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Eating two handfuls of a common snack daily improves memory in just four months

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Trapped by the swipe? Dating apps are designed to keep singles 'swiping and spending' rather than finding 'The One', experts warn

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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OpenAI Should Have Gone Way Beyond Scarlett Johansson

The Atlantic - Technology

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Let's get this out of the way: OpenAI's voice assistant doesn't sound that much like Scarlett Johansson. The movie star has alleged that, though she rebuffed multiple attempts by Sam Altman, the company's CEO, to license her voice for the product that it demoed last week, the one it ended up using was "eerily similar" to her own. Not everyone finds the similarity so eerie--to my ear, it lacks her distinctive smoky rasp--but at the very least, the new AI does appear to imitate the playful lilts and cadences that Johansson used while playing Samantha, the digital assistant in the 2013 film Her. That's depressing--and not only because OpenAI may have run roughshod over Johansson's wishes, but because it has made such an unimaginative choice.


PeaCoK: Persona Commonsense Knowledge for Consistent and Engaging Narratives

Gao, Silin, Borges, Beatriz, Oh, Soyoung, Bayazit, Deniz, Kanno, Saya, Wakaki, Hiromi, Mitsufuji, Yuki, Bosselut, Antoine

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Sustaining coherent and engaging narratives requires dialogue or storytelling agents to understand how the personas of speakers or listeners ground the narrative. Specifically, these agents must infer personas of their listeners to produce statements that cater to their interests. They must also learn to maintain consistent speaker personas for themselves throughout the narrative, so that their counterparts feel involved in a realistic conversation or story. However, personas are diverse and complex: they entail large quantities of rich interconnected world knowledge that is challenging to robustly represent in general narrative systems (e.g., a singer is good at singing, and may have attended conservatoire). In this work, we construct a new large-scale persona commonsense knowledge graph, PeaCoK, containing ~100K human-validated persona facts. Our knowledge graph schematizes five dimensions of persona knowledge identified in previous studies of human interactive behaviours, and distils facts in this schema from both existing commonsense knowledge graphs and large-scale pretrained language models. Our analysis indicates that PeaCoK contains rich and precise world persona inferences that help downstream systems generate more consistent and engaging narratives.


Here's why the new 'Mortal Kombat' movie stars a new, original lead character

Washington Post - Technology News

In the games and the original movies, Kano has always been portrayed as a thieving, conniving villain, and little else (besides a mortal rival for Kombatant Sonya Blade). In this film, he is the engine that keeps the story moving, as he steals every scene he's in and gets the biggest laughs. And like Cole, he is the audience's other surrogate in understanding "Mortal Kombat's" bizarre, violent, supernatural world, and the beings that live in it, including the thunder god Raiden.


An AI app that turns you into a movie star has risked the privacy of millions

#artificialintelligence

ZAO, a viral Chinese app that uses AI to face-swap users and famous actors, is now embroiled in a major privacy controversy. The news: On Friday, a new app released by Momo, a social-media developer, instantly went viral on Chinese social media. It allows users to upload a single portrait and, within seconds, see their face superimposed onto actors in iconic movie scenes. By Sunday, it had become the most downloaded free entertainment app in China's Apple Store. While GANs have been used for face-editing and face-swapping before (increasingly so in Hollywood films), ZAO's use of a single photo, coupled with the speed and seamlessness of its swap, demonstrates how far the state of the art in media fakery has advanced.


Privacy fears swirl around app that turns people into 'movie stars'

FOX News

Fox News Flash top headlines for September 4 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Zao, a Chinese app that uses "deepfake" technology to let users superimpose themselves onto the faces of movie and TV stars, has sparked a privacy backlash amid concerns about identity theft. Deepfakes are created using artificial intelligence and facial mapping technology to yield false, but realistic clips. Celebrities and public figures, such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, have been "featured" in deepfake videos.


Andrew Ng: Why 'Deep Learning' Is a Mandate for Humans, Not Just Machines

#artificialintelligence

If venture capital and research funding are any indication, artificial intelligence will play a leading role in shaping our future. And few tech innovators in the private or public sector have been as prominent in defining that role as Andrew Ng, chief scientist at China's search giant Baidu. Ng has taught AI at Stanford, led the Google Brain project, founded online education pioneer Coursera, and just last year took his post at "China's Google" in hopes of figuring out how to teach computers to see and hear, and to do that for the world's most populous country. Small wonder why China represents such a huge opportunity for machine intelligence applications. Baidu is the world's fifth most trafficked website.