I just had such an amazing conversation with @demishassabis about how AI works under the hood, the future of the technology, and how we ensure people can feel comfortable using it. Can’t wait to share it with you!

I'm going to be honest... I think a social media platform that doesn't allow AI-generated content is something the world actually needs right now.

My wife saw the new Air Pods with real-time translation and she was like “I need these because I can get my nails done, pretend like I’m listening to music, and finally know if the nail ladies are talking crap.” Apple should advertise this use-case.

Last night, Jensen Huang of NVIDIA gave his very first live keynote in 4-years. The most show-stopping moment from the event was when he showed off the real-time AI in video games. A human speaks, the NPC responds, in real time and the dialogue was generated with AI on the fly.

AI Video is getting more and more exciting. I'm hooked on playing with all of the latest tools available! Here's a good old fashioned thread with 9 AI tools that are currently available to generate videos (with examples). 🧵👇

So I watched the entire 3-hour long Senate hearing on AI today. I want to make sure I cover as much relevant info as possible in Friday's weekly AI news video. I was really impressed with Sam Altman's responses. Here's a super-edit I made (I recommend 2x speed)

This video was created entirely with AI. ChatGPT wrote the script and shot list, ElevenLabs did the voiceover, Mubert made the background music, and the video was generated with Gen2, MidJourney, LeiaPix and Genmo. Tomorrow I'm dropping the step-by-step tutorial on YouTube.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. 2024 is the year AI video goes crazy. Lightricks just unveiled @LTXStudio, a platform that allows you to go from video idea to completed video completely with AI… Like full length videos, with multiple generated scenes, consistent characters, consistent lighting, and all the tools to make your vision a reality. Over the coming months, I’ll be working closely with them to help keep you looped in on what they’ve been building. It’s exciting times for AI video generation for sure!

Ok… So this week: - Google Bard - Adobe Firefly - NVIDIA Foundations - Bing adds new DALL-E - Opera adds AI - Microsoft Loop - Canva puts all the AIs in - ChatGPT starts adding plugins Who’s keeping up? What did I miss? Anyone else exhausted?

Who's getting the Apple Vision Pro? - Blend between VR and pass-through by scrolling a crown wheel - Syncs between iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud - No controllers - Use your voice and hands - People can see your eyes when looking at you wearing the googles. - Essentially view monitors in 360 degrees - Built-in 3D camera. Record in 3D and watch back in 3D (this sounds amazing) - Watch 3D movies like Avatar - Play Apple Arcade Games with a game controller - Partnering with Disney - Disney+ will be available on Day 1 - 23 million pixels - Better than 4k per eye - Spatial audio that analyzes the room around you to give the best sound - Powered by 2 chips (Apple M2 and the new R1 chip) - New operating system (VisionOS) - Price starts at $3,499 😲 - Available next year

I've just rounded up 35 different ways I've seen people using ImageGen from GPT-4o... And those were just the ones I was able to quickly rattle off onto a notepad. The implications of that launch I don't think have been totally felt yet by most. It was / will be a massive disrupter. Share some unique ways you've seen it used with me. Going to try to round all these up into a video for you.

What does this thing do?

Haha. I just made this silly little Javascript game 100% with GPT-4. I have zero coding knowledge and I couldn't tell you what a single line of the code is doing. 🧵

I've started working on my in-depth news breakdown video for Friday and, as part of the process, I watched the entire 4+ hours of the Google I/O event today. Here's my 15-min super edit of the parts I found the most interesting. (I cut out a lot of the phone stuff)

