mean, they're worried about their kids' access to social media sites," Scott said of parental feedback he's received. "And I think that they're going to do everything they can, the parents I talked to, but there's also things that the government can do to make sure that their children are not subjected to things." Sen. Rick Scott spoke to Fox News Digital about why he introduced his Artificial Intelligence Shield for Kids bill. "Part of government's responsibility is to keep people safe.
'Will definitely replace me': Americans fear artificial intelligence will steal their jobs
People in Texas sounded off on AI job displacement, with half of people who spoke to Fox News convinced that the tech will rob them of work. AUSTIN, Texas – Americans in the Lone Star State weighed in on job displacement from artificial intelligence, with several telling Fox News they believe their jobs would eventually be replaced. "A lot of coworkers or people that I know have been laid off at Indeed and things like that because they don't want to hire real people anymore," said Gabriel, who works in tech. "They would just rather do AI." Advances in AI could cause up to 300 million jobs to be lost or diminished globally, Goldman Sachs predicted in a March 26 report.
Justine Bateman rips AI use in Hollywood, says technology is 'getting away from being human'
Justine Bateman told Fox News Digital using artificial intelligence to write a script is not solving any problems because there is no lack of talent in the industry. Not just anyone or anything can make it in Hollywood, according to Justine Bateman. The former "Family Ties" actress and accredited director is adamant artificial intelligence should not have its shot. "I think AI has no place in Hollywood at all. To me, tech should solve problems that humans have," Batemen told Fox News Digital.
Measuring the Effect of Influential Messages on Varying Personas
Sun, Chenkai, Li, Jinning, Chan, Hou Pong, Zhai, ChengXiang, Ji, Heng
Predicting how a user responds to news events enables important applications such as allowing intelligent agents or content producers to estimate the effect on different communities and revise unreleased messages to prevent unexpected bad outcomes such as social conflict and moral injury. We present a new task, Response Forecasting on Personas for News Media, to estimate the response a persona (characterizing an individual or a group) might have upon seeing a news message. Compared to the previous efforts which only predict generic comments to news, the proposed task not only introduces personalization in the modeling but also predicts the sentiment polarity and intensity of each response. This enables more accurate and comprehensive inference on the mental state of the persona. Meanwhile, the generated sentiment dimensions make the evaluation and application more reliable. We create the first benchmark dataset, which consists of 13,357 responses to 3,847 news headlines from Twitter. We further evaluate the SOTA neural language models with our dataset. The empirical results suggest that the included persona attributes are helpful for the performance of all response dimensions. Our analysis shows that the best-performing models are capable of predicting responses that are consistent with the personas, and as a byproduct, the task formulation also enables many interesting applications in the analysis of social network groups and their opinions, such as the discovery of extreme opinion groups.
Learn to Not Link: Exploring NIL Prediction in Entity Linking
Zhu, Fangwei, Yu, Jifan, Jin, Hailong, Li, Juanzi, Hou, Lei, Sui, Zhifang
Entity linking models have achieved significant success via utilizing pretrained language models to capture semantic features. However, the NIL prediction problem, which aims to identify mentions without a corresponding entity in the knowledge base, has received insufficient attention. We categorize mentions linking to NIL into Missing Entity and Non-Entity Phrase, and propose an entity linking dataset NEL that focuses on the NIL prediction problem. NEL takes ambiguous entities as seeds, collects relevant mention context in the Wikipedia corpus, and ensures the presence of mentions linking to NIL by human annotation and entity masking. We conduct a series of experiments with the widely used bi-encoder and cross-encoder entity linking models, results show that both types of NIL mentions in training data have a significant influence on the accuracy of NIL prediction. Our code and dataset can be accessed at https://github.com/solitaryzero/NIL_EL
Unsupervised Melody-Guided Lyrics Generation
Tian, Yufei, Narayan-Chen, Anjali, Oraby, Shereen, Cervone, Alessandra, Sigurdsson, Gunnar, Tao, Chenyang, Zhao, Wenbo, Chung, Tagyoung, Huang, Jing, Peng, Nanyun
Automatic song writing is a topic of significant practical interest. However, its research is largely hindered by the lack of training data due to copyright concerns and challenged by its creative nature. Most noticeably, prior works often fall short of modeling the cross-modal correlation between melody and lyrics due to limited parallel data, hence generating lyrics that are less singable. Existing works also lack effective mechanisms for content control, a much desired feature for democratizing song creation for people with limited music background. In this work, we propose to generate pleasantly listenable lyrics without training on melody-lyric aligned data. Instead, we design a hierarchical lyric generation framework that disentangles training (based purely on text) from inference (melody-guided text generation). At inference time, we leverage the crucial alignments between melody and lyrics and compile the given melody into constraints to guide the generation process. Evaluation results show that our model can generate high-quality lyrics that are more singable, intelligible, coherent, and in rhyme than strong baselines including those supervised on parallel data.
Inductive detection of Influence Operations via Graph Learning
Gabriel, Nicholas A., Broniatowski, David A., Johnson, Neil F.
Influence operations are large-scale efforts to manipulate public opinion. The rapid detection and disruption of these operations is critical for healthy public discourse. Emergent AI technologies may enable novel operations which evade current detection methods and influence public discourse on social media with greater scale, reach, and specificity. New methods with inductive learning capacity will be needed to identify these novel operations before they indelibly alter public opinion and events. We develop an inductive learning framework which: 1) determines content- and graph-based indicators that are not specific to any operation; 2) uses graph learning to encode abstract signatures of coordinated manipulation; and 3) evaluates generalization capacity by training and testing models across operations originating from Russia, China, and Iran. We find that this framework enables strong cross-operation generalization while also revealing salient indicators$\unicode{x2013}$illustrating a generic approach which directly complements transductive methodologies, thereby enhancing detection coverage.
Role-Play with Large Language Models
Shanahan, Murray, McDonell, Kyle, Reynolds, Laria
On we develop effective ways to describe their behaviour the one hand, it's natural to use the same in high-level terms without falling into folk-psychological language to describe dialogue the trap of anthropomorphism. In this paper, we agents that we use to describe human behaviour, foreground the concept of role-play. Casting dialogue to freely deploy words like "knows", "understands", agent behaviour in terms of role-play allows and "thinks". Attempting to avoid us to draw on familiar folk psychological terms, such phrases by using more scientifically precise without ascribing human characteristics to language substitutes often results in prose that is clumsy models they in fact lack. Two important and hard to follow. On the other hand, taken cases of dialogue agent behaviour are addressed too literally, such language promotes anthropomorphism, this way, namely (apparent) deception and (apparent) exaggerating the similarities between self-awareness.