Microsoft develops insane Deepfake tool. Google Grants $75 Milly
Google has a new free AI school to help people understand how to use AI better.
Today we’re announcing Google AI Essentials, a self-paced course designed to help people across roles and industries learn AI skills to boost their productivity.
No programming skills or other experience required.
And to make sure that people from all backgrounds have access to AI training, including this course, Google.org has launched a $75 million AI Opportunity Fund to train over 1 million Americans on critical AI skills.
If you’re stuck at the beginning of a project, use AI tools to help you brainstorm new ideas.
In the course, you’ll use a conversational AI tool to generate concepts for a product and develop a presentation to pitch the product.
You can also use AI to help you come up with a tagline or slogan.
This is one of the big changes from traditional learning. You have to learn how to use AI. It doesn’t quite come naturally. And a studied, knowledgeable user will generate better results.
This is bad news for the general public, as IQ’s worldwide are on the decline:
Coincidentally, the GOOG stock has jumped over 10% today.
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I’m not sure if that is related in any way, but the $75 Million fund might have something to do with it. It’s clear to people in finance that AI is the future.
To me, it looks like Google wants to get early and on the inside of AI training. And they might suggest using which AI platforms?
Microsoft VASA: Image + Audio track = Deepfake
In other news, Microsoft showcased an incredible software that generates incredible spoken video from a single photograph and an audio track with VASA-1.
You really have to see this to believe it.
Much like SORA, the announcement and showcase is not accessible to the public.
Here’s the deets on VASA-1;
With generative AI being a key feature of all its new software and hardware projects, it should be no surprise that Microsoft has been developing its own machine learning models.
However, a research report from Microsoft shows that the obvious nature of generative AI is rapidly going to disappear.
VASA-1 is a machine learning model that turns a single static image of a person's face into a short, realistic video, through the use of a speech audio track.
The researchers acknowledge this in the research report.
"It is not intended to create content that is used to mislead or deceive.
On the other hand, if VASA-1 can be used to detect deepfakes and it could be implemented in the form of a simple desktop application, then this would be a big step forward—or rather, a step away from a world where AI dooms us all.
What’s with these strange sort of announcements?
Hey, we reportedly can do this, but we these are just the hand-picked examples. And it’s not accessible to anyone.
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