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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI helps a stroke patient speak, MediaTek-Meta AI collaboration, more

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5 things about AI you may have missed today: AI helps a stroke patient speak, MediaTek-Meta AI collaboration, more

[ad_1] Today was an interesting day for artificial intelligence developments. New research reveals that AI helped a stroke patient who lost the ability to speak. The technology converted the patient's brain signals into words. In other news, MediaTek announced today that it is leveraging Meta's Llama 2 large language model to build an edge computing system that does not require cloud computing for heavy processing. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.Patient with stroke speaks with the help of AIAccording to a New York Times report, a 30-year-old woman, suffered a cataclysmic stroke that paralyzed her and took away her ability to speak recently spoke once again with the power of AI. In a research that was published today in the Nature journal, scientists demon...

Meta introduces Voicebox, does a first on Generative AI speech

[ad_1] Meta AI researchers have moved a step forward in the field of generative AI for speech with the development of Voicebox. Unlike previous models, Voicebox can generalize to speech-generation tasks that it was not specifically trained for, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance.Voicebox is a versatile generative system for speech that can produce high-quality audio clips in a wide variety of styles. It can create outputs from scratch or modify existing samples. The model supports speech synthesis in six languages, as well as noise removal, content editing, style conversion, and diverse sample generation. Traditionally, generative AI models for speech required specific training for each task using carefully prepared training data. However, Voicebox adopts a new approach called F...

Older adults perceive AI as more human-like than younger adults: Study

[ad_1] Artificial Intelligence is becoming more prevalent in our daily lives. While these technologies primarily assist us, they may sometimes be utilised in negative ways, such as in fraudulent or scam calls, thus we must be able to recognise them.According to a recent Baycrest study, older persons tend to be less capable than their younger counterparts to distinguish between computer-generated (AI) speech and human speech. "Findings from this study on computer-generated AI speech suggest that older adults may be at a higher risk of being taken advantage of," says Dr. Bjorn Herrmann, Baycrest's Canada Research Chair in Auditory Aging, Scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and lead author of this study. "While this area of research is still in its infancy, further findings c...