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Nathaniel Whittemore
February 28, 2024
The AI Breakdown First Five - Friday February 23, 2024
Today on the First Five:
5. Alibaba EMO Creates Expressive Portrait Videos
4. Sundar Pichai Talks Gemini Controversy After Losing $70B
3. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says Don’t Learn to Code
2. Klarna’s AI Assistant is Doing the Work of 700
1. Apple Abandons Car Plans to Focus on AI
5. Alibaba EMO Creates Expressive Portrait Videos
Another day, another video model blowing people’s minds. This time it’s Alibaba’s EMO, which creates expressive video portraits and facial expressions from a source image and audio.
Alibaba presents EMO
A method for generating talking/singing head avatars with expressive facial expressions from a single image
Here the woman from the OpenAI Sora video is generated singing "Don't Start Now" by Dua Lipa
10 awesome examples and links below: twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Allen T (@Mr_AllenT)
11:59 AM • Feb 28, 2024
4. Sundar Pichai Talks Gemini Controversy After Losing $70B
The controversy around Gemini’s a-historical image making has continued. On Monday more than $70B was wiped off Google’s market cap, leading CEO Sundar Pichai to send a memo to employees calling the errors “completely unacceptable.”
Scoop: Sundar Pichai addressed the company tonight about the Gemini debacle, calling the responses unacceptable and vowing structural changes to how the company rolls out future products. Full story here:
— Reed Albergotti (@ReedAlbergotti)
4:26 AM • Feb 28, 2024
3. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says Don’t Learn to Code
One of the big questions in AI world is how the role of coders changes. For a decade, learning to code has been a major imperative. But could that be changing now? Nvidia’s CEO thinks so.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, argues that we should stop saying kids should learn to code.
He argues the rise of AI means we can replace programming languages with human language prompts thus enabling everyone to be a programmer.
AI will kill coding.
— Dare Obasanjo🐀 (@Carnage4Life)
8:08 PM • Feb 24, 2024
2. Klarna’s AI Assistant is Doing the Work of 700
Fintech company Klarna has announced the results of its first month using an AI-powered virtual assistant. It’s already handling the work of 700 customer service agents and earning ratings at the same level as human assistants.
oh we are cooked
— Chris Frantz (@frantzfries)
12:59 AM • Feb 28, 2024
1. Apple Abandons Car Plans to Focus on AI
Apple’s self-driving car project has been beset by delays and reduced ambitions, and it is now finally being abandoned. Reports are that the company is instead focusing its future growth goals around mainstreaming its Vision Pro headset and catching up in Generative AI.
Apple has cancelled its decade-long effort to build an EV. The writing was on the wall for Apple with a much different EV landscape forming that would have made this an uphill battle. Most of these Project Titan engineers now all focused on AI at Apple which is the right move🍎
— Dan Ives (@DivesTech)
11:23 PM • Feb 27, 2024
Bonus: How Singapore is preparing for AI change
How Singapore is preparing its citizens for the age AI.
— Sutra | AI (@CopySutra)
12:03 PM • Feb 27, 2024
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