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RTHK's weekly podcast on the latest tech news
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It’s not new that AI has a voice, but it may be the first time it sounds so much like a human being that it can flirt. OpenAI’s new model, GPT-4o, can talk to its user in a lifelike voice in real time. It can also see what the user sees through their ...
Scientists are filled with anticipation as an improved AI model from Google Deepmind shows the potential to unlock the secrets of life and help develop new drugs for incurable diseases like Alzheimer's. The AI model, AlphaFold 3, is able to predict h...
A high school teacher in the United States was recently arrested for using AI to create a fake, racist recording of the school’s principal, following workplace disagreement between the two over missing school funds. The arrestee Dazhon Darien was accus...
Adobe has unveiled VideoGigaGAN, an AI tool that can make blurry videos look dramatically better. The new technology hasn’t been released to the general public, but based on what Adobe described, the AI tool can upscale low-quality videos 8 times the...
Imagine seeing a friend's post on Facebook or Instagram and being able to directly ask an integrated AI assistant where your friend went for dinner, and what was so good about the restaurant. Meta's latest open source generative AI model, Llama 3, aim...
Have you ever wondered if the photorealistic images you see on social media platforms are real... or actually generated by AI? To keep users informed, Meta says it plans to add a "made with AI" label on images, videos and audio if it detects content c...
Amazon announced last week that most of its supermarkets would scrap a cashier-less payment system that it claimed was powered by machine learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence. Launched in 2016, the system called "Just Walk Out” was ma...
Apple has denied all allegations made against it by the US Department of Justice in an antitrust lawsuit. In a statement shared with AppleInsider, the tech company says it hasn't blocked competing apps on iOS, nor has it restricted the functionality o...
It's not a scene from a Star Wars movie, but a real-life demonstration of a quadriplegic using a computer and playing chess online with the help of a brain chip developed by Elon Musk's Neuralink startup. Noland Arbaugh could play even more complex ga...
Concerns are growing over the proliferation of AI-generated videos targeted at children. They are very popular among kids and have attracted millions of views on YouTube and social media platforms like Tik Tok and Instagram. However, these videos are ...
German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom has unveiled a futuristic “app-free” AI smartphone concept at one of the world’s most influential technology events, the Mobile World Congress 2024. With this phone, users won’t be interacting with in...
Teaching AI to increase racial diversity in the images it generates is a good thing - until it goes too far. Google has apologised and suspended its AI tool Gemini after it produced images of Asian Nazis, female Popes and Native American Vikings. The...
AI can do lots of things. It can draft emails, edit photos, explain complicated concepts for you... and even be your romantic partner. Create an avatar to your liking, customise his or her personality, and you can start chatting with your virtual boyf...
OpenAI has introduced its new text-to-video generator, Sora. Tell it what you envision, like "giant wooly mammoths treading through a snowy meadow" or "historical footage of California during the gold rush", and the AI model will create the scene as de...
The Vision Pro, Apple's first new major product in years, has hit US stores amid much fanfare. The mixed-reality headset is literally a computer on your face. Strap on the device, and you will see digital content – like web browsers, photos and video...
A push notification pops up on your phone and you swipe across the screen to clear it – the mere seconds between these two actions is all it takes for some of the most popular social media apps to collect data from you, if you're using an iPhone. App ...
Samsung's first AI-powered phones have arrived. Its S24 series can translate phone calls across 13 languages in almost real-time, and lets you move subjects in a photo while its AI fills the void so the image still looks real. The phones' circle-to-se...
An AI robot has learnt how to use a coffee machine – simply by watching people do the task on video. The humanoid robot, created by a company called Figure, can even correct its own mistakes in the process. Just how impressive is it that a robot is ...
We've seen AI firms being sued for using data from other parties to train their tech without consent. And in the latest case, the New York Times says it’s suing OpenAI and Microsoft for using its stories to train chatbots. The media outlet alleged th...
There’s been a long-standing myth that our smart devices can listen to what we say and use the information to feed us personalised ads. And now, there may be evidence to suggest that this capability really exists. American media giant, Cox Media Group...
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