IBM and Adobe are expanding their partnership to help brands create content with artificial intelligence (AI). The collaboration, announced Monday (June 19), will see IBM Consulting debut a portfolio of Adobe consulting services to help customers “navigate the complex generative AI landscape, bringing together innovation, technology and design to...
Meta Platforms has introduced a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model that performs speech-generation tasks. The new Voicebox can help with tasks like audio editing, sampling and styling, Meta said in a Friday (June 16) press release. “Voicebox can produce high-quality audio clips and edit prerecorded audio — like...
Mercedes has turned to Microsoft to expand on its use of in-car artificial intelligence (AI). Beginning Friday (June 16), the carmaker will begin beta testing an integration of the ChatGPT generative AI function with its MBUX Voice Assistant in more than 900,000 vehicles. According to...
Google is reportedly warning its employees to take care when using artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. That warning — according to a Thursday (June 15) report by Reuters — extends to Bard, the AI chatbot Google announced earlier this year amid a frenzy around the technology....
Within every dreamt-up human future, there have always been robots. Outside of flying cars, no other sci-fi fabrication so firmly places a scene in the “future” as the presence of walking, talking, human-shaped robots. Now, Hollywood directors and science fiction authors are going to have...
Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), with the European Union (EU) taking a proactive approach to ensuring AI is developed and implemented in a responsible and ethical manner. On Wednesday (June 14), the European Parliament passed a draft...
Major players in the burgeoning generative AI sector, Google and OpenAI, have markedly different views about regulatory oversight of the world-changing technology. In widely published reports, Google is diverging from OpenAI and its partner Microsoft on the structure of AI regulations. On Tuesday (June 13), The Washington Post...
British generative AI firm Synthesia has become a “unicorn” after raising $90 million. The company announced the Series C funding on its LinkedIn page Tuesday (June 13), saying the financing had raised its valuation north of $1 billion. “Back in 2017, no one really understood our vision,” the...
While voice recognition systems in customer service aren’t new, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the nature and quality of how consumers interact with brands, bringing customer service to its next horizon with the ability to detect emotion, offer advice, complete entire transactions, and otherwise...
