12 Dec 2024

Tech: AI personality replicator, viva voce and where Pokémon Go data went

From Nine To Noon, 11:05 am on 12 December 2024
Pokemon Go on a mobile

Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly

Technology correspondent Mark Pesce looks at research from Stanford University which harnesses AI to make a 'deepfake' of someone's personality - how easy is it to create and what are the implications?

Meanwhile Panasonic's founder Kōnosuke Matsushita may have died in 1989, but his company has created an AI version of him using more than 3000 recordings, as well as his writing and lectures.

The University of South Australia is going old school viva voce to combat AI cheats and it turns out the company behind Pokémon Go has used users' data to train its new 'spatial data model'.

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