By now, you know that the AI-powered ChatGPT chatbot can answer questions, which in some people’s minds has the potential to make it a serious rival to Google search Though the answers are pleasingly conversational, there’s still much work to be done there as they can’t yet be relied upon to be accurate. However, ChatGPT […]
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Launchvox’s Bob Dyce is having serious fun with Pix2Pix
Very happy share this bit of serious but fun AI video experimentation conducted by our friend Bob Dyce, CEO of Launchvox in Sacramento. Check out these short tests I created using Pix2Pix Video. You simply drop a video clip onto the ‘source video’ window, and write a prompt describing the effect you would like to […]
IEEE announces GET Program to “support global AI literacy”
The new programme “brings socio-technical standards” and provides “guidance and considerations to aid the development of trustworthy AI to the global community” “By making available vital building blocks, the IEEE GET Program for AI Ethics and Governance Standards will help contribute to creating AI systems which are more trustworthy and further the goal of raising […]
Virtual production for commercials – ESG, economics and creativity
We read and hear a lot about Hollywood films and high-end TV being shot on LED stages with sophisticated in-camera visual effects, but what’s happening in adland? Driven by ESG (Environmental, social and corporate governance) ambitions as well as economics – productions “cost less if you know what you are doing, and … emit less […]
Veritone Voice clone Alan Smith for text-to-speech football commentary
What if you’re a painfully shy sports journalist with fantastic observational and descriptive skills, or your accent or perhaps a speech impediment prevents you from having a career as a football commentator. Never fear, Alan’s here. Using NLP (Neuro-linguistic Processing) algorithms, Veritone Voice have cloned former Arsenal favourite, now expert Sky Sports commentator Alan Smith‘s […]
Runway adds startling Gen-1 text- and image-to-video generator
Working much better than other, similar AI-powered tools that generate videos assembled from hundreds of (AI-generated) images, Runway, from the makers of text-to-image AI tool Stable Diffusion, is a feature-rich video editor that separates itself from the herd. With 30+ AI Magic Tools, real-time video editing, collaboration, and more, Runway is your next-generation content creation […]