🤖 New AI turns phone video into 3D worlds

PLUS: AI just made the cover of TIME... again

Happy Friday!

Hope you’ve got your weekend staycation planned out, because we’ve got some heavy-hitting headlines coming your way.

In today's rundown:

  • 🤖 Nvidia Neuralangelo AI turns video into 3D worlds

  • 📰 TIME’s new cover warns of AI extinction

  • 🛠️ 11 fresh new AI tools & resources

Read time: 4 minutes

NVIDIA Research has developed Neuralangelo (great name), an AI model that leverages neural networks for 3D reconstruction from 2D video clips.

Neuralangelo generates highly detailed and textured 3D structures, allowing creative professionals to import them into design applications for various purposes like art, video game development, and robotics.

The model excels at translating intricate textures from 2D videos, surpassing previous methods and enabling developers to rapidly create virtual objects using smartphone footage (here’s a great before and after).

It’s technology like this that is going to become widely adopted in the coming years. When skills (such as 3D modeling and rendering) become democratized to anyone with a smartphone, the possibilities truly become endless.

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The rapid advancements in AI have led experts to express concerns about its potential negative impacts.

According to Time, many AI researchers believe that developing high-level machine intelligence could have a near 10% chance of leading to extremely bad outcomes, even human extinction.

In response to these concerns, a statement urging caution on AI was signed by hundreds of AI scientists, as well as CEOs from leading AI companies (which we covered on Wednesday — beat you to it Time!)

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