Ok... My first impressions after playing with it for a few hours: 1. The pass-through is not as mind-blowing as I expected. It's the best I've ever seen in a VR headset but, the way I was hearing it described was like looking through a piece of glass... It wasn't for me. I can see a slight bit of noise and when you look at something like LEDs, you'll see the lights twitch out a little bit. But it is freaking amazing pass-through. Other reviews were just a bit over-selling it, IMO. 2. It's not nearly as heavy as I thought it was going to be. Every other review I'd heard said the weight is super noticeable. So I went in expecting to feel a brick hanging on my face... I didn't. Since I had low expectations regarding the weight, I came out pleasantly surprised. 3. When I use my Meta Quest, I feel like I have about a 30-minute time limit before my head and eyes feel too fatigued. When I put on this headset, 3-hours went by like it was nothing. I was so immersed and so entertained that I lost all sense of time. I pulled them off and was a little scared by how long I'd spent with them on, without even thinking about weight and my eyes really don't feel that fatigued at all. (Others results may vary) 4. The eye-tracking, once you get used to it truly feels like the thing is reading your mind. You start to forget that you're instructing it what to do with your eyes and a pinch. You start to REALLY feel like your mind is melding with the machine. It's surreal. When you first put it on, you're going to want to move your hands around to control the menu but, pretty quickly, the eye tracking and finger taps become fairly mindless. 5. A little thing that makes a HUGE difference for immersion is the way it treats your hands and arms when you're fully in VR. The Quest puts little floating, disembodied hands on the screen to help you see where they are. The AVP blends the video of your real hands and arm into the scene so you're actually seeing your full arm. This REALLY ups the immersion when you're fully in VR. 6. Turning on a movie, fully blacking out the room around you by turning the knob, and then stretching the screen so it looks like you're watching on a massive movie screen is so much better than I expected. I watched Avatar in 3D (for a little bit) and it looked glorious. The promo videos don't even do this stuff justice because you're only seeing the 2d representation of what's meant to be experienced in 3d. It's crisper and more immersive than I expected. 7. My biggest complaint (other than the price tag 😝) is probably the cord that dangles down to the battery. I kept noticing it rub on my ear from time to time and, when I was playing fruit ninja, the cord was following my arms around as I sliced the air. It's not the worst thing in the world but constantly getting slightly annoyed by it ruins the immersion a bit. 8. The built-in dinosaur experience is really amazing. A little butterfly flutters around your room and it's so realistic, it feels like you can touch it... And when you do "touch" it, it actually interacts with your hand. It was crazy. Do I think everyone should be dropping $3,500+ on one? It's hard to recommend yet after only a few hours. I'm loving the experience so far but I'm sure to find more annoyances. At the very least, I think it's worth everyone trying one out, either at the Apple store or at a friend's house. You'll likely really love the experience... The real test is whether or not I'm still reaching for it and strappin' it on two months from now...

We've seen text-to-image, text-to-3d object, and even text-to-video... Now check out text-to-3d character from @daz3d. Use natural language to create any character you can imagine in near-AAA game quality and then export that character directly into Blender, Unreal or Unity!

It sounds like Sam Altman will not be returning to OpenAI. It turns out that Mira was actually “Team Sam” and tried to get him back. So the board at OpenAI installed a co-founder of Twitch, Emmett Shear, as CEO instead. They seem to be holding strong to their decision. This is wilder than any tv series I’ve watched lately! The narrative that I believe is that Sam was a bit too enterprising (for the board) and the company was growing too fast. But it was growing in a direction that Ilya and the board didn’t like. Ilya, an academic and scientist, wanted progress on the research and to reach AGI… but without all the public pressures of the whole world paying attention and easy access for anyone who wanted it. Sam, on the other hand, while not overly accelerationist, saw the need for more capital to achieve their mission. The capital would come through raising and from subscriptions and API fees. By putting a system in place to have the necessary capital, he also put the tool in the hands of the whole world. It also landed the company squarely in the public eye and much more on the radar of governments and policy makers. The board saw this as getting in the way of their original non-profit mission, focused on research and breakthroughs. Then there’s the issue of compute. It’s a finite resource. A research lab would want as much compute as possible dedicated towards the actual training and advancement of the tech. However, the more ChatGPT and Dalle grow, the more compute needs to be dedicated to the actual commercial side of the business, taking resources from the research side. With each new announcement Sam made about larger context windows for users, building GPTs, everything being available in MSFT tools, etc., Ilya and the board were probably getting more and more frustrated because both compute and employees were being dedicated towards the commercial aspects instead of the research aspects. I think it helps to try to see both sides of the coin. I think both Ilya and Sam were both doing what they thought was best for the company. They just didn’t align on what they believe is best for the company. This is all speculation of course but, the more that comes out, and the more I try to play armchair detective, this is the narrative that I buy. I don’t think this ends well for OpenAI though. Sam and Greg will start a new company. They’ll raise money in a heartbeat. Employees from OpenAI will follow them over, taking what they’ve learned at OpenAI with them. As users of tools like ChatGPT, we’ll likely see a degradation in service. They’ll shift what resources they have left back to research. The tools we use will either stay where they’re at, with no new improvements or they’ll get worse because budget will be shifted away. Ilya and the board will be happy that they’re back on the research path and close to AGI without as much public pressure. But I think they’ll hit snags when they struggle to raise more. I think Microsoft will begin to deepen their relationship with Meta and/or Sam’s new company. OpenAI will struggle to pay and maintain staff as users leave their services. They may figure it out, they may not but, moving forward, I bet ChatGPT and the tools we get access to from OpenAI will not be what they once were. Again… just armchair detectiving here. I don’t actually know what I’m talking about. :)

Don’t have Photoshop? ClipDrop just released a free tool to enlarge and automatically fill images.

