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Voice clone-AI

Voice clone fraud has been on the rise in India. AI voice cloning – It is the process of creating a synthetic replica of a person’s voice through machine learning and speech synthesis technology.It is called as voice deepfakesor audio deepfakes. Objective – To achieve a high level of naturalness that sounds exactly like a person’s voice. Usage of Voice Deepfakes Voice assistants – Creation of personalized voice assistants, chatbots, video game characters, animated film avatars, custom call centre voices, and much more. Language translations – Meta’s SeamlessM4T, can understand nearly 100 languages from speech or text and generate translations in real-time. Protecting original voices – Apple introduced a voice cloning feature to help people…

06 February, 2024 Artificial Intelligence

Vondy

It is an all-in-one AI platform that can create content as well as enhance productivity. The application has been developed by New York-based software engineer Rohit Das and New Jersey-based software engineer David Laub. Vondy is free and there are no message limits unlike ChatGPTand also has an AI assistant that’s a social media influencer.

30 January, 2024 Artificial Intelligence

Watsonx.ai

At the recent COP28, NASA and IBM announced that an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool called watsonx.ai would be available on the open-source AI platform Hugging Space. Watsonx.ai is built on a foundation model; it is trained on a broad set of uncategorized data allowing the model to apply information about one situation to another. The platform has a set of AI assistants to help one scale and accelerate the impact of artificial intelligence through trusted data across his/her business. In the case of watsonx.ai, NASA provides the datasets and IBM created the foundation model to interpret them. Watsonx.ai will help…

28 December, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

Krutrim

Krutrim Si Designs, the artificial intelligence (AI) venture of Ola co-founder recently unveiled Krutrim. Krutrim is India’s own AI’ model & a family of Large Language Models, including Krutrim base and Krutrim Pro. Krutrim has joined the increasingly-competitive AI race dominated by players such as Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.

21 December, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

Graph Networks for Materials Exploration (GNoME)

GNoME, an AI tool, is accelerating the materials discovery using artificial intelligence (AI). It is a state-of-the-art graph neural network (GNN) model that uses ‘active learning’ to enhance its performance, allowing it to predict the stability of new materials. Launched by – Google DeepMind Aim - To generate novel candidate crystals and to predict their stability. Deep learning is a method of artificial intelligence (AI) where it is taught to process data in a way that is inspired by a human computer.   Working – GnoME can generate predictions for the structures of novel, stable crystals which were then tested, resulting in high-quality training data fed back into…

17 December, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)

Prime Minister has inaugurated the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit at Bharat Mandapam. GPAI Launch - It was launched in 2020. GPAI is a 29 member multi-stakeholder initiative. Aim - GPAI aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice on AI by supporting cutting-edge research and applied activities on AI-related priorities. It is built around a shared commitment to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence. India - India is a founding member of GPAI, having joined the multi-stakeholder initiative in June 2020 and the lead chair of GPAI in 2024. Previous summits - The first three GPAI summits were…

16 December, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

Google Gemini

Alphabet, Google’s parent company came out with its most advanced AI model, called Gemini. It a new multimodal general and flexible AI model, which comes in three sizes. Multimodal means it can work, understand, and operate across text, code, audio, image, and video. ChatGPT cannot work on video at the moment, at least not natively. Gemini can understand, explain and generate high-quality code in the world’s most popular programming languages, like Python, Java, C++ and Go. Gemini ultra - Gemini Ultra is the first model to outperform human experts on massive multitask language understanding (MMLU), which uses a combination of 57 subjects.…

16 December, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

Youth for Unnati and Vikas with AI (YUVAi)

YUVAi is a national program that aims to teach AI skills to students in grades 8–12. The program is a collaboration between the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and Intel.

10 December, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

EU's AI Rules

The European Union has reached a deal recently on the world's 1st comprehensive artificial intelligence rules. It paves the way for legal oversight of AI technology.

09 December, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

AI's secure by design

US, Britain, 18 other countries ink agreement to make AI 'secure by design' recently. The agreement is non-binding, carries mostly general recommendations such as monitoring AI systems for abuse, protecting data from tampering and vetting software suppliers. 18 countries that signed on to the new guidelines include Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, Australia, Chile, Israel, Nigeria and Singapore.

28 November, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

AI - Quantum Computing Confluence

Quantum Computing (QC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are arguably the two most transformative technologies of our era, pushing the boundaries of computation and cognition, respectively. What is Quantum AI? It means the use of QC for computation of machine learning algorithms, which takes advantage of computational superiority of QC to achieve results that are not possible to achieve with classical computers. Quantum theory- Qubits- It can exist in a superposition of two states (both 1 and 0), to encode and manipulate information. Entanglement- It is a phenomenon where two qubits can share a quantum state and influence each other, even when they are far apart. The…

26 November, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

AI Voice Clones (Deepfake audios)

The creation a cloned voice of anyone holds significant implications as India approach the upcoming elections, a period particularly susceptible to the proliferation of misinformation. A deep fake audio is one that closely mimics a real person’s voice. Technology – It particularly uses deep learning algorithms, a form of generative AI. Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)refers to the capability of AI-enabled machines to use existing text, audio files, or images to create new content. Aim – To generate synthetic or manipulated voice recordings that mimic the voice of a specific individual. Prerequisite – A laptop with a good internet connection and the audio clip of the person whose…

17 November, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

"Dashboard" portal

Union Minister of Science & Technology recently launched the software application "Dashboard" portal. It is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven technology dashboard to analyze Parliament Questions on various parameters including member's profile. It also serve as a dashboard for Cabinet Notes, Acts of Parliament and Gazette Notifications of Govt. of India related to Department of Science & Technology.

