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An Israeli diplomat delivering greetings in eight languages to audiences around the world in their native tongues is just the beginning of how artificial intelligence can be used as a tool to augment the venerable practice of diplomacy. Earlier this year, Ambassador David Saranga, head of the digital diplomacy division at the Foreign Ministry, posted videos on Twitter in which his likeness delivered a message in Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, Persian, Greek, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish. Saranga does not speak these languages but wanted to encourage dialogue. "I always wanted to communicate with you in the Turkish language, a language I heard in my childhood at my father's house," Saranga's likeness said in the video addressing Turkey. "Now this is possible thanks to Israeli artificial intelligence technology, which allows me to speak in any language."

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Generating digital humans (avatars) is a process increasingly making use of artificial intelligence (AI). And, the power of generative AI is now coming to avatars. This could have wide-ranging implication for enterprises, including customer support and experience. Today, Israeli startup D-ID announced the launch of its new chat.d-id

D-ID, the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique experiences like Deep Nostalgia, announced today that it's launching a new chat API to enable face-to-face conversations with an AI digital human. The announcement was timed to coincide with Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is taking place in Barcelona this week. The company is currently offering the API to enterprises for branding and customer experience purposes. The premise of the API is to provide a "human" interface for conversational AI. In a press release, D-ID said that with its new real-time streaming capabilities and its text-to-video technology, clients can integrate the power of large language models like GPT-3 and LaMDA to deploy interactive digital humans.

When people think about artificial intelligence, they rarely imagine the technology being used to sift through complex data sheets or find out how many people buy something because of a billboard, or figure out when a dog has sniffed cancer cells. That's typically the kind of thing AI is being used for these days – and while they're all cool, the common Dick and Jane probably aren't getting all too hyped up about it. However, hope is not lost for dreamers wishing for a Bradbury-esque future of machines creating things that are cool, even to the layman. There exists a growing field in AI technology devoted to "synthetic media" – art, content and creative materials that have been produced by an artificially intelligent creator. The current buzz in synthetic media is centered around AI image generation, with platforms such as DALL-E, CrAIyon and Midjourney leading the pack in the creation of art based on text prompts. Israeli start-up D-ID is the pioneer of a slightly different spin on the idea: taking a still photo of someone and turning it into a talking video.

Last year, genealogy service MyHeritage went viral after introducing a new "deepfake" feature that allowed users to animate the faces of loved ones in still photos. TikTok users posted videos reacting to the technology, called "Deep Nostalgia," as they brought back relatives they never got to meet or those whose loss they still grieved. To date, more than 100 million photos have been animated with the feature. Now comes the next iteration. Today, MyHeritage along with technology partner D-ID is expanding upon "Deep Nostalgia," with the launch of "LiveStory," a feature that doesn't just bring the people in photos to life with movement, but actually has them speak.

Only, it was a deepfake. So was the video of Donald Trump taunting Belgium for remaining in the Paris climate agreement and Barack Obama's public service announcement as posted by Buzzfeed. These great examples of deepfakes are the 21st Century's answer to Photoshopped images and videos. Synthetic media, deepfakes, use artificial intelligence (AI) -- deep learning technology, to replace an existing person in an image or video with someone else. One reason for the widespread use of deepfake technology in popular celebrities is that these personalities have a large number of pictures available on the internet, allowing AI to train and learn from.

A chilling video featuring the faces of five Israeli women who were murdered by their husbands has gone viral in an eerie social media campaign that has brought them back to life after death. With artificial intelligence and animation capabilities from Israeli "creative reality" startup D-ID, the videos use the voice of each victim -- as well as realistic facial features and gestures -- to convey the message that someone living in the reality of domestic abuse can and should get out before its too late. The project, dubbed Listen To Our Voices, was created in response to a global and local surge in domestic violence since the start of the pandemic, and in honor of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25. With deep learning technology, AI startup, D-ID captured the faces, voices, and gestures of the late Michal Sela, the late Esther Aharonovitch, the late Marin Haj Yechieh, the late Esther Barhani, and the late Sagit Ozeri, as they described their own marital difficulties which led to verbal and physical abuse from their spouses. The five victims also encouraged other women who experience similar relationships to talk to experts who know how to deal with these situations.

D-ID, the company whose tech powers the MyHeritage app, has demonstrated a new use for its technology. Called "Speaking Portrait," it allows any photo to be animated with uncanny realism and is capable of saying whatever the user wants. MyHeritage first made headlines in 2020 with its "Photo Enhancer" tool that used artificial intelligence to restore old family photos. Earlier this year, MyHeritage took its work a step further and developed Deep Nostaliga, which is capable of animating people from photographs. Noted in PetaPixel's original coverage, the AI at the core of the app was licensed from D-ID which specializes in video reenactment using deep learning.

What if technology enabled you to share a screen with Hugh Jackman? And no, we are not talking about a look-alike or virtual replica. Warner Bros.' upcoming movie Reminiscence starring Jackman has incorporated deepfake technology to turn a fan's photograph into a short video sequence with Jackman. Along with digital studio Oblio, the American film production company has partnered with Israeli-based synthetic media startup D-ID to use its'Live Portrait' product and create personalised experiences for movie fans. For the Reminiscence project, Warner Bros. has created an official website where users can enter their first names and upload a picture of themselves -- from the past or current.