Pop superstar Taylor Swift filed trademark applications for two audio clips and one image of herself in what a trademark attorney said is an attempt to protect her voice and likeness from deepfake videos and audio created by artificial intelligence. The applications were filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on Friday and list Swift’s TAS Rights … Read more
Home Depot is letting go of a traditional store feature and introducing a new customer support system. The retailer is replacing their old-school phone menus with an AI-powered voice agent to provide support for customer calls four times faster, according to the company. “Say ‘bye’ to the traditional phone menu,” Home Depot wrote in a … Read more
JetBlue has been sued in a proposed class action claiming it uses customers’ personal data to set ticket prices, after its response to a social media post raised concern that the carrier employed “surveillance pricing” to make flying more expensive. According to a complaint filed late Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court, JetBlue conceals its use of … Read more
If you gotta go while on-the-go, urine in luck. Having to pee or poop during long road trips is, now, no longer a pain in the butt as Chinese electric vehicle engineers are gearing up to roll out a fleet of cars featuring built-in toilets. They’re putting a little restroom in your vroom-vroom. Seres, a China-based automotive … Read more
The bot slam dunks your junk. Parcels are arriving in pieces with Amazon’s artificial intelligence-powered delivery drones. The automated mailmen are dropping off packages from 10 feet in the air, rendering the contents of each box susceptible to crashing and smashing. And it’s enough to make even the most AI-obsessed human crash out in fury. To determine the drone’s … Read more
Actress Reese Witherspoon warned women that their jobs are three times more likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) than those of men unless they begin learning how to use the technology. The “Morning Show” actress took to Instagram on Wednesday to share a story about meeting with the women in her book club and discovering that out … Read more
Baseball reporter Angie Mentink is handling her viral 15 seconds with grace, poking fun at herself after a video was posted on social media showing her using Google Gemini to formulate postgame questions. A social media account posted a video of her during a Mariners game as she asked the AI assistant for some help … Read more
Swine and dash. Humanity may have found an unlikely solution to the scourge of wild pigs invading European cities — boar-herding bots. Bizarre footage shows the moment an AI-powered robot chased away a herd of wild pigs in Warsaw, Poland. The bot pursues the boars across a parking lot. X / @edwardwarchocki “I’m herding the … Read more
Eight in ten unemployed Americans are struggling to find the motivation to continue their job search, according to new research. A survey of 5,000 unemployed adults explored the emotional and practical fallbacks of being displaced, finding that just 23% are consistently motivated. On the other hand, 31% have admittedly stopped actively searching, and 35% said … Read more
We’ve been told that many things increase our risk of dementia — genetics, too much alcohol, not enough exercise, improper nutrition, high blood pressure, the risks go on and on. Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming wants to add one more item to the list — artificial intelligence. Scientists have already sounded the alarm that US dementia cases could … Read more
The fatigue is setting in — according to a new survey, a majority of Americans are now using AI to some degree, but 54% are “getting tired of hearing” about the budding technology. The poll of 2,000 US adults found 46% believe AI is everywhere and is nearly impossible to escape. A further 29% see … Read more
It was March 2016, and more than 200 million people around the world were watching a battle 2,500 years in the making. At the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, Lee Sedol — one of the greatest players of Go, the ancient Chinese board game — sat across from AlphaGo, a computer program built by the … Read more
They grew up dialing rotary phones — and now they’re opening the door to robot roommates. That’s the vision powering the booming AgeTech industry, as companies bet seniors are ready to embrace gadgets that make getting older safer, easier… and maybe even a little more fun. And contrary to stereotype, seniors appear more than ready. … Read more
A white influencer has admitted to editing her face onto a black influencer’s body as she blamed AI for the bizarre post — but the model whose photo she altered isn’t buying the excuse. The social media controversy erupted when Lauren Blake Boultier, a content creator with more than 1.6 million followers, shared a photo … Read more
A white influencer with over 1.6 million followers has been accused of editing her face onto a black influencer’s body in a bizarre move that has gone viral on social media. Tatiana Elizabeth, who is African-American, took to TikTok this week to explain how she discovered fellow content creator Lauren Blake Boultier had digitally altered her photo. … Read more
Robots may be the future, but can they predict it? From layman to royalty, politicians to A-list celebs, with a list of acolytes that includes Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I, Ronald Reagan, and Lady Gaga, human beings have long sought the counsel of astrologers to help guide their decisions. Now, according to recent research, the oracle of AI … Read more
The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, or delete … Read more
Move over em-dash, there’s a new AI giveaway. It’s hard to deny that AI is everywhere these days, and it’s no surprise that it’s making its way into classrooms. Since sneaky students are figuring out how to take the easy way out by using ChatGPT to do their homework or write their essays, one college … Read more
No textbooks, no homework, no teachers. Welcome to the future of education. At least according to Alpha School, a fast-growing network of private academies that claims to be revolutionizing education with artificial intelligence. At Alpha — which has locations in Austin, Miami, San Francisco and New York City, and charges tuition of up to $65,000 … Read more
The bots are coming for your livelihoods. Researchers at Tufts University have put together the American AI Jobs Risk Index, a “first-of-its-kind” report, using current occupational data to predict which jobs are most at risk of being taken over by artificial intelligence. Tufts University researchers created the American AI Jobs Risk Index to anticipate which … Read more