We might soon sing like the stars, thanks to YouTube's new AI voice cloning tool

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No fluffing - in today’s edition (19 Oct):

📰 Quick News - YouTube might make an official way to create AI Drake fakes and more

📚 Nerd section - Idea2Img which leverages the capabilities of GPT-4V(ision)

📰 Quick News 📰

🧠 Meta revealed an AI that successfully decoded visual brain activity into reconstructable images. The technology, while not as precise as fMRI, offers real-time decoding and provides insights into human intelligence.

🎶 YouTube might make an official way to create AI Drake fakes - YouTube is reportedly developing an AI-powered voice mimicking tool. It's approached music companies for rights to use their songs to enhance the tool, but it's unknown if this would resolve ongoing copyright concerns.

🧑🏽‍🏭 Amazon and MIT will work together to investigate how automation technologies like AI and robots play roles in job scopes. The study plans to explore topics such as job displacement, the feasibility of upskilling, and human-robot interactions.

📚 Tech giants Bloomberg, Microsoft, and Meta are facing a fresh lawsuit for allegedly training their AI models with unlicensed books. They're accused of improperly harnessing valuable content from authors, without their consent. This complex copyright issue emphasizes the need for strict regulations regarding AI training data.

🥁 Universal Music is suing AI start-up Anthropic, accusing it of copyright infringement for using music lyrics unlicensed in their chatbot ‘Claude’. The issue brings copyright concerns to the forefront in the era of AI technology.

🚀 North Korea is escalating the potential threats of its cyber warfare programs by integrating AI. This move is anticipated to increase their offensive cyber capabilities, posing severe implications for international businesses. Also, it's seen as an important revenue source supporting their missile program.

🧑🏽‍⚖️ Rapper Prakazrel Michel became the unfortunate victim of an experimental AI program, which turned his trial’s closing argument into an ineffectual defense. The lawyer used an AI, where he allegedly had a financial stake - a fact that surfaced post-conviction. The case raises questions around the ethical use of AI in legal matters.

📚 Nerd section 📚

🤯 A new memory system for transformers, based on the Hebbian theory of human memory, has been developed by researchers at Sungkyunkwan University. This system, called Memoria, enhances the transformers' ability to handle long data sequences and achieved great results in initial testing.

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