Generative AI News - New ChatGPT Features, HuggingChat, Google, Deepfakes, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 317

04/29/23 • 60 min

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for April 27, 2023, is here. Another week of breaking news has piled up, and we have a breakdown of the top stories and what they mean for the industry. The developments include news from ChatGPT, HuggingFace, Google, Nvidia, Sensory, Hour One, D-ID, deepfake musicians, and more.

Your hosts today are Bret Kinsella and Voicebot.ai's Eric Schwartz. The top stories in generative AI land this week include:

ChatGPT En Fuego

Plugging in a new vision: Greg Brockman from OpenAI demonstrated some new ChatGPT plugin features; several are jaw-dropping.
The “super app” virtual assistant we were promised: Brockman’s demo and the discussion about the product philosophy offer an insight into where ChatGPT is headed. Move over, Alexa. Get out of the way, Siri. ChatGPT may be the virtual assistant we have always wanted.
ChatGPT is anything but incognito: While everything ChatGPT seems to play out in the public eye, OpenAI recognized that not every user wanted every one of their chat conversations saved in perpetuity and used for future model training. Incognito (i.e., private chatting) is now available, and a “business mode” is coming soon.

HuggingChat Embraces Open Source

Open source competition for ChatGPT: Hugging Face stepped up and provided a ChatGPT alternative built on open source models and data. It’s a smaller AI model than ChatGPT and is pretty good.

Deepfake Entertainment

Drake, The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, and Rihanna go viral: Viral hits from big stars are common. Deepfake viral hits mimicking the voice, style, and likeness of big stars may also become common. ghostwrider777 strikes again!
Joe Rogan comments run deep: New deepfakes mimicking Joe Rogan’s podcast have the comedian and commentator talking about a “ slippery” slope.
Grimes jumps on board: The musical artist says she will split royalties 50/50 with anyone deepfaking her voice. She has no label and no binding legal constraints giving her more flexibility than most musicians.

More Virtual Human Expansion

Prompt-to-video: Hour One introduced a new text-to-video solution that enables full video generation for presentations from a single prompt.
Canva gets digital people: D-ID introduced a new Canva app that enables you to add generative videos to any project.
Chatbots are suddenly popular: Character AI landed $150M in funding at an obscene valuation. Virtual Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and 2.7 million other chatting avatars with personalities have driven 100M user visits in just two months.

Google Ups Generative Game

Bard learns to code: Google is slowly catching up with the generative AI leaders. It’s ChatGPT competitor—or, is it a Bing Chat competitor— can now code. This is not a true competitor to GitHub Copilot yet.
Sec-PaLM gets into security: Google also rolled out a new cybersecurity solution with the parsimonious name of Google Cloud Security AI Workbench. It is based on a fine-tuned version of the PaLM large language model (LLM).

Nvidia and Sensory Plug Market Gaps

ChatGPT gets an edge: Sensory rolled out a new hybrid on-device and cloud solution that can enable the use of ChatGPT and similar services on devices.
Nvidia on rails: NeMo, Nvidia’s LLM, now has a new feature...

Your hosts today are Bret Kinsella and Voicebot.ai's Eric Schwartz. The top stories in generative AI land this week include:

ChatGPT En Fuego

Plugging in a new vision: Greg Brockman from OpenAI demonstrated some new ChatGPT plugin features; several are jaw-dropping.
The “super app” virtual assistant we were promised: Brockman’s demo and the discussion about the product philosophy offer an insight into where ChatGPT is headed. Move over, Alexa. Get out of the way, Siri. ChatGPT may be the virtual assistant we have always wanted.
ChatGPT is anything but incognito: While everything ChatGPT seems to play out in the public eye, OpenAI recognized that not every user wanted every one of their chat conversations saved in perpetuity and used for future model training. Incognito (i.e., private chatting) is now available, and a “business mode” is coming soon.

HuggingChat Embraces Open Source

Open source competition for ChatGPT: Hugging Face stepped up and provided a ChatGPT alternative built on open source models and data. It’s a smaller AI model than ChatGPT and is pretty good.

Deepfake Entertainment

Drake, The Weeknd, Bad Bunny, and Rihanna go viral: Viral hits from big stars are common. Deepfake viral hits mimicking the voice, style, and likeness of big stars may also become common. ghostwrider777 strikes again!
Joe Rogan comments run deep: New deepfakes mimicking Joe Rogan’s podcast have the comedian and commentator talking about a “ slippery” slope.
Grimes jumps on board: The musical artist says she will split royalties 50/50 with anyone deepfaking her voice. She has no label and no binding legal constraints giving her more flexibility than most musicians.

