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Apple Vision Pro

“I love seeing the impact Apple Vision Pro is having on so many industries! Check out how Porsche is using spatial computing to change the track experience.  https://twitter.com/gregjoz/status/1777781575213867341 

3D Modeling

“Introducing 🌟Realmdreamer 🌟 We showcase how to build large-scale 3D scenes from text using just pre-trained 2D diffusion models.  https://twitter.com/JaidevShriram/status/1778616968964411590 

Robot Training

“one day PhDs will animate every object around us with reinforcement learning to keep their thesis going  https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1778819699062735350 

Other AR/VR News

“Here’s a quick Ai assisted asset test. I sketched the parts in @Procreate, style transferred in @Magnific_AI, converted to 3d in @3DAIStudio, & recorded Performance Capture with @MoveAI_ . Camera Tracked and rendered in #cinema4d  https://twitter.com/mrjonfinger/status/1777883826305552819 

“PhysAvatar Learning the Physics of Dressed 3D Avatars from Visual Observations Modeling and rendering photorealistic avatars is of crucial importance in many applications. Existing methods that build a 3D avatar from visual observations, however, struggle to reconstruct  https://twitter.com/_akhaliq/status/1777561422924284181

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Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:

This week’s executive overview and top links are here:

AI News #28: Week Ending 04/12/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 48 Links

The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

• Agents/Copilots
• Amazon
• Apple
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
• Autonomous Vehicles
• AI Audio
• Business and Enterprise AI
• Chips and Hardware
• Consumer Products
• Education
• Ethics/Legal Security
• Google
• Images/Photos
• International AI News
• Locally Run AI Models
• Mobile
• Meta
• Microsoft
• OpenAI
• Open Source
• Podcasts/YouTube
• Publishing and News
• Robots and Embodiment
• Science and Medicine
• Video
• Vision/Multimodality
• X/Twitter/Grok
• Tech and Development

Credits/Sources

Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.

• Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer 
• Ethan Mollick:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/ 
• Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/ 
• Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia   
• The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/ 
• Bilawal Sidhu:  https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/  
• TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai  
• Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang  
• Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats  
• Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan 
• All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI   
• Marshall Kirkpatrick:  https://aitimetoimpact.com/
• AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/

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