AI gets access to the Government
📰 News Roundup
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Night of the Not-So-Living AI. Apple pulls its Apple Intelligence commercial featuring The Last Of Us star Bella Ramsey, because, well, its AI isn’t ready, and rumored to get rebuilt entirely. Talk about leading the cart before the horse!
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Playstation creates AI video game characters. Playstation have created an AI version of Aloy for the game Horizon Forbidden West. Whilst this is currently for ‘internal purposes’ it wont be long until we’re seeing these remarkable AI characters in every day games. The characters work by using OpenAI’s whisper for speech-to-text, and both GPT-4 and Llama 3 for conversations and decision making, using Sony’s own technology for likeness and face animation.
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AI gets access to the Government: This week the aptly named CamoGPT and GSAi were launched by the US Military, and Department of Government Efficiency, respectively. CamoGPT is a Military AI that scrapes for references of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility and sets them up to be removed from the US Military’s training manuals. GSAi is a chatbot launched to 1,500 governmental workers to automate tasks previously completed by humans, created by DOGE.
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AI art SELLS! The Christie’s AI art auction exceeds expectations, almost reaching $1 million in sales, with 28 of the 34 works selling, and sales outpacing Christie’s original estimates. Artist and the Machine summit speaker Claire Silver was part of the auction with her piece ‘Daughter’, which you can ask her about in person on April the 24th.
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Luma AI potentially changes the game. This week Luma launched an Inductive Moment Matching model, which is claimed to be 30x faster than the diffusion models we are currently used to. Justin Hackney, Creative Director from ElevenLabs explains the impact best in this clear and concise explanation.
🛠 Tool of the Week: Flora
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🎟️ Early Bird Tickets Sold Out, but Tier II is here.
You may have seen this week that Early Bird tickets have now sold out. We are so thankful to this incredible community, and the good news is Tier II of Early Bird is now live! HAL 9000 wasn’t particularly happy, but all you [and HAL] need to do is go to Luma, and grab a ticket while there’s still some left.
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🔥 Speaker Hot Takes
Harry McCracken is the Technology Editor for Fast Company, a highly respected voice in the industry, who will be hosting a fireside chat with ex-fighter pilot and author Hasard Lee at our Summit in April.
Adrienne Lahens is a recognized leader in the creator economy and generative AI landscape, and former TikTok executive. Adrienne’s mission centers on democratizing creativity and empowering brands and creators with cutting-edge solutions. Speaking at our New York Summit in April.
Jon Krohn is the host of SuperDataScience, the data science industry’s most listened-to podcast. Also writing the #1 best seller Deep Learning Illustrated, he also presents on Bloomberg TV and will be speaking at our AI & Creativity summit in April.
AI & Creativity Summit April 24, New York City
Til next time,
Dani Van de Sande (Founder), James Joseph (The Weekly’s Editor) & the Artist and the Machine team.
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Paige Piskin is an award-winning AI and XR creator, known for pushing the boundaries of digital makeup, character design, and augmented reality experiences. With AR effects generating more than 300 billion impressions, shared 2 billion times, Paige has worked with major brands like Netflix, Bratz, Warner, and Coldplay, bringing immersive storytelling to life. She has also been a guest judge for Netflix, consultant, and 2x hackathon winner, recognized for her innovative work in AI-driven AR experiences. Paige is passionate about blending generative AI with character design, expanding the possibilities of digital self-expression and interactive storytelling.
Claire Silver is an anonymous AI-Collaborative artist that works with oil, acrylic, collage, photography, and different digital mediums to create her work. She often blends the classical style and mythos into her art, collaboratively producing work that feels at once familiar and strange. Her work explores themes of innocence, trauma, the hero’s journey, and how our view of them will change in an increasingly transhumanist future. Claire’s art can be found in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been at Sotheby’s London and Christie’s New York and in galleries, museums, and festivals all over the world. Featured in the New York Times, WIRED, Fortune, NPR, and countless podcasts, Claire takes every opportunity to explore her unending fascination with AI, fight for visibility for this budding art movement, and wonder at the magnitude of this moment in history. She often feels like a caveman painting fire. Claire is vocal in her belief that with the rise of AI, for the first time, the barrier of skill is swept away and that in this evolving era, taste is the new skill.