Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on software that can generate minute-long videos based on text prompts, the company said on Thursday. The software, called Sora, is currently available for red teaming, which helps identify flaws in the AI system, as well as for use by visual artists, designers and filmmakers to gain feedback on the model, the company said in a statement. “Sora is able to generate complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background,” the statement said, adding that it can create multiple shots within a single video. Prompt: “A stylish woman walks down a Tokyo street filled with warm glowing neon and animated city signage. she wears a black leather jacket, a long red dress, and black boots, and carries a black purse. she wears sunglasses and red lipstick. she walks confidently and casually.… pic.twitter.com/cjIdgYFaWq — OpenAI (@OpenAI) February 15, 2024 Apart from generating videos from text prompts, Sora can animate a still image, the company said in a blog post. The video generation software follows OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, which was released in late 2022 and created a buzz around GenAI with its ability to compose emails and write codes […]

Meta reportedly announced that it will now start labelling AI-generated images across all of its social media networks, including Instagram, Facebook and Threads, in the coming months. The social media giant already applies the ‘Imagined with AI’ labels to images generated using its Meta AI feature, but the company now wants to label AI images generated by other big players in the industry, including Google and OpenAI. “As the difference between human and synthetic content gets blurred, people want to know where the boundary lies,” Meta’s president of global affairs Nick Clegg wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Meta to roll out ‘Imagined with AI’ labels “So it’s important that we help people know when photorealistic content they’re seeing has been created using AI,” he added. Clegg’s post said the platform already does it by applying “Imagined with AI” labels to photorealistic images created using our Meta AI feature. “That’s why we’ve been working with industry partners to align on common technical standards that signal when a piece of content has been created using AI. Being able to detect these signals will make it possible for us to label AI-generated images that users post to Facebook, Instagram and Threads,” he said. Meta […]

Artificial intelligence had its breakout year in 2023, with large language models (LLMs) and text-to-image generators capturing the attention and imagination of technologists and investors alike. Similar to other recent breakthrough technologies like the internet and the smartphone, the early stage of AI’s tech adoption cycle has already seen the creation of highly-used software products. This visualization from Visual Capitalist’s 2024 Global Forecast Series report uses data from Writerbuddy and Coatue to rank and visualize the most-popular AI tools of 2023 along with key recent tech adoption cycles and the software products that defined them. The Most-Popular AI Tool of 2023 Not surprisingly, ChatGPT, OpenAI’s product that sparked the artificial intelligence boom in late 2022, emerged as the most popular AI tool of 2023. ChatGPT dominated the industry’s web visits with more than 60% of visits from September 2022 to August 2023, racking up 14.6 billion visits to their website. Following ChatGPT is another chatbot, Character.AI, which rather than being a singular LLM for general and productivity-related user queries is a collection of characters (also known as “dialog agents”) that users can freely converse with. These range from popular characters from TV shows and video games to dating coaches and […]