SORA finally breaks cover…
Only hours ago OpenAi finally released SORA to an impatient US market. Unsurprisingly, their servers were slow and ‘failed renders’ common. Although with time these problems should be sorted. SORA has been much anticipated since March this year, when OpenAi teased the market with a preview of demos made by a few select users. Difficult […]
Runway – ACT One
This link and video from Runway shows the rapid and amazing development that Ai is taking and helping both enhance and extend our video making. Act-One appears to be part of Runway Gen 3 Alpha (image and video to video) guide here. At time of writing (December 2024) the credit cost for each generated second […]
Google Notebook LM
https://youtu.be/E2ILN71iikY Not Real… by Jim Reed (Awarded Penny Johnson Trophy for Best Editing – 2024) It’s a fun video, but contains deeper messages about Ai and reality. I called it ‘Not Real…’ but it’s possibly easier to say what is real in the video: The opening words were written by me. Google really do have […]
HeyGen – Video Translation & Dubbing
HeyGen Translation Feature. It’s easy to forget how time consuming and complex some activities were even in the recent past. For example, translating text into other languages would not only require access to a large number of dual language speakers, but also the time consuming task of transcribing the text manually. Imagine then the additional […]
Suno – Music Generation
Creating Music without any musical skills…thanks to Ai I grew up with music of the early sixties, and like many of the same era, I wanted to play guitar and join a pop group. My father had bought me a ukulele for my 8th birthday, but even with the persuasion that George Formby played one, […]
Black Forest Labs – Flux1.0 / 1.1 image generation
Generate your own high quality Ai images using Flux ! Background Black Forest Labs, a German based company, released FLUX on the 1st August this year. It was released without the usual build-up and hype that has sometimes accompanied other Ai launches. Flux is however a real game changer. Without doubt its launch put it […]
Dr Geoffrey Hinton – the godfather of Neural Networks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGJpR591oaM This BBC interview from May 2024 reveals the thinking of one of the most senior experts on Ai – a man who is considered to be the ‘Godfather’ of Ai, and was recently awarded the Nobel prize in Physics because of this work on Neural networks and Deep Learning. Professor Hinton’s belief is that […]
Move 37 : Dreaming of Electric Sheep
‘Move 37 : Dreaming of Electric Sheep’ by Jim Reed ‘I made the video primarily because I’ve found it quite frustrating that when makers of expensive electric tooth brushes and cheap toys label their products with the magic words Ai, many people then presume that all Ai must be marketing hype. Or that Ai is […]
A simple Guide to Ai Terminology
As Ai develops and changes, it’s very easy to become lost or left behind.Certainly, it’s reasonable to believe that the world is largely totally unprepared for what is about to occur.With that in mind, it’s probably useful to get a basic understanding of the Ai terminology that will soon become common.This is my plain English […]