A new Chrome extension can reliably detect AI-generated voices

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1. A new Chrome extension can reliably detect AI-generated voices

Hiya, a call screening and fraud detection company, has launched a free Chrome extension to detect deepfake voices. The extension, called Hiya Deepfake Voice Detector, listens to voices in video or audio streams and assigns an authenticity score to determine if they are real or fake. Third-party testers have validated the extension as over 99 percent accurate, covering AI-generated voices and new synthesis models.

Hiya criticized social media companies for making such tools necessary, stating that users should be vigilant to the risks of AI deepfakes.

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2. AI mediation tool may help reduce culture war rifts, say researchers

Researchers have developed an AI system called the "Habermas Machine" to help reduce cultural divisions by creating group statements reflecting majority and minority views. The system, named after German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, uses written views of individuals within a group to generate acceptable statements.

Participants rate these statements, and critiques are then fed back into the system. The system has been used in experiments involving over 5,000 participants in the UK, and has been found to increase group agreement by eight percentage points on average. However, the system has faced controversy, with some experts expressing concerns about minorities being disenfranchised.

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3. Microsoft’s Differential Transformer cancels attention noise in LLMs

Microsoft Research and Tsinghua University researchers have introduced Differential Transformer, a new LLM architecture that improves performance by amplifying attention to relevant context while filtering out noise.

Diff Transformer outperforms the classic Transformer architecture in various settings, as it addresses the "lost-in-the-middle" phenomenon where LLMs struggle to retrieve key information from long contexts. The softmax function tends to over-attend irrelevant context.

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4. This Talking Pet Collar Is Like a Chatbot for Your Dog

Personifi AI, a startup based in Austin, Texas, is developing a voice-activated collar that allows pets to communicate with humans. The collar, called Shazam, has a speaker on it that responds to the user's voice, creating the illusion of a human-like personality and English speaking abilities.

The idea was sparked by John McHale's dog, Roscoe, who was bit by a rattlesnake. The collar is priced at $495 for cats and $595 for dogs, with subscription fees for feline and "ultra" collars and the BrainBoost service.

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