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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.
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Prompting DALL·E for Fun and Profit: A marketplace for phrases that produce art in DALL·E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion
An online marketplace enables people to buy text prompts designed to produce consistent output from the new generation of text-to-image generators.
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Deepfakes Against Profanity: Film Makers of Fall Used AI to Remove F-Words
The filmmakers used technology from Flawless AI to clean up the language, enabling the film to earn a rating that welcomes younger viewers.
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Hit Picker: SoundCloud Acquires AI to Predict Hit Music
A neural network may help an online music service to spot songs with the potential to go big. Musiio uses AI to identify specific attributes and qualities in recorded music. Online audio distributor SoundCloud purchased the Singapore-based startup.
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Bridge to Explainable AI: AI System Outplays Human Bridge Champions
DeepMind’s AlphaGo famously dominated Go, a game in which players can see the state of play at all times. A new AI system demonstrated similar mastery of bridge, in which crucial information remains hidden.
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Remix Master: Apple buys AI Music startup.
Music generated by learning algorithms got a major push with Apple’s acquisition of a startup that makes automated mash-ups. Apple purchased AI Music, a London startup whose software generates new music from existing recordings.
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Fast and Daring Wins the Race: GT Sophy AI model beats humans at Gran Turismo Sport.
Armchair speed demons have a new nemesis. Peter Wurman and a team at Sony developed Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy), a reinforcement learning model that defeated human champions of Gran Turismo Sport, a PlayStation game that simulates auto races right down to tire friction and air resistance.
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Fake Aim: Gamers cheat with AI-powered aim assist.
Gamers looking to cheat in first-person shooters can’t miss with AI-assisted marksmanship. A video-game hack uses computer vision to blast virtual enemies at superhuman speed, Ars Technica reported.