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Amazon has shown off an experimental feature for its digital assistant Alexa that uses AI to mimic the voices of users’ dead relatives. The company hasn’t said whether the feature will ever be available to customers. Amazon has revealed an experimental Alexa feature that allows the AI assistant to mimic the voices of users’ dead relatives. The company demoed the feature at its annual MARS conference, showing a video in which a child asks Alexa to read a
Instagram is testing an AI tool that verifies your age by scanning your face
Instagram is introducing new options for users to verify their age, including AI estimation and "social vouching." Users only need to verify their age if they’re underage and edit their birthdate to make them 18 years or older. Instagram is testing new methods for users to verify their age, including an AI tool built by a third-party company, Yoti, that estimates how old you are just by scanning your face. Officially, you have to be at least 13 years old to sign up for an
General Motors is using AI to speed up the vehicle inspection process
GM is investing in UVeye, an Israeli company that makes AI-enabled vehicle inspection technology. The company’s system will be made available to 4,000 dealers in GM’s network. General Motors is bringing artificial intelligence into the vehicle inspection process. The automaker is making an undisclosed “strategic investment” in Israeli startup UVeye, which makes vehicle diagnostic systems that use sensors and AI to
Microsoft to retire controversial facial recognition tool that claims to identify emotion
Microsoft is retiring a number of facial analysis tools used to identify emotion, gender, and age. It’s part of an overhaul of the company’s AI ethics standards, which will introduce tighter limits on who has access to its services. Microsoft is phasing out public access to a number of AI-powered facial analysis tools — including one that claims to identify a subject’s emotion from videos and pictures. Such “emotion recognition” tools have been criticized by experts.
GitHub’s AI-powered Copilot will help you write code for $10 a month
GitHub is launching its Copilot tool, priced at $10 per month or $100 a year. GitHub Copilot uses AI to help developers write code. Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its Copilot AI tool today, which helps suggest lines of code to developers inside their code editor. GitHub originally teamed up with OpenAI last year to launch a preview of Copilot, and it’s generally available
Today I learned you can identify plants and flowers using just your iPhone camera
Visual Look Up is like Google Lens for iOS — and it’s incredibly useful. You can quickly identify plants, flowers, art, landmarks and more, straight from the camera app on your iPhone. Here’s how to do it. Sometimes, even as a tech reporter, you can be caught out by how quickly technology improves. Case in point: it was only today that I learned that my iPhone has been offering a feature I’ve long desired — the ability to identify plants and
Voicemod uses AI to transform your voice into Morgan Freeman, astronauts, and more
Voicemod, the popular real-time voice changer, is releasing new AI voices today. They include a voice like Morgan Freeman and characters like astronauts and pilots. Voicemod, a popular real-time voice changer, is starting to use artificial intelligence to transform your voice into Morgan Freeman and other characters. A new Voicemod AI Voices beta is launching today, offering up eight options to transform your
Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient
Google has placed engineer Blake Lemoine on paid administrative leave for allegedly breaking its confidentiality policies when he grew concerned that an AI chatbot system had achieved sentience. Google has placed one of its engineers on paid administrative leave for allegedly breaking its confidentiality policies after he grew concerned that an AI chatbot system had achieved sentience, the Washington Post reports. The engineer, Blake
Here’s what it’s like to use OpenAI’s amazing text-to-image AI tool Dall-E, with examples of the kinds of images it can spit out. Disclaimer: All images in this story were generated using artificial intelligence. Every few years, a technology comes along that splits the world neatly into before and after. I remember the first time I saw a YouTube video embedded on a web page;
Crypto exchange FTX is reportedly looking into buying Robinhood
Massive cryptocurrency exchange FTX is reportedly thinking about buying Robinhood. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried denied the rumors. Bloomberg reports its sources say FTX is still exploring the possibility. Cryptocurrency exchange FTX is reportedly considering an acquisition of the trading platform Robinhood, according to a report from Bloomberg. Sources close to the situation told Bloomberg that FTX is still weighing the possibility and hasn’t yet
As the Overwatch 2 release date of October 4th nears, Blizzard revealed that upon release, Overwatch 2 will overwrite the original Overwatch, effectively ending the game. The original Overwatch’s days are numbered. Last week, Blizzard revealed in a Reddit AMA that when Overwatch 2 launches on October 4th, it will overwrite Overwatch prime, effectively ending the six-year-old game. “When OW2 launches on October