This robot learned to lip sync like humans by watching YouTube

A robot face developed by researchers can now lip sync speech and songs after training on YouTube videos, using machine ...
Opinion
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Against Imaginary Friends: Why Digital Companions Are No Solution to Social Isolation

Encouraging people to mistake digital companions for real friends is prima facie unethical. Encouraging people to have imaginary friends is no solution to social isolation. There is a risk that the ...
The Maravi Post

Filmmaker Bukata set for grand Blantyre premiere after award winning festival run

BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi’s growing film industry is set for another milestone as the much anticipated movie Bukata prepares for its official premiere at the end of this month in Blantyre. The film ...
MIT Technology Review

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some ...
The Maravi Post

Shocking! Trump declares himself as Acting Venezuela President

WASHINGTON-(MaraviPost)-In a bizarre turn of events, US President Donald Trump has declared himself the “Acting President of Venezuela” in a post on his Truth Social platform. The announcement, made ...
BMJ Open

Effectiveness of brain-computer interface interventions in autism spectrum disorder rehabilitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterised by impairments in social ...