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Hey Edge Family, good morning! Hollywood is really feeling the effects of OpenAI and Sora. Are we witnessing a major Hollywood shift?
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Big Takeaway: Tyler Perry halted an $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio after seeing a demonstration of OpenAI's new video generation model, Sora. (Demo videos here)
Perry said Sora's ability to generate video backgrounds, locations, and effects with just text prompts could drastically reduce production costs, making large studio spaces unnecessary.
He has already implemented AI in two upcoming films to avoid hours of makeup, showcasing the technology's potential to change traditional production processes.
Perry stresses the importance of a unified effort from all stakeholders in the entertainment industry to confront the challenges posed by AI technology.
Will AI video make large production studios obsolete? And why?
Source: Google
Big Takeaway: Chrome M122 introduces a new AI writing assistant feature called "Help me write" for Mac and Windows PCs in the U.S.
"Help me write" can assist users in starting or refining written content, offering contextually relevant suggestions based on the webpage content, enhancing tasks like selling items, submitting reviews, or making inquiries.
To activate "Help me write," Sign into Chrome, access "Settings" from the three-dot menu, navigate to "Experimental AI," and turn the feature on.
The writing assistant expands beyond Gmail's "Help me write" function, incorporating the entire web using a recent Gemini AI model.
🔎 Extra Insights
Research shows that generative AI models like ChatGPT work better when they are nicely or urgently asked to do something. Prompting generative AI nicely or urgently appears to activate parts of the models that typically stay dormant. But this same method also makes it easy for models to jailbreak safety measures by asking nicely.
In 2013, James Howells from Newport, Wales, accidentally threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin, which at today's rates are worth a staggering $410 million. He now plans to use aerial photographs and AI scanning technology to try and find the buried hard drive in the massive landfill site.
Elon Musk hinted at a potential partnership between X/Twitter and leading AI art generator Midjourney, saying "interesting discussions" are underway that may allow AI image creation capabilities directly within X!
💻 Real Life Use Cases
Chat GPT Prompt: Learn your writing
Use this ChatGPT prompt to create a prompt in the style of your writing.
For this example, we used a portion of a paper Sam Altman wrote in 2021. (link here)
Copy and paste the prompt below:
Analyze the text below for style, voice, and, tone. Create a prompt to write a new paragraph in the same style, voice, and tone. [insert text here]Here’s a link to the results:
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