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The Download: AI movie soundtracks, and DeepMind’s disease prediction tool

1 Google’s Bard AI is everywhere nowIn your Gmail, YouTube, and Google Docs accounts, at least. (NYT $)+ It’s a practical demonstration of how AI can boost Google’s biggest products. (Bloomberg $)+... Read more »

The deepfake avatars who want to sell you everything

But with large language models and text-to-speech technologies, these AI streamers can say whatever you want them to say—meaning they can speak other languages too. Just last week a new AI-translation product... Read more »

DeepMind is using AI to pinpoint the causes of genetic disease

With the rise of gene sequencing, doctors can now decode people’s genomes and then scour the DNA data for possible culprits. Sometimes, the cause is clear, like the mutation that leads to... Read more »

A Disney director tried—and failed—to use an AI Hans Zimmer to create a soundtrack

But a longer piece in the style of Hans Zimmer is significantly more complex to generate than a simple piano melody with one instrument, he adds. AI systems are limited by what... Read more »

The Download: AI to cure diseases, and China’s deepfake influencers

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are cofounders and co-CEOs of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Cells are key to understanding disease—yet so much about them remains unknown. We do not know, for example,... Read more »

How AI can help us understand how cells work—and help cure diseases

Already, research teams have made discoveries using these well-curated data sets. One discovered that the broken gene linked to cystic fibrosis is expressed by a type of cell scientists had never come... Read more »

Meet the next generation of AI superstars

This year we’ve seen tech companies racing to release their hottest new AI systems, and often neglecting safety and ethics. The AI scientists on this year’s innovators list are more aware than ever... Read more »

Deepfakes of Chinese influencers are livestreaming 24/7

Video of an AI streamer generated by Silicon Intelligence. SILICON INTELLIGENCE Once the avatar is generated, its mouth and body move in time with the scripted audio. While the scripts were once... Read more »

The Download: what’s next for AI, and fighting digital censorship

DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat. In a recent conversation he had with our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, he... Read more »

How new tech is helping people circumvent digital authoritarianism

It also relates to a recent scoop about a new Google product that’s designed to make it easier for developers to build censorship-resistant apps. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: this... Read more »