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On Tuesday, that other video hosting site, Vimeo, said it will introduce a new suite of generative AI features into its video editing tools for paying users with the aim of shortening the scripting and editing process from hours to minutes. Vimeo has steadily backed off from challenging YouTube for amateur content in favor of corporate customers. Now, the platform wants to use AI to drastically cut the number of hours executives spend making video statements to their staff.Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?Vimeo has…

You can ask ChatGPT to construct its own toneless version of the hymn Amazing Grace that replaces any mention of God and religion with computer processes and code (“Amazing grace! How great the code, that processed data and bestowed, intelligence upon a machine”). Now, researchers in Germany took that one step further and held an entire church service generated by an unthinking, unfeeling, and arguablysacrilegious AI chatbot.Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?AP first reported over the weekend about a special…

Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)Generating Video Via Text? | Future TechUntil very recently, if you wanted to know more about a controversial scientific topic – stem cell research, the safety of nuclear energy, climate change – you probably did a Google search. Presented with multiple sources, you chose what to read, selecting which sites or authorities to trust.Now you have another option: You can pose your question to ChatGPT or another generative artificial intelligence platform and quickly receive a succinct…

Image: Andrey_Popov (Shutterstock)Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways?Sen. Josh Hawley asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this question in a May 16, 2023, U.S. Senate hearing on artificial intelligence. Altman replied that he was indeed concerned that some people might use language models to manipulate, persuade and engage in one-on-one interactions with voters.Altman did not elaborate, but he might…

12,000-year-old bird bones found in the far north of Israel may have been used as instruments by prehistoric humans to lure more birds to their death, according to a team of archaeologists that studied the artifacts.Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?The perforated bones were found in Israel’s Hula Valley, just west of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967. The bones were first excavated in 1955 but were recently reexamined.Seven wing bones from the site belonged to coots and teals. Upon recent…

Scientists from the University of Kansas published a paper Wednesday detailing an algorithm they say detects academic writing from ChatGPT with an accuracy rate over 99%. Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?As AI chatbot content begins to flood the world, one of the biggest concerns is reliably spotting the difference between the words of robots and real human beings. There have been a few attempts to build ChatGPT detectors, and dozens of companies are competing to build AI-spotting technology. But so far, none of…

When a journalist for an online gun website asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT to provide him a summary of the case The Second Amendment Foundation v. Robert Ferguson earlier this year, he said the AI chatbot quickly spat out an answer. It confidently, allegedly claimed the case involved a Georgia radio host named Mark Walters who was accused of embezzling money from The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). The only problem: none of that was true. In reality, Walters had nothing to do with the suit at all. Instead, Walters claims he…

The days of relying on a travel agent may be making a come-back, but not with humans. Google is reportedly bringing its own AI engine to online travel agency Priceline to help customers book trips through a chatbot.Generating Video Via Text? | Future TechGoogle and Priceline told Reuters that the new feature could go live as early as this summer, and will consist of a more sophisticated chatbot. Since Priceline will now have access to Google’s generative AI, the platform will be able to extract data on hotels, for…

Companies are beginning to dive into the AI workforce headfirst—at least that’s what the data are saying. A new report says that AI is responsible for almost 4,000 job cuts last month alone.Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?The report comes from Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, Inc., an outplacement firm headquartered in Chicago. The company’s May report says that U.S.-based companies announced 80,089 job cuts last month, and 3,900 of those are directly related to artificial intelligence. May’s job cuts are a 20%…

The ‘Portrait of Edmond de Bellamy’ was produced by a generative adversarial network that was fed a data set of 15,000 portraits spanning six centuries.Image: Christie’s/PicrilMaybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?Chloe Preece, ESCP Business School and Hafize Çelik, University of BathIs computational creativity possible? The recent hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Dall-E and many others, raises new questions about whether creativity is a uniquely human skill. Some…