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Jorja Smith's record label hits out at 'AI clone' song

BBC News

Brit Award-winning singer Jorja Smith's record label has said it wants a share of the royalties for a song it claims was created using an artificial intelligence clone of the singer's voice. I Run by British dance act Haven went viral on TiKTok in October thanks, in part, to smooth soul vocals by an uncredited female singer. Although I Run has now been re-released with new vocals, Smith's label FAMM said it believes the track was made with AI trained on her work, and is seeking compensation. It's bigger than one artist or one song, FAMM wrote in a statement on Instagram . The label said it believes both versions of the track infringe on Jorja's rights and unfairly take advantage of the work of all the songwriters with whom she collaborates.


Prime Gaming's February freebies include BioShock Infinite and Wolfenstein: Youngblood

Engadget

Amazon has shared a list of video games that Prime members can snag for free this month, and there are some real gems. Additionally, the company revealed some new titles coming to the cloud-gaming platform Luna. BioShock Infinite Complete Edition is available right now. This version includes the full game, as originally released back in 2013, plus all of the various DLC and add-ons that came after. We called it "an easy story to fall in love with" in our official review, and that certainly stands to this day.


Fake news sites, misinformation exploding thanks to new tech

FOX News

Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner has the latest on the president's focus amid calls for an impeachment inquiry on "Special Report." The rise of artificial intelligence has helped proliferate the spread of fake news, with the internet seeing a surge in websites devoted to disseminating misinformation. "Artificial intelligence tools to propagate fake news are going to snowball out of control quickly," Ziven Havens, the policy director at the Bull Moose Project, a nonprofit "dedicated to building the conservative populist movement," told Fox News Digital. The comments come as AI-created false articles have increased across the internet by 1,000% since May, going from 49 sites to more than 600 in that time span, according to a report from the Washington Post. The report notes that AI has made it easier than ever to disseminate fake news, an operation that used to depend on large groups of low-wage workers to pump out articles that can be hard to differentiate from legitimate news sources.


Biden admin's pact with nations not a 'serious' step to counter dangers of new tech: experts

FOX News

Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner has the latest on the presidents focus amid calls for an impeachment inquiry on Special Report. The U.S. and U.K. joined more than a dozen countries to unveil a new artifical intelligence agreement aimed at preventing rogue actors from abusing the technology, though not all experts are sold on how useful the pact will be. "This is really more of an agreement of intent than actual substance," Phil Siegel, founder of the Center for Advanced Preparedness and Threat Response Simulation, told Fox News Digital. Siegel's comments come after what a U.S. official described as the first ever detailed agreement on AI safety was unveiled Sunday, according to a report from Reuters, putting measures in place that are meant to create AI systems that are "secure by design." Vice President Kamala Harris watches President Biden sign an executive order during an AI event at the White House on Oct. 30, 2023.


Abandoned America: AI images what famous US cities would look like after 100 years - if they were deserted by humans

Daily Mail - Science & tech

What would American cities look like 100 years after human beings have left, with the streets devoid of human life - and beginning to be reclaimed by nature? While the chatbot put our future world in text, the AI photo generator Midjourney painted pictures of these abandoned metropolises, showing the concrete jungles transforming into jungles. Kieron Connolly, author of Abandoned Places and Abandoned Civilizations, says that visions of abandoned cities have a unique power. This isn't what city life is supposed to look like. Nature is allowed to reclaim the land,' Connolly said. ChatGPT writes, 'In the year 2123, the once-thriving metropolis of Chicago stands as a haunting testament to the passage of time and the resilience of nature.


Deepfakes to be indistinguishable from reality as early as 2024, report warns

FOX News

AI expert Marva Bailer says the shift in pop culture with memes and edited images can lead to complications with knowing what's real and what's fake and why the public needs to be alert. Developers of artificial intelligence platforms could soon release technology that allows users to make images and videos that would be nearly indistinguishable from reality. Companies such as OpenAI, the developer behind the popular ChatGPT platform, and other AI companies are nearing the release of tools that will allow the creation of widespread and realistic fake videos as early as next year, according to a report from Axios. According to the report, an AI architect told the outlet that private testing of some of the tools that could soon be in the hands of everyday users revealed that even developers could no longer distinguish fake imagery from reality, something they did not believe was possible so soon. Developers of artificial intelligence platforms could soon release technology that allows users to make images and videos that would be nearly indistinguishable from reality.


China, US race to unleash killer AI robot soldiers as military power hangs in balance: experts

FOX News

House Armed Services Committee holds hearing on the Department of Defense using AI. China and the U.S. are locked in a race to develop new weapons controlled by artificial intelligence, a battle that could determine the world's balance of power. "The race with China to build autonomous weapons systems is the defining defense challenge of the next 100 years," Christopher Alexander, chief analytics officer at Pioneer Development Group, told Fox News Digital. The comments come as a Reuters report last month detailed the ongoing struggle between the U.S. and its allies and China over the development of AI weapons, a competition that has only become increasingly heated as the world observed the successful use of technologies to resist an invasion of seemingly superior Russian forces for over a year. US MILITARY NEEDS AI VEHICLES, WEAPON SYSTEMS TO BE'SUPERIOR' GLOBAL FORCE: EXPERTS George Bustilloz prepares for a presentation of the iRobot Warrior X700 during a demonstration of "life-saving military robots."


Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data

WIRED

Zoom, the company that normalized attending business meetings in your pajama pants, was forced to unmute itself this week to reassure users that it would not use personal data to train artificial intelligence without their consent. A keen-eyed Hacker News user last week noticed that an update to Zoom's terms and conditions in March appeared to essentially give the company free rein to slurp up voice, video, and other data, and shovel it into machine learning systems. The new terms stated that customers "consent to Zoom's access, use, collection, creation, modification, distribution, processing, sharing, maintenance, and storage of Service Generated Data" for purposes including "machine learning or artificial intelligence (including for training and tuning of algorithms and models)." The discovery prompted critical news articles and angry posts across social media. On Monday, Zoom's chief product officer, Smita Hasham, wrote a blog post stating, "We will not use audio, video, or chat customer content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent." The company also updated its terms to say the same.


Video Games Offered My Son a Haven From Bullying

WIRED

My husband and I weren't sure what started the bullying. Was it because he'd stood up to the bully who called his Black friend a "slave" and demanded he carry his cello? Our son had faced racism early--when a drunk white guy demanded his tiny 6-year-old sister return to China, where we'd adopted her. Luke stood up for her too. Whatever caused the bullying, what matters most was how he finally conquered it.

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Eliminating Confusion Between AI and ML; AI Doesn't Exist Without Its Subsets

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are being used interchangeably as a term across all segments of technological applications. Due to their close relation, AI is often confused with ML but one should not forget the distinction between the two. Out of all the differences, one is surely the biggest – that machine learning is a subset of AI. Technology professionals must understand the trivial difference both possess. Lacking the clarity between AI and ML, professionals as well as their companies may get misguided and eventually lose their relevance in the market with fake or misleading AI solutions. According to an award-winning writer, Stephanie Overby, the most significant misunderstanding is how AI relates to ML.