What the Missing Frames Showed: Machine Learning Describes Masked Video Events
Generative Modeling

What the Missing Frames Showed: Machine Learning Describes Masked Video Events

Neural networks can describe in words what’s happening in pictures and videos — but can they make sensible guesses about things that happened before or will happen afterward? Researchers probed this ability.

November 16, 20223 min read
Generating Investment: Generative AI Startups Raise Hundreds of Millions in Funding
Generative Modeling

Generating Investment: Generative AI Startups Raise Hundreds of Millions in Funding

The generative gold rush is on. Venture capitalists are betting hundreds of millions of dollars on startups that use AI to generate images, text, and more, Wired reported.

November 2, 20222 min read
Generating Investment: Generative AI Startups Raise Hundreds of Millions in Funding
Generative Modeling

Generating Investment: Generative AI Startups Raise Hundreds of Millions in Funding

The generative gold rush is on. Venture capitalists are betting hundreds of millions of dollars on startups that use AI to generate images, text, and more, Wired reported.

November 2, 20222 min read
All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast
Generative Modeling

All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast

For the debut episode of a new podcast series, Play.ht synthesized a 19-minute interview between the rock-star podcaster and late Apple CEO.

October 19, 20221 min read
All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast
Generative Modeling

All Synthetic, All the Time: Joe Rogan Meets Steve Jobs in an AI-Generated Podcast

For the debut episode of a new podcast series, Play.ht synthesized a 19-minute interview between the rock-star podcaster and late Apple CEO.

October 19, 20221 min read
Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text
Generative Modeling

Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text

Only a week ago, researchers unveiled a system that generates a few seconds of video based on a text prompt. New work enables a text-to-video system to produce an entire visual narrative from several sentences of text.

October 12, 20223 min read
Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text
Generative Modeling

Long-Form Videos from Text Stories: Google's Phenaki Generates Long-Form Video from Text

Only a week ago, researchers unveiled a system that generates a few seconds of video based on a text prompt. New work enables a text-to-video system to produce an entire visual narrative from several sentences of text.

October 12, 20223 min read
The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions
Generative Modeling

The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions

In spoken conversation, people naturally take turns amid interjections and other patterns that aren’t strictly verbal. A new approach generated natural-sounding audio dialogs without training on text transcriptions that mark when one party should stop speaking and the other should chime in.

October 6, 20222 min read
The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions
Generative Modeling

The Sound of Conversation: AI Learns to Mimic Conversational Pauses and Interruptions

In spoken conversation, people naturally take turns amid interjections and other patterns that aren’t strictly verbal. A new approach generated natural-sounding audio dialogs without training on text transcriptions that mark when one party should stop speaking and the other should chime in.

October 6, 20222 min read
Text to Video Without Text-Video Training Data: Make-A-Video, an AI System from Meta, Generates Video from Text
Generative Modeling

Text to Video Without Text-Video Training Data: Make-A-Video, an AI System from Meta, Generates Video from Text

Text-to-image generators like DALL·E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are winning art contests and worrying artists. A new approach brings the magic of text-to-image generation to video.

October 5, 20222 min read
Text to Video Without Text-Video Training Data: Make-A-Video, an AI System from Meta, Generates Video from Text
Generative Modeling

Text to Video Without Text-Video Training Data: Make-A-Video, an AI System from Meta, Generates Video from Text

Text-to-image generators like DALL·E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are winning art contests and worrying artists. A new approach brings the magic of text-to-image generation to video.

October 5, 20222 min read
Prompting DALL·E for Fun and Profit: A marketplace for phrases that produce art in DALL·E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion
Generative Modeling

Prompting DALL·E for Fun and Profit: A marketplace for phrases that produce art in DALL·E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion

An online marketplace enables people to buy text prompts designed to produce consistent output from the new generation of text-to-image generators.

September 14, 20222 min read
Prompting DALL·E for Fun and Profit: A marketplace for phrases that produce art in DALL·E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion
Generative Modeling

Prompting DALL·E for Fun and Profit: A marketplace for phrases that produce art in DALL·E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion

An online marketplace enables people to buy text prompts designed to produce consistent output from the new generation of text-to-image generators.

September 14, 20222 min read
Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles
Generative Modeling

Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles

A CLIP model whose weights were the mean of an ensemble of fine-tuned models performed as well as the ensemble and better than its best-performing constituent.

August 17, 20222 min read
Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles
Generative Modeling

Ensemble Models Simplified: New Machine Learning Research Simplifies Ensembles

A CLIP model whose weights were the mean of an ensemble of fine-tuned models performed as well as the ensemble and better than its best-performing constituent.

August 17, 20222 min read

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