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State Dep’t Funded Report Says AI Poses Extinction-Level Risk
Plus Midjourney's new consistent character feature
Nathaniel Whittemore
March 12, 2024
The AI Breakdown First Five - Monday March 11, 2024
Today on the First Five:
5. The Best AI Coding Tool Yet?
4. Face and Voice Cloning in Every App?
3. Abu Dhabi Targets $100B AUM for AI Fund
2. Midjourney Consistent Character Tool
1. State Dep’t Funded Report Says AI Poses Extinction-Level Risk
5. The Best AI Coding Tool Yet?
Meet Devin, a stealthy AI coding tool that some are saying is the most powerful AI coder yet. The tool, which is by a team of competitive champion coders who have raised $21m from Peter Thiel and others, promises to build complete pieces of software, going far beyond just being an “assistant.”
Scoop: a start-up called Cognition AI has released what appears to be the most capable coding assisstant yet. Instead of just autocompleting tasks, it can write entire programs on its own.
Is backed by Peter Thiel and Founders Fund, among others
— Ashlee Vance (@ashleevance)
1:08 PM • Mar 12, 2024
4. Face and Voice Cloning in Every App?
A big AI theme in 2024 is integration. In other words, generative AI experiences making their way into our existing workflows. One company Tavus has announced a series A, and is trying to bring digital replicas into day-to-day business functions.
Introducing: the Tavus Developer Platform & Phoenix public beta.
Build human-like replicas and text-to-video with simple APIs.
Users can:
🤖 Make a personal replica with 2 minutes of footage
🧑 Generate realistic videos in minutes
🌎 Generate videos in 30 languages
🎥 Forget… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…— Tavus (@heytavus)
1:01 PM • Mar 12, 2024
3. Abu Dhabi Targets $100B AUM for AI Fund
The Gulf region is becoming one of the most important AI hubs. Bloomberg reports that Abu Dhabi is setting up a new tech investment firm for AI and semiconductor deals that is looking to reach $100B+ in AUM within the next few years.
EXCLUSIVE: Abu Dhabi's new investment firm focusing on AI and semiconductors could surpass $100 billion in assets under management
— Bloomberg Middle East (@middleeast)
11:34 AM • Mar 12, 2024
2. Midjourney Consistent Character Tool
One of Midjourney’s most requested features has been to improve the creation of consistent characters. They’ve now released a new Character Reference feature that allows for exactly that, and the creative community is absolutely loving it.
MidJourney has just incorporated the most desired feature by the community, character consistency.
Let me tell you how you can start using it.
— TechHalla (@techhalla)
11:32 AM • Mar 12, 2024
1. State Dep’t Funded Report Says AI Poses Extinction-Level Risk
A new report argues that AI development poses “urgent and growing risks to national security” and that “the rise of AGI has the potential to destabilize global security.” What’s giving the report more traction is that it was funded by a State Department grant in Nov 2022.
To save you a click: The government wrote $250k check to a handful of precomitted AI doomers to write a doom and gloom report so they wrote one.
— Amjad Masad (@amasad)
3:58 PM • Mar 11, 2024
Bonus: Your moment of ….. zen?
Jurassic Park, but all the dinosaurs are Goldblums.
Created with the help of Midjourney AI's new style reference, animated with @runwayml.
🔵What do you think? New sequel in order? twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Christopher Fryant (@cfryant)
12:41 AM • Mar 12, 2024
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