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Kaiber remixes generative AI for music videos
The Future. Kaiber’s new mobile app hopes to put the power of an animation studio in your pocket, letting users generate customizable music videos from a variety of open source animation styles. With a host of big names lending credibility by using the tools themselves, Kaiber may spawn a wave of popular animated visualizers from […]
Humane hopes to build the go-to AI wearable
The Future. Apple veterans Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno are set to officially launch their buzzy AI wearable, “Pin AI,” on November 9th. The minimalist, screenless, camera-equipped device magnetically clips to clothing to take in the user’s surroundings and leverages their personal data to be a conversational AI assistant. Competing with several legacy companies and […]
Hardware and software fight against AI
The Future. Photographers and illustrators are getting more tools to deter AI systems like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DALL-E from using their works in training data without credit or authorization. If they’re able to make enough of a dent in the culture, they could set the criteria for how the general public should view media. […]
Direqt wants to help publishers make their own chatbot
AI tries to save the publishing industry
The music industry sues Anthropic to mute AI
The Future. After Anthropic’s Claude 2 chatbot was found lifting the lyrics (sometimes word-for-word) of over 500 copyrighted songs, Universal Music Group, ABKCO, and Concord Publishing sued… and they have a very good chance at winning. If the labels win, the lawsuit could act as a foundational precedent for similar copyright infringement cases in the […]
AI is raising people from the dead
The Future. AI is putting the power of resurrection in people’s hands… and that could have some unintended consequences in the matters of mental health, consent, and copyright — for both the living and the dead. With so much at stake, as companies race to provide more and more powerful tools, everyone may need to […]
Anthropic turns to users to help craft an AI Constitution
The Future. Anthropic’s “Collective Constitutional AI” experiment put governance in the hands of the American people, testing whether a written set of rules (like Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics”) could program advanced AI systems to be safer for society. The move provides a potential alternative to government regulation, making things open source, or putting […]
New photo-editing tools are changing reality
The Future. While photo-editing tools have been around for years, touch-up tools on Google’s new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones make Instagram filters look antiquated, giving users unprecedented accessibility and ease in “capturing” the perfect shot. Soon, Instagram may be littered with not just touched-up pics but also photos of entirely fictionalized moments. […]
“AI agents” are already reshaping the internet
The Future. Leveraging ChatGPT’s ability to talk with the API of a website, app, or software, researchers at Nvidia taught ChatGPT to play the game Minecraft without human intervention… paving the way for the chatbot to become a full-fledged “AI agent” and handle any number of online tasks. While there’s still a lot of development […]