{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Embracing Digital This Week","title":"April 10, 2023","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":302,"description":"Artificial IntelligenceYet another thing parents need to be worried about. AI voice cloning! In a recent virtual abduction from a cyber bad actor, the mother of a 15 year old grow was called and spoofed using her daughter's voice to announce her abduction. Followed by ‘I’ve got your daughter’. Quick thinking, the mom texted her husband to check on the location of their daughter who was safe. The FBI is investigating this and several other instances.https://www.azfamily.com/2023/04/10/ive-got-your-daughter-scottsdale-mom-warns-close-encounter-with-ai-voice-cloning-scam/Eugenia Kuyda is the founder of Replika, a US chatbot app that says it offers users an \"AI companion who cares, always here to listen and talk, always on your side\". Launched in 2017, it now has more than two million active users. Each has a chatbot or \"replika\" unique to them, as the AI learns from their conversations. Users can also design their own cartoon avatar for their chatbot.https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65110680NVIDIA, Getty Images Collaborate on Generative AI. The companies aim to develop two generative AI models using NVIDIA Picasso, part of the new NVIDIA AI Foundations cloud services. Users could employ the models to create a custom image or video in seconds, simply by typing in a concept. Joint effort aims to customize text-to-image and text-to-video foundation models to spawn stunning visuals using fully licensed visual content.https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/03/21/generative-ai-getty-images/?ncid=so-link-748862&=&linkId=100000197541685#cid=gtcs23_so-link_en-usUbiquitous ComputeIs COBOL finally dead? GFT and Cloud Frame are joining forces to help organizations move their COBOL programs to more efficient platforms. COBOL was developed in 1959 as one of the first multi-vendor-supported languages for mainframe business users. It has become increasingly expensive to debug and maintain COBOL systems due to the lack of Programmers that still work with...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/OMDZ8R3YMN-8KwiD79hhPqUlSCyBqnLA5kaoTYZ23oM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84Mjhh/MTIxZWQwMTdkY2Y0/ZWE2ZDA5ZGMwNWIy/NWQ1Zi5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}