From Apple's AI-narrated audiobooks to Nvidia's Omniverse

Hello from Las Vegas,

I’m at CES this week, where we’ve been exploring how Generative AI is going to change the future of entertainment. More to come on that, but here are Henry and I on this week’s developments in Generative AI.

1. Apple launches AI-narrated audiobooks

• Apple is making moves by launching AI-narrated audiobooks.

• Is the AI-narrated audiobook the death of the human narrator?

• What’s the state of voice-synthesis technologies?

AI Breakfast @AiBreakfast

🎧 AI-read audiobooks are about to explode. Apple is now allowing authors to convert their books into audio using text-to-speech, and the audio quality is insane: Here's some samples from Apple. Details below ↓

2. Nvidia integrates GenAI into its ‘Omniverse’

• Nvidia continues to innovate by integrating generative AI into its virtual world-building (or Metaverse) platform, ‘the Omniverse.’

• From reimagining 3D environments to creating AI avatars — its capabilities are seriously impressive.

• The Metaverse has seemingly become a dirty word — but Nvidia cuts through that.

  NVIDIA Omniverse @nvidiaomniverse

  Using #NVIDIAOmniverse, creators can supercharge their existing workflows using familiar tools such as @AdskMaya, @Adsk3dsMax, @Blender, @Substance3D, and more with #AI, simulation tools, and real-time #RTX-accelerated rendering.

3. ChatGPT Detectors

• Can text generated by ChatGPT and other LLMs (large language models) be detected?

• What are the hallmarks of content generated by ChatGPT?

• Why is it so tricky to detect AI-generated content in general?

Entrepreneur @Entrepreneur

Princeton student Edward Tian devoted a portion of his holiday to writing GPTZero — an application that can identify text authored by artificial intelligence.

entrepreneur.comStudent Builds ChatGPT Detection App to Fight AI PlagiarismPrinceton student Edward Tian says he was inspired to create GPTZero by increased reliance on ChatGPT for plagiarism.

4. QuickVid: The birth of AI-generated video spam?

• Quickvid combines AI-generated video, audio, text and image to create short videos from text prompts

• Is this the AI-made ‘multi-media’ version of the pop-up spam banners?

• Are we ready for the tidal wave of synthetically-generated content that is coming?

  TechCrunch @TechCrunch

  QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers tcrn.ch/3VzoaRU by @Kyle_L_Wiggers

  

  tcrn.chQuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceoversQuickVid, a platform that ties together various AI systems to generate short-form videos, brings opportunities as well as risks.

5. Is Open AI worth $29bn?

• Open AI is in funding talks which would value it at $29bn

• This rises from a valuation of $14bn in 2021

• Microsoft CEO says generative models like DALLE and GPT-3 will lead to a ‘golden age’ in AI.

  Yahoo Finance @YahooFinance

  “The innovation has been so quick, policymakers haven’t even figured out or realized what’s coming,” Author @NinaDSchick says on generative A.I. such as ChatGPT. Full comments:

Breakthrough or Bullshit?

Finally, on Breakthrough or Bullshit, it turns out that Henry and I love nuance.

We decided that services like QuickVid are a breakthrough as a new form of content creation…albeit one which will engender a lot of bullshit. (Spammy AI-generated videos, for instance.)

Similarly, we decided that Apple AI-narrated audiobooks are also a 'breakthrough’ for content creation — but that it’s bullshit to claim that AI-narrated audio will replace humans.

We’ll be more categorical next week!

Enjoy your weekend,

Namaste from Nevada,

Nina