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Happy Friday!
We’re capping off another busy week in AI with some intriguing developments in AI robotics. YouTube is also surprisingly showing its support for AI-generated music as debates surrounding synthetic media heat up.
Let’s dive in.
In today’s Daily Update:
🗞️ Figure and Amazon plan to put robots to work
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📸 YouTube wants to launch an AI-powered music tool
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
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LATEST NEWS
🗞️ Figure and Amazon plan to put robots to work
Source: Figure
AI robotics startup Figure just unveiled its prototype of a walking humanoid robot. The announcement comes as Amazon begins testing Agility’s bipedal robot Digit for warehouse work.
What you need to know:
Figure’s mission is to bring general purpose humanoids to life. It hopes that these robots will increase productivity, address labor shortages and reduce the number of people in unsafe jobs.
The company wants to target three markets: physical labor, consumer household and space exploration.
Amazon has also begun testing Agility’s Digit robot in its facilities.
Agility was one of five firms that received a cut of Amazon’s billion-dollar “Industrial Innovation” fund last April.
Source: Amazon
Why it matters: There’s still a long way to go before humanoid robots join the workforce, but Figure’s dynamic walking demo shows promising development. Amazon insists that its robots will speed up delivery without replacing humans, but the retail giant also partnered with MIT to study robots’ impact on jobs. Advancements in AI robotics pose serious questions about job displacement across industries.
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT
📸 YouTube wants to launch an AI-powered music tool
Source: Adobe Firefly
YouTube wants to launch an AI feature that lets users make music using their favorite singers’ voices. Bloomberg reported the news just days after interviewing Ghostwriter about the future of AI-generated music.
The details:
The AI music tool could give YouTube users the ability to recreate any song with their favorite artist’s voice, or create entirely new music replicating a singer.
Ongoing talks with record companies about the rights needed to train the AI software have delayed the feature.
YouTube originally aimed to release this feature last month, when it debuted a suite of AI tools aimed at streamlining the creative process.
The relevance: The rise of AI-generated music continues to create significant legal issues for the music industry. Three music publishers just filed a lawsuit against Anthropic for using copyrighted lyrics to train its AI models, and several world-renowned artists have already denounced their AI voice clones.
The other side: Streaming services are doubling down on AI-generated music. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek recently announced that AI-generated music won’t be banned on his platform. YouTube’s proposed feature would give users unprecedented access to AI music tools.
MORE TRENDING NEWS
🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits
Source: Adobe Firefly
Road Block: OpenAI debates when to release its AI-generated image detector. The company is also opening up access to DALL-E 3.
Copyright Clash: A group of writers including former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has filed a lawsuit against Meta, Microsoft and Bloomberg for using their work to train AI systems.
Dueling with Duolingo: Google rolls out new English tutoring tool for Search in non English speaking countries.
AI Gamer: Seattle-based software engineer Peter Whidden creates an AI that can play Pokémon Red after 50,000 hours of training.
THAT’S ALL FOR THIS WEEK
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