Today in Generative Media

AI movie premiere cancelled; Pocket FM partners with ElevenLabs; AI jokes fall flat

News

• Premiere of First Movie Written by AI Is Axed After Backlash (The Daily Beast)

• Pocket FM partners with ElevenLabs to convert scripts into audio content quickly (TechCrunch)

• AI-Generated Jokes Resemble 'Cruise Ship Comedy Material From The 1950s' — Google DeepMind Experiment Turns Out To Be A Mixed Bag (Benzinga)

• I tested out a buzzy new text-to-video AI model from China (MIT Technology Review)

• Antitrust Attacks on AI Abuse Government Power (National Review)

• New UNESCO report warns that Generative AI threatens Holocaust memory (UNESCO)

• This generative AI-powered LEGO 'printer' turns text prompts into dreams. I mean, LEGO pixel art (PC Gamer)

Lectures

• MIT 6.S191: Introduction to Deep Learning. MIT's introductory program on deep learning methods

• MIT Introduction to Deep Learning: Generative AI for Media. Lecturer: Doug Eck is a Senior Research Director at Google, and leads research efforts at Google DeepMind in Generative Media, including image, video, 3D, music, and audio generation. (YouTube)

Software and Research

• Groqnotes: Generate organized notes from audio using Groq, Whisper, and Llama3 (GitHub)

• Lumina-T2X: Transforming Text into Any Modality, Resolution, and Duration via Flow-based Large Diffusion Transformers (GitHub)

• ExVideo: Extending Video Diffusion Models via Parameter-Efficient Post-Tuning (arXiv)

Misc

• An AI movie studio could produce the start of 10 movies for the price of one, and see which ones have the most interest and positive feedback. Then finish the ones with most potential. Roger Corman 2.0 (X)

• You are part of an extremely rare time that only very few have experienced in the history of humans when a new art form has been invented/realized that shifts the foundations forever. (X)

• This kinda feels like a glimpse into the future of AI creation (X)