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20Feb

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AI avatar to attend meetings on your behalf? Otter CEO Sam Liang reveals upcoming reality

[ad_1] Have you ever been at work and attended meetings throughout the day without getting any actual work done? Such situations lead to a loss of time as well as decreased productivity. However, this problem may well be on its way to being solved and that too very soon. Otter CEO Sam Liang says an AI avatar could soon replace you in meetings and not just that, it would also take questions and handle discussions just like you do.AI avatars in meetingsIn a conversation with Business Insider India, Otter CEO Sam Liang said that he often contemplates whether all the scheduled work meetings he attends in a day are really necessary. To mitigate this, Otter is working on developing a way where an AI avatar could take your place in a virtual room and attend the meeting on your behalf. The comp...

21Dec

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Digital people: Mourners use artificial intelligence (AI) to digitally resurrect the dead

[ad_1] At a quiet cemetery in eastern China, bereaved father Seakoo Wu pulls out his phone, places it on a gravestone and plays a recording of his son.They are words that the late student never spoke, but brought into being with artificial intelligence. "I know you're in great pain every day because of me, and feel guilty and helpless," intones Xuanmo in a slightly robotic voice. "Even though I can't be by your side ever again, my soul is still in this world, accompanying you through life."Stricken by grief, Wu and his wife have joined a growing number of Chinese people turning to AI technology to create lifelike avatars of their departed.Ultimately Wu wants to build a fully realistic replica that behaves just like his dead son but dwells in virtual reality."Once we synchronise reality ...

3Oct

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AI Vincent Van Gogh says you’re wrong about his ear

[ad_1] AI Vincent Van Gogh is patient but unimpressed by yet another question about his chopped-off ear."I apologise for any confusion but it seems you are mistaken," says the great painter's avatar, in the sort of testy tone familiar to anyone who has toyed with AI language models. "I only cut off a small part of my ear lobe," he insists (in fact, there are multiple accounts of how the artist mutilated his ear). The artificial intelligence Van Gogh appears on a video screen at the end of a blockbuster exhibition at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. The exhibition, running until February, is dedicated to the final weeks of his life in the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, just north of the French capital.Van Gogh shot himself with a rusty pistol in 1890 aged 37. It took him two days to die.But the ...

21Jul

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: Google’s secret AI project, tech majors agree to safeguards, more

[ad_1] As months go by, the debates about the merits or demerits of artificial intelligence (AI) continue, while developments simultaneously carry on at their own pace. Notably, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has made a return to the company to work on a secret AI project called Gemini. On the other hand, seven big tech companies including Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta have agreed to voluntary regulations on the rapid development of AI.All this, and more in our roundup of the 5 big things in AI that you may have missed today. 1. Retired Google co-founder returns for a secret AI projectSergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google has cut short his retirement and is back at the Google office in Mountain View, California. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Brin is worki...