Snapchat’s ChatGPT chat bot is creeping out kids and parents
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence is not controllable, the consequences are often unpredictable, and as these models get better at adapting to the user the consequences could be dire. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
OpenAI makes it easier to create 3D objects from text prompts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In time we will move from Text to 2D image to Text to Video and Text to 3D, VR, and all kinds of other content. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Avengers director predicts AI will be able to make movies within two years
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We have already seen AI try to make movies, and it made very short awful ones, but the tech will get better quickly … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
MidJourney’s founders launch their first generative video app on iOS
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Getting an AI to generate great video is alot harder than getting it to generate great images, but Runway’s founders are up to the challenge. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Spotify’s new AI DJ is making waves and breaking hits
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you think automation and AI will affect just a few jobs you’re horribly mistaken. But at least AI will be able to play your favourite tunes while you get drunk thinking about it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...
Levi announce plans to supplement human models with digital ones
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We can see a point int time where many human models will be made redundant by digital versions, but in the interim companies are using soft phrasing to cushion the blow. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses...
Disney’s clumsy new bunny bot finds ways to create instant human connections
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By being imperfect and “human-like” robots are finding new ways to connect with humans. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A robot that will “bring...
Survey shows images of deepfake faces are now more real than genuine photos
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When deepfakes are more convincing and real than genuine images of people we change our behaviours, opinions, and more importantly trust behaviours. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
Googles newest AI can create all kinds of music from text prompts
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In short if you can talk or text you can now use AI to generate everything from content to products as creativity gets democratised. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
The original company behind MidJourney has just launched its generative video Beta program
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF I’ve been talking about generative video for almost a decade, and it’s now getting better, albeit slowly. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Runway, the Creative...
Microsoft’s VALL-E AI can clone your voice in just three seconds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine all the times you use your voice, now imagine what would happen if people could clone it – for good and bad … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
AI is coming to help Hollywood pick future blockbusters
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Humans are pretty rubbish at picking future big blockbusters, and as it turns out AI is twice as good … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Researchers say you’ll soon be able to run holograms from your smartphone
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why live with 2D imagery when you can live life in glorious 3D!? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In 1943, Thomas Watson, the president...
This singer Deepfaked then open sourced her own voice so you can sing like her
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI can create music, create the voices to sing the music for you, and even let singers open source their voices … it’s an odd world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
ChatGPT aces UK GCSE History exams to astound teachers and create dilemmas
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is getting to the point where it’s becoming the perfect educational aid… or cheating tool, and teachers aren’t prepared at all for what’s coming (today). Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
You can now play Star Wars-like holographic chess for real
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Holograms and volumetric displays have come a long way in the past five or so years, and now you can own your own piece of sci-fi lore. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
OpenAI’s conversational ChatGPT AI is over confident but otherwise brilliant
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly people can type text into an AI and the AI will auto-generate all kinds of content, from articles and scientific papers to code and even drugs … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...