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Deepak Chopra made a digital clone of himself, and other celebs could soon follow
I'm sitting down on a sofa, talking to what looks like a Facetime with Deepak Chopra on a phone. It's an animated, sometimes realistic, talking head. He asks me how I feel. I end up discussing work stress. For a few minutes, I'm having a little session with a Deepak that doesn't exist. A few weeks later, I'm talking to actual Deepak Chopra on the phone about what I experienced.
ragamAI: A Network Based Recommender System to Arrange a Indian Classical Music Concert
Bagavathi, Arunkumar, Krishnan, Siddharth, Subrahmanyan, Sanjay, Narasimhan, S. L.
--South Indian classical music ( Carnatic music) is best consumed through live concerts. A carnatic recital requires meticulous planning accounting for several parameters like the performers' repertoire, composition variety, musical versatility, thematic structure, the recital's arrangement, etc. to ensure that the audience have a comprehensive listening experience. In this work, we present ragamAI a novel machine learning framework that utilizes the tonic nuances and musical structures in the carnatic music to generate a concert recital that melodically captures the entire range in an octave. Utilizing the underlying idea of playlist and session-based recommender models, the proposed model studies the mathematical structure present in past concerts and recommends relevant items for the playlist/concert. Our experiments on a vast collection of concert show that our model performs 25%-50% better than baseline models. The analysis of classical music has become a mainstay in the field of music information retrieval (MIR) over the last decade. Recent research has investigated several nuances of classical music, be it in rhythm cycles, tempo estimation, beat tracking, instrument classification, and melodic analysis, using data-driven techniques.
Deepfake video: It takes AI to beat AI
By now, most of us have shared a few chuckles over AI-generated deepfake videos, like those in which the face of comedian and impressionist Bill Hader gradually takes on the likenesses of Tom Cruise, Seth Rogen, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as he imitates the celebrities. We've seen actor Ryan Reynolds' mug superimposed over Gene Wilder's in the 1971 classic film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory." We've even marveled over businessman Elon Musk being turned into a baby. It all can be quite humorous, but not everyone is laughing. Tech companies, researchers, and politicians alike are growing concerned that the increasing sophistication of the artificial intelligence and machine learning technology powering deepfakes will outpace our ability to discern between genuine and doctored imagery.
Why People Are So Overwhelmed by AWS Latest Musical Keyboard Powered By Generative AI
As much as a programmer likes machine learning, there must come a time when they are overwhelmed by the study process. All the coding, maths and infrastructure of it might make one reach out for that extra cup of coffee. Now, e-commerce giant Amazon has made the world of generative artificial intelligence a little easier to understand by introducing its machine learning-powered MIDI-compatible keyboard, DeepComposer. AWS DeepComposer is a 32-key, 2-octave keyboard design. This ML keyboard offers developers to experience generative AI in a better way.
How Deepfakes Scramble Our Sense of True and False
"Are you in a precarious situation? Karah Preiss' cousin Leslie accused her of being sleepy and distracted and eventually hung up, but didn't guess the truth. Preiss had placed the call using a software clone of her voice made to demonstrate artificial intelligence's ability to deceive. Preiss relates her family experiment in the fifth installment of the Sleepwalkers podcast, a guide to the recent boom in artificial intelligence. The episode examines how AI technology is reshaping perceptions of reality in phone pranks, on Facebook, in Hollywood, and in politics.
This weird roleplaying AI makes a great dungeon master
When AI development firm OpenAI released its GPT-2 algorithm, it warned that the tech was capable of flooding the internet with fake news and propaganda. What it didn't predict, however, is that the algorithm can also make a pretty effective dungeon master. AI Dungeon 2 (playable here) uses the full-sized GPT-2 algorithm to bring players through a text adventure-style game that it writes in real-time based on the player's prompts and commands. The game isn't perfect -- in my playing, it for some reason decided to name every single character "Dan" -- but it's fascinating all the same to let a powerful AI system take the wheel and steer the game's journey. AI Dungeon 2 is a far cry from the first version of the game, which creator and Northwestern University grad student Nathan Whitmore built around a substantially weaker version of GPT-2.
GIJN's Data Journalism Top 10: Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, Interactive Oceans, Bar Chart Races, EU Polling - Global Investigative Journalism Network
Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from November 25 to December 1 finds The New York Times profiling Bellingcat and its use of OSINT techniques; the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and Stanford University collaborating to employ artificial intelligence to solve a journalistic problem; and the Science Communication Lab creating a beautiful interactive scientific poster to explore the world's oceans. Open source journalism might just be the best antidote to spin: the transparency of its authors showing their work during each step of the investigative process helps earn readers' trust. The New York Times profiles Bellingcat, an investigative news site that uses open source techniques. The collaborative Implant Files investigation exposed the lax regulation of the $400 billion medical device industry worldwide. But when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists wanted to know if women suffered disproportionately from faulty medical devices, it hit a data roadblock. The journalists then turned to artificial intelligence to help their reporting.