This Week In AI: Director Makes Dramatic Video With AI In Two Hours

Forbes Innovation Consumer Tech This Week In AI: Director Makes Dramatic Video With AI In Two Hours Charlie Fink Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. A former tech executive covering XR and The Metaverse for Forbes. Following Feb 9, 2023, 05:48pm EST | Press play to listen to this article! Got it! Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin VR filmmaker and Penrose Studios CEO Eugene YK Chung posted a video made by AI on Linkedin with this message: “I made this entirely #AI -generated scene within minutes using free tools (2nd scene of the day).

How do you think AI will impact creative endeavors?” Chung included links to the tools he used. “Script: OpenAI #ChatGPT ; Art & Characters: Midjourney ; Speech-to-text: ElevenLabs ; Animation: D-ID” This scene was scripted, designed, and performed entirely by AI. Of course it was Chung’s instructions that provided the ideas, but not all of them, he explained.

A bell went off when I heard that. His post gave some links (see above). I didn’t click ’em.

I called the director, one of the most masterful in VR ( Allumette, Arden’s Wake ). Can AI tell meaningful stories? Can it make movies? Or how can it assist the process? Chung sees the problem as only a director can, from the ground up. He’s got to orchestrate many elements, and use many tools.

AI will surely be among them. AI is breaking on the Internet, at scale, seemingly all at once. It feels to me like AI is having that “internet moment.

” I’m starting to get the same tingles I felt when I saw the Mosaic browser for the first time in 1993. Everyone is now scrambling to see how this game changing technology will apply to their vertical. At moments like this incumbents can be displaced.

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That Could Force A Change In Tactics. Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp, speaks during an event at the company’s . .

. [+] headquarters in Redmond, Washington, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023.

Microsoft has been accelerating investments in artificial intelligence and competition in the field of generative AI – named for the ability to generate new content from digital troves of text, photos and art – is heating up. Photographer: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg © 2023 Bloomberg Finance LP Microsoft Just Put a ChatGPT Rocket Sled Under Bing. The search engine nobody uses is just about to become the search engine everyone tries.

The Bing search engine now allows users to input queries up to 1,000 words long and receive annotated AI-generated answers that will appear alongside regular search results from the web. Google Alphabet Inc stock drop over US$100 billion in lost market value. On 9 February 2023 in .

. . [+] Brussels, Belgium.

(Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Bard Slips Up And Google Stock Tumbles. Google has seemingly been playing catch up since Microsoft’s integration of ChatGPT into its Bing search engine. At a company event with press and other VIPs present, the new chatbot shared inaccurate information, feeding worries that the search leader, weakened in a soft advertising market, is falling behind.

AI is the sum of all fears about technology and the singularity. “IIn the next five years, it is likely that AI will begin to reduce employment for college-educated workers. ” So beckons the opening paragraph of this Atlantic cover story.

“As technology continues to advance, it will be able to perform tasks that were previously thought to require a high level of education and skill… AI will have a significant impact on the job market for college-educated workers. ” SAN FRANCISCO, CA – OCTOBER 04: Clay Bavor VP, Virtual Reality at Google Inc. speaks during an event .

. . [+] to introduce the Google Pixel phone and other Google products on October 4, 2016 in San Francisco, California.

Google is making the jump into the mobile device market in an attempt to challenge the Apple iPhone in the premium smartphone category. (Photo by Ramin Talaie/Getty Images) Getty Images Google VR Head Clay Bayvor Leaving to Start AI Company With Former CTO of Salesfoce Bret Taylor. Google has been throwing its XR investments overboard for the past two years, so this should come as a surprise to exactly no one.

The pivot to AI is understandable. Google launched its own AI assisted search, Bard, earlier this week, but if it’s 1993, there are fortunes to be made. What do you think of this column? Special one time feature, or the cousin of my weekly round up, This Week in XR ? I love to hear from readers on social channels.

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