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Chatbots for Productivity: Microsoft extends Copilot to 365 and Windows.
Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered assistants will roll out in the coming months.
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Painting With Text, Voice, and Images: ChatGPT now accepts voice and image inputs and outputs.
The updates expand ChatGPT into a voice-controlled, interactive system for text and image interpretation and production.
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Music Generation For the Masses: Stability.ai launches Stable Audio, a text-to-music generator.
Stability.ai, maker of the Stable Diffusion image generator and StableLM text generator, launched Stable Audio, a system that generates music and sound effects from text. You can play with it and listen to examples here. The service is free for 20 generations per month up to 45 seconds long.
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K-Pop Sings in Many Tongues: K-Pop hit song recorded in 6 languages using deep learning
A Korean pop star recorded a song in six languages, thanks to deep learning. Midnatt (better known as Lee Hyun) sang his latest release, “Masquerade,” in English, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish, and Vietnamese — none of which he speaks fluently.
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Game Makers Embrace Generative AI: How Nvidia, Blizzard, and more are using AI in video games.
The next generation of video games could be filled with AI-generated text, speech, characters, and background art. Nvidia announced a system that enables players to converse directly with in-game characters. Meanwhile, game developers are using generative AI to produce media assets.
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Pop Star Invites AI Imitation: Grimes released a voice cloning tool.
A popular musician is inviting fans to clone her voice. Result: a flood of recordings that sound just like her. Experimental pop star Grimes released GrimesAI-1, a generative audio tool that allows anyone to make recordings of their own singing or speech sound like her voice.
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Architect’s Sketchbook: How a top architecture firm is using generative AI
Text-to-image generators are visualizing the next wave of architectural innovation. Patrick Schumacher, principal architect at Zaha Hadid Architects, explained how the company uses generative AI to come up with ideas. He made the remarks at an industry roundtable called AI and the Future of Design.
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AI Cheat Bedevils Popular Esport: Gamers are using AI to cheat in Rocket League.
Reinforcement learning is powering a new generation of video game cheaters. Players of Rocket League, a video game that ranks among the world’s most popular esports, are getting trounced by cheaters who use AI models originally developed to train contestants.
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Looking for Enemies: Concert venues use face recognition to block enemies.
A major company is using face recognition to settle scores. MSG Entertainment, which operates large entertainment venues in several cities in the United States, used face recognition to block its perceived enemies from attending events...
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How Alexa Says Goodnight: Amazon Echo uses generative AI to create bedtime stories.
Too exhausted (or unimaginative) to tell your child a bedtime story? Amazon’s smart displays can spin bespoke tales on demand. A feature called Create with Alexa generates children’s stories complete with illustrations, music, and sound effects on the Amazon Echo Show device.
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Creatives Fight Back: Generative AI from DeviantArt Creates Controversy
Artists are rebelling against AI-driven imitation. DeviantArt, an online community where artists display and sell their work and marketplace for digital art, launched DreamUp, a text-to-image generator that aims to help artists thwart attempts to imitate their styles or works.
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All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast
For the debut episode of a new podcast series, Play.ht synthesized a 19-minute interview between the rock-star podcaster and late Apple CEO.