Meta’s AI can now turn your text prompts into synthetic video on demand
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine being able to create videos by just typing what you want them to be. That’s what Meta’s latest tech does, and it’s only going to get better in the future. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
Botto the decentralised AI artist bags its first million dollars
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s not just humans and animals that can create works of art – AI’s getting better at it to and it’s getting rich off it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Invidia’s Canvas puts a professional AI artist in the palm of your hand
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is helping democratise skills – and in this case it’s helping crappy artists become masters. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been filling in the gaps for...
Deepfakes could soon spread to affect satellite and GIS imagery researchers find
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Earth imagery and mapping are important for all sorts of reasons, and there are real world implications if they’re manipulated. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Have you seen the latest deepfake...
In a world first an AI just made it’s own synthetic human genome
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What happens when AI can design its own humans? And then breed them ex vivo? The future is weirder than you could ever imagine … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Have...
Deepmind’s AI learned to create its own synthetic videos after watching YouTube
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s are being trained to create all kinds of their own synthetic content, from books to movies, and in time they’ll transform the creative industry. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Perhaps...
Microsoft’s AI has learned to generate images from captions
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Historically AI’s have learned how to caption images, but now they’re learning how to make images from text and it will revolutionise content creation. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Artificial...
Researchers find a new way to train AI’s to protect them from deadly adversarial attacks
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As more of the world comes to rely on AI adversarial attacks pose a particular challenge to companies and people in critical industries who are responsible for the safety of people and systems. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Nvidia’s AI watched Pac-Man then re-created the game from scratch without coding
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s that can watch something and then instinctively learn how to do it or re-create it have the potential to revolutionise everything and every industry. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently I’ve been talking a lot about...
World leaders can rest easy for now after researchers find new ways to reveal DeepFakes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are now locked in a war as nefarious actors find new ways to weaponsise deepfakes and fake news, and defenders try to figure out how to discover and flag it. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. An...
A Google intern built a shockingly good synthetic image generator
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Researchers are trying to create a new form of AI, or Creative Machines, that can generate their own content from scratch, and the systems are improving all the time. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. For years, artists...
Facebook’s DeepFovea tool reduces VR rendering resources by upto 99 percent
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Rendering high quality virtual worlds is resource intensive, DeepFovea eliminates up to 99 percent of those resources which will make AR and VR more accessible. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. One of the biggest issues with Augmented...
Researchers have created an online AI that hides you from facial recognition
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future the one thing none of us will have, it seems, is privacy – online or offline – but researchers are fighting back in new ways. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. What Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
General Motors starts is using AI to design its future cars
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New Creative Machines can design and innovate new products thousands times faster than humans, and the products they create use less material and are often more sustainable. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. So called creative machines, machines...
Watch a $300 DeepFake that casts Will Smith as Neo in the Matrix
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As the ease and cost of creating high quality DeepFakes and synthetic content plunges you’ll soon see a lot more of this chicanery. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The rise of creative machines that can create decent...
An AI designed 30,000 drugs in 21 days and came up with winners
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Drug companies are trying to find new ways to discover new blockbuster drug treatments faster, and AI is beginning to answer the call. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Recently I wrote about an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that...
This AI relies on human-like memory to create songs from lyrics
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Most human musicians and composers work by first writing the lyrics, and then the music accompaniment, now machines are copying them. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As the number of creative machines that can generate good synthetic...
Nvidia creates the world’s first video game demo using AI generated graphics
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI becomes both the tool and the creator of graphics and content, you can expect to see much more of this in the future. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The recent boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Nvidia and MIT open source an AI that creates crazy good synthetic videos
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creating, and also then converting, video content is crazy laborious so companies are creating AI’s that do the work for you, and they’re getting better fast. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Nvidia and MIT have announced that...
Samsung AI tech turns your Facebook profile photos into 3D DeepFakes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF You don’t have to be a celebrity any longer to be turned into a DeepFake, now noone’s safe. Recently China unveiled the world’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) news anchor, and Soul Machines showed off their latest and greatest “Digital Human” avatars, one of which...
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