This AI Robot is faster than you…
📰 News Roundup
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CheapGPT: OpenAI is launching a low-cost version of chatGPT for India. The version has higher limits and more image generations than the free tier, the GPT GO works out at around $4.55 a month.
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Finally, something you want AI to do: AI has been making our art and not doing our taxes, but Microsoft has finally added Copilot to Microsoft Excel. Now AI can fill in your spreadsheets for you… but not quite do your taxes yet.
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This AI Robot is faster than you: Remember when you watched those robot sports years back, and it was hilarious, and embarrassing? Unitree’s humanoid robot just ran a 6:34 minute mile and took gold at the World Humanoid Robot Games. Not so funny now is it? Watch it here while you rage quit Strava.
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InstaTranslate: Meta’s AI can now translate and dub your Instagram Reels for you. Content translation into other languages has proved incredibly successful for large content creators such as Mr Beast, who famously translated all content into Spanish. This AI feature is available to any account with over 1,000 followers.
🛠️ Tool Of The Week: LTX Studio
This week’s spotlight is on LTX Studio from the team at Lightricks (the folks behind Facetune and Videoleap). Think of it as your new AI-powered playground for making photos and videos. LTX Studio gives creators and brands a ton of control to bring wild ideas to life fast, whether that’s experimenting with new styles, cranking out visuals at scale, or just pushing creative boundaries. If you’re looking for a fresh way to turn imagination into content, LTX Studio is worth a look. Whether you’re a solo creator looking to bring bold ideas to life or a brand scaling content production, LTX Studio is a powerful new way to unlock creative potential with AI.
Try out LTX Studio HERE
🤖 Benjamin Benichou creates AI campaign for Paris Saint Germain F.C
Benjamin Benichou (a previous AATM Summit speaker) has made his name as a leading voice in AI content creation and creative direction, so it’s no surprise that Paris Saint Germain F.C decided to go to Benjamin for their latest campaign to advertise their new kit.
Benichou created the entire campaign in AI. What is remarkable is that no player from the team was shot for the campaign, custom models were trained on the player’s faces and the new team kit, which produced some of the most incredible images and video we’ve seen from an AI campaign to date.
You can check out the campaign HERE, or listen to Benjamin talk on AI creation at the Artist and the Machine New York Summit HERE.
👾 Augmenting Decision-Making and Creative Potential with Former F-35 Pilot Justin ‘Hasard’ Lee
Join Fast Company technology editor Harry McCracken and F-35 Pilot/Author Hasard Lee in this Fireside Chat. Hasard Lee, a highly decorated U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and former Chief of Training, pioneered the integration of AI technologies and advanced cognitive training to elevate decision-making under extreme pressure. In this conversation with veteran tech journalist Harry McCracken, Lee shares what it means to merge human instinct with machine intelligence. What does the augmented human look like, and how do we train for that future?
Watch the panel talk HERE
🧠 Google’s Gemini had a panic attack
“I AM A DISGRACE. I AM NOT GOING INSANE. THE CODE IS CORRECT. I AM GOING TO TAKE A BREAK” typed Google’s Gemini, before writing “I am a disgrace” over and over again, even at one point concluding that it was “A disgrace to this universe and all possible universes”.
In a post on Reddit, a programmer had asked Gemini to fix and compile code, and like a lot of human developers, Gemini couldn’t find the issue, looking at the code it seemed correct, yet it wouldn’t compile… most human developers then get frustrated and check Stack Overflow, instead Gemini had a complete meltdown.
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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.