Today in Generative Media

Saving Alexa with AI; OpenAI's ChatGPT teaching guide; Google's music AI snagged

News

• Inside Amazon's agonizing attempt to save Alexa with AI (Business Insider)

• OpenAI releases a teacher’s guide to ChatGPT, but some educators are skeptical (TechCrunch)

• Google's DeepMind and YouTube built and shelved 'Orca,' a 'mind-blowing' music AI tool that hit a copyright snag (Business Insider)

• OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit (TechCrunch)

• Peter Chernin’s North Road, Andreessen Horowitz Backing New Gen AI-Focused Entertainment Studio (Hollywood Reporter)

• NeRFs win Two More Emmys (Radiance Fields)

• How AI Is Transforming Hollywood’s Visual Effects Industry (“The Future of Everything” Wall Street Journal podcast)

Software and Hardware

• Create A Music Album In Seconds 🎤: AI Songs, Sung in Your Voice. (AI Superstar)

• AI2 OpenScholar: Synthesizing 1M+ open access computer science papers (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

• Logo in Context In-Context LoRA + Image-to-Image + Inpainting, apply your logo to anything. (HuggingFace)

• Create and edit single-file HTML applications with just your voice! (HuggingFace)

• NVIDIA L40S GPUs are here (Replicate)

• GPU price drop: We've reduced the compute unit price of NVIDIA A100 and L4 GPUs by 20%. T4s saw small drops as well. (Colaboratory on X)

• ai-podcast-voice-clone ✨: Create a personalized AI-generated news podcast with the power of Firecrawl, Play.ht, and OpenAI. (Replit)

• CrisperWhisper is an advanced variant of OpenAI's Whisper... Unlike the original Whisper, which tends to omit disfluencies and follows more of a intended transcription style, CrisperWhisper aims to transcribe every spoken word exactly as it is, including fillers, pauses, stutters and false starts. (HuggingFace)

Research

• SAMURAI: Adapting Segment Anything Model for Zero-Shot Visual Tracking with Motion-Aware Memory (project page)

• Generating 3D-Consistent Videos from Unposed Internet Photos (project page)

• WELCOME TO THE MATRIX: Infinite-Horizon World Generation with Real-Time Interaction (project page)

• TrailBlazer: Trajectory Control for Diffusion-Based Video Generation (project page)

Misc

• The new Coca-Cola AI ad is unhinged (Reddit) [parody]

• Here is an example of work from a student (Lennaïg Carpe) who, from small hand-drawn sketches, created a whole series of characters for a future cartoon/video game. She used AI (X)

• So many folks obsessed with AI potentially taking creative jobs when the real risk is the continuation of what’s already been happening via mobile apps / gaming / etc — that is, consumers stop watching movies and instead engage in new AI-native entertainment formats (X)

• Calling all creators! Submit your 15 sec abstract AI art-film for a chance to showcase at ArtBasel 2024 during FilmgateMiami ! (X)