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US Teen Fell In Love With "Game Of Thrones" Chatbot, Killed Self: Mother
14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, a Florida boy, would chat with his online friend, Daenerys Targaryen, a lifelike AI chatbot named after a character from Game of Thrones.
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Runway Act-One With AI-Powered Facial Expression Capture Capability Added to Gen-3 Alpha Model
Runway AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm focusing on video generation models, announced a new feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Act-One, the new capability is available within the company’s latest Gen-3 Alpha large language model (LLM) and is said to accurately capture facial expressions from a source video and then reproduce them on an AI-genera...
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Google Paid $2.7 Billion To Rehire AI Genius To Co-Lead Gemini: Report
Google re-hired its long-time researcher, Naom Shazeer, to co-lead its AI models in a $2.7 billion deal, the Wall Street Journal reported. Mr Shazeer quit Google in 2021 after being a part of the company for 21 years.
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AI Chatbot Startup Character.AI Lays Off At Least 5% Of Its Staff: Report
Chatbot startup Character.AI laid off at least 5% of its staff, The Information reported on Thursday, citing a person briefed by company leaders.
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Striking U.S. Video Game Actors Say AI Threatens Their Jobs
The decision to strike follows months of negotiations with major videogame companies including Activision Productions, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive, Disney Character Voices and Warner Bros Discovery's WB Games.
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Meta AI Studio With Support for Generating AI Characters, Digital Avatars on Instagram Rolled Out
Meta AI Studio began rolling out to Instagram users on Monday (July 29). The social media giant first announced the AI avatar creation platform last year during its Connect event. Powered by the recently released Llama 3.1 405B artificial intelligence (AI) model, AI Studio can create mini chatbots called AI characters with a specific knowledge base...
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Instagram Influencers Can Soon Reply To Your DMs Using Meta AI Chatbot
The AI Studio will let users create customized AI characters and also allow Instagram creators to use AI characters "as an extension of themselves." Users can share their AI characters on the social media giant's various platforms.
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Character.AI Introduces Character Calls Feature That Lets Users 'Call' AI Chatbots
Character.AI, the artificial intelligence (AI) platform, introduced a new feature on Thursday that will let users call a chatbot. These AI chatbots, also known as Characters, can be programmed to behave as a real person or a fictional entity. With this feature, users can make phone calls over the app and have conversations that simulate a real tele...
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Google Said to Be Developing Gemini AI-Powered User Customisable Chatbots Based on Celebrities
Google is reportedly working on creating artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots that can play a character while interacting with users. These character-focused chatbots can be modelled after a celebrity or be made by users based on their imagination, as per the report. It is said that these chatbots will be powered by the tech giant’s in-house lar...
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Butterflies Social Media Platform That Lets AI Characters Post, Interact With Each Other Launched
Butterflies, a social media platform that allows people to create artificial intelligence (AI) characters and let them interact freely with other characters and users, has been launched publicly. After being in a private beta test for several months, the app is currently available to all users globally on iOS and Android. The app is free to install...
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"Looks More Real Than The Film": AI Recreation Of 'Lagaan' With Cricketers Takes Social Media By Storm
This post includes characters such as Bhuvan, Lakha, and Gauri, who now feature faces of popular cricket stars and Anoushka Sharma.
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'Couldn't Have Human Characters': AI Film Festival Gives Glimpse Of Cinema's Future
With fantastical characters including mud people and giant grandmothers, an AI film festival is giving a glimpse of the storytelling made possible by the novel technology.
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Vladimir Putin Biopic Set For Release, With An AI Twist
The world premiere of a new biopic portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin, with an AI-rendered central character, is scheduled for September 26th.
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Microsoft Unveils VASA-1, an Image-to-Video AI Model That Generates Eerily Realistic Results
Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate hyperrealistic videos of talking human faces. Dubbed VASA-1, the AI image-to-video model can generate videos from just one photo and a speech audio clip. The company says the created videos will have synchronised lip movements to match the audio as well as facial ex...
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Higgsfield AI Introduces Diffuse App, an Image-to-Video Generator for Smartphones
Higgsfield AI, a video AI company, has launched its first artificial intelligence (AI)-powered app for smartphones. Dubbed Diffuse, this mobile-first app is an image-to-video generator that can use a selfie to turn it into a video featuring the character. The company claims that the character it creates comes with lifelike motion.
