Getty Images enters therative artificial intelligence pool
Getty Images has launched a generative AI tool called Generative AI that uses images from over 20 years of Getty photographers’ experience. Customers can access the tool through Getty Images’ website. The company said that users will have the right to perpetual, worldwide, nonexclusive use of the images and that new content generated by AI will not be added into Getty’s existing content libraries.
You can now talk to someone and look at your life
Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has announced it’ll be testing audio-enabled synthesis of synthetic speech and audio-audio on its chat service, ChatGPT. It’ll begin using audio and visual data to train its machine learning models, OpenAI said. It’ll test the feature with a Podcaster, who’ll be able to mimic the original voice of a Podcaster and translate it into more than one language.
NASA collected a sample from a asteroid for the first time
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully landed on asteroid Bennu after a 6.4-year journey. It landed on the asteroid, which is about 90 million km from Earth, to sample and return the asteroid’s surface pebbles. If found to be intact, that would be the biggest haul of extraterrestrial material carried back by any nation on Earth since Apollo astronauts carried pieces of the moon home.
California’s Governor has imposed a statewide ban on driverless trucks
The Teamsters union has urged California Governor Gavin Newsom to veto the bill that would have required a safety driver on self-driving trucks weighing over 10,000 pounds through at least end of the decade. The bill, AB316, would have given California Department of Motor Vehicles time to consider rules allowing trucks over 10,000 pounds to drive on California roads.
The pricing model for Unity has been changed
A video game developer said that Unity’s ‘runtime fee’ is not going to fix it and he won’t be using it for his next project. “We don’t trust them to stick to their word. I think they damage their brand for game developers nationwide, and…walkback isn’t going to fix it,” said Necrosoft Games’ co-founder. He further said he was “privy to these changes”.
This weekend is the last chance for NASA to bring home asteroids
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which will return asteroid rock samples to Earth, is on track to reach the target on October 2, the space agency has announced. The mission will collect samples from an asteroid nicknamed ‘Asteroid X’ that is roughly the size of a medium-sized sedan. NASA’s Psyche mission will launch in October to another asteroid called ‘Phosphorus’.
Workers are demanding Job Security in the future of transport
The United Auto Workers is on strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis as they’re trying to “undermine workers” through the transition to electric vehicles, the union said. Some of the plants that the legacy automakers needed to pull off the transition have been stood up mostly in US states hostile to union organising, such as Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama.
The hardware event had everything that Microsoft had to announce:Surface Laptop Studio2,Surface Laptop Go 3, and Copilot in Windows
Microsoft has announced that its voice-based assistant, Copilot, will be available on Windows X later this month. The feature will allow users to control aspects of thedesktop experience with voice or text commands. Copilot will be available on the Windows desktop, as a stand-alone app and also within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft announced at its hardware event that there would be a Surface Laptop Go 3
Microsoft unveiled its newSurface laptops, Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Studio 3, which were available for pre-order through its online store on Tuesday. “Surface Laptop Studio 2 features a high-end, high-end Intel Core i processors, 4GB of RAM and comes with an Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card,” Microsoft said. The laptops are priced at $1,999 and $1,499, respectively.
The smart display is hands-on
Amazon has unveiled a smart home control panel called ‘Echo Hub’ that connects to the company’s Alexa platform. It enables users to connect their devices to its network and control them with just one tap. The panel will cost around $399.99 and is available on Amazon.com, Best Buy, and other brick-and-mortar retailers.