Tuesday, October 3rd

Explore the intersection of AI and creativity in this article 🚀

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Seatd Team
October 03, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

Hi + Hello!

Happy National Mean Girls Day! 💅 

Here's the line-up for ya 🤠:

  • Upgrade your writing process below 🚀 

  • Meta makes huge leaps in the avatar space 🤩 

  • Learn about this Animation Summit in November 😎

  • Check out these free image AI tools from a great content creator ✨

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⭐️ Creative Spotlight: Obscurious

  • This account, Obscurious, provides tips for making AI-generated images more interesting through animation, 3D effects, and speaking avatars.

  • He introduces several free tools like LeiaPix, CapCut, and Pika Labs to animate images and make them more immersive.

  • He shows us how to turn images into 3D environments with instaVerse and animate drawings with Animated Drawings from Meta.

  • Lastly, he demonstrates tools like D-ID, HeyGen, and SadTalker to add synthetic voices to images and create speaking avatars.

👾 Late Night Labs

Use Stable Diffusion for never seen before characters & styles

One of my personal favorites from my fellow co-founder’s portfolio is below👇

Eric just shared a rad LinkedIn post that discusses updates in the world of stable diffusion. He dives into this world and talks about how he can easily create characters from different angles. This means he’s one step closer to bringing photorealistic characters to life.

This new technology as seen in the video below before combined with NVIDIA omniverse Audio2Face or a Live Link capture + Move AI + Epic Games #ue5 + ElevenLabs (and a few more intermediary steps), he sees the beginnings of a beautiful friendship.

TL;DR: Unique views of faces at 4K resolution from only 2-3 input images.

Problem: I’ve lost control of my writing 😵‍💫 

My writing process is scattered and unorganized– meeting deadlines feel impossible.

Oh My God Omg GIF by CBC

Solution: Try this AI tool ✍️

Say goodbye to disorganized writing with WriteOnSaga

  • WriteOnSaga offers innovative AI-powered tools for master storytellers to foster creativity and accelerate the writing process. Designed by CyberFilm in California, WriteOnSaga aims to empower writers by providing technology that ignites imagination and brings cinematic stories to life.

  • Founder Russell Palmer leveraged his Western Engineering education and experience at Microsoft, Viv Labs, and JPMorgan to successfully co-found the AI startup CyberFilm.

  • They raised $125K from prominent angel investor Jason Calacanis in May.

Job Board 👀 

Peek A Boo Reaction GIF by Tikivideo

Here are some awesome open positions in the AI space that we would love to see one of our readers fill:

Industry Insights 🧠

Industry Insights Metaverse Face-to-Face: Fridman Interview Realistic Zuckerberg Avatar

  • Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed by Lex Fridman in the Metaverse using photorealistic avatars of themselves.

  • Fridman was amazed by the realism, saying he was "forgetting Zuckerberg wasn't real" due to precise expressiveness.

  • Zuckerberg said bringing full bodies to avatars is still a challenge, but could enable people to do things together looking fully like themselves.

  • Meta aims to make similar realistic scans possible with just a smartphone, but the tech is still 3+ years away from mainstream use.

Events 🫡

The World Animation Summit

November 1 - 3, 2023

The World Animation Summit is a prestigious three-day conference hosted by leading animation and VFX studios. The event convenes top industry executives, speakers, and talent for insightful panels, networking, and an Awards Gala honoring icons. With a resort-style atmosphere, the Summit offers an immersive experience to foster connections through inclusive meals, parties, and custom sponsorship opportunities. The 2023 World Animation Summit promises inspiration, celebration of achievements, and relationship-building amongst the animation industry's elite.

Database ⚙️

We launched our database of 80+ AI tools earlier this summer, make sure you’re watching this space- it’s updated weekly!

Definition: Reinforcement Learning

A type of machine learning in which a model learns to make decisions by interacting with its environment and receiving feedback through rewards or penalties. GPT uses reinforcement learning from human feedback. When tuning GPT-3, human annotators provided examples of the desired model behavior and ranked outputs from the model.

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