New AI tool auditions for gigs using actors’ own voices

May06
by on May 6, 2022 at 7:59 pm
Posted In: artificial intelligence


The big existential fear on everybody’s mind used to be losing our jobs to AI. That all changed when the pandemic hit and millions were faced with job loss that had nothing to do with automation. For many, the best solution to their COVID-related employment woes was to turn to the freelance or “gig-based” economy. This led to a huge uptick in value for companies specializing in connecting clients with freelancers, and Fiverr, an Israeli-based company, was no exception. But the tides are changing, and workers are returning to the office. This has caused a bit of cautious pessimism for…

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Could scientists accidentally destroy the Earth with a lab-grown black hole?

May05
by on May 5, 2022 at 6:56 pm
Posted In: Uncategorized


What happens when science goes wrong, and humankind’s technological hubris causes global calamity? Usually, the credits roll, these types of scenarios are almost always science fiction. But, since it’s black hole week at NASA, we thought we’d have a little fun imagining the complete and accidental annihilation of our planet. Back in the 1930s, there was a brief moment when some of the physicists working with Einstein on the atom bomb stopped to wonder if exploding such a device would end up lighting the Earth’s atmosphere on fire and destroying the entire planet. The team did some quick math and…

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Meta’s free GPT-3 replica exposes the business benefits of AI transparency

May04
by on May 4, 2022 at 8:16 pm
Posted In: Insider


The notoriously secretive Meta has set a milestone for transparency. The company this week offered the entire research community access to a fully-trained large language model (LLM). Named the Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT), the system mirrors the performance and size of OpenAI’s vaunted GPT-3 model. This mimicry is deliberate. While GPT-3 has a stunning ability to produce human-like text, it also has a powerful capacity for biases, bigotry, and disinformation. OPT’s creators said their system can reduce these risks: Our aim in developing this suite of OPT models is to enable reproducible and responsible research at scale, and to bring…

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