Anyway, we'll also meet the actors who say their voices have been manipulated by ai. This is formula student, a world series of events that took place this summer, featuring electric cars built by teams of students from 100 universities across the globe. On tracks throughout europe, the cars competed in disciplines including autocross, racing through formula ilike twists and turns as fast as possible. . . . . An endurance trial through more than 20km of track to push the limits of battery management. . . . . A test of grip and downforce by. . . Basically going round in a circle as fast as possible and then there's acceleration. It's a drag race, basically, and it's this last challenge that one team, amz racing, absolutely blasted last year, going from 0 to 100km an hour in. . . Well, i'll let you know a bit later. Amz includes students from lucerne university of applied sciences and arts and eth zurich, and i dropped in on the team's swiss hq. And up here is the electronics department at amz racing. We're going to meet lara. Not that lara. For one car to excel at all of these events, it not only has to have a powerful motor, but also computers have to control the traction and fine tune the speed of each wheel individually, and somehow it has to stick to the ground to give the tyres more grip. Amz achieved this with powerful fans that actually sucked the ultralight vehicle to the tarmac. Are you building on last year's design, or have you completely reinvented anything? every year we design a completely new race car. I mean, of course we orient ourselves on the design from last year. As you might have seen on the car, the downforce with the fans we had, we improved. . . . . Not the same concept, but kind of is based on the same. . . . . On the same physics behind it. Is this something you want to do in the future? do you want to work on, like, racing cars? i mean, it'd definitely be fun and really interesting, but i'm not sure yet. We'll see. It depends how it goes this year, right? yeah! and, yeah, the point of this competition is less about the winning and more about the learning. Getting to work on such a project during your studies is an incredible knowledge gain. I mean, if i compare myself three years ago, before ijoined the organisation, i know very little about engineering compared to what i do now. There are some things that might get adopted in industry. However, i think the main thing is just to really get those engineers already to have some practical experience during their studies. So, about that acceleration challenge. . . Now, after last year's formula student competition, the team decided to specifically reengineer the car to try and break the world acceleration record and go from 0 to iookm an hour in the shortest time for an electric car. This was the vehicle, this was the vehicle, and the target time. . . And the target time. . . Well, that was well, that was 0k,1. 5 seconds. Already astonishing. Already astonishing. So, in 2016, eth held so, in 2016, eth held the record 0 to iookm hour the record 0 to 100km hour in. . . ? 1. 513 seconds. In. . . ? 1. 513 seconds. 0k,1. 5 seconds. 1. 5 seconds. 0k and then, in 2022, stuttgart came along and did it in. . . ? 1. 46. So, about five hundredths of a second. And then last year you came along and did 0 to 100km an hour in how much? a bit less than a second. 0. 956. Applause 0 to 60 in less than a second. What does that feel like? it feels insane. So, you just feel this this push, and you can't even blink. It's already over. Do you have time to do any steering, or do you have to hope it's pointing in the right direction? you have to hope that points into the right direction but this we control before every start, and there is maybe a little bit of steering, but it's just intuitive. Now, when i visited amz a few weeks before this summer's competition, i got to witness the very first day of testing this year's brandnew car. Expectations were high. All our cameras were set to catch the high speed action and. . . Was that close to the world record? i'm not an expert, but. . . 0k, look, this was actually just a test to see if all hungary and the biggest one, in germany and, equally importantly, the next generation of engineers has done its qualifying lap. With short summers and a cold climate and a landscape of lava fields and glaciers, iceland's not the first place you'd think of for farming. . . . . But pioneering entrepreneurs. . But pioneering entrepreneurs are growing some surprising are growing some surprising crops and doing it crops and doing it sustainably. Inside this warehouse sustainably. Inside this warehouse on the outskirts of reykjavik on the outskirts of reykjavik is a verticalfarm. Is a verticalfarm. Vaxa means grow in icelandic, farm, this is what's known vaxa means grow in icelandic, and they're cultivating leafy and they're cultivating leafy greens. Greens. More like a lab than a typical more like a lab than a typical farm, this is what's known as controlled environment agriculture. Here we have whole head lettuce, baby leaf, a lot of herbs, and these mini microgreens. Almost every detail is precisely fine tuned. We can optimise everything. Humidity, water, light hours, nutrition. We do not have to depend on sunlight here in the farm. The plants have high quality led lights where we can use the green energy of iceland to grow the plants. That means they can produce salad year round, even in the darkest winters and there's no soil here, just water. This is like a hydroponic system. We actually can circulate, reuse the water again. A disadvantage when it comes to farming, it's the limitless supply of clean energy that's also helped it to innovate. The glowing lights take a little getting used to and, inside, it's like nothing i've seen before. This tech firm has invented what it calls an energy to food platform. Now, this place is not your typicalfarm. It's super hightech, and growing inside these units is microalgae. Algae is not something that many of us eat today, but it could well be a food of the future. It's rich in protein, iron and fatty acids, and vaxa technologies, unrelated to the salad producer, hopes to make this algae an everyday part of our diet. It's a new way of thinking about food production. I this system uses a fraction of the land, a fraction of the water needed. It's carbon negative. Energy, c02 and water that's all that's needed for this aquatic organism to grow. It photosynthesises. The algae is eating c02, or it's turning the c02. Into biomass. It's all tightly controlled using artificial intelligence to find the perfect conditions. This pinkpurple glow comes from the tiny red and blue lights. Instead of spending our electricity and making i wavelengths that they don't i use, we are only giving them the