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AI Gold Rush: When Tech Titans Spend Billions and Investors Want Their Money...Yesterday

Silicon Valley is like a giant gold rush town, except instead of dusty prospectors with pickaxes, you've got tech billionaires in hoodies wielding credit cards the size of surfboards. They're all chasing the same shiny nugget: Artificial Intelligence, the magical element everyone thinks will change the world. The Great AI Gold Rush: When Tech Titans Spend Billions and Investors Want Their Money...Yesterday For a while, it was a party! Stock prices soared higher than a rogue hot air balloon, fueled by dreams of robots doing our laundry and fridges that order groceries themselves. Investors were giddy, throwing money at anything with "AI" in the name, faster than you could say "machine learning." But then, as with any good gold rush story, things got a little...complicated. Here's where our heroes, Meta (formerly Facebook) and Microsoft, enter the scene. Both companies, pockets bulging with investor cash, decided to build humongous server farms, basicall...

A New Video Generator in the Neighborhood?

Or: "Hey, Look! It's a Moving Picture!" So, let's talk about this new kid on the block, this digital wunderkind, this AI-powered, video-generating, Hollywood-wannabe. It's called Movie Gen, and it's the latest creation from Meta, the same folks who brought you Facebook and Instagram. And let me tell you, it's got the whole town buzzing. Imagine this: you sit down at your computer, type in a sentence like, "A cat wearing a tiny hat chases a mouse through a maze of cheese," and out pops a fully-animated, 16-second video. No more need for expensive cameras, lighting crews, or even actors. Just a few words and voila! You've got yourself a blockbuster. Now, I know what you're thinking. "Great, another way for people to spread fake news and deepfakes." And you're absolutely right. But before we get all doom and gloom, let's appreciate the sheer audacity of it all. It's like someone decided to combine a child's imagi...

AI: Which companies are challenging ChatGPT

AI software, such as ChatGPT, has become the talk of the town as it is considered to be the next big thing in the digital world. Many companies are competing to take advantage of its potential. In this post, we'll take a look at some tech companies that are developing their own chatbots.  ChatGPT has already become a sensation, with over 100 million users experimenting with the software within a few weeks of its release in November 2022. This surge of interest has resulted in increased media attention towards the topic of artificial intelligence (AI). Businesses see tremendous opportunities for profit from chatbot programs that can simulate human interactions or even generate complete texts based on just a few keywords. As a result, many companies are launching similar software to compete. In this article, we'll provide an overview of some of the top players in the chatbot market. Microsoft: Financier of the hype program ChatGPT ...