This may be common, I have no idea... But it's the first time I've ever seen it... This is with GPT-5. ChatGPT just gave me a random word typo.

I turn 40 today. For those that were asking, here’s my midlife-crisis-mobile. Bought it yesterday. Lol.

AI Hype That I Believe To Be True: - AGI is closer than most realize - AI + XR is the next massive tech wave - There will be massive advancements in medicine - Anyone will be able to create movies - Anyone will be able to create music - Anyone will be able to create games - Anyone will be able to write code - Many existing careers will be obsolete - There will be more mis-info, scams, and deepfakes - AI will be further weaponized by humans AI Hype That I Do NOT Believe To Be True: - The AI itself will want to destroy humans - There will be no need for traditional artists - AI will kill Hollywood or Music Industry - AI will replace ALL jobs (my barber is safe) - Ai is making people dumber This is, by no means, exhaustive. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of things here. But I see a lot of posts saying "Hollywood is doomed" or "The Music Industry is on it's last leg." I just don't buy any of it. Humans love seeing other talented humans. This is getting a bit "out there" but I believe, over time, humans and robots/AI will further merge. Smart phones already augment our brains. We already wear stat-trackers on our wrists or fingers. We have access to the world's knowledge in our pockets. We put listening devices in our ears. We'll soon be wearing glasses that put data in front of our eyes all of the time. I believe the future is more of a symbiotic relationship between human and machine and not an adversarial one. But who knows, I could be way off, and The Terminator was actually just a documentary about our future... What is some hype that you believe and hype that you absolutely do not believe?

Wow... NVIDIA dropped by 17% because of DeepSeek? I wonder if the investors realize that NVIDIA and DeepSeek aren't competition. DeepSeek was trained using NVIDIA GPUs... People installing and running it locally are mostly using NVIDIA GPUs too... Scratching my head at this...

"Graphic Designers are Doomed!" "Web Developers are Toast!" These posts are toxic. I know it's engagement bait but it's playing into people's very real fears about AI. The correct narrative: "Graphic Designers Jobs Just Got A Lot Easier!" "Web Developers Now Have Super Powers"

I can't wait to get my hands on this one. It's called "Rerender A Video: Zero-shot Text-guided Video-to-video Translation" It takes an input video and re-renders it with your prompt without the flicker and weirdness we get from most current models. anonymous-31415926.github.io…

MidJourney's new inpaint feature is actually really cool! Check this out...👇

The new /describe feature in @midjourney is REALLY good. The first image is the original image that I uploaded the other images are the suggested prompts it generated (that are BETTER than the original)

When Apple says "Shot on an iPhone," I don't think they quite meant they shot it in the same way you or I would... LOL

I’ve been approached by several companies about creating an AI-related course. Maven, Skillshare, and a few others have reached out, asking me to create a course on their platform. I’ve turned them all down, knowing that I was leaving money on the table by not doing it. I don’t think there is anything wrong with selling courses. I have a lot friends that are creating courses that will be phenomenal. I just can’t bring myself to make one. I don’t see myself as an expert. I see myself as exploring and discovering this stuff with you. Selling what I’m learning with you doesn’t feel right to me. Besides, if I was to charge, I’d want to blow people away and make the best content I’ve ever made. But I don’t like the thought of putting the best content I’ve ever made behind a paywall where the amount of people that would see it would be limited. I’m not saying that I’ll NEVER make a course. I’m not closing any doors. I’m just saying not to expect one anytime real soon for me. If I create something I’m proud of, I want as many eyeballs on it as possible, making it paid is counterproductive to that goal.

AI tools I pay for: - ChatGPT: $20/mo - MidJourney: $30/mo - Leonardo: $10/mo - Kaiber: $15/mo - D-ID: $6/mo - WonderStudio: $20/mo - RunwayML: $15/mo - ElevenLabs: $5/mo - Feedly LEO: $12/mo - VidIQ: $49/mo - Typefully: $16/mo - WarpFusion Patreon: $10/mo - Google Collab: $10/mo - Adobe CC: $59/mo - Canva: $13/mo - Topaz Gigapixel AI: $99/one-time I'm sharing this for 2 main reasons... 1. If anyone is curious which tools I find worth the cost... These are the ones I'm still currently paying for. 2. I get a lot of comments on my YouTube videos that imply that I'm just given access to these tools and that's why I talk about them. But the truth is, I'm paying close to $300/month to get access to all of the AI tools that I play with. I don't want to feel indebted to the companies that make these tools... I don't want to feel obligated to talk about any one tool as a thank you for giving it to me. I don't reach out and ask for access to tools for free. And those that have tried to DM me to give me free access in exchange for talking about them can likely attest that I don't take them up on their offers. Don't get me wrong. I love free stuff as much as anyone. But as soon as there's an expected bias in return, it's a no go for me. I want to talk about tools that I think are cool... and if something's crap, I wanna be able to say it's crap without feeling guilty about it.

