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Artificial intelligence promises to make death "optional," as the technology learns to perfectly emulate our personalities, memories and dreams, keeping a version of ourselves alive long after our physical bodies have perished. But if rapidly improving AI achieves its lofty goal of digital immortality -- as its advocates believe it can -- will it be a force for good or for evil?"Eternal You" and "Love Machina," two new documentaries that premiered at the Sundance movie festival this weekend, grapple with the question,…

Facebook parent company Meta has unveiled its first custom silicon chip for processing AI programs called the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA. It also talked about a new AI-optimised data centre design and the second phase of 16,000 GPU supercomputers for AI research. According to the company, the new efforts in the direction of AI, along with the additional projects still underway, will enable it to develop larger, more sophisticated AI models and then deploy them efficiently at scale. "We’re even…

Computer engineers and tech-inclined political scientists have warned for years that cheap, powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, video and audio that was realistic enough to fool voters and perhaps sway an election. The synthetic images that emerged were often crude, unconvincing and costly to produce, especially when other kinds of misinformation were so inexpensive and easy to spread on social media. The threat posed by AI and so-called deepfakes always seemed a year or…