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US Teen Fell In Love With "Game Of Thrones" Chatbot, Killed Self: Mother
14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, a Florida boy, would chat with his online friend, Daenerys Targaryen, a lifelike AI chatbot named after a character from Game of Thrones.
-
Runway Act-One With AI-Powered Facial Expression Capture Capability Added to Gen-3 Alpha Model
Runway AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm focusing on video generation models, announced a new feature on Tuesday. Dubbed Act-One, the new capability is available within the company’s latest Gen-3 Alpha large language model (LLM) and is said to accurately capture facial expressions from a source video and then reproduce them on an AI-genera...
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Google Paid $2.7 Billion To Rehire AI Genius To Co-Lead Gemini: Report
Google re-hired its long-time researcher, Naom Shazeer, to co-lead its AI models in a $2.7 billion deal, the Wall Street Journal reported. Mr Shazeer quit Google in 2021 after being a part of the company for 21 years.
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AI Chatbot Startup Character.AI Lays Off At Least 5% Of Its Staff: Report
Chatbot startup Character.AI laid off at least 5% of its staff, The Information reported on Thursday, citing a person briefed by company leaders.
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Striking U.S. Video Game Actors Say AI Threatens Their Jobs
The decision to strike follows months of negotiations with major videogame companies including Activision Productions, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive, Disney Character Voices and Warner Bros Discovery's WB Games.
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Meta AI Studio With Support for Generating AI Characters, Digital Avatars on Instagram Rolled Out
Meta AI Studio began rolling out to Instagram users on Monday (July 29). The social media giant first announced the AI avatar creation platform last year during its Connect event. Powered by the recently released Llama 3.1 405B artificial intelligence (AI) model, AI Studio can create mini chatbots called AI characters with a specific knowledge base...
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Instagram Influencers Can Soon Reply To Your DMs Using Meta AI Chatbot
The AI Studio will let users create customized AI characters and also allow Instagram creators to use AI characters "as an extension of themselves." Users can share their AI characters on the social media giant's various platforms.
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Character.AI Introduces Character Calls Feature That Lets Users 'Call' AI Chatbots
Character.AI, the artificial intelligence (AI) platform, introduced a new feature on Thursday that will let users call a chatbot. These AI chatbots, also known as Characters, can be programmed to behave as a real person or a fictional entity. With this feature, users can make phone calls over the app and have conversations that simulate a real tele...
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Google Said to Be Developing Gemini AI-Powered User Customisable Chatbots Based on Celebrities
Google is reportedly working on creating artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots that can play a character while interacting with users. These character-focused chatbots can be modelled after a celebrity or be made by users based on their imagination, as per the report. It is said that these chatbots will be powered by the tech giant’s in-house lar...
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Butterflies Social Media Platform That Lets AI Characters Post, Interact With Each Other Launched
Butterflies, a social media platform that allows people to create artificial intelligence (AI) characters and let them interact freely with other characters and users, has been launched publicly. After being in a private beta test for several months, the app is currently available to all users globally on iOS and Android. The app is free to install...
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"Looks More Real Than The Film": AI Recreation Of 'Lagaan' With Cricketers Takes Social Media By Storm
This post includes characters such as Bhuvan, Lakha, and Gauri, who now feature faces of popular cricket stars and Anoushka Sharma.
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'Couldn't Have Human Characters': AI Film Festival Gives Glimpse Of Cinema's Future
With fantastical characters including mud people and giant grandmothers, an AI film festival is giving a glimpse of the storytelling made possible by the novel technology.
-
Vladimir Putin Biopic Set For Release, With An AI Twist
The world premiere of a new biopic portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin, with an AI-rendered central character, is scheduled for September 26th.
-
Microsoft Unveils VASA-1, an Image-to-Video AI Model That Generates Eerily Realistic Results
Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate hyperrealistic videos of talking human faces. Dubbed VASA-1, the AI image-to-video model can generate videos from just one photo and a speech audio clip. The company says the created videos will have synchronised lip movements to match the audio as well as facial ex...
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Higgsfield AI Introduces Diffuse App, an Image-to-Video Generator for Smartphones
Higgsfield AI, a video AI company, has launched its first artificial intelligence (AI)-powered app for smartphones. Dubbed Diffuse, this mobile-first app is an image-to-video generator that can use a selfie to turn it into a video featuring the character. The company claims that the character it creates comes with lifelike motion.
