October 3rd, 2023

Author

Sarah Stoker
November 29, 2023

I’m so glad you’re here.

Here's the line-up today:

  • Upgrade your writing process below 🚀 

  • Meta makes huge leaps in the avatar space 🤩 

  • Check out these free image AI tools from a great content creator ✨

Tim Allen Mind Blown GIF by filmeditor

⭐️ Question: How can my writing process get more organized?

Stay creative

 Answer: Try this AI tool: WriteOnSaga

  • WriteOnSaga offers innovative AI-powered tools for master storytellers to foster creativity and accelerate the writing process.

  • Designed by CyberFilm in California, WriteOnSaga aims to empower writers by providing technology that ignites imagination and brings cinematic stories to life.

  • Founder Russell Palmer leveraged his Western Engineering education and experience at Microsoft, Viv Labs, and JPMorgan to successfully co-found the AI startup CyberFilm.

  • They raised $125K from prominent angel investor Jason Calacanis in May.

🧠 Industry Insights

Industry Insights Metaverse Face-to-Face: Fridman Interview Realistic Zuckerberg Avatar

  • Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed by Lex Fridman in the Metaverse using photorealistic avatars of themselves.

  • Fridman was amazed by the realism, saying he was "forgetting Zuckerberg wasn't real" due to precise expressiveness.

  • Zuckerberg said bringing full bodies to avatars is still a challenge, but could enable people to do things together looking fully like themselves.

  • Meta aims to make similar realistic scans possible with just a smartphone, but the tech is still 3+ years away from mainstream use.

🎥 Creator Highlight: @Futurepedia

  • This account, Futurepedia, provides tips for making AI-generated images more interesting through animation, 3D effects, and speaking avatars.

  • He introduces several free tools like LeiaPix, CapCut, and Pika Labs to animate images and make them more immersive.

  • He shows us how to turn images into 3D environments with instaVerse and animate drawings with Animated Drawings from Meta.

  • Lastly, he demonstrates tools like D-ID, HeyGen, and SadTalker to add synthetic voices to images and create speaking avatars.

Definition: Reinforcement Learning

A type of machine learning in which a model learns to make decisions by interacting with its environment and receiving feedback through rewards or penalties. GPT uses reinforcement learning from human feedback. When tuning GPT-3, human annotators provided examples of the desired model behavior and ranked outputs from the model.

👀 Job Board

Here are some awesome open positions in the AI space that we would love to see one of our readers fill: