AI Advances Bring Promise and Controversy: Robot Workers, Voice Clones, Unpaid Training Data, and Alchemy Comparisons
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Amazon has humanoid robots that can pick things up and put them down called Digit.
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AI is being used by NYC mayor Eric Adams for multilingual public service announcements via voice cloning.
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Companies want creatives to provide content to train AI models but don't want to compensate them.
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PwC is using ChatGPT for consulting advice, but studies show distrust in AI advice.
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Marc Andreessen thinks AI is like alchemy and calls ideas like tech ethics the enemy in a manifesto.
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