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The Beatles Will Release A Final Record With John Lennon’s Voice

The music has analog roots, but now it’s being revived by futuristic technology: The Beatles have completed a new recording using an old demo tape by John Lennon, thanks to AI tools that isolate Lennon’s voice, according to Paul McCartney, NPR reported. NPR provided a quote: “We just finished it up, it’ll be released this year,” McCartney, Lennon’s former bandmate,

Where’s the Bot?

Wendy’s is automating its drive-through service using an artificial-intelligence chatbot powered by natural language software developed by Google and trained to understand the myriad ways customers order off the menu, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Dublin, Ohio-based fast-food chain’s chatbot will be officially rolled out in June at a company-owned restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, Wendy’s said. The goal is

Embracing AI: Amazement Meets Anxiety

Over the past several weeks, I have been exploring quite heavily and using ChatGPT to develop marketing ideas, write customer surveys and even help brainstorm new product ideas. The results have been astounding and enlightening. One task I completed saved me at least 8 hours of work, by creating a 48 questions survey based on some external data in just

Discord Restored Its Privacy Policies After Pushback

TechRadar posted an update from Discord in which the company backtracks about its previously announced changes. From the update: UPDATE: Discord has updated the Privacy Policy that will take effect on March 27, 2023, adding back the statements that were removed and adding the following statement: “We may build features that help users engage with voice and video content, like

Discord Quietly Removed Privacy Policies – Then Added Bad Ones

Last week, Discord announced new AI features powered by Midjourney’s image generator and chatbot technology powered by OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT. The company’s existing chatbot, named Clyde, is now super-charged with artificially intelligent language parsing capabilities and there are other fun features. Those features appeared to come at a cost: in the fine print of the company’s privacy policy,

HireVue Uses a Face-Scanning Algorithm to Decide Who to Hire

It has been said that the robots are coming to take your job. Not as much has been said about artificial intelligence being used to sort through job applicants and determine who to hire. A recruiting-technology firm called HireVue does just that. Your next job interview might require you to impress an algorithm instead of an actual human. The Washington

ImageNet Roulette Reveals that AI Can Be Biased

Have you heard of ImageNet Roulette? Chances are, some of the people you follow in social media have tried it out. In some cases, ImageNet Roulette produces some controversial, and cruel, results. This is a feature, not a bug! ImageNet Roulette was launched earlier this year as part of a broader project to draw attention to the things that can