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Statement from Vice President Harris After Meeting with CEOs on Advancing Responsible Artificial Intelligence Innovation

As I shared today with CEOs of companies at the forefront of American AI innovation, the private sector has an ethical, moral, and legal responsibility to ensure the safety and security of their products. And every company must comply with existing laws to protect the American people. I look forward to the follow through and follow up in the weeks to come.

See the full story here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/05/04/statement-from-vice-president-harris-after-meeting-with-ceos-on-advancing-responsible-artificial-intelligence-innovation/

Khan Academy TED talk – AI in Education

AI Content Farms Spreading Fake Stories and Misinformation

The proliferation of websites spewing misinformation as a result of chatbot-powered “content farms” is creating increased concern. Misinformation tracker NewsGuard has identified 49 websites publishing falsehoods authored by generative AI. The discovery is raising questions as to the technology’s role in turbocharging existing fraud techniques. Several of the offending websites sprang up this year, just as AI tools were made widely available for use by the public. Some of the sites take the approach of masquerading as breaking news sites, while others have adopted tactics such as using generic-sounding names. ...

The 49 websites were published in seven languages — Chinese, Czech, English, French, Portuguese, Tagalog, and Thai — notes NewsGuard, which says their presentation makes them “appear to be typical news websites,” addressing topics from politics and health to entertainment and technology. ...

Experts have for years warned “that such AI-generated content farms will soon become commonplace,” according to The Verge, which explains that “the wider availability of tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT has now made these warnings a reality.”

See the full story here: https://www.etcentric.org/ai-content-farms-spreading-fake-stories-and-misinformation/

Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures Launches $240 Million AI Investment Fund

Sound Ventures, the venture-capital firm co-founded by Ashton Kutcherand music manager Guy Oseary, is looking to back “category-defining” artificial intelligence businesses.

The VC firm announced that it has closed Sound Ventures AI Fund, oversubscribed at nearly $240 million. The fund seeks to invest in AI businesses at the foundation model layer. Currently, the fund’s portfolio of companies includes OpenAI, Anthropic and StabilityAI. Kutcher, Oseary and Effie Epstein lead Sound Ventures as general partners. ...

See the full story here: https://variety.com/2023/music/news/ashton-kutcher-guy-oseary-sound-ventures-ai-investment-fund-1235599939/

Tencent is Selling Custom Deepfake Virtual Humans for $145

... China has recently issued new deepfake regulations mandating the subject give their consent and that the virtual being have an indicator marking their deepfake status. The platforms must also have a way of confirming online identities and set up a system to respond to reports of suspicious deepfake content.

DEEPFAKE DIVES

Tencent’s offer does stand out for its speed and price point, but custom deepfake creations are becoming increasingly common. Virtual being developer Synthesia will build a custom deepfake avatar but charges $1,000 per avatar for a yearly subscription, not an outright purchase. And synthetic media startup D-ID can create a digital replica of someone within a few minutes on its Creative Reality Studio, even producing videos from a single photo. Subscriptions vary in price based on how long you want your videos to be, $6 to $300 a month. Other companies have built deepfake clones of real people, but only for specific projects Hour One’s Taryn Southern and Dom Esposito clones or the virtual Jack Nicklaus built by Soul Machines.

See the full story here: https://voicebot.ai/2023/05/01/tencent-is-selling-custom-deepfake-virtual-humans-for-145/

MIT Professor Compares Ignoring AGI to “Don’t Look Up”

... Tegmark goes as far as to claim that superintelligence "isn't a long-term issue," but is even "more short-term than e.g. climate change and most people's retirement planning." To support his theory, the researcher pointed to a recent Microsoft study arguing that OpenAI's large language model GPT-4 is already showing "sparks" of AGI and a recent talk given by deep learning researcher Yoshua Bengio. ...

"Although humanity is racing toward a cliff, we're not there yet, and there's still time for us to slow down, change course and avoid falling off – and instead enjoying the amazing benefits that safe, aligned AI has to offer," Tegmark writes. "This requires agreeing that the cliff actually exists and falling off of it benefits nobody."

See the full story here: https://futurism.com/mit-professor-agi-dont-look-up

AI hoax? ‘Death of Canadian who got plastic surgery to look like BTS’ Jimin’ was fake news: Report

... This is among the first known cases of AI being used to trick people and media to spread misinformation, heralding the dawn of a new era of AI-generated fake news, according to Al Jazeera. Newly found evidence shows that the story was just an elaborate hoax, the channel said in a report. ...

See the full story here: https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/ai-hoax-death-of-canadian-who-did-plastic-surgery-to-look-like-bts-jimin-was-fake-news-report-587496

‘Godfather of AI’ leaves Google amid ethical concerns

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence has made a high-profile exit. Geoffrey Hinton, nicknamed the "godfather of AI," tells The New York Times he resigned as Google VP and engineering fellow in April to freely warn of the risks associated with the technology. The researcher is concerned that Google is giving up its previous restraint on public AI releases in a bid to compete with ChatGPT, Bing Chat and similar models, opening the door to multiple ethical problems.

In the near term, Hinton is worried that generative AI could lead to a wave of misinformation. ...

See the full story here; https://www.engadget.com/godfather-of-ai-leaves-google-amid-ethical-concerns-152451800.html

[TED 2023 leaked story/video] EXCLUSIVE: WATCH HUMANE’S WEARABLE AI PROJECTOR IN ACTION

... It's a new kind of wearable device, that and platform that's built entirely from the ground up for artificial intelligence. And it's completely standalone. You don't need a smartphone or any other device to pair with it.”

“It interacts with the world the way you interact with the world, hearing what you hear, seeing what you see, while being privacy first, and safe, and completely fading into the background of your life,” Chaudhri says. ...

See the full story with multiple video clips here: https://www.inverse.com/tech/humane-ai-wearable-camera-sensor-projector-video-demo

K-Pop Conference Finds AI Usage in Music Outpacing Copyright Law

... Korea is now the seventh largest music market in the world, according to the latest IFPI Global Music Report. It grew by more than 14% in 2022, significantly higher than the global average of 9.0%.

But the country’s copyright laws currently only cover humans and business entities, not virtual humans nor AI-generated content. And Korean courts have still not delivered their verdict on a patent application for Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS), an artificial intelligence system created by American scientist Stephen Thaler. DABUS’s patent applications have previously been rejected in countries including the U.S., UK, Australia and parts of Europe.

“As AI advances, we need to come up with synchronized international laws, so K-pop can spread throughout the whole world and IP can be protected,” said Kim Shi Hyeong, director general of the Korean Intellectual Property Office. ...

See the full story here: https://variety.com/2023/music/news/k-pop-music-conference-ai-artificial-intelligence-1235596468/

An Overview of Generative AI in Audio

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