a recording studio in a forest with a trail sign that reads “Audio” –ar 5:3 –style raw
This week’s category cover theme is a sign in a forest. Each category image prompt is a derivative of the formula “an [category themed object] in a forest with a trail sign that reads “[category name]”. Using a theme each week takes the cover creation time down to about 20 minutes, rather than several hours.
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs has launched a free iPhone app that speaks text on the screen — 11 voices and PDF capabilities available
ElevenLabs: Enhance Your Storytelling with Realistic AI Voices
Announcing our partnership with ElevenLabs for text-to-speech and voice API
OpenAI
“OpenAI seems to have the ability to create video in Sora, send it to ChatGPT for a script, use Voice Engine for voice over and put it all together. All can be seen in this clip from @VivaTech showing @romainhuet #vivatech
“More OpenAI Sora teasers came out of presentations at the VivaTech conference. OpenAI’s @romainhuet showed a new demo that combined multiple unreleased models together to create generated narrated videos. It combines ChatGPT, Voice Engine, and Sora.
OpenAI Scarlett Johansson “Her” Sky Controversy (read from top to bottom for the narrative)
“Scarlett Johansson is taking legal action against OpenAI after they ‘copied’ her voice for GPT-4o. According to the actress, Sam Altman tried to hire her voice last September, she said no, and Sam used cloned and used her voice anyway. Insane if true.
“Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:
“the Scarlett / OpenAI thing is so remarkable because it makes the AI Attribution conversation so tangible and relatable to a broad set of people. Forget laws, we haven’t even established societal norms on AI attributions — and accelerating that will allow generally acceptable” / X
“According to new documents, OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for GPT-4o’s voice. The real voice actress behind the ‘Sky’ voice just came forward, saying she was hired months before Sam Altman even contacted Scarlett Johansson.
How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen | OpenAI
“seems like everyone should apologize to @OpenAI …
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show – The Washington Post
“OpenAI is mostly trained off public data, which is creating friction over data (and voice) rights. It’s estimated that 80% of the world’s data is behind a firewall or private cloud: exclusive data. This is data that most AI models have not trained on. Therein lies huge” / X
Suno
“AI for music is about to get crazy Soon you’ll be able to use Suno to make a song from any sound Beatbox to beat, mouth trumpet to jazz solo, humming new melodies It’s gonna be so sick
“Make a song from any sound. Coming soon 🎧 VOL-1: A watering can, but make it psychedelic rock
Suno has raised $125 million to build a future where anyone c an make music
“We’re excited to announce that Suno has raised $125 million to build a future where anyone can make music, and where technology amplifies our most precious resource: human creativity. We will use this funding to accelerate product development and grow our world-class team of” / X
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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 #34: Week Ending 05/24/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 47 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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