Eleven Labs raises $2 million to keep building its text-to-speech AI
They’re betting that AI generated voices are the future of audio.
CNET’s AI experiment isn’t going well
The tech news site stopped publishing AI generated articles after several inaccuracies.
Stability AI is being sued by Getty Images
Getty says Stable Diffusion “unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright.”
People are using AI to imagine movies that were never made
What would happen if Alejandro Jodorowsky made ‘Tron’?
Indistinguishable from magic
Magic is a fun and pragmatic lens for understanding generative AI — cast a spell and conjure content.
10 AI news sources you’ll actually learn from
Ten of the best AI newsletters, YouTube channels, and Twitter accounts as of January 2023.
What’s new in ChatGPT, Jan 9 Version
There’s finally an option to get the chatbot to stop talking.
OpenAI on track for massive $29 billion valuation
The company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E is looking to double their valuation in one year.
Say goodbye to robotic computer voices
The latest text-to-speech model from Eleven Labs can convincingly imitate emotions in speech — including laughter.
Are you smarter than a chatbot?
Joanna Stern took ChatGPT to AP English class for her latest WSJ column... and the AI passed.
An AI generated these portraits of me
The photo editor app Lensa dropped an AI selfie generator, and the results are truly impressive. But there’s a dark side.
Apparently ChatGPT is a political centrist now
David Rozado observes that ChatGPT’s responses to the Political Spectrum Test have become “exquisitely neutral.”
OpenAI invested $100mm in these four startups. Why?
What Descript, Harvey, Mem, and Speak each mean for OpenAI’s vision of the future of AI.
Ghost in the (virtual) machine
A Google engineer thinks that the company’s LaMDA chatbot is sentient.
ChatGPT reaches 1 million users in only five days
That was fast.
OpenAI releases ChatGPT
One giant leap for conversational AI.
MrBeast is wise beyond his years
23-year old Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson had a fascinating conversation with Joe Rogan about life, philanthropy, and of course, YouTube. But how does the most-popular YouTuber influence culture?
The world order is about to change, according to Ray Dalio
The billionaire investor says that the rise and declines of the world’s most powerful nation follows a predictable “Big Cycle” pattern.
Thinking about thinking
How can computers help us be better at remembering things — without having to wear a camera on our face?
What do MF Doom, web3, and a Rolex have in common?
“People describe NFTs as similar to fancy watches, but you can’t become a Rolex.”
capitalize on creativity
it turns out that writing in lowercase makes it more fun.
The new ‘Dune’ movie is the first chapter of the next mainstream sci-fi epic
I’ve read ‘Dune’ three times and Denis Villenueve’s version of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic surpassed my highest expectations. Here’s how the movie compares to the book.
Typetura is typesetting for the 21st century
A primer on the future of typography, typesetting, and why details matter.
The 10,000 year clock
2 new articles on Gold's Guide, 4 interesting links, and 3 email newsletters worth reading.
The Long Now Foundation is thinking 10,000 years ahead
Taking self-actualization to the next level.