Month: September 2023

Generative artificial intelligence powered features such as chatting about what is in pictures, telling children bedtime stories, and imitating podcasters continue to roll out despite fears the technology will be used for more nefarious purposes. The company behind ChatGPT on...

Some groups are highly underrepresented. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.10780 Diversity and inclusion are critical aspects of the responsible development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, including affective computing. Affective computing, which focuses on recognizing, interpreting, and responding to human emotions,...

When you take a photo on your phone, the vibrations of your voice can create tiny bends in the light that are enough to extract audio, according to Kevin Fu, a professor of engineering and computer science at Northeastern University....

As tech giants push their own AI ambitions, they have been increasingly looking at tie-ins with smaller AI firms. Amazon said on Monday it would invest up to $4 billion in AI firm Anthropic, as the online retail giant steps...

Zaein is one of South Korea’s most active virtual humans. Her face is a deepfake. Her body belongs to a team of similar-sized actors. But she sings, reads the news, and sells luxury clothes on TV as AI humans go...