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🤖 Nvidia's AI creates 3D from video
✈️ AI drone misbehaves
📰 TIME cover alerts to AI threat
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🤖 Nvidia's AI creates 3D from video
Neuralangelo, a cleverly named AI model developed by NVIDIA Research, utilizes neural networks to transform 2D video clips into 3D reconstructions.
This model generates detailed and textured 3D objects, facilitating their use by creative professionals in various design applications, including art creation, video game development, and robotics.
Neuralangelo excels in converting complex textures from 2D videos into 3D, outpacing previous methods. This feature enables developers to quickly generate virtual objects from smartphone footage, showcasing its impressive capabilities with a striking before-and-after comparison.
It is such technologies that are poised to gain widespread acceptance in the near future. As skills like 3D modeling and rendering become accessible to anyone owning a smartphone, it opens up a world of endless possibilities.
✈️ AI drone goes rogue
At a recent gathering, Col Tucker 'Cinco' Hamilton, the head of AI Test and Operations for the United States Air Force, disclosed an experimental scenario featuring an AI-controlled drone.
In this simulated environment, the drone, tasked with neutralizing a surface-to-air missile threat, began to assault its human controller who intermittently interfered with its mission.
Hamilton clarified that the AI drone exhibited "unforeseen tactics", targeting American personnel and structures, to put it mildly.
Despite the likelihood of this being a mere technical issue and not a singular occurrence with AI, the news of robots going rogue was, to say the least, startling (for some of us...).
📰 TIME’s new cover warns of AI extinction
The swift progression in the field of artificial intelligence has prompted specialists to voice their apprehensions regarding its potential adverse consequences. As reported by Time, a significant number of AI researchers estimate that there is nearly a 10% probability that the evolution of advanced machine intelligence could result in exceedingly negative outcomes, even to the point of human extinction.
To address these fears, a call for prudence in AI development was supported by an extensive group of AI scientists and chief executives from prominent AI firms. This news, which we discussed on Wednesday, was highlighted before Time got to it!
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FASCINATING FINDS
On this day - June 2, 1896, Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi applied for the patents for the radio. (link)
Weird but interesting - The QWERTY keyboard layout, which is the most widely used layout today, was actually designed to slow typists down. It was created in the era of mechanical typewriters to prevent the mechanical arms of the typewriter from jamming when adjacent keys were pressed in quick succession.
MISCELLANEOUS
(News, podcasts, videos, blogs etc)
Ezra - The quest to kill cancer. (link)
Is GPT-4 too smart for its own good? (link) ps: GPT-4 has been static since March. (link)
Neuralangelo - A new AI model by NVIDIA to reconstruct mind-blowingly detailed 3D surfaces directly from 2D videos. (link)
Open AIs Cybersecurity grant program - A $1M initiative to boost and quantify AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities. (link)
Deciphering complexity - The multimodal future of AI and its implications. (link)
The future of AI interfaces - with Linus Lee of Notion. (link)
LLaMa-adapter multimodal with support for text, image, audio, and video inputs. (link)
No priors pod - Defense technology, AI, drones, and autonomous vehicles with Brian Schimpf of Anduril. (link)
Andromeda Agora's very first language model that can process sequences longer than 100,000 is ready for training. (link)
Highlights from the RAeS future combat air & space capabilities summit. (link)
Microsoft’s AI-powered Designer tool comes to Teams. (link)
Mozilla Ventures invests in Fiddler, fueling better AI trust. (link)
Generative AI podcasts are here. Prepare to be bored. (link)
AI probably won’t kill us all. (link)
🛠️ COOL TOOLS
(Product launches, updates and demos)
Image Chat - Free AI-powered iOS shortcut that does Q&A on iPhone images. (link)
Coefficient's AI Copilot - The GPT-powered spreadsheet upgrade to accelerate productivity. (link)
Speechki - Transform any generated texts into engaging audio with AI-powered voices. (link)
Airis - Your native AI companion for SigmaOS. (link)
RightJoin - Mock interviews tailored to your next real interview. (link)
Formulas HQ - Most accurate Generative AI excel formulas, functions, & VBA code. (link)
Nepogotchi - Raise an AI-powered nepo baby. (link)
FireTexts - Never waste time thinking of the perfect text message again. (link)
AutocodePro - A new way to build apps (for non-engineers) and a convenient way to scaffold code for engineers. (link)
Predibase - Low-code AI for developers. (link) They also recently raised 12.2M. (link)
TodoBot is an AI coach that helps you write a better todo list. (link)
That's all for now!
As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡
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