The Case for Using AI to Log Your Every Living Moment
People know Otter.ai as one of the AI-driven transcription services that have popped up over the past few years, automatically converting spoken words in interviews and meetings into text. The...
Google DeepMind’s AI Pop Star Clone Will Freak You Out
Even if you didn’t watch last weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, you still probably saw it. You may already even know what “it” I’m talking about: Timothée Chalamet, and...
YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators
TikTok’s tools for adding music to short videos helped turn short-form video into a phenomenon. Now Google is giving some YouTube Shorts creators an AI feature called Dream Track that...
Parental Advisory: This Chatbot May Talk to Your Child About Sex and Alcohol
The highest ratings went to AI services for education like Ello, which uses speech recognition to act as a reading tutor, and Khan Academy’s chatbot helper Khanmigo for students, which...
Underage Workers Are Training AI
Appen declined to give an attributable comment. “If we suspect a user has violated the User Agreement, Toloka will perform an identity check and request a photo ID and a...
Social Media Sleuths, Armed With AI, Are Identifying Dead Bodies
For all of the challenges presented by volunteer online communities, the reality is that they exist in a vacuum left by the authorities. In 2021, 106,699 Americans died of an...
Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard
In September, researchers at Google’s DeepMind AI unit in London were paying unusual attention to the weather across the pond. Hurricane Lee was at least 10 days out from landfall—eons...
The SAG Deal Sends a Clear Message About AI and Workers
On Monday, the leadership of the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists held a members-only webinar to discuss the contract the union tentatively agreed upon last week...
The US Wants China to Start Talking About AI Weapons
The military potential of AI has, however, emerged as a key sticking point in an increasingly tangled relationship between China and the US. Many policymakers view the technology as a...
