Authoritarian regimes are deploying AI to spread disinformation and censor criticism with surgical precision. Generative models churn out fake videos of leaders while chatbots scrub unwanted speech. Widespread access to AI sows public distrust in verifiable facts. So, the rise...
Read MoreElon is freaked out about AI taking over the world. He tried starting OpenAI to make safe AI but ditched it to build his own AI. Now Elon's on a mad dash to create an "AI bot saviour" at Tesla and xAI that will be biased towards preserving humanity. He hopes it will help get u...
Read MoreThis week's Synthetic Minds delves into the future of mobility and touches on Elon's AI mission, AI in authoritarian regimes, Google's search alteration, Meta's AI sticker scandal, and the looming AI and biotech wave as discussed in Mustafa Suleyman's 'The Coming Wave'.
Read MoreIn the late 1800s, electric cars emerged but were soon surpassed by gas-guzzling vehicles that still dominate today despite early climate warnings. Now, cities face environmental threats, deadly crashes, and wasted hours in traffic.
Read MoreIn his signature witty yet erudite style, Stephen Fry explores the promise and perils of artificial intelligence. He argues we must instil moral values in AI to avoid disaster, but questions who can decide them. Though AI may better humanity as Prometheus did, its godlike powe...
Read MoreGoogle's DeepMind created an AI to analyse DNA mutations and predict which cause inherited diseases. By leveraging its protein-folding algorithm AlphaFold, AlphaMissense expands DeepMind's foray into biology and provides researchers with a vast dataset to explore the genetic u...
Read MoreWhen a writer teamed up with AI to compose an essay on losing her sister, it came up with profound lines that struck a chord. The essay went viral, and people praised the machine's poetic lines. But as more advanced AIs churned out cliches, it appears that these tools can't re...
Read MoreThe NFT craze of 2021 saw hype around buying digital art lead to inflated prices, bad investments, and big losses. Though promoted as the future, NFTs failed to deliver on promises of community and metaverse integration, leaving many lonely buyers holding now-worthless JPEGs. ...
Read MoreThis week's Synthetic Minds newsletter covers digital actors taking over, the dramatic fall of NFT prices, AI poetry, AI art theft, Stephen Fry at its best and other synthetic snippets.
Read MoreMetaHuman Creator produces incredibly lifelike digital humans with applications in movies, games, and corporate training. While digital actors enable new creative possibilities, their emergence raises concerns about job loss for human actors and control over image rights.
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