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Ever wondered what Neanderthals sounded like? Scientists recreate the lost languages of ancient humans

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Kentucky mother and daughter turn down $26.5MILLION to sell their farms to secretive tech giant that wants to build data center there Horrifying next twist in the Alexander brothers case: MAUREEN CALLAHAN exposes an unthinkable perversion that's been hiding in plain sight Hollywood icon who starred in Psycho after Hitchcock dubbed her'my new Grace Kelly' looks incredible at 95 Kylie Jenner's total humiliation in Hollywood: Derogatory rumor leaves her boyfriend's peers'laughing at her' behind her back Tucker Carlson erupts at Trump adviser as she hurls'SLANDER' claim linking him to synagogue shooting Ben Affleck'scores $600m deal' with Netflix to sell his AI film start-up Long hair over 45 is ageing and try-hard. I've finally cut mine off. Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL rape video: Classmates speak out on sickening footage... as creepy unseen photos are exposed Heartbreaking video shows very elderly DoorDash driver shuffle down customer's driveway with coffee order because he is too poor to retire Amber Valletta, 52, was a '90s Vogue model who made movies with Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson, see her now Model Cindy Crawford, 60, mocked for her'out of touch' morning routine: 'Nothing about this is normal' Ever wondered what Neanderthals sounded like? If you've ever wondered what it would be like to natter with a Neanderthal or have a heart-to-heart with Homo erectus, then wonder no more. Scientists have used research to recreate the lost language of ancient human species.


The Spectrum review: Relive the ZX Spectrum's 80s gaming glories

PCWorld

The Spectrum faithfully recreates the 80s original with its rubber keys and classic games, delighting older gamers, while younger players may face a steep learning curve due to tricky controls and tough gameplay. However, modern features like save and rewind help mitigate that frustration. It was made with as few components as possible and connected easily to the TV. Programs ran from compact cassettes, some of you may remember listening to music from these before the advent of CDs. It was possible to program in Basic and play some games. The ZX Spectrum's competitor was the Commodore 64, a popular machine that Retro Games had already recreated.


'The Simpsons' star fears AI could rip off his work, but says there's one thing it cannot recreate

FOX News

AI Expert Marva Bailer explains to Fox News Digital Hank Azaria's opinion piece about humanity and AI matters. "The Simpsons" star Hank Azaria has voiced his fears over artificial intelligence in a new opinion piece. The actor, who has been with the show since 1989, wrote an opinion essay for The New York Times, worrying AI "will be able to recreate the sounds of the more than 100 voices I created for characters on'The Simpsons.'" He continued, "It makes me sad to think about it. Not to mention, it seems just plain wrong to steal my likeness or sound -- or anyone else's."


AI artist creates 'realistic' image of what Mary looked like before giving birth to Jesus

Daily Mail - Science & tech

An artist has created a'very realistic' image of the Virgin Mary using AI, showing her as a teenage girl with long black hair, dark eyes and a darker complexion. Miguel Ángel Omaña Rojas, from Mexico, reconstructed the face of the Virgin of Guadalupe as she appeared on a cloth worn by St Juan in Mexico more than 700 years ago. The technology spent weeks analyzing the image of Mary, studying each component' to'capture gestures and expressions in a dynamic way.' The image of the Virgin Mary, they said, allows the world'to finally see what the most famous woman... looked like in real life.' While Mary was believed to be Middle Eastern, cultures have changed her appearance to fit their local populations, such as why the Virgin of Guadalupe is portrayed with a combination of Indigenous and European heritage.


Robert Downey Jr. won't let AI recreate his likeness in Hollywood: 'I intend to sue'

FOX News

Robert Downey Jr. praised Jon Favreau for being ambitious in his filmmaking, shouting out many films he has directed, including'The Lion King' and'The Jungle Book.' Robert Downey Jr. might be devoid of iron, but he's sure got some steel. The Academy Award-winning actor, 59, is speaking out about rapid technological advancements and how he plans to fight back if his name and likeness are manipulated by artificial intelligence. "I intend to sue," he told the "On with Kara Swisher" podcast. HOLLYWOOD EXECS WARN AI STEALS JOBS BUT CAN'T DO JOB OF TRUE ARTISTS: 'I WANT TO WORK WITH HUMAN BEINGS' Robert Downey Jr. says he plans to sue if someone manipulates his likeness through artificial intelligence. It all comes back to Downey Jr.'s alter ego, Tony Stark, whose own alter ego is Iron Man.


'I am valued here': the extraordinary film that recreates a disabled boy's rich digital life

The Guardian

The night after their son Mats died aged just 25, Trude and Robert Steen sat on the sofa in their living room in Oslo with their daughter Mia. "Everything was a blur," remembers Trude of that day 10 years ago. "Then Robert said, 'Maybe we should reach out to Mats' friends in World of Warcraft.'" Mats was born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive condition that causes the muscles to weaken gradually. He was diagnosed aged four and started using a wheelchair at 10.


Their children were shot, so they used AI to recreate their voices and call lawmakers

Engadget

The parents of a teenager who was killed in Florida's Parkland school shooting in 2018 have started a bold new project called The Shotline to lobby for stricter gun laws in the country. The Shotline uses AI to recreate the voices of children killed by gun violence and send recordings through automated calls to lawmakers, The Wall Street Journal reported. The project launched on Wednesday, six years after a gunman killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen at a high school in Parkland, Florida. It features the voice of six children, some as young as ten, and young adults, who have lost their lives in incidents of gun violence across the US. Once you type in your zip code, The Shotline finds your local representative and lets you place an automated call from one of the six dead people in their own voice, urging for stronger gun control laws.



Too Big, so Fail? -- Enabling Neural Construction Methods to Solve Large-Scale Routing Problems

Falkner, Jonas K., Schmidt-Thieme, Lars

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In recent years new deep learning approaches to solve combinatorial optimization problems, in particular NP-hard Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP), have been proposed. The most impactful of these methods are sequential neural construction approaches which are usually trained via reinforcement learning. Due to the high training costs of these models, they usually are trained on limited instance sizes (e.g. serving 100 customers) and later applied to vastly larger instance size (e.g. 2000 customers). By means of a systematic scale-up study we show that even state-of-the-art neural construction methods are outperformed by simple heuristics, failing to generalize to larger problem instances. We propose to use the ruin recreate principle that alternates between completely destroying a localized part of the solution and then recreating an improved variant. In this way, neural construction methods like POMO are never applied to the global problem but just in the reconstruction step, which only involves partial problems much closer in size to their original training instances. In thorough experiments on four datasets of varying distributions and modalities we show that our neural ruin recreate approach outperforms alternative forms of improving construction methods such as sampling and beam search and in several experiments also advanced local search approaches.


Tom Hanks says he will live on the big screen forever thanks to AI

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Two-time Oscar-winner Tom Hanks could live forever on the big screen with the help of artificial intelligence. Hanks, 66, claims to have predicted the rise of AI in the film industry 20 years ago and believes it will recreate him in films long after he is dead. He said the powers of AI came to him when making the 2004 computer-animated movie The Polar Express when he was reimagined as a digital train conductor. 'What is a bonafide possibility right now is - if I wanted to - I could get together and pitch a series of seven movies that would star me in them in which I would be 32 years old from now until kingdom come,' Hanks said, speaking with British comedian Adam Buxton. 'I can tell you that there's discussions going on in all of the guilds, all of the agencies, and all of the legal firms in order to come up with the legal ramifications of my face and my voice and everybody else's being our intellectual property,' Hanks said.