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Ever read a piece of news which just seems bogus? We all encounter such news articles, and instinctively recognise that something doesn't feel right. Because of so many posts out there, it is nearly impossible to separate the right from the wrong. Here, we are not only talking about spurious claims and the factual points, but rather, the things which look wrong intricately in the language itself. Did you ever wonder how to develop a fake news detection project? But there is no easy way out to find which news is fake and which is not, especially these days, with the speed of spread of news on social media.

The common research goal of self-supervised learning is to extract a general representation which an arbitrary downstream task would benefit from. In this work, we investigate music audio representation learned from different contrastive self-supervised learning schemes and empirically evaluate the embedded vectors on various music information retrieval (MIR) tasks where different levels of the music perception are concerned. We analyze the results to discuss the proper direction of contrastive learning strategies for different MIR tasks. We show that these representations convey a comprehensive information about the auditory characteristics of music in general, although each of the self-supervision strategies has its own effectiveness in certain aspect of information.

Would you trust an artificial intelligence algorithm to predict if – and when – you could die of cardiac arrest?

An artificial intelligence (AI) institute in Hefei, in China's Anhui province, says it has developed software that can gauge the loyalty of Communist Party members – something that, if true, would be considered a breakthrough, but has sparked public outcry. Analysts said China has improved its AI-powered surveillance, using big data, machine learning, facial recognition and AI to "get into the brains and minds of its people," building what many call a draconian digital dictatorship. The institute posted a video called "The Smart Political Education Bar," on July 1 to boast about its "mind-reading" software, which it said would be used on party members to "further solidify their determination to be grateful to the party, listen to the party and follow the party." In the video, a subject was seen scrolling through online material that promotes party policy at a kiosk, where the institute said its AI software was monitoring his reaction to see how attentive he was to the party's thought education. The post, however, was taken down shortly after sparking a public outcry among Chinese netizens.

If you have seen the movie "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" you will know that we can see Carrie Fisher when she was young at one point in the movie, playing Princess Leia. But she is not Carrie Fisher as a young woman but a deepfake that imitates her. What uses do they have or what is it for? A deepfake is a video in which false images are shown where the face of a person appears in a situation that they have not experienced. Apparently real fake videos that have not happened but have been created by artificial intelligence and through machine learning techniques and deep learning algorithms capable of providing the face with the greatest possible realism.

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There are reports of major layoffs at Pudu Robotics, a Chinese developer of commercial service robots. Reports from Chinese media outlets about the number of layoffs vary, with some outlets reporting layoffs of up to 1,500 employees since the start of 2022. "We've decided to cut some operations and businesses of our company to survive. It's a difficult decision," Tao Zhang, founder and CEO of Pudu Robotics, wrote in a leaked letter to Pudu staff. The Robot Report reached out to Pudu Robotics for comment about the reported layoffs. "Pudu Robotics has been working on regular organization optimization for the company's sustainable growth," Tia Han, overseas branding manager at Pudu Robotics, told The Robot Report via email.

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