Good morning! Here's your AI Trends dose, the newsletter that behaves like a seasoned archeologist, meticulously dusting off the sands of time to reveal the most fascinating relics of AI, tech, and innovation.

Let's brush off the dust and explore today's unearthed news together:

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Synthesia.io: Unleash the power of AI in your storytelling! Synthesia.io is revolutionizing the way we create videos, blending cutting-edge artificial intelligence with ease of use. Imagine crafting realistic, engaging videos without a camera or actors, just with a few clicks.

WordAI: 10x Your Content Output With AI. Use artificial intelligence to cut turnaround time, extend your budget, and create more high-quality content that Google and readers will love.

Stable Video Diffusion Joins the Race of AI-Generated Animation 🎨🎬

Attention all technology and animation enthusiasts! Today, we are delighted to fill you in on some sensational news. Stable Video Diffusion, the latest addition to AI-generated animation, is set to revolutionize the worlds of advertising, mobile format ad design, education, and entertainment. Isn't it wonderful when a new player enters the game and shakes up the field so dynamically?

Stability AI, the brilliant mind behind Stable Video Diffusion, has just announced the development of the promising app in a preliminary testing phase. At a glance, it is evident that the tool has the potential to redefine the animation sector. Built on AI technology, the app enables users to create four-second videos with just a prompt. Despite the lack of a release date, this open-source application is already proving its worth by impressively turning static images into animated sequences.

🏃‍♀️Who needs an animation team when you could have an AI team?

However, while heralding outstanding promise, Stable Video Diffusion is a work in progress. The application does have certain limitations at present, such as the inability to generate human faces without a reference photo or to create highly complex sequences.

Nonetheless, it is crucial to remember that we are in the initial stages of what this tool can offer. As more users interact with the platform, it will gradually be refined and its capabilities expanded. It is also worth noting the potential of Stable Video Diffusion to transform sectors like advertising, education, entertainment, and graphic design thanks to its generative nature.

Vitalik Warns About The Totalitarian Future of AI And Offers An Alternative Approach 🚨🤖

Did you hear the roar of the cryptocurrency lion, Vitalik Buterin? In a recent reflection, the co-founder of Ethereum issued a warning about the potential threats of AI and suggested a defensive acceleration approach. Picture AI as the Frankenstein's monster, crucial for progress but dangerous if it gets out of control. Let's hop on the knowledge cruise and explore this fascinating exposition.

For Buterin, technological progress has been a banner of optimism, improving quality of life, health, and access to information. However, there are Pandora's creatures that could unleash chaos, among which artificial intelligence stands out. Just like in Terminator movies, rampaging AI could one day say "hasta la vista" to humanity. To avoid this dystopian path, Buterin proposes a "defensive acceleration" approach, where technologies that provide security are accelerated and brakes are put on those that pose risks or tend to centralize power too much.

🤖 Vitalik appears to be a Terminator fan! Let's hope he starts working on time tunnels to know exactly where we're going wrong with AI.

But Buterin did not just stop at warnings, he also pointed the way forward. Resilient infrastructure, tools that favor democracy, encryption and blockchain to protect our privacy, are just some of the alternatives that could save us from the dystopia of a totalitarian surveillance. As we fly into the unknown, it's important to remember that the risks of advanced AI would be alleviated if human/AI collaboration was the protagonist and not an unleashed, autonomous superintelligence.

Wrapping up his reflection, Buterin urged humanity to be cautious, to understand that we are on the brink of an amazing era, but with great forks in the road. So, as he would say, "accelerate, but accelerate carefully and properly". At the end of the day, it all seems to boil down to the wise words of this cryptocurrency visionary: "Humans are the brightest star". But, wouldn't you love to see that shine brighten up a little more?

AI is the New Judge of Formula 1 at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 🤖🏎️

So, you might be used to a human judge pointing out infringements on the Formula 1 tracks. But, what if I told you that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already buckled its seatbelt and is ready to take the wheel? Well, hold on tight, because the International Automobile Federation (FIA) has announced that an AI made its debut in the last race of the F1 championship at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

The AI not only participates, but it is tasked with analyzing possible breaches in the track boundaries. A computer vision program was in charge of detecting whether any car has decided to take a ride outside the permitted track space. The technology will meticulously examine the images, pixel by pixel, identifying whether a car has overshot the lines. If an irregularity is detected, the Remote Operations Center receives the alert and takes over.

🏎️ Who needs a human referee when you have the speed of a supercomputer in your hands?

This new team member is a project of Catapult, the company behind the RaceWatch system. This system allows F1 to analyze all actions on the track through sensors that detect location, speed, acceleration, telemetry, race control messages, and weather data. All these variables will be used to train the AI model, making it even more accurate and reliable.

Finally, this innovative step could not only improve the efficiency and accuracy in detecting infringements, but this change could also reduce the number of potential breaches that officials review manually to just 50 cases per race. Everything seems to indicate that this partnership between AI and F1 is not a fleeting one, it appears to be a marriage that could revolutionize the future of auto racing.

AI Bites 🍪

What AI Will Do to Crypto Marketers Unless They Adapt. AI models still need humans to ensure that adverts are true, have risk warnings, and don't promote illegal products to the public.

Google DeepMind’s AI Weather Forecaster Handily Beats a Global Standard. Machine learning algorithms that digested decades of weather data were able to forecast 90 percent of atmospheric measures more accurately than Europe’s top weather center.

Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason. Orca 2 is the latest step in our efforts to explore the capabilities of smaller LMs.

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