Next Level AI Characters & Locations, plus: Microsoft’s Gaia and More!

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Today we’re taking a look at what looks to be the first glimpse of what Creative AI will look like very shortly. A lot has been made about how Image Generators will incorporate new camera techniques into their creations, allowing prompters to have post control over their angles and even explore entire worlds from a Prompt. Until now, this has mostly been theoretical (ahem)– but now, with Latent Consistency Models, we’re starting to see it happen, and….in Real Time. We’ll also be looking at a new project to generate characters within these worlds– and doing so without using previous 3d or video references! More than that, a new model that will create animated characters– and this one comes from a very surprising source. Is the future of E-Commerce going to have an AI Video component? From there, I’m also showcasing Microsoft’s Project Gaia, is this them flexing at Hey Gen? Will your avatar be attending your next Microsoft Teams meeting instead of you?

Prompt Engineering: Inside AI’s Hottest New Job | WSJ

Prompt engineering—getting the best answers of a generative AI chatbot like ChatGPT—is a new type of job. Large language models helped create this new role that can pay up to $250K. But what kinds of requirements and skills does it take to become a prompt engineer? WSJ’s Joanna Stern applied for the position at a New York-based AI startup called Hebbia.

How to Think Computationally About AI, the Universe and Everything | Stephen Wolfram | TED

Drawing on his decades-long mission to formulate the world in computational terms, Stephen Wolfram delivers a profound vision of computation and its role in the future of AI. Amid a debut of mesmerizing visuals depicting the underlying structure of the universe, he provides a sweeping survey of his life’s work, offering a new perspective on the applications — and consequences — of AI powered by computational language.

How to Keep AI Under Control | Max Tegmark | TED

The current explosion of exciting commercial and open-source AI is likely to be followed, within a few years, by creepily superintelligent AI – which top researchers and experts fear could disempower or wipe out humanity. Scientist Max Tegmark describes an optimistic vision for how we can keep AI under control and ensure it’s working for us, not the other way around.