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Hey folks! It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means. It’s time for the latest edition of Deeper Learning.

In today’s digest:

• OpenAI launched a text-to-video AI model.

• Reddit is teaming up with AI before its IPO.

• Is Amazon on the brink of discovering AGI?

• AI tools you might have missed

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PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT

OpenAI’s latest model is all about video

OpenAI has dipped its toes, or should I say its whole body, into the world of video generation. Following in the footsteps of startups like RunwayML, the titular AI company announced Sora, a text-to-video AI model that’s capable of producing some stunning — almost concerning results. 

It was announced last week, out of the blue, and it quickly took social media by storm. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman generated a number of videos based on people’s suggested prompts, including dogs recording a podcast, a drone race on Mars, and a variety of sea creatures riding bikes. 

Sora works like the rest of OpenAI’s offerings — enter a prompt as simple or as detailed as you like, and it will generate a minute-long 1080p video in whatever style you want, populated with things, people, animals, and different environments. You can also craft your blockbuster movie just by dropping in a still image which the AI will then go on to animate, or a video that can be extended by Sora. 

According to OpenAI, Sora was trained on around 10,000 hours of “high quality video” and is built upon a transformer architecture, which apparently gives the model a superior scaling performance. It also uses the same “recaptioning technique from DALL·E 3, which involves generating highly descriptive captions for the visual training data.”

Safety was a big concern for the team as well, so it’s not open to the public yet. Rather, the company is working with “red-teamers” — experts in things like misinformation, hate content, and bias — who will be testing the model thoroughly before any release to the wider public. 

NEWS

Reddit 🤝 AI

Reddit is betting on AI to supercharge its IPO. According to Bloomberg, Reddit has signed a contract with an unnamed company to train an AI model on the site’s plethora of user-generated content.

Why does this matter?

Well, Reddit initially revealed the deal, which is rumored to be worth a whopping $60 million, earlier this year to potential investors of their anticipated initial public offering (IPO) which is speculated to happen as early as next month.

It also comes not long after the company tightened up how its users could access the company’s data with rate limits and some fairly pricey API plans, that put even legacy third-party apps like Apollo out of business.

Could this be a mechanism to shore up support for the company’s IPO? Let’s wait and see.

WOAH

AGI, when?

AGI has become one of the biggest buzzwords of the last few years. It’s essentially a type of AI that can understand, learn, and apply knowledge across a wide array of tasks at a human level.

Ever since AI broke into the mainstream with the likes of OpenAI, people have speculated when AGI will arrive and what the consequences (good or bad) will be.

Well, it could be earlier than expected, according to Amazon. The company’s AGI team has stated that its LLM is exhibiting language abilities that it wasn’t trained on.

According to a not-yet-peer-reviewed academic paper, the AI is displaying “state-of-the-art naturalness” in conversational text. It seems the model was able to come up with all sorts of sentences that, according to an expert linguist, are on a human level of understanding.

TOOLS

Stey uses AI to help you optimize your site’s copy for conversion.

Supergrow helps you build your LinkedIn audience by crafting engaging content.

Mindware is an API gateway that connects AI agents to the internet.

Unspam AI is an AI tool that gives you deeper insights into how your newsletter is read.

Text Humanzier lets you make AI-generated content sound more human. 

Rio is an AI-powered news anchor that provides you with reliable news every day.

Guide is an AI-powered bot that helps you plan your next big vacation. 

ChatAvatar uses AI to convert your images and text into a 3D character.

UNTIL NEXT TIME

Written by Aaron O’Leary with Sarah Wright.

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