Al Michaels, who offered some of the first play-by-play and color commentary on the televised Olympics decades ago will be heard again, this time narrating the nightly Olympic highlights to be broadcast by cable network Peacock.
Tag: AI
AI THAT’S SO GOOD YOU CAN’T HAVE IT
Microsoft has developed VALL-E 2, a voice-cloning AI that mimics a person’s voice and speech patterns so perfectly that the company won’t release it to the public.
AI SPEEDS TRICKY CANCER DIAGNOSES
Medical technicians can spot cancer by analyzing sugar in blood samples. It’s easy to find the sugars by scanning samples with a mass spectrometer.
TARGET EMPLOYEES NOW HAVE AN AI SIDEKICK
Chain retailer Target is putting finishing touches on Store Companion, a know-it-all chatbot that store employees will access through a handheld device.
TECH FIRMS’ AI FRENZY CONTRADICTS THEIR STATED CLIMATE GOALS
Google has promised to cut its carbon emissions by 50 percent compared to 2019; Microsoft pledges it will be carbon negative by 2030.
DEEP FAKE PRESIDENT, DISAPPEARING JOBS, AND YOUR BRAIN ON AI: THE LATEST IN SYNTHETIC DEVOLUTION
Remember way back in…May, when the Biden administration was labeling actual videos of the President’s mental lapses as “deep fakes”?
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
One of the largest U.S. shopping malls is rolling out AI powered facial recognition.
APPLE REJECTS META
After The Wall Street Journal reported in late June that Apple was talking with Meta about putting Meta’s AI on the iPhone, Bloomberg cited unnamed people familiar who said Apple has spurned any such deal.
NEW AI SPOTS DEEPFAKES 98 PERCENT OF THE TIME, CREATORS SAY
“Deepfakes”—images and audio that seem to be of people you know but have been entirely synthesized by AI—are good enough to fool people into believing things that are false.
AMERICANS CONSULT SOCIAL MEDIA MORE THAN DOCTORS ABOUT THEIR HEALTH
A OnePoll survey of 2,000 Americans found that 53 percent turn first to websites for health information and 46 percent ask social media platforms, while only 44 percent seek out their doctors first.