Tech & Society
Avatars Gone Wild: What's going on with Lensa, the AI-powered selfie app?
A blockbuster app produces sexualized avatar images, even when the original portraits were safe for work.
Arts
Culture
Creatives Fight Back: Generative AI from DeviantArt Creates Controversy
Artists are rebelling against AI-driven imitation. DeviantArt, an online community where artists display and sell their work and marketplace for digital art, launched DreamUp, a text-to-image generator that aims to help artists thwart attempts to imitate their styles or works.
Machine Learning Research
Text to Video Without Text-Video Training Data: Make-A-Video, an AI System from Meta, Generates Video from Text
Text-to-image generators like DALL·E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are winning art contests and worrying artists. A new approach brings the magic of text-to-image generation to video.
Culture
Prompting DALL·E for Fun and Profit: A marketplace for phrases that produce art in DALL·E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion
An online marketplace enables people to buy text prompts designed to produce consistent output from the new generation of text-to-image generators.
Tech & Society
Voices for the Voiceless: Generative AI models are creating voices for Hollywood and video games.
Musicians and filmmakers adopted AI as a standard part of the audio-production toolbox. What happened: Professional media makers embraced neural networks that generate new sounds and modify old ones. Voice actors bristled.
Tech & Society
Multimodal AI Takes Off: Multimodal Models, such as CLIP and DALL·E, are taking over AI.
While models like GPT-3 and EfficientNet, which work on text and images respectively, are responsible for some of deep learning’s highest-profile successes, approaches that find relationships between text and images made impressive
Tech & Society
Transformers Take Over: Transformers Applied to Vision, Language, Video, and More
In 2021, transformers were harnessed to discover drugs, recognize speech, and paint pictures — and much more.
Business
GPT-3 for All: GPT-3 NLP Model is Available for Select Azure Users
Microsoft is making GPT-3 available to selected customers through its Azure cloud service.
Tech & Society
Seeing Through Forgeries: Researchers Use AI to Identify Da Vinci Forgery
Accusations of fraud hang over some of the world’s most highly valued artworks. Machine learning engineers are evaluating the authenticity of these famous pieces.
Tech & Society
Artistry Is Obsolete: Is AI Making Human Artists Obsolete?
Is human creativity being replaced by the synthetic equivalent? The fear: AI is cranking out increasingly sophisticated visual, musical, and literary works. AI-generated media will flood the market, squeezing out human artists and depriving the world of their creativity.
Machine Learning Research
Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.
Tech & Society
Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven died before he completed what would have been his tenth and final symphony. A team of computer scientists and music scholars approximated the music that might have been.