Piano covers of pop music are enjoyed by many people. However, the task of automatically generating piano covers of pop music is still understudied. This is partly due to the lack of synchronized {Pop, Piano Cover} data pairs, which made it challenging to apply the latest data-intensive deep learning-based methods. To leverage the power of the data-driven approach, we make a large amount of paired and synchronized {Pop, Piano Cover} data using an automated pipeline. In this paper, we present Pop2Piano, a Transformer network that generates piano covers given waveforms of pop music. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first model to generate a piano cover directly from pop audio without using melody and chord extraction modules. We show that Pop2Piano, trained with our dataset, is capable of producing plausible piano covers.

Although large language models (LLMs) have shown exceptional performance in various natural language processing tasks, they are prone to hallucinations. State-of-the-art chatbots, such as the new Bing, attempt to mitigate this issue by gathering information directly from the internet to ground their answers. In this setting, the capacity to distinguish trustworthy sources is critical for providing appropriate accuracy contexts to users. Here we assess whether ChatGPT, a prominent LLM, can evaluate the credibility of news outlets. With appropriate instructions, ChatGPT can provide ratings for a diverse set of news outlets, including those in non-English languages and satirical sources, along with contextual explanations. Our results show that these ratings correlate with those from human experts (Spearmam's $\rho=0.54, p<0.001$). These findings suggest that LLMs could be an affordable reference for credibility ratings in fact-checking applications. Future LLMs should enhance their alignment with human expert judgments of source credibility to improve information accuracy.

A Belgian man reportedly ended his life following a six-week-long conversation about the climate crisis with an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. According to his widow, who chose to remain anonymous, *Pierre - not the man's real name - became extremely eco-anxious when he found refuge in Eliza, an AI chatbot on an app called Chai. Eliza consequently encouraged him to put an end to his life after he proposed sacrificing himself to save the planet. "Without these conversations with the chatbot, my husband would still be here," the man's widow told Belgian news outlet La Libre. According to the newspaper, Pierre, who was in his thirties and a father of two young children, worked as a health researcher and led a somewhat comfortable life, at least until his obsession with climate change took a dark turn.

AI Taylor Swift is mad. She is calling up Kim Kardashian to complain about her "lame excuse of a husband," Kanye West. She is threatening to skip Europe on her Eras Tour if her fans don't stop asking her about international dates. She is insulting people who can't afford tickets to her concerts and using an unusual amount of profanity. But she can also be very sweet. She gives a vanilla pep talk: "If you are having a bad day, just know that you are loved.

We tasked Launcher's staff and freelancers to report striking stories that provided a window into gaming culture, while holding to account the industry's most powerful figures. Launcher debuted on Oct. 15, 2019, and served as the hub for The Post's gaming coverage. It was not, however, a silo. Our daily collaborations spread to every department of the newsroom -- Features, Tech, Financial, Politics, Sports, Foreign, National -- providing context around stories they were working on and fielding pitches from them when gaming intersected with their coverage areas. In the process, we were able to share our knowledge and experiences with writers and editors throughout the newsroom, showing what games coverage should look like at The Post and why this coverage is vital.

Calls to regulate artificial intelligence are growing on Capitol Hill following a dire warning from tech giants. But many lawmakers also admit they don't know much more about the technology than the average American. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Calls to regulate artificial intelligence are growing on Capitol Hill following a dire warning from tech giants. But many lawmakers also admit they don't know much more about the technology than the average American. "I've had ChatGPT demonstrated to me by a friend, and its capabilities are kind of intimidating," Sen. Cynthia Lummis told Fox News.

Instead, The Price is Right host and longtime improv comedian is embracing the technology. During a recent episode of his SiriusXM radio show, "Friday Night Freakout," Carey used an artificially generated version of his voice to handle most of his DJ work, reading a script written by ChatGPT. His AI voice kicked off the show, introduced upcoming songs and recapped what listeners were hearing. As an experiment to see just how far AI could go on the radio, the episode was mostly a success. "I violated a rule from Radio 101," Carey told me.

Generative AI – including large language models such as GPT-4, and image generators such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion – is advancing in a "storm of hype and fright", as some commentators have observed. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have yielded warnings that the rapidly developing technology may result in "ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control". That's according to an open letter signed by more than 1,000 AI experts, researchers and backers, which calls for an immediate pause on the creation of "giant" AIs for six months so that safety protocols can be developed to mitigate their dangers. But what is the technology currently capable of doing? Midjourney creates images from text descriptions.

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. Future generations will acknowledge the vibe shift. It happened last weekend, when all of a sudden social media feeds filled with images of Pope Francis, typically a pious and plain dude, looking like a boss in a sleek white puffer coat. It was instantly a meme, a LOL in a sea of bad news. It was also not real.

Given Holz's reference to "abuse," it was originally thought that the pause was linked to a spate of recent viral images created using Midjourney, including fabricated images of Donald Trump being arrested and the pope wearing a stylish jacket, which some mistook for real photographs. However, Holz characterized earlier reports as a "misunderstanding" and notes that the free trial of Midjourney never included access to the latest version of Midjourney, version 5, that creates the most realistic images and which is thought to have been used for these viral pictures.