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Digital linguists work to save the Arapaho language
New database built with over 100,000 Arapaho sentences. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Arapaho is one of the many an Indigenous languages that are severely at risk of disappearing . According to the United Nations, 4 in 10 Indigenous languages are currently at risk due to aging populations and ongoing discrimination against native speakers. For Arapaho, the population of native speakers of the language rooted in the Great Plains is aging.
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'AGT' judge Simon Cowell reveals he is 'not a fan' of AI
The "America's Got Talent" judge told Fox News Digital why he doesn't like AI technology in songwriting. Simon Cowell has some judgment on the use of artificial intelligence in music. "I personally am not a fan of it," Cowell told Fox News Digital. He continued, explaining why artists like Queen, David Bowie and Elton John have a lasting, authentic impact, by noting that "their songs, I think, are as good today as they were then. So, anything which is faking it is for me a bit of a problem," he said.
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Have deepfakes got talent?
The participants in last week's final of TV show America's Got Talent included a Lebanese dance troupe, a pole dancer, the singer from Hootie & the Blowfish and… two tech entrepreneurs who "build Artificial Intelligence tools and software to create hyper-realistic synthetic media at scale", according to their social media biographies. Tom Graham and Chris Umé are the emerging godfathers of so-called deepfake technology, a mind-bending illusion by which a person in a video is digitally altered so they appear to be someone else. Thus the America's Got Talent final saw four largely unknown singers line up on stage and, thanks to futuristic AI trickery embedded in the cameras in front of them, become deepfake versions of Elvis Presley and judges Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum and Sofía Vergara on the big screen behind them. This all happened in real time, as if the extraordinarily lifelike quartet were singing Devil in Disguise live on stage. Cowell, Klum and Vergara (the real versions) looked on with mouths agape from their judges' seats in the stalls.
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Watch: America's Got Talent singer deepfakes Simon Cowell
There's apparently one surefire way to impress the most irascible member of the celebrity panel of judges on NBC's reality competition show America's Got Talent. You can always just pretend to be Simon Cowell, thanks to sophisticated artificial intelligence and deepfake technology. That's exactly what singer Daniel Emmet will do during Tuesday night's episode of America's Got Talent, footage from which was released early by the TV network. And it's easy to see why. In what is really some of the best publicity that the tech company behind this effort could ever hope to achieve, the founders come out on stage with mikes.
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