Today in Generative Media

Washington Post's climate chatbot; Odyssey vs. Sora; Toonstar's AI for YouTube series

News and Opinion

• The Washington Post made an AI chatbot for questions about climate (The Verge) Your climate questions, answered (Washington Post)

• Two self-driving car guys take on OpenAI’s Sora, Kling, and Runway to be Hollywood’s favorite AI (Fortune)

• Toonstar Uses AI To Power Hit YouTube Series (Forbes)

• The World’s First AI-Powered Movie Camera Transforms Filmed Footage (PetaPixel)

• IATSE Agreement Clears the Way to Use Artificial Intelligence as a Tool (Variety)

• Google Experts Warn That AI May Distort Reality, While AI Overviews Repel Mobile Users (CNET)

• The 6 Disciplines Companies Need to Get the Most Out of Gen AI (Harvard Business Review)

• Pop Culture (Ed Zitron)

Software and Research

• Magnific plugin for Photoshop (X)

• Chrome's new `window​.ai` feature is going to change the web forever! It allows you to run Gemini Nano, a powerful 3.25B parameter LLM, 100% locally in your browser! We've also added experimental support to Transformers.js, making it super easy to use! (X)

• GeoWizard: Unleashing the Diffusion Priors for 3D Geometry Estimation from a Single Image (ECCV 2024, project page)

• UltraPixel: Advancing Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis to New Peaks (project page)

Misc

• Are movies about to get remixed ? 🗣 You can now make your own dubs in minutes. (LinkedIn)

• crazy (X)