The fight against AI recreating people’s voices without consent

People are talking about the Artists Rights Alliance's latest call to tech companies and digital media services to honor the rights to their music. AI is in the studio now recreating an artist’s voice without their consent with many other public figures, and they point out several concerns. (04-03-2024) Website: http://kpix.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kpixtv/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KPIXtv

• Apr 3, 2024
• 04:28

Amazon pours an additional $2.75 billion into San Francisco-based AI startup Anthropic

Amazon says it is pouring an additional $2.75 billion into Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the artificial intelligence startup to $4 billion.

• Mar 27, 2024

American farms may put AI-powered drones and robots to work

Nearly 2 million farmworkers help put food on American tables today, but modern machines powered by AI could eventually replace many of them.

• Mar 19, 2024

Reddit reveals FTC inquiry into deals licensing its users' data for AI training

Reddit says the Federal Trade Commission has opened an inquiry into the social media platform's sale, licensing or sharing of user posts and other content to outside organizations for use in training artificial intelligence models.

• Mar 15, 2024

Thousands of whales died in a heat wave. It may get worse.

Thousands of whale photos revealed that a single event known as "The Blob" managed to undo years of humpback whale recovery – and it could be a sign of what's to come.

• Feb 28, 2024

AI chatbots spit out wildly inaccurate election info, study finds

When asked for basics on elections, artificial intelligence tools provided wrong information more than half the time, one analysis found.

• Feb 27, 2024

Tech writer Swisher delivers incendiary takedowns of tech titans Musk, Zuckerberg in "Burn Book"

Noted technology reporter Kara Swisher takes aim at two of the Bay Area's biggest executives in her fiery new memoir "Burn Book," calling Meta's Mark Zuckerberg "the most damaging man in tech" and Elon Musk "the most disappointing."

• Feb 26, 2024

Google strikes $60M deal with Reddit, allowing it to train AI on posts

Google wants access to Reddit users' "authentic, human conversations" to help train its artificial intelligence tools.

• Feb 23, 2024

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI expands the creation of text into videos

CNET’s Abrar Al-Heeti joins Nicole Zaloumis to discuss OpenAI’s expansion of text-to-video feature, updates on the sale of Apple’s Vision Pro and how putting your wet iPhone into rice is not the best idea. (02-21-2024) Website: http://kpix.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kpixtv/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KPIXtv

• Feb 21, 2024
• 02:32

OpenAI's new text-to-video tool, Sora, has one AI expert "terrified"

The groundbreaking technology can be used to create deepfakes, and allow anyone to generate content for films, video games, ads.

• Feb 16, 2024

OpenAI unveils Sora, a tool to make ultra-realistic videos from written prompts

The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday unveiled its next leap into generative artificial intelligence with a tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands.

• Feb 16, 2024

OpenAI's Sora creates ultra-realistic videos from simple prompts

San Francisco-based OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, unveiled Thursday a new generative artificial intelligence tool that instantly makes short videos in response to written commands.

• Feb 16, 2024
• 02:27

Cisco Systems laying off more than 4,000 workers in latest sign of tighter times in tech

Internet networking pioneer Cisco Systems is jettisoning more than 4,000 employees.

• Feb 14, 2024

Online dating scams peak ahead of Valentine's Day. Here are warning signs.

More people on dating apps are being targeted by scammers using bots and artificial intelligence, according to experts.

• Feb 13, 2024

Google is rebranding its Bard AI service as Gemini. Here's what it means.

Google is retiring the Bard brand and introducing a free artificial intelligence app that will implant the technology on smartphones.

• Feb 8, 2024

SoCal spot CaliExpress serves burgers and fries made by in autonomous AI kitchen

Joy Benedict reports on AI technology powering the autonomous kitchen at Pasadena burger spot CaliExpress

• Jan 29, 2024
• 02:45

California kitchen incorporates robot chefs

Entrepreneurs and engineers are putting AI robots to work in the kitchen. In California, one restaurant is using the technology to handle dangerous kitchen tasks like working frying machines. CBS News' Joy Benedict has more.

• Jan 27, 2024
• 05:56

Taylor Swift deepfakes spread online, sparking outrage

Sexually explicit and abusive fake images of Taylor Swift began circulating widely this week on social media.

• Jan 26, 2024

Samsung vies to make AI more mainstream by baking in more of the technology in its new Galaxy phones

Smartphones could get much smarter this year as the next wave of artificial intelligence seeps into the devices that accompany people almost everywhere they go.

• Jan 17, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise buying Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks in $14B deal

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying Juniper Networks in an all-cash deal valued at about $14 billion, which is anticipated to double HPE's networking business.

• Jan 10, 2024

New York Times, nonfiction authors latest to sue AI companies

A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn't be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works.

• Jan 9, 2024

CES 2024 in Las Vegas is rolling out the latest tech innovations

Over 3,500 tech companies are joining the most powerful tech event of the year. Those going can expect the most hyped products or companies and the influence of artificial intelligence. Interview with Senior Manager at the Consumer Technology Association, Carolyn Posner. (01-09-2024)

• Jan 9, 2024
• 04:14

Bill to regulate state's use of artificial intelligence introduced in California Senate

A bill that would guide California state agencies' use of artificial intelligence was introduced Wednesday by state Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa.

• Jan 5, 2024

Artificial intelligence, budget deficit questions await returning California lawmakers

California lawmakers return to work on Wednesday for the start of an election-year legislative session dominated by decisions on artificial intelligence and the state's struggling budget.

• Jan 3, 2024

"No concrete progress" from Congress on AI

Jo Ling Kent, CBS News senior business and technology reporter, tells "Face the Nation" that while there has been "some momentum" from Congress to legislate artificial intelligence, there has been "no concrete progress." "Artificial intelligence appears to be yet another difficult challenge for them," she says.

• Dec 31, 2023
• 04:37

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