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

You can now talk to video game NPCs, and frankly it’s incredible

ChatGPT showed the world that conversational AIs are ready for prime time, and capable of performing and chatting in character. It was only a matter of time before this kind of intelligence came to video game NPCs (non-player characters) – and yet I’m … Continue reading You can now talk to video game NPCs, and frankly it’s incredible

Which jobs will AI hit hardest, and which will stay safe the longest?

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a slow, buggy, boring-looking chat bot that frequently makes things up and cuts off in the middle of answers. But it communicates as well or better than most humans, and writes code as well. It does both in a range of languages, sho… Continue reading Which jobs will AI hit hardest, and which will stay safe the longest?

ChatGPT can now access the internet and run the code it writes

Language model AIs teach themselves the arts of communication and problem solving based on a limited set of training data. In the case of GPT-4, that data is quite out of date, with the cutoff being late 2021. That’s where all of ChatGPT’s “knowledge” … Continue reading ChatGPT can now access the internet and run the code it writes

Glaze tool messes with digital art so AIs can’t steal your style

You’ve probably played with AI image generators by this stage. Services like DALL-E and Midjourney can create extraordinary images in response to simple text prompts. They’re a ton of fun, and like many AI tools, they’re improving and evolving at a fre… Continue reading Glaze tool messes with digital art so AIs can’t steal your style

China’s Baidu launches its “ERNIE Bot” AI early in response to GPT

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has made the public aware of the insane power, potential and threat of large language models. The ripples from ChatGPT’s launch late last year are being felt in every industry – you can’t responsibly plan for the future of nearly any b… Continue reading China’s Baidu launches its “ERNIE Bot” AI early in response to GPT

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

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