Generative AI in video and audio accelerates with Adobe, Suno, and Notebook LM
Generative AI is hitting the accelerator. The latest innovations from Adobe for video generation, Suno generating songs from photos or videos, and Google’s Notebook LM, which now allows guiding audio conversations, mark this week in AI, following the buzz of Meta’s Movie Gen. Video and audio are overshadowing image-based AI tools in this final stretch of the year, a period marked by deep fakes during the U.S. presidential elections and the brazen Elon Musk-Donald Trump alliance with unforeseeable consequences. Musk has faced a stock market setback and massive criticism for the deceptive humanoid robots presented at Tesla’s event last week. He doesn’t seem to mind.
Nuclear energy is emerging as the great savior amid the demand from big tech companies to develop AI. Amazon and Google are turning to nuclear plants to keep up in the AI race. Global sustainability goals are once again at risk, this time due to a technology that theoretically should help humanity combat climate change.
This week, without a doubt, I’ll highlight the opinion piece by Antoni Esteve, editor of Paréntesis MEDia, which sparks a fascinating debate: Artificial intelligence doesn’t exist—it’s augmented human intelligence. If John McCarthy's term hadn’t triumphed in 1956 and later on, we might now be using a less concerning term like the one Esteve suggests: augmented human intelligence (AHI). Please read the article; it’s interesting and timely. It also comes at a pivotal moment in 2024 when I sense that the business world is starting to realize that the benefits of AI may outweigh the problems. I detect a turning point in the business sector. I’m not referring to the big tech companies or Ibex-listed firms but rather to small and medium-sized businesses. It’s time to stop looking the other way and take the bull of AI by the horns. This feeling aligns with Esteve's proposal. Let’s call it augmented human intelligence, let’s talk about agents, and let’s foster the idea that it’s humans who have support tools to improve our productivity and quality of life. Let’s finally abandon the catastrophic mindset. Over the past year, the debate has been shifting. When we do the typical AI year-in-review in December, I believe we’ll have a lot of ground to cover because the leap over the past 12 months has been spectacular.
Many thanks to the new subscribers of Algoritmo Transparente! Let’s see if we can reach 6,000 before the end of 2024. Potential sponsors, take note. Now, dear readers, you will also receive the Algoritmo Transparente newsletter weekly on LinkedIn through my profile. I continue to compile the IA per a tothom series from El Punt Avui (in Catalan) at the end of this newsletter, which now has 34 editions. There’s also an English podcast of the newsletter generated with Google’s Notebook LM. Thanks to everyone for your support!
La IA generativa de vídeo i àudio accelera amb Adobe, Suno i Notebook LM
La IA generativa de video y audio acelera con Adobe, Suno y Notebook LM