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The apparently powerful new AI tool isn’t being released yet due to what Meta acknowledges are “potential risks of misuse.”

Meta continued its push into the increasingly crowded AI field on Friday, announcing the creation of a tool called Voicebox. It’s an app for generating spoken dialogue with a variety of potential use cases—but it’s also ripe for misuse, as Meta admits, which is exactly why the social media giant isn’t releasing Voicebox to the public just yet.

Unlike previous voice generator platforms, Meta says Voicebox can perform speech generation tasks it was not specifically trained on. With text input and a brief audio clip for context, the AI tool can create a potentially… More.

Only “human creators” can be nominated for Grammy Awards, according to new eligibility requirements released Friday by the Recording Academy, as the music industry adds new limitations for songs produced by artificial intelligence.

Any work that features elements created by AI must also feature a “human authorship component” that is “meaningful” in order to be considered for a Grammy Award, according to new requirements released Friday by the Recording Academy.

The Recording Academy previously said it “embraces advances in technology,” adding it wanted to ensure “human creativity and passion is protected.” song created by artificial intelligence must have a “human authorship component” that is “meaningful,” according to new eligibility requirements.

A team of researchers at Stanford University recently created Sonicverse, a simulated environment that includes both visual and auditory elements to train robots more realistically.

The game comes equipped with a robotic arm, a display screen and a board.

Chinese company SenseTime has unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered rendition to the world’s oldest board game called Go, which is thought to have originated in China some 4,000 years ago.

SenseRobot Go, is a robot designed for young people to learn the game Go. It has a robotic arm, a screen and a board to play the game from entry-level to professional level, according to the company’s press release.

The unholy union of SEO spam and AI-generated muck is here. And at the same time, reality, unfortunately, might be going right out the door.

A major limitation in aging research is the lack of reliable biomarkers to assess phenotypic changes with age or monitor response to antiaging interventions. This study investigates the role of intracellular ferrous iron (Fe₂⁺) as a potential biomarker of senescence. Iron is known to accumulate in various tissues with age and recent studies have demonstrated that its level increases dramatically in senescent cells. The current techniques used to measure the accumulation of iron are cumbersome and only measure total iron not specific isotopes such as the redox reactive Fe₂⁺. It is still to be determined whether the damaging form of iron (Fe₂⁺) is specifically elevated in senescent cells. In this study, we assessed the potential use of a newly discovered Fe₂⁺ reactive probe (SiRhoNox-1) for selective labeling of senescent cells in vitro. For this we have generated various senescent cell models and subjected them to SiRhoNox-1 labeling. Our results indicate that SiRhoNox-1 selectivity labels live senescent cells and was more specific and faster than current staining such as SA-βGal or a derived fluorescent probe C₁₂ FDG. Together these findings suggest that SiRhoNox-1 may serve as a convenient tool to detect senescent cells based on their ferrous iron level.

Keywords: SiRhoNox-1; aging; biomarker; iron; senescence.

Non-invasive methods, such as EEG and fNIRS, offer safer alternatives for BCI applications but must overcome obstacles related to signal quality and specificity.

The brain is regarded as one of the most complex known structures in the universe. It has billions of neurons, trillions of connections, and multiple levels ranging from cellular to molecular and synaptic. But the biggest challenge is that the brain is difficult to access.

“The brain is encased in a thick bone,” said Kinney, “and if you try to access, poke, or prod it, it will get really upset and hemorrhage, and delicate neurons will die.”

Nevertheless, Kinney said progress is being made on various fronts, particularly in the field of recording brain activity, which is good news for those trying to build brain-like computers.

A large proportion of CEOs from a diverse cross-section of Fortune 500 companies believe artificial intelligence might destroy humanity — even as business leaders lean into the gold rush around the tech.

In survey results shared with CNN, 42 percent of CEOs from 119 companies surveyed by Yale University think that AI could, within the next five to ten years, quite literally destroy our species.

While the names of specific CEOs who share that belief were not made public, CNN notes that the consortium surveyed during Yale’s CEO Summit event this week contained a wide array of leaders from companies including Zoom, Coca-Cola and Walmart.