Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. The noisy debates around AI risk and regulation got many decibels louder last week, while simultaneously becoming even harder to decipher. There was the blowback from tweets by Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) about ChatGPT, including that "Something is coming. Then there was the complaint to the FTC about OpenAI, as well as well as Italy's ban on ChatGPT. And, most notably, the open letter signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak that proposed a six-month'pause' on large-scale AI development.

While deepfakes have now been around for a number of years, deepfake casting and acting are relatively new. Early deepfake technologies weren't very good, used primarily in dark corners of the internet to swap celebrities into porn videos without their consent. But as deepfakes have grown increasingly realistic, more and more artists and filmmakers have begun using them in broadcast-quality productions and TV ads. This means hiring real actors for one aspect of the performance or another. Some jobs require an actor to provide "base" footage; others need a voice.

"To boldly go where no one has gone before." The series followed the voyages of the starship USS Enterprise as she explored "strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations." I think we are all on a similar voyage right now. And we don't have to engage a "warp drive" to experience new life and new civilizations. Life -- here on Earth -- is changing rapidly due to technological developments.