During the 2022 US midterm elections, a manipulated video of President Joe Biden circulated on Facebook. The original footage showed Biden placing an "I voted" sticker on his granddaughter's chest and kissing her on the cheek. The doctored version looped the footage to make it appear he was repeatedly touching the girl, with a caption that labeled him a "pedophile." Meta left the video up. Today, the company's Oversight Board--an independent body that looks into the platform's content moderation--announced that it will review that decision, in an attempt to push Meta to address how it will handle manipulated media and election disinformation ahead of the 2024 US presidential election and more than 50 other votes to be held around the world next year.

An AI expert said AI technology is already capable of producing content so realistic that some people might be convinced that it's genuine. A world where AI-generated videos and images can dupe the public on a large scale -- a fear of the "Godfather of AI" -- has become a reality, according to an artificial intelligence writer and podcast host. "That moment is already here," said cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, who hosts the AI-centric podcast, "Humans vs Machines with Gary Marcus." "The techniques will only get better and better over the coming years, but they're already good enough that they can probably fool at least some of the people some of the time." Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, who is widely considered the "Godfather of AI" and helped develop systems used in software like ChatGPT, recently told The New York Times he feared AI-generated photos, videos and text will soon flood the internet. The average person, as a result, will "not be able to know what is true anymore," he said.

One day, B.J. Mendelson was playing Roblox with his school-aged nieces when suddenly, he heard a stranger's voice come out of one of their iPads. A longtime digital security buff, he was pretty creeped out. He knew how to keep himself secure online, but the incident brought home just how many opportunities for privacy breaches there are lurking in everyday devices. Most people, including his own brother and sister-in-law, operate them without a playbook. That's why this fall, he decided to start a podcast miniseries with the goal of making digital privacy more accessible.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining traction in almost all industries, including the creative world. The emergence of AI-generated artwork has caught on as people seek to express their creativity through artwork that is unique, personalized, and reflects their identity. Tools like Google's Imagen, OpenAI DALLE-2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are raising in popularity for generating artwork in seconds. While the process of creating art using AI is still largely accessible to the average person, there are challenges due to limited interaction and output that the average person has with tools like Imagen & DALLE-2 as well as concerns about how this technology may change the way we engage with art in the future. Stable Diffusion, on the other hand, is open-sourced and aims to make AI artwork and photo generation even more accessible and versatile compared to some of its counterparts.

The future is coming, and it's coming fast. Before we even know what the next significant invention will be, our world could be overturned by something else entirely. But one thing we can count on is that technology will continue to grow and change, including digital investments. Our lives revolve around technology and the advancements it allows. We live through our computers, phones, tablets, and televisions.

Artificial intelligence is already pretty big in the finance industry, but it's going to get better within a few years. It will get to the point where it makes life easier for the average person on a daily basis. Things like paying off credit cards and applying for loans are still tough, but technology is coming on leaps and bounds. Let's take a look at some of the most popular ways AI will play a large part in our lives. When loan providers are unable to make smart lending decisions fewer people will be approved.

Before I go any further it's probably worth establishing what a Deepfake is and isn't. A technique by which a digital image or video can be superimposed onto another, which maintains the appearance of an unedited image or video. The term is often misinterpreted, and that's potentially as a result of definitions like this. The concept of manipulating images and video in this way is certainly not a new concept. Visual effects artists working on Hollywood films back in the '90s would probably describe parts of their job as something very similar to this.

A few days before the Q1 2021 Tesla Earnings Call, CEO Elon Musk touched upon the idea of Tesla as a leader in artificial intelligence. He replied to a meme shared by @Billhuang688 that asked, "What if I told you that Tesla will become the largest AI company in the world?" Elon noted that Tesla could become one of the largest but also said that a company whose name rhymed with Schmoogle is pretty far ahead at the moment. Although Google may be far ahead, Tesla is definitely transforming into something other than the automaker it started out as in 2003. A company whose name rhymes with Shmoogle is pretty far ahead.

Esports players might be viewed as individuals who sit around, eat junk food and guzzle down sugary drinks, but a new study finds these gamers are just the opposite. A team from Queensland University of Technology uncovered uncovered players are up to 21 percent more likely to have a healthier body weight than the average person. The survey also reveals that esport gamers smoke and drink less than the general public and are significantly more active as a result of certain video games. Although a majority are in tip top shape, the study did find that 4.03 percent of esports players are more likely to be morbidly obese than the general public. A team from Queensland University of Technology uncovered uncovered players are up to 21 percent more likely to have a healthier body weight than the average person.

San Francisco (CNN Business)It's hard for the average person to tell Dani, Lenore, and Bella apart: They all sport fashionably fuzzy brown coats and enjoy a lot of the same activities, like playing in icy-cold water and, occasionally, ripping apart a freshly caught fish. Melanie Clapham is not the average person. As a bear biologist, she has spent over a decade studying these grizzly bears, who live in Knight Inlet in British Columbia, Canada, and developed a sense for who is who by paying attention to little things that make them different. "I use individual characteristics -- say, one bear has a nick in its ear or a scar on the nose," she said. But Clapham knows most people don't have her eye for detail, and the bears' appearances change dramatically over the course of a year -- such as when they get winter coats and fatten up before denning -- which makes it even harder to distinguish between, say, Toffee and Blonde Teddy.