The Nvidia CEO also pulled out of an Anthropic event earlier.
Author: Michael
What happens when artificial intelligence allows people to speak after death? AI can now recreate a person’s voice, personality, and memories to generate entirely new conversations—even years after they are gone. But these digital versions could also say things the person never actually said, endorse products they never used, or influence people they never met. This mini-documentary explores AI voice cloning, digital resurrection, posthumous digital identity, synthetic voices, deepfake technology, and the growing debate over who owns a person’s voice and likeness after death. As AI makes it possible to recreate the dead, one question becomes harder to ignore: who…
Chimpanzees may learn how to use some of their calls from the adults around them, in a surprising parallel with how human children learn words, finds a study from the CNRS Institute of Cognitive Sciences, University of Warwick and Taï Chimpanzee Project.
The negative impact of loneliness on health and well-being is well known, but for university students, social interaction can also be key to academic success. A new study by Constructor University professor Dr. Sonia Lippke and colleagues, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, analyzes the effects of student loneliness on health and academics and lays out concrete steps that universities can take to mitigate them.
A poor sleep schedule doesn’t only affect your overall mood, energy levels, and long-term health. New evidence indicates that losing as little as one hour of rest may increase your chance of falling for an online scam by over 10 percent the following morning. Neurobiologists at the University of California, Irvine, laid out their findings in a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), arguing that even minimal sleep disruptions can have almost immediate consequences. “Our results demonstrate that even though you may not be aware of it, lack of sleep leads to impulsive…
The old adage “monkey see, monkey do,” appears to have a bit of truth to it. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) likely watch adults making different vocalization to learn how and when to use those sounds themselves, particularly when they purse their lips to blow “raspberries.” The findings detailed in a study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) show that the primates’ sounds are not instinctual and set in stone, as previously believed. Humans learn what words mean from the world around us, and different communities will use different sounds for the same thing. For…
Some cancer cells survive chemotherapy by blocking their own self-destruct system, but researchers have found a way to switch it back on and kill those cells. Chemotherapy can leave behind cancer cells that have stopped dividing but remain alive and capable of helping a tumor recover. These survivors can draw support from an unexpected source, […]
The tiny atomic defects so important for future quantum technologies can be difficult to spot. Fortunately, they leave behind some clues. The defects can alter how a material responds to light, producing a distinctive optical fingerprint that scientists can measure. The challenge is figuring out which fingerprints belong to which defects.
Aswin Singaram Natarajan rolls a stem of wheat in his hands. It looks perfectly healthy, but the senior experimental scientist at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, knows his eyes can deceive him. A plant could look green and vital and still be losing—losing too much energy or losing too much water or filling its grain to ripeness too slowly. And while these weaknesses are invisible to the human eye, they’re plain as day to the right instrument.
YouTube will resume sharing streaming data with Billboard in 2027 after changes to the chart formula give more weight to free, ad-supported music streams.