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There's AI in audiobooks, too, and that's not entirely a bad thing. However, this is a cause for concern in the field of audio titles and the people who create audio titles today. Audible makes it easy for authors to generate their AI-narrated audiobooks, but as with many cases of AI in established industries, there are concerns that creative talent will be milked by robots. There is a concern. That concern is valid. After all, shouldn't robots help us do more art instead of doing it for us? Isn't it the other way around? On the other hand, it's clear…

GitHub announced Tuesday that Copilot Chat, an AI chat interface for asking coding-related questions and generating code, is now generally available on its mobile app. The Microsoft-owned developer platform first announced this feature last November. At first glance, a mobile app might not be the most obvious place to use GitHub's Copilot Chat. After all, that's not where developers work. However, GitHub believes there are quite a few use cases for Copilot Chat on mobile, making it a worthwhile endeavor. Mario Rodriguez, GitHub's recently promoted senior vice president of products, told me that mobile apps are already available to perform…

There's AI in audiobooks, too, and that's not entirely a bad thing. However, this is a cause for concern in the field of audio titles and the people who create audio titles today. Audible makes it easy for authors to generate their AI-narrated audiobooks, but as with many cases of AI in established industries, there are concerns that creative talent will be milked by robots. There is a concern. That concern is valid. After all, shouldn't robots help us do more art instead of doing it for us? Isn't it the other way around? On the other hand, it's clear…

While Apple isn't yet ready to announce a broader AI strategy as it prepares for June's Worldwide Developer Conference, the tech giant made sure to talk about AI technologies across its device lineup at Tuesday's iPad event. Mentioned. The company touted the new iPad Air as an “incredibly powerful device for AI.” AI-powered features like visual lookup, subject line lift, live text capture, and more. And of course, the upgraded M4 chip features a Neural Engine “dedicated to accelerating AI workloads.” Tuesday's theme focused less on the AI ​​advances Apple is making internally and more on the new hardware devices…

OpenAI said it is developing tools that will give creators better control over how their content is used in training generative AI. The tool, called Media Manager, allows creators and content owners to identify their works to OpenAI and specify how those works should be included or excluded from AI research and training. Become. OpenAI says the goal is to have the tool in place by 2025, and the company is working with “creators, content owners, and regulators” on the standard, likely through an industry steering committee it recently joined. That's what it means. “This includes cutting-edge efforts to build…

Men's interest in contraception has increased in recent years, especially since the United States overturned Roe v. Wade, which protected a woman's right to have an abortion. Since then, states have tried to make abortion nearly impossible, and there has been an increased focus on contraceptives to give both men and women more control over family planning. This conversation led to the topic of male contraception. It's something that doctors probably haven't fully mastered up until now. Kevin Eisenfratz is the founder of Contraline, a company that has developed a male contraceptive pill in the form of a non-hormonal sperm-blocking…

Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe they have solved something like an “alphabet” for sperm whales with the help of machine learning techniques. The findings, published under the title “Context and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalizations,” represent an important advance in understanding cetacean communication. This study deals with codas, which are sequences of clicks that serve different linguistic functions. “What we discovered is that there are previously unexplained variations in the coda structure,” CSAIL Director Daniela Russ told TechCrunch. “We found that the coda types are not arbitrary, but rather form a newly discovered combinatorial coding system.”…

Cooperation with brands is one of the main ways artists and content creators can earn a lot of money today. However, it is not easy for creators to connect with brands, and companies looking for new or specialized talent also have difficulty finding talent. Photo editing app VSCO is solving this problem for its primary audience of professional photographers with a new marketplace called VSCO Hub that aims to connect them with brands. I am. VSCO's platform is similar to other social platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. These platforms already offer creator marketplaces that help companies discover content…

UK-based self-driving car startup Wayve started life as a software platform installed in a small electric “car” called the Renault Twizy. Wearing cameras, the company's co-founders and PhD candidates Alex Kendall and Amar Shah tweak the deep learning algorithms that power the car's self-driving system, allowing it to drive unmanned through a medieval city. It was developed until it became. There was no need for fancy LiDAR cameras or radar. They suddenly realized that they were thinking something. Fast forward to today, Wayve, now an AI modeling company, raised $1.05 billion in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank,…

UK-based self-driving car startup Wayve started life as a software platform installed in a small electric “car” called the Renault Twizy. Wearing cameras, the company's co-founders and PhD candidates Alex Kendall and Amar Shah tweak the deep learning algorithms that power the car's self-driving system, allowing it to drive unmanned through a medieval city. It was developed until it became. There was no need for fancy LiDAR cameras or radar. They suddenly realized that they were thinking something. Fast forward to today, Wayve, now an AI modeling company, raised $1.05 billion in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank,…