The project aims to detect a fire the size of a classroom within 20 minutes. Wildfires are becoming an increasingly common threat worldwide. Record-breaking burns from Australia to the Amazon to the United States are devastating the environment. The deadly wildfires that raged across Los Angeles in January were estimated to have caused more than 250 billion in damages. Current satellite imagery is often low resolution, infrequently updated and unable to detect small fires.

Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence laboratory is working on a new technology that can generate soundtracks, even dialogue, to go along with videos. The lab has shared its progress on the video-to-audio (V2A) technology project, which can be paired with Google Veo and other video creation tools like OpenAI's Sora. In its blog post, the DeepMind team explains that the system can understand raw pixels and combine that information with text prompts to create sound effects for what's happening onscreen. To note, the tool can also be used to make soundtracks for traditional footage, such as silent films and any other video without sound. DeepMind's researchers trained the technology on videos, audios and AI-generated annotations that contain detailed descriptions of sounds and dialogue transcripts.

Fox News correspondent Grady Trimble has the latest on fears the technology will spiral out of control on "Special Report." Artificial intelligence can't bring back the dead, but it may be able to simulate speaking to a lost loved one in an effort to help humans through the grieving process. The high-tech revamp of the traditional seance comes amid the wild growth of large language models, a form of AI that is trained on copious amounts of text. ChatGPT's release year has sparked discussion on how far the tech can go as the chatbot mimics human conversation and answers prompts from humans. Jarren Rocks, product designer and manager at the Los Angeles-based software development company AE Studio, is working on a program called Seance AI, which will allow people to talk with a chatbot that mimics their dead loved ones.

Cutting-edge AI tech has been described as'conscious' by a leading philosophy of mind expert. New York University's Professor David Chalmers made the bombshell claim while discussing the highly-controversial Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) - OpenAI's powerful new language generator able to create content better than anything else ever made.

We all know that artificial intelligence is rapidly expanding in different industries, but what if we told you that AI can now be used in healthcare as well? A new AI technology has been developed to be used in the medical setting, specifically in detecting genetic disorders in humans. The AI, called Deep Gestalt, can identify genetic disorders just by looking at a patient's face, using different markers to accurately guess the specific disorder. In a recent study published by the journal Nature Magazine, Deep Gestalt even managed to outperform human physicians in three separate clinical trials. During the experiment, it was given a couple of photographs that showed a person with a genetic disorder. Most genetic disorders have specific markers that differentiate them from one another, and Deep Gestalt used deep learning to teach itself these markers.

For many cancer patients, living with the brutal side effects of chemotherapy is a daily struggle. More than half of cancer patients in Washington state actually end up in the emergency room because of the side effects, expensive visits that push the already high cost of cancer care even higher. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and tech giant Microsoft are hoping to lower that number. They've unveiled a new pilot program that will leverage Microsoft's artificial intelligence technology and Fred Hutch's clinical and data science expertise. The partners will work together to build a new technology platform that aims to head off side effects before they become bad enough to warrant an emergency room visit, improving patient health and lowering healthcare costs in the process.

Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS) presented at a conference last month its newly developed artificial-intelligence (AI) technology for tracking the facial reactions of theatergoers as they watch a movie. The tech could help the entertainment giant make even better movies and could also have other applications across its empire. Disney tapped an NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) graphics processing unit (GPU) to play a starring role in the development of its new tech. Here's what you should know. Disney's new factorized variational autoencoders (FVAE) tech falls within the branch of AI called deep learning, which aims to mimic human thought processes. In deep learning, an artificial neural network is trained how to think or make inferences, and then it's deployed where it makes inferences from new data, which could be images, speech, and so on.

Montreal-based start-up Lyrebird is looking to change that with an artificially intelligent system that learns to mimic a person's voice by analyzing speech recordings and the corresponding text transcripts as well as identifying the relationships between them. Introduced last week, Lyrebird's speech synthesis can generate thousands of sentences per second--significantly faster than existing methods--and mimic just about any voice, an advancement that raises ethical questions about how the technology might be used and misused. The ability to generate natural-sounding speech has long been a core challenge for computer programs that transform text into spoken words. Artificial intelligence (AI) personal assistants such as Siri, Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana and the Google Assistant all use text-to-speech software to create a more convenient interface with their users. Those systems work by cobbling together words and phrases from prerecorded files of one particular voice.

In 1977 when Star Wars introduced the world to C-3PO and R2D2, artificial intelligence (AI) seemed as fantastical as that galaxy far, far away. But at Ignite this year when Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, took to the keynote stage it was very clear that AI is right at our feet. Instead, their vision for AI enhances the many tools we use already use at work and in our everyday lives! At day two of the conference, I had the pleasure of talking with Alan Lepofsky, Principal Analyst of Collaboration Software at Constellation Research, who was even more excited than I was about the whole thing, Check out our interview to hear more about Microsoft's new direction and what a future powered by AI tools might be like for people and businesses everywhere. Dux: Hey everybody, this is Dux.