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Y Combinator's Standouts & How Women Are Leading the Charge

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Sarah Stoker
April 04, 2024

I’m so glad you’re here.

Let’s dive in 🤿 

🎥 AI on the screen

Award Winning AI Musical Ad 🪄

I don’t know about you, but I know I could use a lil magic in my life this week

TLDR:

  • Directed by Dave Clark in collaboration with Secret Level’s Jason Zada, utilizing AI, VFX, animation, and live-action.

  • Created in just 2 weeks as a love letter to the advertising industry.

  • Showcases the potential future of advertising and filmmaking with AI tools like Stable Diffusion, Warp Fusion, and Runway.

  • Highlighted as the Editor's Pick in Creativity by AdAge.

👨‍🍳 AI Vibes

CAA Clients Can Digitally Scan Themselves

Hollywood's Newest Suitors: AI Innovators

This actually was announced back in September, but what OpenAI’s Video Creation Tool, Sora, I’m noticing a few things, highlighted in this article.

  • AI companies are strategically linking arms with Hollywood early on in the development process

  • A film distributed by Lionsgate used AI software to put altered dialogue in a movie without having to re-shoot the scene.

  • Spotify is using voice translation software powered by AI to interpret podcasts into different languages using the speaker's voice.

⭐️ Question: AI startups stood out the most in Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch?! 👀 

🕵️ Hazel: use AI to automate the government contracting discovery, drafting, and compliance process.

👩‍⚕️ Andy AI: AI-powered scribe, capturing and transcribing the spoken details of a patient visit and generating electronic health records.

❤️ Maia: aims to empower couples to build stronger relationships through AI-powered guidance.

📈 Datacurve: provides “expert-quality” data for training generative AI models.

✨ Vibe Board

Here are some of my favorite things from this week:

READING

TRYING

Naval Ravikant is the co-founder of AngelList and invested in more than 100 companies, including Uber, and Twitter. My favorite read of this year so far.

Once added, chatgpt no longer uses fancy jargon and bs wordings. Praise, a normal human-like tone!

FEELING

VISITING

We love a good reminder.

Future IYKYK Meet-up inspo?

🔥 Growth

Breaking Barriers: How Women Are Shaping the Future of AI

TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews to highlight women's contributions to the AI revolution, featuring Kathi Vidal, an American intellectual property lawyer and former engineer.

  1. Vidal discusses her journey in AI, challenges in a male-dominated field, and the importance of collective efforts in promoting responsible AI development and policy-making.

  2. As director of the USPTO, Vidal has implemented changes resulting in a nearly 5% increase in diversity among the agency's leadership ranks within one year.

  3. Vidal began her AI journey through GE's Edison Engineering Program, leading to her development of the first AI diagnostic system for aircraft.

👀 Job Board

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

Definition: Corpus

A large dataset of written or spoken material that can be used to train a machine to perform linguistic tasks.

What is IYKYK? (If you know, you know) 💅

I'm Sarah Stoker, a curious soul passionate about weaving the magic of emerging tech into our daily lives. I'm all about demystifying AI, making it feel like a coffee chat topic rather than a textbook chapter. Imagine blending the spark of human creativity with the wonders of AI – that's the adventure I'm on. I’m here for brand-new avenues for art that amplify our creative quests, and learning alongside you.