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| Here's a look at today's AI briefing: - New Hampshire is investigating AI robocalls impersonating Joe Biden.
- AI replacement of jobs could occur gradually, MIT study suggests.
- OpenAI bans developer that created bot of presidential candidate Dean Phillips.
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| 1 | | New Hampshire's attorney general is investigating an AI-generated robocall mimicking President Joe Biden that urged Democrats not to vote in the state's primary election. Biden won't appear on the state's Democratic ballot Tuesday. In a statement, the AG's office said the robocalls appear to be an illegal attempt to disrupt the primary and suppress state voters. More: - In the calls, a voice similar to Biden's claimed voting on Tuesday "only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again."
- The recording mimics Biden by using his common phrase, "What a bunch of malarkey," and advises listeners to "save your vote" for November.
- Listeners were also given the contact info of Kathy Sullivan, a former NH Democratic Party chair and leader of a super PAC urging voters to write in Biden's name in the state primary.
- After hearing the calls, Sullivan filed a complaint with the NH AG's office, saying that "these kinds of tactics, if left unpunished, will only get worse in the future."
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| 2 | | New research suggests that AI job automation will be significant but gradual, as AI is not yet economically viable for widespread job replacement. The study from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) specifically focused on jobs involving visual analysis tasks that could be replaced by computer vision technology, which recognizes and categorizes objects in images and videos. More: - The study found that human labor is generally more cost-effective than AI in the area of computer vision, which includes tasks like analyzing X-ray images for healthcare.
- Specifically, the findings showed that while AI can automate tasks representing 1.6% of U.S. worker wages, only 23% of these wages — or 0.4% of the total economy—- would currently be more cost-effective to automate than to pay human workers.
- It highlights that AI-driven job automation could occur more slowly and less dramatically than some experts have predicted, said Neil Thompson, an MIT CSAIL research scientist and a study co-author.
- "Even though there is some change that is coming, there is also some time to adapt to it," he said.
Zoom out: - Notably, the study didn't examine job tasks that could be done by large language models like ChatGPT.
- A report last year by Goldman Sachs analysts predicts generative AI has the potential to expose 300 million full-time workers to automation.
- The report predicts "significant disruption" to the world's labor market from AI. The economists estimated that about two-thirds of jobs in the U.S. and Europe could be altered by AI automation in some form.
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| 3 | OpenAI has suspended a developer account for using its AI tools to create a voice-replicating chatbot of U.S. presidential candidate Dean Phillips. The developer behind "Dean.Bot" violated OpenAI's API usage policies, a spokesperson confirmed. More: - The bot violated policies that ban the use of OpenAI tech for political campaigning by impersonating someone without their consent.
- Dean.Bot is the brainchild of the super PAC "We Deserve Better," which supports Phillips, a Democratic congressman and White House hopeful from Minnesota.
- The PAC was founded by Matt Krisiloff, formerly chief of staff to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Jed Somers, COO of Owner.
- The PAC hired Delphi, an AI startup, to create the bot using OpenAI software. Krisiloff asked Delphi to remove ChatGPT from the bot and use open-source models instead.
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| 4 | | ElevenLabs, a startup specializing in AI-generated cloned and synthetic voices, has raised $80M in Series B funding, valuing the company at $1.1B. ElevenLabs offers a browser-based app for generating realistic-sounding voices. Background: ElevenLabs was founded in 2022 by Piotr Dabkowski, formerly a machine learning engineer at Google, and Mati Staniszewski, an ex-deployment strategist at Palantir. The London-based startup has built AI tools for creating AI-generated voices in different languages, accents, and emotions. Products: Last year, ElevenLabs' voice-generating platform launched out of beta. The text-to-speech platform takes in text, identifies the language, and generates "emotionally rich" speech read aloud across around 30 languages. It also offers an AI Speech Classifier to identify AI audio, a studio for movie dubbing, and a marketplace for users to create and monetize AI voices. Funding: Its latest round, co-led by key investors like Andreessen Horowitz, former Apple AI leader Daniel Gross, and former GitHub CEO, has bumped up ElevenLabs' total funding to $101M. The bigger picture: Markets.us reports that the global AI voice generator market, valued at $1.4B last year, is projected to surge to $4.9B by 2032. 
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| 5 | | X, the tech innovation lab under Google parent Alphabet, is undergoing a restructuring that includes staff layoffs, Bloomberg reported. The lab's new structure will allow X's project to spin off "more easily" as independent businesses with backing from Alphabet and external supporters. More: - The restructuring will result in "dozens of layoffs" among support staff at X, although the exact number has not been disclosed.
- The X tech lab, formed by Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page, has generated "moonshot-based" tech businesses for Google's parent company, Alphabet.
- It has incubated well-known projects such as Waymo, the self-driving car company, and Wing, a delivery drone venture.
- The Moonshot Factory is now seeking more outside investors, including venture capital, to alleviate growing financial pressure and launch projects more quickly, according to Bloomberg.
Zoom out: - While X's moonshots aim to become independent ventures, known as "Other Bets," within Alphabet's umbrella, the concept could see more thriving as standalone startups with outside funding.
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 | AI and technology writer | | Beth is a contributing editor and writer of Inside's AI and Tech newsletters. She has written for notable publications like USA Today and the Arizona Business Gazette. During her time as a public policy reporter at The Arizona Republic, she received recognition with a Pulitzer Prize nomination and a First Amendment Award for her collaborative reporting on pension cost increases. Beth also authored a book on the solar photovoltaic industry in 2016. You can reach her at Beth.Duckett@yahoo.com. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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