Is Open AI an existential threat to Google?

Hello and happy holidays to all,

My conversation about ‘the week in Generative AI ‘with my friend Henry Ajder was so popular, that we’re back for a bumper Christmas edition.

This week’s tidbits:

Riffusion: Real-time music generation

• Real-time text-to-music generation is here with Riffusion.

• Built on Stable Diffusion, it generated audio based on ‘Spectograms’ — or visual representations of sound.

@levelsio @levelsio

🤯🤯🤯 Music generated by finetuning Stable Diffusion on spectograms then generating any song possible riffusion.com

AI-Composer Bias

• AI-generated music is coming — but will there be a huge backlash?

• A new study finds ‘AI-composer bias’: listeners like music less when they think AI made it.

Deep Voodoo secures $20m investment from CAA

• The creators of Southpark have raised a $20m investment for their ‘deepfake VFX studio’ from CAA’s Connect Ventures.

• Deep Voodoo created the deepfakes in the video for Kendrick Lamar’s critically-acclaimed hit, ‘The Heart Part 5.’

• Intriguing to see the world’s biggest talent agency making a play in this space. An indicator of how AI will transform Hollywood.

(PS — I will be at CES in January to discuss ‘AI goes to Hollywood’ with SAG-AFTRA, the Hollywood actor’s guild. Give me a shout if you’re going to be in town!)

Open AI’s Point-E: Text-to-3D

• The generative models keep coming….and Open AI keeps delivering.

• This week, OpenAI released Point-E: a new text-to-3D model.

• The model is open-source and has vast implications. 2023 will be a year for 3D.

Sherwin Wu @sherwinwu

Shipping every week! We just open-sourced Point·E – a model that outputs 3D point cloud models. Does in 1-2 minutes what would previously take hours!

github.comGitHub - openai/point-e: Point cloud diffusion for 3D model synthesisPoint cloud diffusion for 3D model synthesis. Contribute to openai/point-e development by creating an account on GitHub.

Is Open AI an existential threat to Google?

• Google’s CEO has issued a ‘red alert,’ alarmed by the success of Chat GPT.

• Is ‘Generative Search’ an existential threat to Google?

• How’s Microsoft’s $1bn investment in Open AI paying off?

  Deedy @debarghya_das

  1/11 The Google Search vs ChatGPT debate is fascinating. The conversation so far has been - ChatGPT will replace Search - but, it's too expensive per query + ruins ad revenue - and, Google has better models than ChatGPT but haven't released it. The debate misses a lot 🧵

AI-generated faces proliferate in ‘synthetic fraud.’

• Fake social media accounts are sporting AI-generated profile pictures.

• Meta says more than two-thirds of the influence operations it took down this year used AI-generated images.

Wishing everyone a relaxing Christmas break, and if your Christmas has been cancelled because you’re working on Generative AI: get in touch!

Namaste,

Nina