AI music generator Suno has just introduced its new v6 family of models. The models mark the first time the company has worked with labels to train a new set of AI systems. As of today, the v6 series consists of three models: v6, v6-wild and v6-mini. The first of those is Suno's new flagship offering. The company describes v6 as "reliable, precise," and capable of delivering consistently "polished music across every genre and style."

'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' star Justin Theroux tells Fox News Digital his thoughts on artificial intelligence and how it will impact future Hollywood films. A producer for the Oscar-winning film, "The Brutalist," is defending the production's use of artificial intelligence. D.J. Gugenheim, one of several producers involved in the film, spoke with Deadline at the Oscars on Sunday night, saying the technology is simply a tool. "If you're in post [-production] on a film, there's so many tools that you use, whether it's lighting, sound, and these are all versions of functions of numbers," he told the outlet. "What's important about how we're making a film is that we're trusting the actors and the creatives and the talent to make a film. So, if no one is losing a job, and you're making the best version of the product, that's when you're using a tool."

The use of artificial intelligence could become a ferocious battleground during movie awards season, as at least two major contenders were revealed to have used voice-cloning to enhance actors' performances. In an interview with moving-image tech publication Red Shark News, The Brutalist editor Dávid Jancsó said that, in an effort to create Hungarian dialogue so perfect "that not even locals will spot any difference", Jancsó fed lead actors Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones's voices into AI software, as well as his own. In the film, Brody plays Jewish-Hungarian architect László Tóth, who emigrates to the US after the second world war, and Jones is his wife Erzsébet. Jancsó, a Hungarian speaker, said that while Brody's mother was an émigré from Hungary in real life, "coaching" and re-recording via ADR (automated dialogue replacement) with both the original actors and stand-ins "just didn't work". Jancsó said he then employed an AI tool developed by Respeecher, a Ukraine-based company who were previously involved in the "cloning" of the voice of James Earl Jones for the TV series Obi-Wan Kenobi, to add individual sounds and letters to both Brody and Jones's Hungarian-language dialogue.

Snapchat is releasing its GPT-powered AI chatbot to every user for free, the company announced at its annual developer conference, as it tries to chart a distinctive path between the titans of Instagram and TikTok. That means expanding access to its AI chatbot, doubling down on the distinction between public and private posts, and paying successful creators a share of the revenue their viral content generates. First released for paying members of the social network's Snapchat subscription service, "My AI" shows up as another chat contact in the social network's app. Similar to ChatGPT, users can ask it factual questions, request creative content, and have back-and-forth conversations with the service. "It really deepens our ability to serve our mission of helping people express themselves, learn about the world, live in the moment and have fun together," said Snap's vice president of product, Jack Brody. Users will also be able to add My AI to group chats, turning to the virtual assistant for any queries that come up in the course of conversation.

The White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a blueprint for an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bill of Rights, a set of five principles and associated practices to help guide the design, use and deployment of automated system, according to a release. The goal of the document and its accompanying handbook is to provide a roadmap for governments, corporations, academics, researchers and other stakeholders to better develop technologies to help rather than harm millions of consumers in housing, financial services, education and other public sectors. "Technology is the new civil rights frontier," President and CEO of the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) Lisa Rice said in a release. "We are learning more each day about how existing technologies harm people and communities. This plan will serve as a guide that encourages developers and marketers of AI tools to search for least discriminatory alternative (LDA) solutions in credit scoring, underwriting, pricing, tenant screening, health management, employee screening and other systems. "It will also continue to position the United States as a global leader in advancing policies and techniques for the development of fair, transparent, explainable, responsible AI." The need for such a document arose from recognized issues with AI and the algorithms used. Tools created with this technology to assist with hiring and credit decisions have been found to reproduce undesired inequities or even create harmful bias and discrimination. When it comes to housing, NFHA stated race-based laws and policies, segregation, private prejudices, real estate agent steering, bank redlining, appraisal bias and restrictive zoning ordinances have contributed to biased data pools, resulting in discriminatory algorithms. "Already, communities of color are facing disproportionate adverse effects from the rapid proliferation of AI technologies in the United States," David Brody, managing attorney of the digital justice initiative at the Lawyers' Committee, said. "The Bill of Rights establishes a new generation of fair information practices.

We examine some ways in which contemporary results from neural network theory can potentially contribute to a Buddhist understanding of emptiness. We also make some general remarks about the pitfalls and benefits inherent in attempting to apply ideas from artificial intelligence to an understanding of Buddhism.

How can a robot tell when it -- rather than another agent -- is making an utterance or performing an action? This is rather tricky and also very important for human-robot (or even robot-robot) interaction. Here we outline our beginning attempt to deal with this issue.

We discuss Perry's notion of the essential indexical and the requirement that robots interacting with humans (and other robots) be able to reason about themselves in a grounded way. We describe an approach based on grounding symbols via an analogue of the neural mechanism of efference copy and approaching symbolic reasoning via active logic -- a situated framework for logical and temporal reasoning.

Former vice-president Joe Biden reads the news on Biden's Briefings, a podcast and connected speaker "skill" (Photo: Chris Ferenzi) LOS ANGELES -- The Creative Artists Agency, one of the most powerful talent agencies in Hollywood, just launched a new "start-up studio" to develop apps for its celebrity clients, initially focused on audio for the connected-speaker market. The agency's Creative Labs has two companies in its portfolio already: Ground Control, which offers daily news updates from former vice president Joe Biden on Amazon's Alexa-activated speakers and Google Home and a trivia game from baseball great Buster Posey of the San Francisco Giants. And it has Belletrist, an arts community aimed at millennial women that was co-founded by actress Emma Roberts. Labs is working with comedian Mike Epps on a new audio game that will be introduced by the end of the year. CAA, which represents such superstars as Tom Hanks and George Clooney, is also a longtime co-founder of tech firms, including the comedy site Funny or Die, and Moonshark, which created apps for celebrities like Hanks and Jennifer Lopez.