More Virtual Human Expansion

Prompt-to-video: Hour One introduced a new text-to-video solution that enables full video generation for presentations from a single prompt.
Canva gets digital people: D-ID introduced a new Canva app that enables you to add generative videos to any project.
Chatbots are suddenly popular: Character AI landed $150M in funding at an obscene valuation. Virtual Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and 2.7 million other chatting avatars with personalities have driven 100M user visits in just two months.

Google Ups Generative Game

Bard learns to code: Google is slowly catching up with the generative AI leaders. It’s ChatGPT competitor—or, is it a Bing Chat competitor— can now code. This is not a true competitor to GitHub Copilot yet.
Sec-PaLM gets into security: Google also rolled out a new cybersecurity solution with the parsimonious name of Google Cloud Security AI Workbench. It is based on a fine-tuned version of the PaLM large language model (LLM).

Nvidia and Sensory Plug Market Gaps

ChatGPT gets an edge: Sensory rolled out a new hybrid on-device and cloud solution that can enable the use of ChatGPT and similar services on devices.
Nvidia on rails: NeMo, Nvidia’s LLM, now has a new feature...

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Generative AI News - StableLM, Elon Musk, Drake Deepfake, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 316

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for April 20, 2023, was recorded live at the Model Mania conference, which focused on enterprise generative AI solutions.

News this week has more on Elon Musk and some surprising news from Stability AI. We also talk about a deepfake of Drake and The Weeknd that went viral, Adobe Firefly, Atlassian, ChatGPT in government legal actions, Universal Music lawsuits, and more.

Bret Kinsella hosted this week with his Voicebot.ai colleague Eric Schwartz. The top stories in generative AI land this week include:

StableLM and Stable Diffusion XL

Big Data LLM: Stability AI introduced a new large language model trained on 1.5 trillion data tokens. It’s open-source and comes in a variety of model parameter sizes.
Stable Diffusion for the Enterprise: The new XL model from Stability AI offers better photorealism, more coherent text, and is positioned for enterprise use. Oh, and the company’s valuation may have risen from $1B to $4B in less than six months.

Adobe Firefly for Video

Generative AI for designers and video makers: Adobe Firefly will make it easier for designers to incorporate generative AI into their workflow. The new services for video production will take that to a new level in Premiere and After Effects.

Atlassian Intelligence

In-Context Search and Answers: The creator of Jira, Confluence, and Trello has added generative AI features for summarization, text generation, and question-answering from your productivity software data.

Elon Musk and X.ai

What is Elon up to now: Musk created a new company in Nevada last month called X.ai. He says he wants to create a third option beyond OpenAI and Google offerings.

Justice Dept Mentions ChatGPT

Name recognition on another level: The U.S. Justice Department’s suit against Google for alleged search monopolization said ChatGPT might have come sooner if not for the company’s stranglehold on the market.

The Weeknd and Drake Deepfake Goes Viral

Viral Music duo: 10M TikTok views and 600k Spotify streams later, a popular deepfake of a The Weeknd and Drake called “Heart on My Sleeve” was taken down due to a request from one of the music labels.

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AI at Mobile World Congress - D-ID, SK Telecom, MyManu, and VUI - Voicebot Podcast Ep 318

Mobile World Congress 2023 had a lot of AI solutions on display. D-ID's Yaniv Levy talked about a new streaming API for its virtual human solution paving the way for real-time and dynamic interactive digital people.

Don't miss the second segment with SK Telecom's Youngsup Shin. It is about A., (that's pronounced A [dot]), a virtual assistant that is also a personal companion. A. has 1 million users in its beta period, is based on a large language model (LLM), and has some features similar to ChatGPT.

MyManu is a new hearables headset connected to the 4G cellular network so you can access the internet without your smartphone. It is coming to market later this year and company founder Danny Manu offers us a sneak peek.

We finish up with Patrick Esslinger, the co-founder of VUI Agency. He shares what his team has learned about voice assistant experience design and how those solutions are evolving.

6:03 - D-ID streaming virtual humans

20:10 - SK Telecom on A. virtual companion

34:15 - MyManu about Titan, a new hearables solution

47:10 - VUI Agency on voice assistant experience design