Whereas massive language fashions that generate textual content have exploded within the final three years, a distinct kind of AI, primarily based on what are referred to as diffusion fashions, is having an unprecedented influence on artistic domains.
By remodeling random noise into coherent patterns, diffusion fashions can generate new photographs, movies, or speech, guided by textual content prompts or different enter information. The very best ones can create outputs indistinguishable from the work of individuals, in addition to weird, surreal outcomes that really feel distinctly nonhuman.
Now these fashions are marching right into a artistic subject that’s arguably extra susceptible to disruption than every other: music. Music fashions can now create songs able to eliciting actual emotional responses, presenting a stark instance of how troublesome it’s changing into to outline authorship and originality within the age of AI. Learn the total story.
—James O’Donnell
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A small US metropolis is experimenting with AI to seek out out what residents need
Bowling Inexperienced, Kentucky, is residence to 75,000 residents who just lately wrapped up an experiment in utilizing AI for democracy: Can a web-based polling platform, powered by machine studying, seize what residents wish to see occur of their metropolis?
After a month of promoting, the Pol.is portal launched in February. Residents might go to the web site and anonymously submit an thought (in lower than 140 characters) for what a 25-year plan for his or her metropolis ought to embody. They might additionally vote on whether or not they agreed or disagreed with different concepts.
However some researchers query whether or not soliciting enter on this method is a dependable solution to perceive what a neighborhood desires. Learn the total story.
—James O’Donnell
