Scientists have trained a computer to analyze the brain activity of someone listening to music and, based only on those neuronal patterns, recreate the song. The research, published on Tuesday, produced a recognizable, if muffled version of Pink Floyd’s 1979 song, “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1).” […] To collect the data for the Read more about Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song By Reading Brain Signals of Listeners[…]

On Tuesday, Snapchat’s My AI in-app chatbot posted its own Story to the app that appeared to be a photo of a wall and ceiling. It then stopped responding to users’ messages, which some Snapchat users found disconcerting. TechCrunch reports: Though the incident made for some great tweets (er, posts), we regret to inform you Read more about Snapchat’s My AI Goes Rogue, Posts To Stories[…]

I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out of control. However, when concern and worry about new technologies and how they may impact things morphs into mob-inspiring Read more about The Fear Of AI and Entitled Cancel Culture Just Killed A Very Useful Tool: Prosecraft[…]

IBM and NASA have put together and released Prithvi: an open source foundation AI model that may help scientists and other folks analyze satellite imagery. The vision transformer model, released under an Apache 2 license, is relatively small at 100 million parameters, and was trained on a year’s worth of images collected by the US Read more about IBM and NASA open source satellite-image-labeling AI model[…]

Whether AI systems can create original work sparks intense discussions among philosophers, jurists, and computer scientists and touches on issues of ownership, copyright, and economic competition, writes Stefano Quintarelli. Stefano Quintarelli is an information technology specialist, a former member of the Italian Parliament and a former member of the European Commission’s High-level expert group on Read more about AI Creation and Copyright: Unraveling the debate on originality, ownership[…]

The European Union, G7, United States, and United Kingdom have announced initiatives aiming to establish governance regimes and guidelines around the technology’s use. Amidst these efforts, an announcement made in late May by EU Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager at the close of the Fourth Trade and Technology Council (TTC) Ministerial in Sweden revealed an upcoming Read more about US-EU AI Code of Conduct: First Step Towards Transatlantic Pillar of Global AI Governance?[…]

An open letter signed by more than 1,300 experts says AI is a “force for good, not a threat to humanity”. It was organised by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, to counter “AI doom”. Rashik Parmar, BCS chief executive, said it showed the UK tech community didn’t believe the “nightmare scenario of evil robot Read more about More than 1,300 UK experts call AI a force for good[…]

A machine that writes stuff for you- in your own handwriting- so you don’t have to! https://hackaday.io/project/190788-homework-machine

Stability AI, the startup behind the image-generating model Stable Diffusion, is launching a new service that turns sketches into images. The sketch-to-image service, Stable Doodle, leverages the latest Stable Diffusion model to analyze the outline of a sketch and generate a “visually pleasing” artistic rendition of it. It’s available starting today through ClipDrop, a platform Read more about Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool[…]

Police in New York recently managed to identify and apprehend a drug trafficker seemingly by magic. The perp in question, David Zayas, was traveling through the small upstate town of Scarsdale when he was pulled over by Westchester County police. When cops searched Zayas’ vehicle they found a large amount of crack cocaine, a gun, Read more about AI System Identified Drug Trafficker by Scanning Driving Patterns[…]

Chinese authorities published the nation’s rules governing generative AI on Thursday, including protections that aren’t in place elsewhere in the world. Some of the rules require operators of generative AI to ensure their services “adhere to the core values of socialism” and don’t produce output that includes “incitement to subvert state power.” AIs are also Read more about China sets AI rules – not just risk based (EU AI Act), but also ideological[…]

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It didn’t take long for the downsides of a generative AI-empowered newsroom to make themselves obvious, between CNet’s secret chatbot reviews editor last November and Buzzfeed’s subsequent mass layoffs of human staff in favor of AI-generated “content” creators. The specter of being replaced by a “good enough AI” looms large in many a journalist’s mind Read more about How AI could help local newsrooms remain afloat in a sea of misinformation – read and learn, Gizmodo staffers[…]

G/O Media is the owner of top sites like Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, and the Onion. Last month they announced “modest tests” of AI-generated content on their sites — and it didn’t go over well within the company, reports the Washington Post. Soon the Deputy Editor of Gizmodo’s science fiction section io9 was flagging 18 “concerns, Read more about How An AI-Written ‘Star Wars’ Story Shows Yet Again the Luddism at Gizmodo[…]