AI and society

Disney bets on AI with ElevenLabs and other AI startups

As part of the tenth anniversary of the Disney Accelerator program, The Walt Disney Company is funding five AI startups, including ElevenLabs, which specializes in creating high-quality synthetic voices. The other companies selected are AudioShake, Nuro, PrometheanAI, and StatusPro, which are working in the areas of AI-powered audio separation, realistic speech synthesis, autonomous vehicle technology, …

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Will AI put us out of work? The 4 most likely scenarios

Newsletter An analysis of the opportunities and challenges that artificial intelligence will bring to the workplace, by guest contributor Benjamin Eidam. The ongoing development of artificial intelligence raises many questions about the future of work and our place in it. The central question for many at the moment is: will AI put us all out …

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Tech giants form alliance against AI manipulation

Summary 20 leading technology companies, including Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, TikTok, and X, have committed to work together to identify and combat harmful AI content. The “Tech Accord to Combat Deceptive Use of AI in the 2024 Elections” includes a series of commitments to deploy technologies to detect and combat harmful AI-generated …

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OpenAI’s Sora is much more than a text-to-video generator

Summary OpenAI’s new AI model looks like a giant leap in text and video-to-video generation. But the model’s potential is much greater, OpenAI says. It could become a world simulator. Yesterday, OpenAI unveiled Sora, a large AI model for video and image generation. With Sora, OpenAI can generate videos up to a minute long, in …

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Microsoft bets big on Germany with a historic €3.2 billion AI and cloud infrastructure investment

Microsoft has announced a €3.2 billion investment to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in Germany, the largest investment in the country in the company’s 40-year history. The investment will double the capacity of Microsoft’s cloud region in Frankfurt and build new infrastructure in North Rhine-Westphalia. By 2025, Microsoft plans to train more than 1.2 …

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90 percent of romantic AI chatbots may sell your personal data

Summary Privacy researchers at Mozilla have examined various romantic AI chatbots and found that most of these applications fall far short of protecting their users’ privacy. According to the report by Privacy Not Included, a privacy-focused sales consultancy launched by Mozilla in 2017, all 11 AI chatbots examined received the “Privacy Not Included” warning label, …

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a clever idea on how Nvidia can make even more money with AI

Summary Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang sees an opportunity in sovereign AI, an AI system whose data and knowledge is owned by a country. Huang discussed this in a fireside chat with Omar Sultan Al-Olama. Al-Olama is the minister of state for artificial intelligence in the United Arab Emirates. Specifically, Huang mentioned sovereign AI …

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U.S. government unites more than 200 companies in AI safety consortium

The Biden Administration has announced the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), a group of more than 200 companies, including leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. The consortium will focus on the safe development and use of generative AI, addressing the priority actions of President Biden’s October AI Executive Order. This …

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Russia and China discuss military use of artificial intelligence

Matthias Bastian Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER. He believes that artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the relationship between humans and computers. Russia and China have met in Beijing to discuss the military use of artificial intelligence. According to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, there was “a detailed …

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GenAI could disrupt over 200,000 entertainment industry jobs by 2026, says study

Summary From November 17 to December 22, 2023, CVL Economics surveyed 300 executives from six U.S. entertainment industries about the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence. The study found that approximately 203,800 entertainment industry jobs could be disrupted by GenAI by 2026. Approximately 72 percent of the companies surveyed are considered early adopters of GenAI. 25 …

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