First, in February 2023, we got Runway. Then came Pika, followed by Sora, Luma Labs’ Ray2, King and other pretenders to the throne of the world’s favourite AI video generator. It’s becoming a rich, diverse area of AI development. Some have more features than others, such as lip-synching, but they all have one goal; generate […]
Large Language Models are the foundations of the tools we’re beginning to use almost routinely for everything from report-writing to drafting scripts. But were you aware of how many of them there are out there and what they do? ChatGPT GPT-3 GPT-3.5 GPT-4 GPT-4o BERT (Bi-Directional Encoder Representation from Transformers) from Google Claude, from Anthropic […]
This stabilising device for smartphones can feed live video to a rear touchscreen display so you don’t need to use your ‘phone’s inferior front- facing camera to record selfies, and, when tripod-mounted, the AI-tracker automatically tilts and pans so that you are always in the frame. The Chinese-made iSteady M7 can also carry certain full […]
Originally developed to generate stills, a new Firefly Video Model has been announced. It can add audio or video frames from an existing video clip and generate new video and 3D animation clips at 1080p resolution and up to five seconds in length using reference images or text prompts of up to 1,000 words Adobe say […]
As we look ahead to an exciting new year of AI innovation, with everybody predicting rapid growth in generative AI, here are some things Forbes’ Bernard Marr is telling us to look out for and track. Augmented working “More thoughtful consideration of how humans can work hand-in-hand with AI to augment our technical abilities while […]
Santa Claus, all 1 minute 16 seconds of it, was made in the UK in 1898 by George Albert Smith, who was a famed early filmmaker, projectionist, hypnotist and friend of French visual effects pioneer Georges Méliès. The BFI, who have published the film on YouTube as part of the BFI National Archive, has praised it […]