an exploding foam football –ar 5:3 –style raw
Gaussian Splatting and Nerfs
“Use Gaussian Splatting to transform real life into 3D | Tutorial
“We quietly dropped a cloud-based NeRF service a few weeks ago, so now everyone has the ability to produce super high-quality radiance fields with Google Cloud. Check out this great @RadianceFields blog post to learn more:
Robot Training
DrEureka | Language Model Guided Sim-To-Real Transfer
GitHub – eureka-research/DrEureka: Official Repository for “DrEureka: Language Model Guided Sim-To-Real Transfer” (RSS 2024)
World Models
Finetuning Offline World Models in the Real World
Other AR/VR News
“This is motion capture data that automatically retargets to MetaHumans in Unreal Engine 5.4 ⚽️ Move AI generates 3D motion data from 2D video using AI and physics-based models. This example tracks 5 people and a ball with 8 GoPro cameras. No suits required.
Text to change a real life scene into any theme or style: “We won the @NianticLabs #AI hackathon with our project, Splatley Kubrick! It can turn your favorite places into a fantasy sandbox using #GenAI. We spent a week on this project and got some cool results. with Zawar Qureshi, Jamie Wynn, Jamie Watson, Saki Shinoda, Jakub Powierza.
“NEW: Palantir Mixed Reality in Action “Operations Center Anywhere” ↳ Harness the full power of the platform from operations centers to the edge, transforming any bunker or outpost into an instant command center with mixed reality capabilities #Palantir $PLTR
“Check out this immaculate 3D render of the K-2SO robot from Star Wars. #Maythe4thBeWithYou my friends! The Stormtroopers are a 2018 throwback to Google’s Pixel AR stickers, all rendering in real-time on a 6 year old Android smartphone. It’s pretty amazing where mobile AR has
“The new-fangled vacuum salesman. This is the best example I’ve seen of how AI and computer vision is changing consumer electronics. Here @maticrobots founder @mehul comes to my home to give me an in-depth demo (the good stuff starts about 30 minutes into the video). This
Yellow raises $5M from A16z for Gen AI-powered 3D modeling tool | VentureBeat
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This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #32: Week Ending 05/10/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 70 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
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) 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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