Adobe rolls out new PDF AI chatbot for Reader and Acrobat
Adobe announced that it is rolling out a beta release of a generative AI chatbot that will be integrated into its Reader and Acrobat products. The…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Generative AI
OpenAI introduces Sora, an advanced text-to-video model
OpenAI has unveiled Sora, a state-of-the-art text-to-video (TTV) model that generates realistic videos of up to 60 seconds from a user text prompt. We’ve seen big…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
IBM Security shows how AI can hijack audio conversations
IBM Security published research on its Security Intelligence blog to show how AI voice clones could be injected into a live conversation without the participants realizing…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
AI dominates Super Bowl commercials
The Super Bowl is the biggest televised event in the USA with many of the 100 million viewers tuning in for the ads rather than the…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Amazon rolls out Rufus, a generative AI shopping assistant
Amazon has started giving select users access to its AI shopping assistant called Rufus which launched in beta this week. Rufus is a text-based chatbot that…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Bard’s Gemini Pro upgrade continues, gets image generation
Google expanded its upgrade of Bard as Gemini Pro now powers the free chatbot in over 40 languages across more than 230 countries. Users can now…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
InstantID generates reproductions from a single face image
AI tools can create images of personalized digital identities but that involves fine-tuning LoRAs to get good results. InstantID is a zero-shot plugin that enables generative…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
George Carlin’s estate sues creators of AI fake comedy show
The AI-generated video impersonating the late comedic great, George Carlin, horrified fans while simultaneously demonstrating the advancement AI has made in voice cloning. Carlin’s estate is…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Chatbots help lonely, suicidal students with mental health
Loneliness is a global epidemic with people increasingly relying on AI companions to fill the absence of human friends. Researchers from Stanford University found that students…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Google unveils Lumiere, a text-to-video diffusion model
Google Research unveiled Lumiere, a text-to-video diffusion model that creates remarkably realistic videos from text or image prompts. The still images generated by tools like Midjourney…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read