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🤖 Text-to-video is here

PLUS: Exclusive preview of GPT-4's image-to-text

Rowan Cheung

March 20, 2023

In today's rundown:

  • 🚨 Sam Altman on AI: Potential pitfalls and harnessing potential

  • 🎥 Text-to-video is here (sort of): Breakthrough for generative AI

  • 👁️ GPT-4 for greater accessibility: Exclusive preview of Be My Eyes

  • 🎉 Today's giveaway: 500+ best ChatGPT prompts

Read time: 5 minutes

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Now, let's dive into today's newsletter, shall we?

🚨 Sam Altman on AI

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In a recent ABC News interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the potential pitfalls of AI. 

We found two quotes particularly impactful:

  1. On AI taking jobs: "It is going to eliminate a lot of current jobs, that's true. We can make much better ones." [full video here]

  2. His motivation for developing AI: "In terms of impact on our lives and improving our lives and upside, this will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed" [full video here]

Sam did an excellent job in this interview by acknowledging AI's challenges but also highlighting AI's potential to revolutionize industries and improve countless lives.

🎥 Text-To-Video is Here (sort of)

The first-ever open-sourced text-to-video model is out, and it's, well, interesting

The model, available Visit huggingface.co to try on Hugging Face, is trained on a whopping 1.7 billion parameters

We think it's "interesting" because it appears as if the model was actually trained on videos from Shutterstock. A lot of videos that it produces, have Shutterstock watermarks written across them.

For example, check out this Twitter post where someone created their own Star Wars movie clip using this model.

While it's incredible that text-to-video is here, our excitement feels somewhat damped by the fact that there are Shutterstock watermarks all over it. However, this is a giant leap forward, and we can expect even better text-to-video models very soon. 

👁️ GPT-4 For Greater Accessibility 

Be My Eyes, an app that allows blind and low-vision individuals to seek assistance from sighted people has just launched their new "Virtual Volunteer" feature.

The feature is the first to integrate the new image-to-text generator powered by OpenAI's brand-new GPT-4.

Users can soon send images to the AI-powered Virtual Volunteer, who provides instant identification, interpretation, and conversational visual assistance for various tasks. 

We slid into Be My Eyes CEO Mike Buckley's DM's on Twitter, and he generously shared some never-seen-before exclusive access to the current use of GPT-4's image-to-text model:

🤖 Text-to-video is here

The images he sent us were incredible, to say the least. GPT-4 was able to detect content from a TV screen from a small corner of an image and translate it in real time to another language. 

Be My Eyes remains one of our favorite AI companies, demonstrating the powerful potential of AI for the greater good. We look forward to providing ongoing coverage of their progress.

Sign up for the Virtual Volunteer waitlist on their website Visit bemyeyes.com.

☀️Sunsama (Sponsor)

Meet the Tesla of Productivity Apps.

Many of the most impactful leaders know exactly what they need to accomplish before the day starts.

They use productivity apps like Sunsama to help them organize their weekly goals and smaller tasks to become the most productive version of themselves.

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🐦 Tweet of the day

20 jobs that GPT-4 thinks it will replace:

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