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The Future. A bipartisan team in the Senate has introduced a bill to protect individuals from unauthorized digital replicas, building on current name, image, and likeness laws. The bill is still a discussion draft, so plenty of work will be done on it before it ever comes up for a vote. But with Senator Chris […]
The Future. Hundreds of actors have found their voices have been copied and used without consent — sometimes even spewing racist or violent things. With AI tools requiring only 30 seconds of someone’s voice to make clones, it’s easy to see how this problem can spread. While some firms, like Speechify and Resemble AI, are […]
The Future. Startup Likewise, founded by former Microsoft communications chief Larry Cohen and backed by Bill Gates, is launching an entertainment recommendation chatbot called “Pix.” Even though streaming services are beginning to test their own AI-powered curation systems, having an easy-to-use virtual assistant that can send knowledgeable recs across streamers and surface relevant information on […]
The Future. An upcoming wearable AI device wants to give people the power to record their every interaction and store it in their phones — giving them an external hard drive for their memories. The device joins a growing slate of announced AI wearables (a portable projection device from Humane, a ChatGPT device designed by […]
The Future. Tom Hanks and Gayle King were both recently the victims of deepfake scams over the weekend. It was only a matter of time before the celebrity deepfakes came out in full force. But with SAG-AFTRA just getting back to the negotiating table with the AMPTP — where tackling the abuses of AI is […]
The Future. While social media of the past decade has evolved from peer-to-peer social networking to influencer-driven entertainment, the next decade of evolution may be all about peer-to-AI social networking. Best-case scenario, the rise of chatbots will give us entertaining personalities that can answer anything on the fly… but they may also run the risk […]
The Future. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is plotting an AI hardware device that would be designed by Jony Ive — the designer of the iPhone. The project is still in early stages, and an ultimate design of the mysterious device still hasn’t been decided, but whatever it ends up being could one day join our […]
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The Future. OpenAI is bringing voice assistant capabilities to ChatGPT, giving the generative AI something of a technological personality in the way we anthropomorphize Siri or Alexa. With Apple and Amazon also working on generative AI tools, expect those voice assistants to get an LLM update… potentially making the use of AI a new normal. […]
The Future. Metaphysic, the AI company behind @DeepTomCruise and the de-aging VFX for Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming film Here, is rolling out a tool for talent to create and copyright their digital likeness. CEO Tom Graham has been showing off the possibilities of the tech by undergoing the process himself… though it’s unclear if Graham ever […]