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The Most Important Movie for Thinking About the Future
Sign up to receive the Future Tense newsletter every other Saturday. As the editor of Future Tense, I have a few rules for writers. Chief among them: You're not allowed to open with a scary or utopian scenario and then write, "It sounds like science fiction, but …" And you need a very good reason to reference some of the biggest works of science fiction--1984, Brave New World, Gattaca, Minority Report, Terminator. Also, please avoid references to the Silicon Valley ethos of "move fast and break things." But if I don't, every article starts to sound the same: dystopian.
Snap Kills Off Pixy, Its Flying Selfie Drone
Ding dong, the drone is dead. Pixy, Snap's petite flying selfie camera, is no more. Technically you can still buy one, but The Wall Street Journal reported this week that the device is done for. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel has told employees that the company would soon stop making the $230 gizmo. The little drone had a short life.
Will Art Created By Artificial Intelligence Kill The Artist?
Most of my photography friends have been playing around with some form of AI Art, and the results are pretty remarkable. However, as amazing as this technology is, I'm sure I am not the only one wondering if Artificial Intelligence will leave us all looking for new careers. What exactly is artificial intelligent art? AI art is a brand new form of expression that allows users to string together a bunch of descriptive words, feed them into a machine learning program, and have the software export a one-of-a-kind, hyper-graphic image in seconds. The results aren't always what you might have imagined in your head, and more times than not, the efforts of the Ai algorithm are beyond your wildest imagination.
Google touts new AI to combat misinformation
Google is rolling out a new artificial intelligence tool that could help prevent misleading information from appearing in people's news feeds on searches. In a recent post, Google's VP of Search Pandu Nayak said they were improving the on-page answers at the top of some Google searches. These featured snippets attempt to answer questions on the results page without the user needing to view the source page. But, as pointed out by Gizmodo, these featured snippets have been a hot spot for misleading information for years. Kyle Barr, reporting for Gizmodo, uses the example of typing in "can I remove a tick with my teeth?" in a Google search.
An Initial Investigation for Detecting Vocoder Fingerprints of Fake Audio
Yan, Xinrui, Yi, Jiangyan, Tao, Jianhua, Wang, Chenglong, Ma, Haoxin, Wang, Tao, Wang, Shiming, Fu, Ruibo
Many effective attempts have been made for fake audio detection. However, they can only provide detection results but no countermeasures to curb this harm. For many related practical applications, what model or algorithm generated the fake audio also is needed. Therefore, We propose a new problem for detecting vocoder fingerprints of fake audio. Experiments are conducted on the datasets synthesized by eight state-of-the-art vocoders. We have preliminarily explored the features and model architectures. The t-SNE visualization shows that different vocoders generate distinct vocoder fingerprints.