This weekend in Generative Media

Senate AI hearing; patten & Grimes make AI music; AI-generated ads

• The Senate’s hearing on AI regulation was dangerously friendly (The Verge)

• After OpenAI hearing, A.I. experts urge Congress to listen to more diverse voices on regulation (CNBC)

• How patten used text-to-audio AI to make an entire album: "We're at the precipice of a fundamental shift in how we think about making music" (MusicRadar)

• Grimes Calls First Official Song Made by AI-Cloning Her Voice a "Masterpiece" (Futurism)

• Google, Meta, and Amazon’s next frontier: AI-generated ads (The Verge)

• Fans call on Ryan Reynolds to ‘sue’ after deepfake Tesla ad uses AI-generated version of him (The Independent)

• Why We're Worried about Generative AI (Scientific American, podcast with transcript)

• MTIA v1: Meta’s first-generation AI inference accelerator (Meta) - Sorry for the broken link on Friday, here’s a more extensive blog post about it!

• New dating app pairs users with with AI chatbots designed to combat ‘ghosting’ (New York Post)

• We Put Google’s New AI Writing Assistant to the Test (Wired)

• Writers Guild Committee Member John August Discloses A.I. Investment, Faces Scrutiny (Hollywood Reporter)

• Cannes Diary: Will Artificial Intelligence “Democratize Creativity” or Lead to Certain Doom? (Hollywood Reporter)

• AI Chatbots Won't Save Hollywood From the Writers' Strike (Gizmodo)

• Lazy writers use ChatGPT to crank out trash, but A.I. can help you breathe life into your characters and make us care. (Twitter)

• 📸 Chat with NeRF: Grounding 3D Objects in Neural Radiance Field through Dialog (University of Michigan). Explainer thread (Twitter)

• Guy builds Whisper + GPT-4 live transcription tool for generating real-time responses during job interviews, and open-sourced the code. (Twitter)

• HOSNeRF: Dynamic Human-Object-Scene Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Video (arXiv)

• Cinematic Mindscapes: High-quality Video Reconstruction from Brain Activity (arXiv)

• Hacking the simulation (Twitter)