I decided to try a theme with this week’s cover imagery to see how creative MidJourney could be with simple prompts. Each category cover image is a name tag + art style. It was pretty neat to see the variances. The goal is not perfection. By posting the mistakes, we’ll get to see how imagery improves over time. Here is the prompt for the cover:
an ornate name tag that reads “Audio” –ar 5:3 –style raw
40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners | TechSpot
Chatter • Hume AI – Interactive Podcast Experience
“As a public speaker I’ve had human translators mess up my translation. Forget that, just use AI, and a bilingual human can monitor for accuracy as a backup.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs Launches AI-Voiced Screen Reader App – Bloomberg
“We’re excited to launch the ElevenLabs Dubbing API — enabling any developer to add audio or video translation to their product while preserving the unique characteristics of the original speaker’s voices.
“Google announced its new text-to-music tool. it’s really good, wow. You can even mix different tracks/prompts in real time.
“Together with @YouTube, we’ve been building Music AI Sandbox, a suite of AI tools to transform how music can be created. 🎵 To help us design and test them, we’ve been working closely with musicians, songwriters and producers. ↓ #GoogleIO
Music AI Demos | Experiments with Music AI Sandbox – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYmG7hTraZA7o7KkLWoVscoELWRGu3Xg
OpenAI
“GPT-4o voice mode is really impressive. We gave it a face with @synthesiaIO EXPRESS-1, our latest avatar model. When empathy is important – healthcare, coaching, education – a friendly face really makes a difference. It’s why we do Zoom over phone calls. What do you think?
OpenAI Develops AI Voice Assistant As It Chases Google, Apple — The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-develops-ai-voice-assistant-as-it-chases-google-apple
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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 #33: Week Ending 05/17/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 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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