Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

It’s absolutely insane what’s already possible with cloned AI-generated avatars. Where will we be in the next 12 months?

In today’s rundown:

• 👀 Lifelike AI-generated avatars are here

• 😱 Poll shows Americans FEAR AI

• 🛠️ 8 New AI tools

• 🧐 Analyze your Tweets using Code Interpreter

• 🤖 3 Quick AI updates

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

HEYGEN

👀 Lifelike AI-generated avatars are here

Image source: Twitter @joshua_xu_

The Rundown: HeyGen just announced the 2.0 of their AI-generated avatar clones, and it’s so good that it’s giving people trust issues. Watch this demo and see for yourself.

Details:

• In the demo, the founder of HeyGen cloned himself using 100% AI.

• The upgrades include MASSIVE enhancements to video quality, voice cloning, and accents.

• The voice and unique accent of the founder was cloned in a shocking 2 minutes.

• It’s probably already undetectable by AI to 95% of the population, and will only get better in the next year.

Why it matters: We’re about to see a massive influx of AI-generated content across media, and it will be very hard to tell what’s actually real.

It’s time to educate your friends and family about what’s happening (or better yet, get them to subscribe to The Rundown ❤️).

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AIPI

😱 Poll shows Americans FEAR AI

Data source: YouGov, Image source: Axios Visuals

The Rundown: A new polling by the Artificial Intelligence Policy Institute and Axios reveals Americans are fearful about AI developments.

Details:

• 82% of now favor slowing down AI vs 8% who support speeding it up

• 62% are primarily worried about AI vs 21% primarily excited

• 76% believe AI could cause human extinction

Our takeaway: Based on this polling, it seems like most Americans are very wary about the next stages of AI.

But let’s do our own poll, and see what the readers of The Rundown think.

TRENDING TOOLS

⚡️ Bruinen- Enables developers to integrate end-user data and actions into their LLMs - auth, permissions, and action confirmations (link)*

🔵 Taplio- Turn a YouTube video into a LinkedIn carousel with AI (link)

👨‍💻 SQL Editor by Supabase- Write SQL without knowing SQL (link)

🎤 Castmagic- Turn long-form audio into ready-to-use content assets, instantly (link)

🛠️ 60sec.site- Generates beautiful landing pages for you in under 60 seconds (link)

🔥 YouLearn- Learn any YouTube video with AI (link)

🎱 Motiv8- Create to-do lists with AI (link)

🔮 Supertools- Organizes 100’s of AI tools for you in one spot (link)

* = This is sponsored content

AI TRAINING

🧐 Analyze your Tweets using Code Interpreter

In May of 2023 when I was actively Tweeting, I got 132M impressions on Twitter/X.

Here’s how I’m using Code Interpreter to analyze the best times to tweet.

Step 1: First things first, in order to use Code Interpreter, you need to be a ChatGPT Plus user.

Step 2: Go to Twitter Analytics, select tweets tab, click ‘Export Data‘, and click ‘By Tweet‘

Step 3: Upload your downloaded data to Code Interpreter, and add this prompt. After, you’ll get beautiful bar charts on the best time, and day to post on Twitter/X to maximize your Impressions.

Time to start getting some sweet X cheques!

My results: According to my results, the best day to post is Sunday, and the best time is around 7 AM PST.

QUICK HITS

🎨 Midjourney announces GPU cluster upgrade

Midjourney is rolling out a GPU cluster upgrade, offering Pro and Mega users a significant improvement in rendering speeds. The update will reduce render times from around 50 seconds to 30 seconds and make the renders about 1.5x cheaper.

🎮 Inworld partners with ElevenLabs for AI NPC voices

Inworld AI has partnered with ElevenLabs to incorporate real-time speech tech into Inworld's Character Engine, allowing AI NPCs to adapt tone, intonation, and style based on user interaction. Video games are about to get a whole lot more realistic!

🤖 ChatGPT offers 'Custom Instructions' to all

ChatGPT now extends its 'Custom Instructions' feature to all users outside of the EU and UK, including the free tier. The feature, previously limited to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, allows customization of instructions to get more in-depth responses.

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