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.
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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?
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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 🧵
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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.

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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