AI For Humans

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Exactly how close are we to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)? Well, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says... closer than we think. Is that a good thing? Today in AI For Humans we dive into AGI at the top of the show discussing all the update from OpenAI as well as James Cameron's recent talk where he says he's "all in on AI but AGI...not so much" and think about where we could go from here. There's so much more in today's episode: AI at Meta's possible search engine, a cool AI tool that promises to create soundtracks from video, Kevin P. give us his Apple Intelligence hands-on and a whole lot more AI news. Video is available here on YT, audio everywhere you want it: https://lnkd.in/gpzDbxRG #ai #agi #ainews #futureofentertainment #machinelearning #aiforhumans

We Love This: ElevenLabs Text-To-Sound Effect Here's a rough demo, using ChatGPT to imagine a list of sounds that when put together, create a sound bed for a sunny morning at a medieval hot dog stand We prompt ElevenLab's for: ✓ Gentle morning birds ✓ Soft breeze in an urban city ✓ Sizzling sausages ✓ Coffee cart whirring ✓ Low hum of city street ✓ Clock tower ringing Layer in the best sound bites it provides (it won't nail it every time) and the result is something reasonably good! For a medieval hot dog stand anyway.

Our 3 can't-miss AI headlines of the week: 1️⃣ Runway's Act(or)-One Runway's latest sorcery, overlaying a human performance onto… well anything it can identify as a face, is live just in time for the election. Gavin dug into what an exciting turning point this represents for creators in yesterday’s video. 2️⃣ An AI Model That Uses Your Computer! If you caught Thursday’s episode you saw us blather at length on this: Anthropic's release of a Computer Use model brings us a step closer to true AI agents. Currently only available via API, it uses images of the desktop to fulfill a user’s request one keystroke and mouse-scooch at a time. AI! Controlling our computers! 3️⃣ The Launch of Apple Intelligence Pushing to devices this week, our early impressions of Apple Intelligence are it's a start, but not quite as much as we'd hoped to see. A heads up you have to request access on iOS and MacOS devices with M1 or better via System Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri. It all feels a bit underwhelming, but bigger picture we anticipate this could push AI even further into the mainstream as Siri introduces millions to ChatGPT for the first time. ✉️ And because there's a lot of AI fluff out there, we're sharing our top 3 headlines each week on a new secret email list 🤫 https://lnkd.in/gs95vgbJ

Rolling out to Runway users now, Act-One. AI motion capture made unbelievably simple 👀 Is it as good as the real deal? Definitely not. But it's quickly making trivial what in the past required entire creative teams. It matches eye lines and micro expressions, delivering something that feels representative of an actor's performance. As someone in sports once said "you have to skate where the puck is going." Imagine having two years left on a production and needing to decide if this will be good enough in 12 months time? Runway provided a host of interesting examples I'll link in the top comment. In the meantime, you won't want to miss tomorrow's show (https://lnkd.in/gfcBYTqH) because we've got thoughts!

Are you IN LOVE with the new ChatGPT ✨ Canvas like we are? Quite possibly the best AI writing experience we've used to-date.

Imagine acting out every role in a scene, from your bedroom, in your jimmy jams 👀 On the heels of their deal with Lionsgate, Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela is making the rounds to media outlets discussing the future of Hollywood + Tech. But the demo that caught our attention came from a live talk he gave at a Bloomberg conference, where they discuss using AI to augment an actor’s performance. It's another example of generative AI coming for at least a part of Hollywood production — the mo-cap suit. We believe Generative AI tools are “raising the floor” for all creatives and allowing much smaller teams to make high quality content. Is this as good as what WETA Digital could do? Not even close. But, if the creative is good and the effects are just good enough, I’d still watch the hell out of it. We, as humans, connect with great storytelling and we’re about to get so many more stories that some of them will be incredible. Maybe quite a few.

Gavin and Kevin are IN PERSON this week and the vibes are unstoppable: ✅ Adobe drops some wild AI updates ✅ Nuclear power plants, coming to a small industrial park near you ✅ And we clone Kevin's voice with a free desktop app 👀 Tune in on YouTube or your favorite pod player, both linked in the comments 👇

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