Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business
Once a week, Sun Kai has a video call with his mother. He opens up…
The way whales communicate is closer to human language than we realized
Sperm whales are fascinating creatures. They possess the biggest brain of any species, six times…
China has a flourishing market for deepfakes that clone the dead
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The Download: deepfakes of the dead, and why it’s time to embrace fake meat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Multimodal: AI’s new frontier
Multimodality is a relatively new term for something extremely old: how people have learned about…
The top 3 ways to use generative AI to empower knowledge workers
Though generative AI is still a nascent technology, it is already being adopted by teams…
Google DeepMind’s new AlphaFold can model a much larger slice of biological life
Google DeepMind has released an improved version of its biology prediction tool, AlphaFold, that can…