X Factor's Sam Bailey thanks hospital staff as she gives a health update on her autistic son Tommy: 'It's been a very challenging time'
X Factor winner Sam Bailey revealed she has been facing a 'very challenging time' as she gave a health update on her autistic son Tommy on Instagram on Wednesday.
British treasure hunter who raised £32million of silver from an Indian Ocean shipwreck torpedoed by the Japanese in 1942 is told he CANNOT claim salvage rights
Motorsports champion and financier Ross Hyett, 70, successfully spearheaded a complex and risky treasure hunting mission to recover 2,364 bars of silver from the wreck of the SS Tilawa in 2017.
The King was there. And so was JFK. Yet this party fit for a Queen was in honour of Camilla's Mum! It was the last society dance of all before London turned out the lights...
It was the last great dance of peacetime - jewels, ballgowns, tailcoated escorts.So many guests elbowed each other to get to the dance-floor that one joker exclaimed 'It's like the Cup Final!'.
Ex EastEnders star is making his comeback months after collapsing with a stroke during live show
Bobby Davro is set to make his showbiz comeback this summer months after collapsing during a live show after suffering a stroke.
Corrie's Sally Dynevor appears to confirm daughter Phoebe Dynevor's engagement with new photo after the Bridgerton star flashed a diamond ring at the Met Gala
Coronation Street's Sally Dynevor has appeared to confirm her daughter Phoebe Dynevor's engagement.
ITV bosses 'forced to step in' during filming of new game show The Fortune Hotel over fears contestants could blow the budget
ITV bosses spent quite the fortune to film the upcoming game show The Fortune Hotel, to the point they had to 'restrict' the contestants' budget.
Jay Blades is 'taking a break' from TV after shock marriage split and uncle's murder as his co-stars on hit BBC show The Repair Shop continue without him
Jay Blades is 'taking a break' from filming The Repair Shop following his shock marriage split from wife Lisa-Marie Zbozen.
Gemma Collins tearfully reveals she terminated pregnancy after learning her unborn baby was a 'hermaphrodite'
Gemma Collins has revealed she was advised to terminate a pregnancy after learning her unborn baby was a 'hermaphrodite'.
University professor is fired after being caught upskirting women with hidden camera on his SHOE
Miguel Pérez was fired from his role as professor at the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla in Puebla, Mexico for using a hidden camera on his sneaker to record under a woman's skirt.
Scottish Power says our meters are too old - is this a ruse to force us to get a smart meter?
Scottish Power has said that our meters have come to the end of their life expectancy and need replacing with a smart meter. Is there anything we can do?
The house we're buying has been downvalued by £40k: What should we do?
The bank won't lend us as much as we thought, but the seller won't reduce the price. What are our options?
Trump courtroom sketch artist reveals the 'strange emails' she receives from MAGA supporters furious at her description of the former president
A courtroom artist who has been working at former President Donald Trump 's hush money trial says she's gotten 'strange emails' from Trump's fans, unhappy with her depiction of him.
From chips to cloud, tech titans continue to splash cash across APAC
Intel and pals automate manufacturing in Japan while AWS pledges billions to Singapore
Tech giants including Intel and AWS joined Microsoft and others this week in announcing investments in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region to build out infrastructure - cloud services, datacenters, and chipmaking facilities - in anticipation of growing AI demand.…
Cressing man, 55, was found hanged at his home, inquest told
Area coroner for Essex, Michelle Brown, opened coronial proceedings into Steven Butler last Tuesday.
More children in temporary housing in the Braintree district
Last year saw a rise in the number of children living in temporary accommodation in the Braintree district, according to new figures.
Essex RSPCA: 5 pets who are on the lookout for new homes
Many pets are looking to find new homes from the Essex RSPCA centres and the associated Danaher Animal Home.
Prince Harry hacking claim: Mail files 'trenchant defence of its journalism' to the High Court
Associated Newspapers vowed to contest the 'preposterous' and unfounded allegations made by the group.
Backlash over Right-wing Tory MP Natalie Elphicke's defection to Labour as former leader Lord Kinnock warns Starmer 'there are limits' to who should be allowed to join their party
Natalie Elphicke stunned Westminster yesterday by announcing she was switching to Labour in protest at the Government's 'broken promises'.
Deepfakes of Your Dead Loved Ones Are a Booming Chinese Business
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Once a week, Sun Kai has a video call with his mother. He opens up about work, the pressures he faces as a middle-aged man, and thoughts that he doesn't even discuss with his wife. His mother will occasionally make a comment, like telling him to take care of himself -- he's her only child. But mostly, she just listens. That's because Sun's mother died five years ago. And the person he's talking to isn't actually a person, but a digital replica he made of her -- a moving image that can conduct basic conversations. They've been talking for a few years now. After she died of a sudden illness in 2019, Sun wanted to find a way to keep their connection alive. So he turned to a team at Silicon Intelligence, an AI company based in Nanjing, China, that he cofounded in 2017. He provided them with a photo of her and some audio clips from their WeChat conversations. While the company was mostly focused on audio generation, the staff spent four months researching synthetic tools and generated an avatar with the data Sun provided. Then he was able to see and talk to a digital version of his mom via an app on his phone.
"My mom didn't seem very natural, but I still heard the words that she often said: 'Have you eaten yet?'" Sun recalls of the first interaction. Because generative AI was a nascent technology at the time, the replica of his mom can say only a few pre-written lines. But Sun says that's what she was like anyway. "She would always repeat those questions over and over again, and it made me very emotional when I heard it," he says. There are plenty of people like Sun who want to use AI to preserve, animate, and interact with lost loved ones as they mourn and try to heal. The market is particularly strong in China, where at least half a dozen companies are now offering such technologies and thousands of people have already paid for them. In fact, the avatars are the newest manifestation of a cultural tradition: Chinese people have always taken solace from confiding in the dead.
The technology isn't perfect -- avatars can still be stiff and robotic -- but it's maturing, and more tools are becoming available through more companies. In turn, the price of "resurrecting" someone -- also called creating "digital immortality" in the Chinese industry -- has dropped significantly. Now this technology is becoming accessible to the general public. Some people question whether interacting with AI replicas of the dead is actually a healthy way to process grief, and it's not entirely clear what the legal and ethical implications of this technology may be. For now, the idea still makes a lot of people uncomfortable. But as Silicon Intelligence's other cofounder, CEO Sima Huapeng, says, "Even if only 1% of Chinese people can accept [AI cloning of the dead], that's still a huge market."
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Kate Beckinsale, 50, wears old man costume after hitting back at critics who accused her of having plastic surgery: 'Hope it is less triggering'
Kate Beckinsale continued to hit back at critics of her appearance on Wednesday, while sharing throwback snaps of her Halloween costume from last year.