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Why Hollywood Worries About AI: Filmmakers at At the Sundance Film Festival expressed anxiety about AI. But Hollywood can benefit from AI, and the two communities have interests in common.
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Why Hollywood Worries About AI: Filmmakers at At the Sundance Film Festival expressed anxiety about AI. But Hollywood can benefit from AI, and the two communities have interests in common.

I recently spoke at the Sundance Film Festival on a panel about AI.

February 13, 20262 min read
2 Hours With AI Versus 6 With Teacher: Inside Alpha School, a Texas-based program using algorithms and video monitors to teach children
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2 Hours With AI Versus 6 With Teacher: Inside Alpha School, a Texas-based program using algorithms and video monitors to teach children

A growing private school system replaces the typical 6-hour school day with 2 hours of personalized, AI-assisted education. 

September 10, 20253 min read
Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages
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Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages

AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.

June 4, 20252 min read
Music Generation for Pros: Google upgrades its AI music tools for professional use
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Music Generation for Pros: Google upgrades its AI music tools for professional use

Google refreshed its experimental tools for composers and producers.

April 30, 20252 min read
New Image Generator for OpenAI API: OpenAI launches API access to GPT Image 1, ChatGPT’s viral image generator
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New Image Generator for OpenAI API: OpenAI launches API access to GPT Image 1, ChatGPT’s viral image generator

ChatGPT’s image generator is available via API.

April 30, 20252 min read
Deepfake Developers Appropriate Celebrity Likenesses: Viral video uses AI to depict celebrities without consent, sparking legal debate
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Deepfake Developers Appropriate Celebrity Likenesses: Viral video uses AI to depict celebrities without consent, sparking legal debate

A viral deepfake video showed media superstars who appeared to support a cause — but it was made without their participation or permission.

February 26, 20252 min read
Deepfake Developers Appropriate Celebrity Likenesses: Viral video uses AI to depict celebrities without consent, sparking legal debate
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Deepfake Developers Appropriate Celebrity Likenesses: Viral video uses AI to depict celebrities without consent, sparking legal debate

A viral deepfake video showed media superstars who appeared to support a cause — but it was made without their participation or permission.

February 26, 20252 min read
Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training
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Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training

Harvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.

January 8, 20252 min read
Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training
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Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training

Harvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.

January 8, 20252 min read
Audrey Tang: AI that unites us
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Audrey Tang: AI that unites us

As we approach 2025, my greatest hope for AI is that it will enable prosocial platforms that promote empathy, understanding, and collaboration rather than division.

January 1, 20252 min read
Audrey Tang: AI that unites us
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Audrey Tang: AI that unites us

As we approach 2025, my greatest hope for AI is that it will enable prosocial platforms that promote empathy, understanding, and collaboration rather than division.

January 1, 20252 min read
David Ding: Generated video with music, sound effects, and dialogue
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David Ding: Generated video with music, sound effects, and dialogue

Last year, we saw an explosion of models that generate either video or audio outputs in high quality. In the coming year, I look forward to models that produce video clips complete with audio soundtracks including speech, music, and sound effects.

January 1, 20253 min read
David Ding: Generated video with music, sound effects, and dialogue
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David Ding: Generated video with music, sound effects, and dialogue

Last year, we saw an explosion of models that generate either video or audio outputs in high quality. In the coming year, I look forward to models that produce video clips complete with audio soundtracks including speech, music, and sound effects.

January 1, 20253 min read
Hanno Basse: Generative AI for artists
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Hanno Basse: Generative AI for artists

Stability AI’s aim is to liberate artists of all trades from the repetitive, mechanical aspects of their work and help them spend the majority of their time on the creative side. So our highest hope for next year is that generative AI will help people to be more creative and productive.

January 1, 20251 min read
Hanno Basse: Generative AI for artists
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Hanno Basse: Generative AI for artists

Stability AI’s aim is to liberate artists of all trades from the repetitive, mechanical aspects of their work and help them spend the majority of their time on the creative side. So our highest hope for next year is that generative AI will help people to be more creative and productive.

January 1, 20251 min read

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