Few fantasies are harder to wipe away than the romance of a clean slate. Every January, when we're twitchy with regret and self-loathing, advertisers blare, "New Year, new you," urging us to jettison our failures and start fresh. In fiction, self-reinvention is a perennial theme, often shadowed by the suspicion that it can't be done. Lately, novelists have put a political spin on the idea, counterposing hopeful acts of individual self-fashioning to the immovable weight of circumstance. Halle Butler's "The New Me" (2019), a millennial office satire, finds its temp heroine, Millie, trying to life-hack her way out of loneliness and professional drift--buy a plant, whiten her teeth, make friends, think positive.

Google is reportedly building new AI-powered chatbots based on celebrities and YouTube influencers. The idea isn't groundbreaking -- startups like Character.ai Google's celebrity chatbots will be powered by the company's Gemini family of large language models according to The Information, which broke the story on Monday. The company is trying to strike partnerships with influencers as well as celebrities, and is also working on a feature that will let people create their own chatbots simply by describing their personalities and appearance -- something that Character.ai A fun fact: Noam Shazeer, one of the co-founders of Character.ai, is a former Google engineer and one of the creators of "transformers," the fundamental tech that made today's generative AI possible.

A video which fans believe features an AI-generated clone of Kendall Jenner has gone viral, spreading confusion and drawing comparisons to living in'Black Mirror'. The video, posted from the account of Meta-created AI bot'Billie', sparked debate as to whether the person speaking is an AI model or the real-life celebrity. The person (or AI bot) in the video wearing the face of Jenner introduces herself as Billie and invites her followers to chat with her and ask for advice. Racking up nearly 350,000 likes and 7,000 comments, most viewers believed this was next-level AI technology at play, calling it'freaky', 'scary' and'amazing'. But expert Dr Mike Cook, from Kings College London, told MailOnline the video shows no signs of being artificially generated and the confusion shows how'fragile' the online world has become, with no one knowing what to believe.

CyberGuy shows you how to save money with these apps. On Sept. 27-28, Meta rolled out the red carpet at Meta Connect 2023, an event focused on the future of the metaverse, a shared virtual space where people can interact with each other and digital content. The big reveal was "Meta AI," a new generative AI assistant powered by Meta's own recipe of a large language model, Llama 2. Meta AI lets you chat with different AIs, each with their own personality and interests. They are original characters created by Meta's AI team. You can ask them questions, get recommendations or just have fun conversations with them.

You may never have heard the term "synthetic media"-- more commonly known as "deepfakes"-- but our military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies certainly have. They are hyper-realistic video and audio recordings that use artificial intelligence and "deep" learning to create "fake" content or "deepfakes." The U.S. government has grown increasingly concerned about their potential to be used to spread disinformation and commit crimes. That's because the creators of deepfakes have the power to make people say or do anything, at least on our screens. As we first reported in October, most Americans have no idea how far the technology has come in just the last five years or the danger, disruption and opportunities that come with it.

You may never have heard the term "synthetic media"-- more commonly known as "deepfakes"-- but our military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies certainly have. They are hyper-realistic video and audio recordings that use artificial intelligence and "deep" learning to create "fake" content or "deepfakes." The U.S. government has grown increasingly concerned about their potential to be used to spread disinformation and commit crimes. That's because the creators of deepfakes have the power to make people say or do anything, at least on our screens. Most Americans have no idea how far the technology has come in just the last four years or the danger, disruption and opportunities that come with it.

Artificial intelligence is top of mind for many in the marketing and communications world. Many Marcom departments already use AI to analyze consumer behavior and try to predict future needs. Many brands use algorithms to recommend personalized content, show personalized ads, as well as power customer service chatbots. But what if AI can help brands take their brand voice to the next level? Brands usually spend thousands, if not millions of dollars, fine-tuning their brand voice, which describes a company's personality.

Artificial intelligence is top of mind for many in the marketing and communications world. Many Marcom departments already use AI to analyze consumer behavior and try to predict future needs. Many brands use algorithms to recommend personalized content, show personalized ads, as well as power customer service chatbots. But what if AI can help brands take their brand voice to the next level? Brands usually spend thousands, if not millions of dollars, fine-tuning their brand voice, which describes a company's personality. Now, AI in digital marketing has a whole new face - literally, as digital avatars and synthetic beings enter the digital marketing world.

For a factory where robots toil around the clock to build a rocket with almost no human labor, the sound of grunts echoing across the parking lot make for a jarring contrast. "That's Keanu Reeves' stunt gym," says Tim Ellis, the chief executive and cofounder of Relativity Space, a startup that wants to combine 3D printing and artificial intelligence to do for the rocket what Henry Ford did for the automobile. As we walk among the robots occupying Relativity's factory, he points out the just-completed upper stage of the company's rocket, which will soon be shipped to Mississippi for its first tests. Across the way, he says, gesturing to the outside world, is a recording studio run by Snoop Dogg. Neither of those A-listers have paid a visit to Relativity's rocket factory, but the presence of these unlikely neighbors seems to underscore the company's main talking point: It can make rockets anywhere. In an ideal cosmos, though, its neighbors will be even more alien than Snoop Dogg.

For a factory where robots toil around the clock to build a rocket with almost no human labor, the sound of grunts echoing across the parking lot make for a jarring contrast. "That's Keanu Reeves' stunt gym," says Tim Ellis, the chief executive and cofounder of Relativity Space, a startup that wants to combine 3D printing and artificial intelligence to do for the rocket what Henry Ford did for the automobile. As we walk among the robots occupying Relativity's factory, he points out the just-completed upper stage of the company's rocket, which will soon be shipped to Mississippi for its first tests. Across the way, he says, gesturing to the outside world, is a recording studio run by Snoop Dogg. Neither of those A-listers have paid a visit to Relativity's rocket factory, but the presence of these unlikely neighbors seems to underscore the company's main talking point: It can make rockets anywhere. In an ideal cosmos, though, its neighbors will be even more alien than Snoop Dogg.