Innovation Profs - 7/2/2024

Your weekly guide to generative AI tools and news

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July 03, 2024

Generative AI News - Quick Hits

It’s all quick hits this week!

Khan Academy's founder on how AI can supercharge “mastery learning"

The Khan Academy founder does not see ChatGPT as a threat, but an opportunity to improve the quality of both online and in-person tutoring.

bigthink.com/the-present/khan-academy-ai

Time Magazine partners with OpenAI and ElevenLabs

Time's embrace of two up-and-coming AI companies shows a strong vote of confidence in the technology overall.

venturebeat.com/ai/time-magazine-partners-with-openai-and-elevenlabs

MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI | TechCrunch

Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are overestimating generative AI's capabilities and it's time to put the brakes on the hype.

techcrunch.com/2024/06/29/mit-robotics-pioneer-rodney-brooks-thinks-people-are-vastly-overestimating-generative-ai

The copyright lawsuits against OpenAI are piling up as the tech company seeks data to train its AI

OpenAI is facing a growing number of lawsuits from authors and news organizations who say the company used their copyrighted material to train ChatGPT.

www.businessinsider.com/openai-lawsuit-copyrighted-data-train-chatgpt-court-tech-ai-news-2024-6

Meta drops ‘3D Gen’ bomb: AI-powered 3D asset creation at lightning speed

Meta unveils groundbreaking Meta 3D Gen system, revolutionizing AI-generated 3D assets with high-quality, PBR-supported meshes and textures in under a minute, potentially transforming game development, architecture, and VR industries.

venturebeat.com/ai/meta-drops-3d-gen-bomb-ai-powered-3d-asset-creation-at-lightning-speed

News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping | TechCrunch

In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair use

techcrunch.com/2024/07/02/news-outlets-are-accusing-perplexity-of-plagiarism-and-unethical-web-scraping

Meta is about to launch its biggest Llama model yet — here’s why it’s a big deal

An open-source ChatGPT-4 competitor?

www.tomsguide.com/ai/meta-is-about-to-launch-its-biggest-llama-model-yet-heres-why-its-a-big-deal

AI Firm ElevenLabs Sets Audio Reader Pact With Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Laurence Olivier Estates

The estates of Judy Garland, James Dean and more have set an AI audio deal with ElevenLabs for its Reader App that converts digital text to voiceover.

variety.com/2024/biz/news/ai-judy-garland-james-dean-burt-reynolds-elevenlabs-reader-app-1236058829

ChatGPT Forces Universities To Adapt Or Retreat

ChatGPT is forcing institutions to rethink assessment methods. Educators debate returning to traditional exams or embracing innovative approaches.

www.forbes.com/sites/danfitzpatrick/2024/06/30/chatgpt-forces-universities-to-adapt-or-retreat

The deluge of bonkers AI art is literally surreal

Technology has unleashed a wave of images that are too weird to be legitimate, but real enough to stir feelings. Are we seeing a new age of surrealism?

www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/2024/06/30/ai-art-facebook-slop-artificial-intelligence

YouTube in talks with major labels over AI music licensing deal

The 'big three' labels aka Warner, Universal and Sony have allegedly been approached with offers of "lump sums of cash"

djmag.com/news/youtube-talks-major-labels-over-ai-music-licensing-deal

Google’s Imagen 3 text-to-image foundation model comes to Vertex AI

Google's newest text-to-image foundation model is now available on Vertex AI in preview. Imagen 3 offers high-quality image generation with richer details and fewer distortion.

venturebeat.com/ai/googles-imagen-3-text-to-image-foundation-model-comes-to-vertex-ai

Meta’s LLM Compiler is the latest AI breakthrough to change the way we code

Meta unveils LLM Compiler, an AI-powered suite of models revolutionizing code optimization and compilation, promising faster, more efficient software development and new frontiers in AI-assisted programming.

venturebeat.com/ai/metas-llm-compiler-is-the-latest-ai-breakthrough-to-change-the-way-we-code

Tool of the week: Luma Dream Machine

We finally had a chance to test out Luma’s Dream Machine generative AI video tool. It can make video from a text prompt of from an image.

Free users can generative up to three videos per day currently, and paid users get priority in the queue (which is probably why our video took longer than the stated one minute to make).

The end result was a five-second video with the option to extend it by using more credits.

Innovation Profs Homework

Give Claude a try. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the latest AI model from Anthropic, and you can test drive it for free.

Claude fans praised new features like Artifacts and Projects, which enables chat organization and uploading of internal knowledge for consistent use within a Project.

AI-generated image of the week

Fourth of July in Des Moines. 

prompt: professional photo of fireworks in downtown Des Moines, HDR, cinematic, Drone Shot, Canon EOS 5D MARK IV

Generative AI tip of the week

Tired of explaining yourself to ChatGPT every time you start a new conversation. You can customize your ChatGPT to always remember certain things about you or how you use the tool.

Click on your image in the upper-right corner and then choose “Customize ChataGPT” to get started. You can tell ChatGPT what you want it to know and how it should respond.

Get starting with Generative AI

New to generative AI? Here are some places to start…

What we found

MimicMotion: a new method for human motion video generation with pose guidance.

What we found (Part 2)

Luma (introduced above) has a feature that allows users to specify a start and ending point for their videos. Check out examples in the thread linked below.