As AI continues to penetrate the creative space, creating value as well as concerns among many, six-month-old Pika Labs has announced its text-to-video AI platform, Pika 1.0, is now available for everyone.
Accessible via the web, Pika 1.0 allows users to generate and edit videos in diverse styles such as 3D animation, anime or cinematic – from simple text prompts.
The move to launch the tool…
The 5 AI stories I’m waiting for in 2024 | The AI Beat
December 28, 2023
Exactly a year ago, I published an AI Beat column that detailed 5 AI stories I was waiting to cover in 2023.
Thanks to what I like to call a constant ‘tsunami’ of AI news in the wake of OpenAI’s November 2022 release of ChatGPT, I didn’t have to wait long: From GPT-4…
As AI presents a world of unlimited possibilities for software companies, it also has the potential to open Pandora’s box, unleashing unintended consequences. This is especially true as the feature set of AI approaches artificial general intelligence (AGI).
However, it…
11 data predictions for AI-centric enterprise growth in 2024
December 28, 2023
The year 2023 was all about adopting generative AI and foundation models. However, as organizations raced to bring gen AI front and center in their workflows, they realized how important it was to get their data affairs in order.
While companies always understood the role of high-quality data in business success, the rise of gen AI reinforced its value, making sure it was the point of focus for…
A free AI image dataset, removed for child sex abuse images, has come under fire before
December 22, 2023
A massive open-source AI dataset, LAION-5B, which has been used to train popular AI text-to-image generators like Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen, contains at least 1,008 instances of child sexual abuse material, a new report from the Stanford Internet…
Call it a holiday present: Midjourney version 6, the latest and greatest iteration of the popular image generation AI model from the research collective of the same name founded by David Holz, dropped last night as an alpha release — and already, some power users are…
Apple’s latest AI research could completely transform your iPhone
December 22, 2023
Apple, a company practically synonymous with technological innovation, has once again positioned itself at the forefront of the AI revolution.
The Cupertino, Calif.-based company recently announced significant strides in artificial intelligence research through two new papers introducing new techniques for 3D avatars and efficient language model inference. The advancements could enable more…
Just yesterday, I asked if Google would ever get an AI product release right on the first try. Consider that asked and answered — at least, going by the looks of its latest research.
This week, Google showed off VideoPoet, a new large language model (LLM) designed for a…
AI will make 2024 US elections a ‘hot mess’
December 22, 2023
Generative AI will make the 2024 US elections a ‘hot mess’ — whether it is from chatbots or deepfakes — while at the same time, politics will slow down AI regulation efforts, says Nathan Lambert, a machine learning researcher at the Allen Institute for AI, who also…
In its continuous pursuit of advancements in the generative AI domain, Google has introduced a new product, NotebookLM. This experimental AI-driven online note-taking app, marked by the integration of the Gemini AI Model 1, has progressed from its initial limited release to being generally available for all adult users in the United States who opt into it. Despite the mixed results from previous…
