OpenAI’s new text-to-3D system: The dawn of voice-controlled CAD

OpenAI is making rapid advances in a new text-to-3D object system it’s been working on. The Shap-E AI, available as an open-source download, can generate 3D assets straight from a text description, or build them from supplied images.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading OpenAI’s new text-to-3D system: The dawn of voice-controlled CAD

Google opens up the MusicLM text-to-music AI for public playtime

Deep learning neural nets have begun a roughshod rampage through the creative arts sectors, and if musicians thought they were safe from the AIs that plague the nightmares of writers, artists and others, they’ve got another think coming.Continue Readin… Continue reading Google opens up the MusicLM text-to-music AI for public playtime

Google swings for the fences with PaLM 2 and Gemini AI systems

Badly bloodied by OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google has struck back with a new, more powerful large language model (LLM) to upgrade Bard and create a suite of new AI services – starting with a model targeted at doctors. It also teased its next-gen Gemini AI.Conti… Continue reading Google swings for the fences with PaLM 2 and Gemini AI systems

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

The insane promise – and janky reality – of AutoGPT’s autonomous AI

This is no puny chatbot. AutoGPT is a stack of AIs, managed by other AIs. It goes and gets jobs done for you, figuring things out step by step and adjusting on the fly. It’s an early, but janky glimpse at how autonomous AI will change your life.Continu… Continue reading The insane promise – and janky reality – of AutoGPT’s autonomous AI

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

Jimmy Wales is considering using GPT to write Wikipedia

In an interview with Daniel Hambury at London’s Evening Standard newspaper, Wales chews over some of the issues inherent with the technology – particularly its tendency to “hallucinate,” or flat-out make things up – but points out that “using AI to tri… Continue reading Jimmy Wales is considering using GPT to write Wikipedia

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