MetaGPT turns ideas into apps in a single step

Thomas Edison once described genius as “one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration” – but AI systems like MetaGPT can already reduce that sweat to nearly nothing when it comes to coding and deploying simple apps and websites.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading MetaGPT turns ideas into apps in a single step

Mightier than the sword: OpenAI’s impossible truth and bias dilemmas

The raw GPT-4 language model – and any model like it – is capable of writing more or less anything a human might. That includes obscene and pornographic content – anecdotally, a big favorite among many early users – as well as content many would define… Continue reading Mightier than the sword: OpenAI’s impossible truth and bias dilemmas

nVidia’s new text-to-video AI shows an insane rate of progress

“Will Smith eating spaghetti” made text-to-video generative AIs look like a bit of a joke just a month or two ago, but nVidia has now demonstrated a new system that appears to blow previous efforts out of the water. The pace of progress here is astonis… Continue reading nVidia’s new text-to-video AI shows an insane rate of progress

The beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs

A new creative AI system called ModelScope is now pumping out short videos in response to text prompts. The early results are wonderfully bizarre and thoroughly memeworthy – but it’s immediately clear how immensely powerful these tools will become.Cont… Continue reading The beautiful, hilarious surrealism of early text-to-video AIs

The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600

Six months ago, only researchers and boffins were following the development of large language models. But ChatGPT’s launch late last year sent a rocket up humanity’s backside: machines are now able to communicate in a way pretty much indistinguishable … Continue reading The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600

Microsoft casually drops news that ChatGPT 4.0 will go live this week

ChatGPT’s underlying language model, GPT-3.5, is about to be superseded. The CTO of Microsoft Germany has told the audience at the company’s “AI in Focus” event that GPT-4 is set for imminent release, unlocking new capabilities, including video.Continu… Continue reading Microsoft casually drops news that ChatGPT 4.0 will go live this week

Top DJ deepfakes Eminem into a song, and it seems that’s totally legal

French DJ and music producer David Guetta has discovered AI tools, and thought it would be fun to use an unauthorized deepfake of Eminem’s voice to rev up a huge crowd at a live show. It looks like it worked, but it raises legal and ethical questions.C… Continue reading Top DJ deepfakes Eminem into a song, and it seems that’s totally legal

AI tools are now creating video, and matching sound effects

“No Lights, no cameras, all action.” You knew it was coming. One of the key companies behind the Stable Diffusion image generator has launched a mind-blowing AI video creation and editing tool that operates something like DALL-E for moving pictures.Con… Continue reading AI tools are now creating video, and matching sound effects

ChatGPT: The friendly face of your AI replacement

We are witnessing a revolution. After the stunning debut of OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 image generator last year, the company opened its natural language generator up to the public at the end of November last year. Since then, it’s spread like wildfire, amassin… Continue reading ChatGPT: The friendly face of your AI replacement

DALL-E 2: A dream tool and an existential threat to visual artists

The greatest artistic tool ever built, or a harbinger of doom for entire creative industries? OpenAI’s second-generation DALL-E 2 system is slowly opening up to the public, and its text-based image generation and editing abilities are awe-inspiring.Con… Continue reading DALL-E 2: A dream tool and an existential threat to visual artists