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YouTube has AI creator tools, but creators are too busy battling AI to care
In mid-September, YouTube announced a collection of new artificial intelligence tools coming to the platform. The tools touch basically every part of the content creation process, from generating topics to editing and even generating video footage itself through the Dream Screen feature. But even as AI features have caused an uproar in so many other…
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Anas Andaloussi: From Minecraft Player To AI Business Prodigy
Most teenagers at the age of 18 are busy navigating the maze of college applications, part-time jobs, or simply figuring out their next steps. But Anas Andaloussi, at that tender age, was already making over $50,000 from his projects monthly. Such precocious success begs the question – how did a young boy from Spain manage…
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Artificial Intelligence In the Audiovisual Industry – High-Level Discussion By UNESCO
UNESCO, The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization hosted a high-level discussion about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the audio-visual industry. Let’s have a look! The discussion was held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris and included various high-profile industry leaders (the full program is listed below). The speakers and panelists tried to outline…
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Supervisor seeks broader use of AI to help prevent wildfires
Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group A solar-powered wildfire sensor is seen along Skyline Boulevard at Manzanita Drive in Oakland. The sensors use artificial intelligence to detect small wildfires before they spread. Santa Clara County’s FireSafe Council is installing the same sensors along the Los Gatos Creek watershed, and Santa Clara County Supervisor Otto Lee is…
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How Bill Nye, ‘The Science Guy’ educated Google Bard on how AI can help save the world
Bill Nye, ‘The Science Guy’ says he is less worried about artificial intelligence ending the world than giant solar flares. “Outrage” over use of generative AI by students in school doesn’t bother the celebrity educator either. “This is just what’s going to be,” Nye said at the CNBC Technology Executive Council Summit on AI on…
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AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert
Focusing on doomsday scenarios in artificial intelligence is a distraction that plays down immediate risks such as the large-scale generation of misinformation, according to a senior industry figure attending this week’s AI safety summit. Aidan Gomez, co-author of a research paper that helped create the technology behind chatbots, said long-term risks such as existential threats…
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UK Royal Astronomer Says Alien Life Might Be Mega-Weird AI
“Inorganic intelligence” is coming for us all. Uber-Weird The United Kingdom’s foremost astronomer is cautioning British citizens that if and when we encounter alien life, it may be more bizarre — read: more artificially intelligent — than we could ever have imagined. In a piece for the BBC, British royal astronomer Lord Marin Rees maintains…
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AI promises incredible benefits, but also terrible risks. It’s not luddism to rein it in
Will it destroy us, or will it save us? An age-old debate between tech optimists and tech pessimists that has played out over centuries as the steady march of human progress delivers new technologies, from the wheel to the printing press to the smartphone. Today it is a conversation being conducted with increasing urgency about…
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Investor frenzy will overvalue AI tech start-ups, says early OpenAI backer
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Artificial intelligence start-ups are overvalued and most will fail to make money, according to Vinod Khosla, an early OpenAI backer, in a warning to investors who are pouring billions into the buzzy sector. Since the…
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4 Ways AI Is Changing Marketing
How can AI be harnessed to drive more effective and efficient marketing? To learn more about how AI is impacting marketing and advertising, I talked with Ryan Coyne, the CEO of Starboard, a digital marketing and advertising firm. How AI is Changing Marketing Consumer Understanding. Coyne suggests that there are several ways that AI is…