133 posts tagged ‘AI’
Deadmau5-founded startup Korus taps into AI for music creation
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Pixelynx, an Animoca Brands-owned metaverse company co-founded by DJ and producer Deadmau5, announced today its newest suite of tools for its flagship product Korus, an AI-powered music creation platform where you can remix content using AI and licensed stem files made by artists and music labels, then mint music and earn revenue. Starting today, Korus […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
How GenAI can turn an autobiography into an interactive Black history lesson
We talk a lot about the negative side of AI, but what about the positive aspects like being able to interact with authors or historical figures based on feeding their writing into a large language model? James Lowry may not be a household name, but his history is part of the Black experience in America. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Snapchat+ subscribers can now create and send AI-generated images
Snapchat is releasing a few new AI powered features for Snapchat+ subscribers, the company announced on Tuesday. Most notably, subscribers can now create and send AI-generated images based on a text prompt. In addition to getting access to a new AI extend tool, subscribers can now also use the app’s Dream selfie feature with friends. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Elon Musk's AI is too woke for its target audience
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If you've had the misfortune of being on X (formerly Twitter) recently, I'm so sorry. But you've also probably seen lots of posts about Grok, Elon Musk's in-house AI chatbot currently only accessible to those forking over money to him on a monthly basis. — Read the rest
Google search ads spotted in compromising placements
Research delving into a less visible component of Google’s search ads business — a network of third party sites called Google Search Partners (also known as the GSP network or SPN) — has documented scores of instances of Google search ads being served on non-Google websites that the media buyers paying for the marketing campaigns […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
AWS takes the cheap shots
The rise of generative AI opens up a massive new market for the large cloud providers, but it’s also a bit of a reset. Unlike the rise of containers, for example, generative AI is an entirely new market. Some players who have long lagged behind in the overall cloud market — like Google — are […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Amazon unveils Q, an AI-powered chatbot for businesses
Amazon is launching an AI-powered chatbot for AWS customers called Q. Unveiled during a keynote at Amazon’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this morning, Q — starting at $20 per user per year, now in public preview — can answer questions like “How do I build a web application using AWS?” Trained on 17 years’ […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
AWS adds Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock to help safeguard LLMs
We are all talking about the business gains from using large language models, but there are lot of known issues with these models, and finding ways to constrain the answers that a model could give is one way to apply some control to these powerful technologies. Today, at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, AWS CEO […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.