16 November, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

AI Safety Summit 2023

Recently, the World’s 1st Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit was held at Bletchley Park, a historic site in UK where the Enigma code was cracked during World War II. Bletchley Park- The Birthplace of Artificial Intelligence (AI) It is a historic site in England that was the headquarters of the Government Code and Cypher School during World War II. It is considered the birthplace of modern computing and artificial intelligence. Enigma code - Bletchley Park is most known for cracking the Enigma code, the complex cipher system used by the Nazis during World War II to encrypt their radio messages It was cracked by Alan Turing who was often…

09 November, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

Avian Influenza

Avian Influenza   The President of the World Health Organization recently issued a warning, urging everyone to get ready for a potential pandemic of bird flu.   15 million domestic birds have died as a result of the bird flu pandemic, and 193 million more have been culled since October 2021. It has reached North America, South America, and Central America from Europe and Asia. Mammal adaptation: Skunks, a raccoon, and a red foxes are among the mammals that have been verified to have the avian flu by the US Department of Agriculture. It was thought that these mammals had…

23 February, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT – Powered WhatsApp Chatbot

ChatGPT – Powered WhatsApp Chatbot MeitY's BHASHINI is creating a WhatsApp chatbot powered by ChatGPT to help Indian farmers learn about various government initiatives. Important Points: BHASHINI is the name of India's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language translation platform (BHASHa INterface for India). The introduction of the WhatsApp chatbot may take some time due to ChatGPT's limited support for regional languages and present dependency on English for input. What are the intended purposes? Users will be able to send queries via voice notes. Simply ask a question using voice notes, and ChatGPT will react with a voice-based answer. The chatbot was…

17 February, 2023 Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence in India

Artificial Intelligence in India Industrial Revolution 4.0 It includes Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Blockchain AR, VR, IoT, Supercomputing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, 3D printing. IoT (Internet of Things): is defined by ICT as a dynamic global network infrastructure with self-configuring capabilities. Deep Learning or Hierarchical Learning is part of machine learning methods based on learning data representations. In deep learning, each level learns to transform its input data into a slightly more abstract and composite representation. Applications like speech recognition, facial recognition, bioinformatics and drug discovery, financial fraud detection, AI in healthcare, etc. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? The term was…

13 January, 2022 Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered grievance management application

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered grievance management application Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered grievance management application in New Delhi on July 15, 2021, developed by the Ministry of Defence with the help of IIT-Kanpur. This is the first AI-based system developed to improve grievance redressal in the Government. The AI tool developed as part of the initiative has the capability to understand the content of the complaint based on the contents therein. As a result, it can identify repeat complaints or spam automatically. Based on the meaning of the complaint, it can categorise complaints into different categories…

16 July, 2021 Artificial Intelligence

NITI Aayog's “AIM-PRIME” scheme to support science based startups

NITI Aayog's “AIM-PRIME” scheme to support science-based startups Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched AIM-PRIME (Program for Researchers on Innovations, Market-Readiness & Entrepreneurship). About AIM-PRIME: AIM-PRIME Program aims at promoting science-based, deep technology. For that, it will provide training and guidance over a period of 12 months. Implementation to be done by Venture Center – a non-profit technology business incubator. The program is open to: Technology developers (early-stage deep tech start-ups, and scientists/ engineers/ clinicians) with strong science-based deep tech business ideas. CEOs and Senior incubation managers of AIM Funded Atal Incubation Centers…

04 April, 2021 Artificial Intelligence

Finance Minister launched Central Scrutiny Centre and IEPFA App

Finance Minister launched Central Scrutiny Centre and IEPFA App The Finance Minister virtually launched the Central Scrutiny Centre(CSC). She also launched the mobile app for the Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority(IEPFA).  About Central Scrutiny Centre: Central Scrutiny Centre is an initiative of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. It aims to scrutinize the forms filled by companies under straight-through processes. The objective is to ensure that data quality is free from flaws. Features of the Central Scrutiny Centre: CSC will primarily do the following things, It will Scrutinize the filings made by users under straight-through processes The CSC will identify data…

28 March, 2021 Artificial Intelligence

Data on Artificial Intelligence

Data on Artificial Intelligence AI has helped increase crop yields, raised business productivity, improved access to credit and made cancer detection faster and more precise.  It could contribute more than $15 trillion to the world economy by 2030,adding14%to global GDP. Google has identified over 2,600 use cases of“AI for good” worldwide. A study published in Naturereviewing the impact of AI on the SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDGs) find that AI may act as an enabler on134 — or 79%—of all SDG targets. We are on the cusp of unprecedented technological breakthroughs that promise to positively transform our world in ways deeper and more profound than anything that has come before.Yet, the study in Naturealsofinds that AI can actively hinder 59—or 35%— of SDG targets. 

19 March, 2021 Artificial Intelligence

Countering deepfakes, the most serious AI threat

Countering deepfakes, the most serious AI threat By, Ashish Jaiman is the Director of Technology and Operations in the Customer Security and Trust organization at Microsoft, focusing on the Defending Democracy Program Context Disinformation and hoaxes have evolved from mere annoyance to high stake warfare for creating social discord, increasing polarisation, and in some cases, influencing an election outcome. Deepfakes are a new tool to spread computational propaganda and disinformation at scale and with speed. Access to commodity cloud computing, algorithms, and abundant data has created a perfect storm to democratise media creation and manipulation. About Deepfakes: Deepfakes are the…

29 October, 2020 Artificial Intelligence

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