Deep generative models for audio synthesis have recently been significantly improved. However, the task of modeling raw-waveforms remains a difficult problem, especially for audio waveforms and music signals. Recently, the realtime audio variational autoencoder (RAVE) method was developed for high-quality audio waveform synthesis. The RAVE method is based on the variational autoencoder and utilizes the two-stage training strategy. Unfortunately, the RAVE model is limited in reproducing wide-pitch polyphonic music sound. Therefore, to enhance the reconstruction performance, we adopt the pitch activation data as an auxiliary information to the RAVE model. To handle the auxiliary information, we propose an enhanced RAVE model with a conditional variational autoencoder structure and an additional fully-connected layer. To evaluate the proposed structure, we conducted a listening experiment based on multiple stimulus tests with hidden references and an anchor (MUSHRA) with the MAESTRO. The obtained results indicate that the proposed model exhibits a more significant performance and stability improvement than the conventional RAVE model.

You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by artificial intelligence to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you're looking at. Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, a New York-based production house focused on creative storytelling. In The Lesson, a teacher tells students about the monsters that ruined their planet. The team behind the comic used the phrase "Hitchcock Blonde" to describe the story's heroine to AI art-generation tool Midjourney, "and more often than not she came out looking like Grace Kelly," says writer Steve Coulson. The visuals in the trilogy -- believed to be the first comics series made with AI-assisted art -- are stunning.

BOCA RATON, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Totaligent, Inc. ("Totaligent" or "the Company") (OTCPK: TGNT) announces it has completed testing of its scalable Nvidia clusters and has started to build a super cluster, with 2.4 Terabytes of GPU ram and 18 Terabytes of system ram. Totaligent's new supercomputer will allow the Company's Artificial Intelligence to deliver nearly instantaneous data processing and modeling for its person-based digital marketing platform. "Having the power and speed to deliver near real-time results when building target audiences from billions of records for customers is critical to Totaligent's success and acceptance in the person-based digital marketing world. Now, when we append large datasets that used to take days to process, our AI completes the task in about a minute. The combination of data, speed, and a complete set of easy-to-use marketing tools, at an affordable price, will enable Totaligent to provide unparalleled results for its users upon the launch of its integrated digital platform," stated Ted DeFeudis, CEO.

On November 14th 2022, MeetKai, the LA-based AI and metaverse company held an extraordinary meeting with Kura Kura Bali, within the 17th G20 Heads of State and Government Summit, taking place in Bali this year. In an agreement between MeetKai Inc. and the CEO of PT Bali Turtle Island Development, Aaron Tham, the tech startup agreed to establish an R&D product development center in Kura Kura Bali focusing on software development and data science, as well as metaverse, AI and VR services. As hinted in their August New York metaverse launch, where a hyper-realistic anamorphic animation of Bali boasted "A Better Metaverse is Coming" in the middle of Times Square, MeetKai intends to "bring an inclusive metaverse to life", where wonders of the real world become accessible to everyone, everywhere. This Monday, MeetKai Co-Founders, serial entrepreneur Weili Dai, and CEO James Kaplan, agreed to contribute e-learning technology and training to support education in Bali. The company intends to support UID Bali Campus with connection and capacity building, subject expert matter, and synergy for events taking place in Kura Kura Bali; and most importantly, to contribute to their training data scientist programme by assuring cloud platform capacity and other machine learning skills to develop and strengthen the human resources skills in data science.

The combination of performance and functionality gives entrepreneurs and daily life vloggers many exciting and pragmatic use cases. Labpano, the leading panoramic hardware and solution provider, launches PilotPano, a versatile 360 AI camera that is user-centric in appearance and functionality with professional-level features. Empowered by the Pilot OS operating system based on Android, a smooth and intuitive operation is within reach. The large 3.1″ HD touchscreen allows you to adjust camera settings, preview footage easily, and frame a subject. The dynamic range makes every detail true to life, enhancing the image quality while keeping lifelike shots. Moreover, real-time HDR photos and video let every capture more vibrant.

You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated by artificial intelligence technology to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you're looking at. Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, a New York-based production house focused on creative storytelling. In The Lesson, a teacher tells students about the monsters that ruined their planet. The team behind the comic used the phrase "Hitchcock Blonde" to describe the story's heroine to AI art-generation tool Midjourney, "and more often than not she came out looking like Grace Kelly," says writer Steve Coulson. The visuals in the trilogy -- believed to be the first comics series made with AI-assisted art -- are stunning.

It was 2012, as something I've watched really killed me. It was not a movie in the cinema, nor an episode of a series. It was a short movie. There is happening more than in a blockbuster movie during these 7 minutes. A robot called KARA is about to be tested and initialized before being forwarded to Supply Chain and sold on the market. But shortly before it happens, KARA raises her voice.

The first musical instrument I played was the harmonica. I hated it because I did not get a good grade from my music teacher and besides, I got a mouthful of blisters from practicing. Then I tried to learn guitar because I told myself it would improve my concentration and it would be pretty cool to be able to play an instrument in college. Of course, I failed again and consoled myself with the fact that not everyone has the talent to play an instrument, even though some people like me really like music. I still think it was the right decision to give up learning an instrument, although I feel envious every time I see someone playing an instrument right in front of me.

Back in 1969 I finally caught 2001: A Space Odyssey in a Cinerama theater in Scottsdale, Arizona. At that point, the film had been running in that theater for over a year. I had longed to see it since its release in 1968 (I remember seeing it on the marquee of a theater in downtown Indianapolis), but when we visited relatives in Phoenix the following summer the opportunity finally presented itself. After the crescendo of its end, and the credits that ran to the tune of Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube," I stepped out of the theater in a fog, completely stunned. From the hype I had heard about the film I was expecting something of an ambitious, up-to-date Destination Moon.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been transformative. They are pre-trained foundational models that are self-supervised and can be adapted with fine tuning to a wide range of natural language tasks, each of which previously would have required a separate network model. This is one step closer to the extraordinary versatility of human language. GPT-3 and more recently LaMDA can carry on dialogs with humans on many topics after minimal priming with a few examples. However, there has been a wide range of reactions and debate on whether these LLMs understand what they are saying or exhibit signs of intelligence. This high variance is exhibited in three interviews with LLMs reaching wildly different conclusions. A new possibility was uncovered that could explain this divergence. What appears to be intelligence in LLMs may in fact be a mirror that reflects the intelligence of the interviewer, a remarkable twist that could be considered a Reverse Turing Test. If so, then by studying interviews we may be learning more about the intelligence and beliefs of the interviewer than the intelligence of the LLMs. As LLMs become more capable they may transform the way we interact with machines and how they interact with each other. Increasingly, LLMs are being coupled with sensorimotor devices. LLMs can talk the talk, but can they walk the walk? A road map for achieving artificial general autonomy is outlined with seven major improvements inspired by brain systems. LLMs could be used to uncover new insights into brain function by downloading brain data during natural behaviors.