AI Advances Bring Promise and Controversy: Robot Workers, Voice Clones, Unpaid Training Data, and Alchemy Comparisons

Amazon has humanoid robots that can pick things up and put them down called Digit.

AI is being used by NYC mayor Eric Adams for multilingual public service announcements via voice cloning.

Companies want creatives to provide content to train AI models but don't want to compensate them.

PwC is using ChatGPT for consulting advice, but studies show distrust in AI advice.

Marc Andreessen thinks AI is like alchemy and calls ideas like tech ethics the enemy in a manifesto.