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TikTok Develops Voice Cloning Feature with User Control
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TikTok is working on a new feature that lets users clone their voice. Users will have full control over their AI voice. http://
theaivalley.com/p/voicecloning via @heyBarsee #AI #IoT #5G #GenerativeAI #Video #Clips @SpirosMargaris @pierrepinna @DeepLearn007 @Analytics_699 @gvalan @Hal_Good -
Open Source Representation Needed in List, AIatMeta Leading
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This makes the list suspect. We need representation of open source and @AIatMeta is the leading voice.
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Open Source AI Transparency vs Proprietary System Secrecy
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Unlikely to happen with proprietary systems because they probably think of their prompts as trade secrets (though they'll leak easily enough to anyone who tries to get them), but open source AI assistants would have less incentive to try and hide their implementation details
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Tech Layoffs: Cost-Cutting Moves Shift Engineering Work Cheaper
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My guess is it's one of those things where every division was told to find 5% to cut, and some exec somewhere found a small team of expensive engineers (thanks to both experience and tenure) doing something they figured could be handed off to something smaller and cheaper
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Foundation Engineers Hard Replace Large Tech Restructuring
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hmmm, so its one of those location refactors (quite sad, but classic large-company stuff).
I've generally found that Foundation / Core language engineers are pretty hard to replace or be fungible — they have deep knowledge about complex code and social dynamics that are hard to -
Google Lays Off Entire Python Foundations Team
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apparently Google laid off their entire Python Foundations team, WTF!
( @SkyLi0n who is one of the pybind11 maintainers just informed me, asking what ways they can re-fund pybind11)
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China unveils Vidu, AI video generator rivaling OpenAI’s Sora
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Overnight, China released their own version of OpenAI’s Sora:
— AI Breakfast (@AiBreakfast) 27 avril 2024
AI video generator “Vidu” can create 16 second clips at 1080p:pic.twitter.com/LkACnl1M2oOvernight, China released their own version of OpenAI’s Sora: AI video generator “Vidu” can create 16 second clips at 1080p:
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DHS AI Board Stacked with Tech CEOs Raises Governance Concerns
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Apropos of today's news about the DHS "AI Safety and Security Board", stacked with CEOs like Sam Altman, this thread is (alas) highly relevant again.
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Jensen Delivers First NVIDIA DGX-1 to Stanford SVL
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So appreciative of Jensen’s contribution to #AI! This was when he delivered the world’s first @nvidia DGX-1 to our lab @StanfordSVL back in 2016!