Lifelike AI Avatars Read Your Script, Show You How They Feel
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Tech Times— Synthesia presented AI-powered avatars expressing human emotions at X, amid concerns over deepfake videos.
Daily Mail—Gavin and Stacey's Joanna Page reveals her excitement after iconic show was confirmed to return for one FINAL episode but admits she hadn't yet read the script. However the actress, 47, who plays Stacey in the show, admitted she hadn't yet read the script and has no idea what happens to the beloved characters.
ETtech.com—AI investments: Alphabet, Microsoft earnings show hefty AI bets are driving growth. Alphabet and Microsoft ignited a rally in technology stocks on Friday with earnings that showed big AI investments were driving growth, allaying doubts that their costly bets would take time to pay off after a soft forecast from Meta Platforms. Alphabet rose 10%, crossing $2 trillion in market value with a gain of about $180 billion as it sweetened the pot for investors with its maiden dividend and a $70 billion stock buyback. The world's fourth most valuable firm flirted with the milestone on...
MIT Technology Review—My deepfake shows how valuable our data is in the age of AI. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Deepfakes are getting good. Like, really good. Earlier this month I went to a studio in East London to get myself digitally cloned by the AI video startup Synthesia. They made…