Top AI-Imaging Tool Promising Auto-Video
Popular AI-automated imaging tool-maker Midjourney is promising to roll-out an enhancement soon that will enable users to auto-create video using simple, conversational text-commands.
While a number of text-to-video AI tools are already on the market, Midjourney is known for high-end imaging — and a video version of its tool could set a much higher benchmark for automated video, indicates writer Alex McFarland.
Observes McFarland: “This strategic move by Midjourney — a name synonymous with innovation in digital artistry — is posed to change the generative AI landscape, especially in marketing and advertising.
“With an existing user base exceeding 16 million, Midjourney aims to bring the same level of creativity and quality it’s known for in image creation to the dynamic and immersive world of text-to-video generation.”
In other AI-generated writing news and analysis:
*In-Depth Guide: Mad Men Out, Mad Bots In: AI in Advertising: Writer Mike Kaput offers an excellent, 30,000-foot view of how AI has transformed advertising in this piece.
The key takeaway: While Kaput notes that AI is automating the production of ad copy and ad visuals, he also highlights a number of other aspects of advertising being transformed by AI.
Those include how the tech is being used to find new audiences, hyper-personalize ads and predict an ad’s performance –even before its even launched.
*Copy, Paste, Masterpiece: Easy ‘Write in My Style’ Option Coming to MS Word: ChatGPT’s maker is working on a new feature for MS Word that would enable you to cut-and-paste a snippet of copy into a Word doc — and then have ChatGPT auto-rework that copy into your writing style.
For example: You’ll be able to cut-and-paste a rough copy of a blog post into MS Word using this feature — and then have that first draft auto-rewritten in your best writing style.
While ChatGPT is already able to render prose in your writing style with just a bit of tweaking, this fully interwoven alternate solution will apparently make the process easier and quicker in MS Word.
*Arizona State ‘All In’ on AI: So much for dithering over the pros-and-cons of allowing college students to use AI for academic work.
Arizona State University has cast in with ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI to embed the tech in faculty and staff computing systems.
Essentially: It’ll be tough for profs to wag their fingers at students regarding ChatGPT use when their own systems will be integrated with the tech.
*Bard Boost: Google Assistant Going from Handy to Highfalutin’: Google Assistant — a productivity suite that helps you answer questions, schedule events, set alarms, adjust your hardware settings and more — is being enhanced with Google Bard.
A direct competitor to ChatGPT, the Bard chatbot uses the latest in generative AI to complete tasks.
Reports Zacks Equity Research: “Nearing its launch, these ‘Assistant with Bard’ feature upgrades will likely aid the company in further penetrating the booming virtual assistant market.”
*Pony Up: You May Soon Need 16GBs RAM to Run AI: PCs looking to maximize all the AI features Microsoft has to offer may soon need to feature at least 16GBs RAM.
Observes writer Allisa James: “This is especially true of Copilot, an AI chatbot that automates and generates work.
“Microsoft has been pushing this feature especially hard — including a dedicated Copilot key on Windows keyboards similar to the Windows key.”
*Mini-Me Bot: Roll-Your-Own, Custom Copilot Coming: Following the lead of ChatGPT’s maker, Microsoft says users will soon be able to create custom, highly personalized versions of its AI chatbot, Microsoft Copilot.
ChatGPT users can already customize ChatGPT for their own purposes — such as creating a custom version that uses their own writing style.
Observes writer John Callaham: “Microsoft plans to launch a new app called ‘Copilot GPT Builder,’ which is made specifically for these kinds of (customization) tasks.”
*’AI Will Not Scab Us:’ In one of the most in-your-face pushbacks against AI-automated creative tools to date, employees striking the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are vehemently opposing AI-automated imaging software.
Says Zack Tanner, president, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh: “The Post-Gazette’s attempt to replace our labor with artificial intelligence is a serious concern to journalists not just in Pittsburgh, but all across the country.
“As newsroom jobs continue to disappear due to corporate greed and mismanagement, we stand firmly against any use of AI that takes work out of union members’ hands.”
*Cheap AI Knock-Off Books Flood Amazon: Legitimate authors are finding lazy AI rewrites of their books on Amazon, according to this piece in Wired.
Observes writer Kate Knibbs: “Authors keep finding what appear to be AI-generated imitations and summaries of their books on Amazon.
“There’s little they can do to rein-in the rip-offs.”
*AI Big Picture: Tech Tightrope: Businesses Juggle AI With a Mix of Optimism and Anxiety: A new Deloitte report finds that while business is upbeat about the promises of AI-automated writing and similar generative AI, they’re apprehensive about the downsides.
Observes writer Sharon Goldman: “More than half of business and tech leaders are particularly concerned that the widespread use of gen-AI will centralize global economic power and increase economic inequality.
“In addition, technical talent is seen as the number one barrier to AI adoption — followed by regulatory compliance and governance issues.”
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