How AI Might Teach Us Something About Human Creativity — You read a lot these days about AI as a job killer: it swoops in, takes away a creative person’s skills, and puts them out of work. Bam! Another creative genius reduced to a mundane 9-to-5 grind. Given the new AI tools and the unimagined possibilities for creating images, music/sound…

MJ Opening New Possibilities For AI Image Generation — You read that right! The latest update finally brings outpainting to Midjourney and boy what a great improvement it is! And there’s more. 👀 In addition to existing features, Midnourney is really catching up with the latest developments in AI image generation and opening the door to some amazing possibilities…

Insights from a Discussion with OpenAI’s CEO — On May 29th Raza Habib posted a short article with key takeaways from a meeting with “Sam Altman and 20 other developers to discuss OpenAI’s […] product plan”. 48 hours later the article was deleted with the comment: “Too much alpha in there. Taken down. So, what was the “alpha”…

Effective prompts & strategies to use ChatGPT in story development — In the past, I’ve shown examples of how to use ChatGPT to create scripts and demonstrated basic prompt techniques as well as advanced strategies for using AI-powered text generation in the context of story development. In this article, I want to highlight what I think are the most common mistakes…

Stability.ai just released their first video model and it’s 🔥 — This one’s a banger. Just minutes after the release of stability.ai’s first-ever AI video model, its image-to-video approach showed amazing results as people began animating classic memes with the new “Stable Video Diffusion” (SVD) model. And not only is SVD 100% open source: it seems to outperform any other video…

Meta’s AI Video Model: How it works and how you can try it out — Meta’s AI research has given us amazing models and tools in the past. So people are understandably excited about their latest release: this time it’s a video model called EMU. The new video model is said to outperform commercial solutions such as the highly acclaimed Gen2 from RunwayML or Pika…

The fine line between discourse and promoting harmful biases — Twitter/X is hyping Grok as the savior of free knowledge because the Grok interface allows tweets to be references to provide users with “up-to-date data”. “Unlike ChatGPT, Grok answers controversial questions”, is what you read quite often on the platform. Known as a haven for fake news and propaganda accounts…

The Clash of Techno-Optimism, AI Safety, and the Divergent Paths of Business and Academic Approaches — Okay, WTF? Sam Altman just got fired from OpenAI. A few hours later, chairman of the board, Greg Brockman, resigned. And on the same day: another two senior OpenAI researches quit. The AI community spirals into speculations. “Nobody saw this coming!” But are we sure? The truth behind all this…

New study shows: ChatGPT is taking over — The days of arguing about whether the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) could trigger a seismic shift in the creative industry are definitely over. That shift is already underway. A study by researchers from Washington University, NYU and Harvard now provides some numbers that confirm the gut feeling of…