light that they use to photosynthesise. . This system gets clean electricity from the neighbouring geothermal plant, as well as water for heating and cooling and even the c02 that the algae take in. Algae, they are extremely efficient in changing light into biomass. We can use 100% of this biomass for food. It also grows very fast, and once harvested it looks like this. . . . . Which to be frank, doesn't seem hugely appetising. So, time to give it a try. This is hummus. . . Blue hummus!. . And it's blue. It's not supposed i to be a punishment. It's not a bad thing. I suggest you try this here. 0k. It doesn't taste unusual at all. But then there's a surprise. I'm not sure how i feel about this! but, er. . . Try it. It doesn't taste of much. I think it's more the texture. I think it's going to take a bit more to wrap my head around this one. Maybe it will catch on but i'm not sure i'm ready for blue food just yet. Documents leaked plan the extent of amazon *s reboot of its virtual assistant alexis. There will be a smart briefing feature providing a i generated summaries of news articles. And a chat box aimed at children. Access to the upgrade will a chat box aimed at children. Access to the upgrade will require a paid subscription. A require a paid subscription. 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But the flip phone does come with a range of stickon crystals, the manufacturer said it has made the phone in response to parents wanting to reduce the digital impact on the lives of their children. A tech company stole our voices, made clones of them as ai clones, and sold them possibly hundreds of thousands of times. This is paul and linnea voiceover actors based in new york city. Last summer, they were in the car listening to a podcast about the hollywood writers' strike and how it might affect v0 artists like them when something strange happened. The specific episode, the host was going to interview an ai entity about the potential harm that al will have on the entertainment industry, and he is interviewing my voice. How disturbing and terrifying that moment was is hard to articulate. I spent six hours on the internet that night searching as many text to speech products that i could find, and listening to all of the voices that they offered until i stumbled upon lovo. Lovo are this company, a berkeleybased text to speech platform. Just type what you want to hear. . . . . But once she started poking around the company site, linnea said she found an a! voice that sounded just like paul. I mean, i was stunned. I couldn't believe it and out of pure curiosity, ijust started listening to the other voices thinking, maybe i'll recognise someone i know, a colleague from the voiceover world, and that's when i stumbled upon my voice. So, in may, pauland linnea filed a class action lawsuit against lovo, saying the company illegally stole their voices and identities without permission or proper compensation. The company has not yet filed a response. So how did this even happen? so in october of 2019, a freelancing site that i'm on where i regularly procure voiceover work reached out to me asking if i would record some scripts for them. The couple say the scripts were generic radio ads, ones the user said would never be broadcast, so they didn't need expensive usage rights. They were quite generic you know, do you need a dry cleaner in idaho? we're here right around the corner. Your. . . Your neighbourhood dry cleaner. In the next message, the user then appears to confirm the audio will not be used for anything else. And then i asked, will you be changing the order of my audio or using it in any separate way? and they said no. As for linnea, she says the users she spoke with deleted part of the conversation, but in the communications that remain, it appears the user presents the scripts as test radio ads, ones that will not be disclosed externally. The couple said there was no formal contract, just these messages they've shared with us. We can't, however, verify if these are the complete conversations. In both cases, though, the couple recorded the audio, sent the files and moved on. The voice you're hearing is tom lee, cofounder of lovo, speaking on a business podcast about how their voice cloning technology works. We reached out to lovo on multiple occasions to request an interview with mr lee. We also asked for any correspondence or conversations they may have with paul and linnea. They did not respond to any of our messages. So what's going on in the voice actor cases are a field of law. Known as rights of publicity. The thing that's being copied is not a piece of copyrightedl work, but a piece of someone's personality, right? _ and so then we get these l personality rights, or rights of publicity, where l the allegation is not, you copied my song, or, you copied my drawing,| but rather, _ you copied my voice. Professor garcia also says the licences the couple granted the user who contacted them may have also been violated. Licences are permission for a very specific and narrow use, right? i might give you a licence that| you can swim in my swimming pool one afternoon, but that doesn't mean you can comel whenever you want and havel a party in my swimming pool, right? that would exceed the terms of the licence, and i think that would be the argument for these voice actors here. | the voices have since been removed from the company's website, but an ad still exists online where paul's supposed voice clone can be heard. So, i sat down with the couple to take a listen myself. Video: introducing genny, by lovo artificial intelligence that makes it fast and easy to create voiceovers for marketing, elearning, documentaries, animations, games, audiobooks, and more. Introducing genny, by lovo artificial intelligence that makes it fast and easy to create voiceovers for marketing, elearning, documentaries, animations, games, audiobooks, and more. When we all thought of ai in the future, we thought ai is going to be folding our laundry and making us dinner. We didn't think ai is going to replace human beings' creative endeavours. This case is just one of many being brought against a! companies by artists who don't want to lose control over their work and livelihoods and more are likely to come. We really have no other choice but to stand up and give our energy to this, because when companies develop technology that way, it's not innovation any more, it's just exploitation. Imagine if you could recreate any smell that you wanted, so you could take yourself back to your youth, or you could even go back hundreds of years in time. Well, that's just what they're doing here in this lab. Hi, i'm lara. Hi, i'm cecilia. Nice to meet you, cecilia. The smells that we all experience are a mixture of chemical compounds and