Google unveiled a new skin tone scale to address issues of racial bias in AI products and other related technology. Created in collaboration with Harvard professor and sociologist Ellis Monk [https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/ellis-monk], the 10-tone Monk Skin Tone Scale comes with a wider range of human...
American rapper Kendrick Lamar used deepfake technology in the music video for his new song “The Heart Part 5”. Created in collaboration with a studio named Deep Voodoo, the music video uses deepfakes to morph his face into Kanye West, Nipsey Hussle, Will Smith, O.J. Simpson, and Kobe Bryant....
The San Francisco-based AI research lab OpenAI has unveiled [https://openai.com/dall-e-2/] the second version of DALL-E, its AI-powered text-to-image generator that can create photorealistic art pieces based on simple text descriptions. * Introduced first in January 2021 by OpenAI, DALL-E is a portmanteau of the names of Spanish surrealist...
Being a college student in the US is tough these days. The stress of studying, pandemic restrictions, overpriced college tuitions make you question if it’s even worth going to college. But never fear, AI is here to solve your problems, at least just in the University of Nevada, Las...
Apple acquired AI Music [https://www.linkedin.com/company/aimusic/about/], a startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate tailor-made music to fit your mood. The technology from the London-based business founded in 2016 can create “royalty-free adaptive music” that changes based on a person’s heartbeat, mood, and other...
The US scientists who have created the world’s first living robots have now found a way to make them reproduce. Known as “Xenobots,” the robots were created for the first time last year using stem cells of the Xenopus laevis, an African clawed frog. An AI program powered by...
