Game Makers Embrace Generative AI: How Nvidia, Blizzard, and more are using AI in video games.
Generative Modeling

Game Makers Embrace Generative AI: How Nvidia, Blizzard, and more are using AI in video games.

The next generation of video games could be filled with AI-generated text, speech, characters, and background art. Nvidia announced a system that enables players to converse directly with in-game characters. Meanwhile, game developers are using generative AI to produce media assets.

June 14, 20232 min read
Game Makers Embrace Generative AI: How Nvidia, Blizzard, and more are using AI in video games.
Generative Modeling

Game Makers Embrace Generative AI: How Nvidia, Blizzard, and more are using AI in video games.

The next generation of video games could be filled with AI-generated text, speech, characters, and background art. Nvidia announced a system that enables players to converse directly with in-game characters. Meanwhile, game developers are using generative AI to produce media assets.

June 14, 20232 min read
Taught by a Bot: How some schools use AI tutors in the classroom
Generative Modeling

Taught by a Bot: How some schools use AI tutors in the classroom

While some schools resist their students’ use of chatbots, others are inviting them into the classroom. Some primary and secondary schools in the United States are testing an automated tutor built by online educator Khan Academy.

June 14, 20232 min read
Taught by a Bot: How some schools use AI tutors in the classroom
Generative Modeling

Taught by a Bot: How some schools use AI tutors in the classroom

While some schools resist their students’ use of chatbots, others are inviting them into the classroom. Some primary and secondary schools in the United States are testing an automated tutor built by online educator Khan Academy.

June 14, 20232 min read
LAION Roars: The story of LAION, the dataset behind Stable Diffusion
Generative Modeling

LAION Roars: The story of LAION, the dataset behind Stable Diffusion

The largest dataset for training text-to-image generators was assembled by volunteers for roughly $10,000. Now it’s implicated in fights over whether copyrighted works can be used for training.

June 7, 20233 min read
LAION Roars: The story of LAION, the dataset behind Stable Diffusion
Generative Modeling

LAION Roars: The story of LAION, the dataset behind Stable Diffusion

The largest dataset for training text-to-image generators was assembled by volunteers for roughly $10,000. Now it’s implicated in fights over whether copyrighted works can be used for training.

June 7, 20233 min read
Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained
Generative Modeling

Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained

A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model.

June 7, 20232 min read
Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained
Generative Modeling

Falcon Ascends: Falcon, the new open source commercial LLM, explained

A team in the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation on the Arabian Peninsula, built the latest top-performing open source large language model.

June 7, 20232 min read
Bengio, Too, Anxious About AI Risks: AI godfather Yoshua Bengio expresses his AI doubts.
Generative Modeling

Bengio, Too, Anxious About AI Risks: AI godfather Yoshua Bengio expresses his AI doubts.

Another prominent AI pioneer expressed regret over his life’s work amid rising concerns over the technology’s risks.

June 7, 20232 min read
Bengio, Too, Anxious About AI Risks: AI godfather Yoshua Bengio expresses his AI doubts.
Generative Modeling

Bengio, Too, Anxious About AI Risks: AI godfather Yoshua Bengio expresses his AI doubts.

Another prominent AI pioneer expressed regret over his life’s work amid rising concerns over the technology’s risks.

June 7, 20232 min read
Pop Star Invites AI Imitation: Grimes released a voice cloning tool.
Generative Modeling

Pop Star Invites AI Imitation: Grimes released a voice cloning tool.

A popular musician is inviting fans to clone her voice. Result: a flood of recordings that sound just like her. Experimental pop star Grimes released GrimesAI-1, a generative audio tool that allows anyone to make recordings of their own singing or speech sound like her voice.

June 1, 20231 min read
Pop Star Invites AI Imitation: Grimes released a voice cloning tool.
Generative Modeling

Pop Star Invites AI Imitation: Grimes released a voice cloning tool.

A popular musician is inviting fans to clone her voice. Result: a flood of recordings that sound just like her. Experimental pop star Grimes released GrimesAI-1, a generative audio tool that allows anyone to make recordings of their own singing or speech sound like her voice.

June 1, 20231 min read
Rising Calls for Regulation: Tech CEOs and governments aim for AI laws.
Generative Modeling

Rising Calls for Regulation: Tech CEOs and governments aim for AI laws.

Amid growing worries about AI’s power, tech leaders and politicians alike are arguing for regulating the technology. Leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google spoke publicly in favor of regulation. Meanwhile, national governments proposed new guardrails for generative AI.

June 1, 20232 min read
Rising Calls for Regulation: Tech CEOs and governments aim for AI laws.
Generative Modeling

Rising Calls for Regulation: Tech CEOs and governments aim for AI laws.

Amid growing worries about AI’s power, tech leaders and politicians alike are arguing for regulating the technology. Leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google spoke publicly in favor of regulation. Meanwhile, national governments proposed new guardrails for generative AI.

June 1, 20232 min read
Text-to-Image Editing Evolves: InstructPix2Pix for text-to-image editing, explained
Generative Modeling

Text-to-Image Editing Evolves: InstructPix2Pix for text-to-image editing, explained

Text-to-image generators like DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Adobe’s new Generative Fill feature can revise images in a targeted way — say, change the fruit in a bowl from oranges to bananas — if you enter a few words that describe the change plus an indication of the areas to be changed.

May 31, 20233 min read

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