As the power of AI grows, we need to have evidence of its sentience. That is why we must return to the minds of animals by Kristin Andrews & Jonathan Birch + BIO.
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Quantum computers are highly energy-efficient and extremely powerful supercomputers. But for these machines to realize their full potential in new applications like artificial intelligence or machine learning, researchers are hard at work at perfecting the underlying electronics to process their calculations. A team at Fraunhofer IZM are working on superconducting connections that measure a mere ten micrometers in thickness, moving the industry a substantial step closer to a future of commercially viable quantum computers.
With the extreme computing power they promise, quantum computers have the potential to become the driving force for technological innovations in all areas of modern industry. By contrast with the run-of-the-mill computers of today, they do not work with bits, but with qubits: No longer are these units of information restricted to the binary states of 1 or 0.
With quantum superposition or entanglement added, qubits mean a great leap forward in terms of sheer speed and power and the complexity of the calculations they can handle. One simple rule still holds, though: More qubits mean more speed and more computing power.
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Synthetic speech and voice cloning startup Resemble AI has introduced an “audio watermark” to tag AI-generated speech without compromising sound quality. The new PerTh Perceptual Threshold) Watermarker embeds the sonic signature of Resemble’s synthetic media engine into a recording to mark its AI origin regardless of future audio manipulation, yet subtle enough that no human can hear it.
Audio Watermarking
Visual watermarking hides one image within another, invisible without a computer scanner in the case of particularly high-security documents. The same principle applies to audio watermarks, except it’s a very soft sound that people won’t notice but encoded with information that a computer could decipher. The concept isn’t new, but Resemble has leveraged its audio AI to make PerTh more reliable without compromising the realism of its synthetic speech creation.
Quiet sounds can be obliterated easily in most cases, but Resemble figured out a way to hide its identification tones within the sounds of speech. As people talking is the point of Resemble’s services, the audio watermark is much more likely to come through an edit unscathed. Resemble takes advantage of how humans tend to focus on specific frequencies and how louder sounds can hide quieter noises that are close in frequency. The combination masks and protects the watermark sound from humans noticing or being able to extract the audio watermark. Resemble’s machine learning model can determine where to embed the quiet sonic tag, generate the appropriate sound, and put it in place. The diagram below illustrates how the watermark hides in plain sight, or sound in this case.
The brain signals successfully directed the robodogs toward a number of locations that the human controller picked “telepathically” by imagining them.
The Australian military is reportedly testing a unique artificial intelligence (AI) “brain robotic interface” to control “robodogs” synced with troopers’ minds.
The army “is exploring the use of brain signals to control robotic and autonomous systems.” reads the video description.
Australian Army.
The breakthrough AI allows soldiers to control these robot dogs or ‘robodogs’ using advanced digital “telepathy,” according to a video released by the Australian army last week.
In addition to queueing up songs, it will provide insightful commentary too.
Music streaming service Spotify is the latest tech company to launch an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered product. Dubbed DJ, the service was launched for users in the U.S. and Canada on Wednesday, a company press release said.
Personalized suggestions are what Spotify is known for. The company has used machine learning to understand music, its users, and their preferences and looked to match them (pun intended) successfully. At a time when companies are keen to use generative AI models in their products, Spotify too has jumped into the fray.
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A precise replica of the patient’s heart is created as a soft, flexible shell.
MIT engineers’ newly developed robotic heart will help doctors adjust therapies to individuals’ unique heart structures and functions. The personalized 3D-printed heart can control and imitate the patient’s capacity to pump blood.
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As explained by MIT, the procedure begins with the researchers converting medical images of a patient’s heart into a three-dimensional computer model, which they then 3D print with a polymer-based ink.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has asked for robots to be taxed for taking over human jobs in his new book titled “It’s OK To Be Mad About Capitalism.”
The longest independent senator in U.S history argues for the adoption of a “robot tax” to mitigate the impact of automation on human workers, according to the book released on Tuesday.
The language model could command robot arms, drones, and home assistant robots.
Imagine a scenario in which you can directly communicate with robots, enabling them to complete various tasks for you. To achieve this, Microsoft has outlined its plans to partner with OpenAI to develop ChatGPT’s capabilities to control robots. The software giant used the chatbot and “controlled multiple platforms such as robot arms, drones, and home assistant robots intuitively with language,” the company wrote in a blog post.
Robots still rely heavily on hand-written codes to perform their tasks, while humans find spoken language the most intuitive way to communicate.
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How can ChatGPT help in this regard?