Ok. This is blowing my mind. Procedurally generated 3D worlds in Blender. This is NOT using AI but can create any world you can imagine. Combine tools like this to create worlds, tools like Daz3D to create characters, Blockade Labs for skyboxes, and Convai for NPCs. 🤯

A lot of people seem angry and scared right now. Comments on YouTube and X really showing that. I don’t totally understand it. There’s never been an easier time in history to create what you want for yourself. It’s easier than ever to: - Build software - Write a book - Start creating videos - Get into graphic design - Start a podcast - Build an e-commerce business - Sell a course - Learn new skills for the physical world - Live stream (Plus more but I’ll stop there) Why do so many people choose pessimism and anger and take it out on people they’ve never met? My goal is, and always has been, to try to help people and show them what cool opportunities and possibilities exist and are coming. Yet, any time I peek at comments on the things I put out into the world, I start to feel like more people choose to stay angry and use creators like me as their whipping boy. I can take it. I’ve grown thick skin after so many years. But it does often start to feel exhausting… like many people prefer misery, fear, and anger. I want to share optimism and enthusiasm but the vocal minority seem to prefer that I share in their fear. Sorry. Just had to get a mini rant out after so much negativity on a video that really took a lot out of me to create.

This is absolutely mind-blowing! I've only been doing this newsletter for 3-months (Friday's was issue #12) and today is just passed 50,000 subscribers! 🤯 I've also learned that there are people subscribed from NVIDIA, Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google, and more!

Thank you so much to everyone who’s subscribed! Just passed 500k subs! I never expected YouTube to become my main thing. So crazy!

I am so impressed by everything right now. o3 is blowing my mind, Gemini 2.5 Pro is writing really good code for me, Kling, Runway, Luma, and Pika are insane, 4o's image generation is still really impressive to me. What a time to be alive...

I'm curious how many people are still using ChatGPT over Claude? I go to Claude nearly 100% of the time now. I've managed to clone everything I was doing with my custom GPTs into Claude Projects and it works so much better for me. I only use ChatGPT now when I need it to pull details from the web.

Absolutely blown away by this. My channel just passed 400,000 subscribers! Thank you so much to everyone who's tuned into my videos and clicked that subscribe button. I'll keep doing my best to keep you in the loop with the latest AI news, research, and tutorials. :)

It's really blowing my mind how far we've come with text-to-3D. It was only a few months ago we were getting very unimpressive results from tools like Shap-E. Now I can make full on objects that are borderline game ready. (This is in @MeshyAI BTW)

This is crazy. I was just telling someone that we’d see “prompt-to-game” within a few years. And then today @angrypenguinPNG points this out to me… Things are moving faster than I’m even realizing. Lol

When done right, I feel like this new zoom out feature could be the key to getting a consistent character in MidJourney. 1. Generate a super closeup of a face. 2. Do a custom zoom with whatever scenario you want. 3. Zoom out 2x again on the resulting image.

Unpopular Opinion (Probably): The GPT-Store isn't going to be as big of a deal as most people make it out to be. 99.9% of GPTs that will be created will have nothing proprietary about them and anyone will be able to just make their own clone of it. There will be a handful of good GPTs developed by coders and SaaS companies who link their GPTs up to their own APIs to do things ChatGPT can't do natively. There will also be some companies that have proprietary data who will make GPTs using that data. However, outside of those 2 scenarios, I imagine most GPTs in the GPT Store won't make much money or get much traction. If I see a GPT I like, I'd most likely ask ChatGPT to make me a similar one instead of paying to use one someone else made. It won't be the gold rush many are making it out to be and, just like plugins, very few people will be talking about the GPT-Store several months from now. I could be totally wrong... But that's my gut feeling on it.

A couple things happened in the world of AI this week. Here's my TLDR (which is getting so long it'll need its own TLDR pretty soon): - ChatGPT going multi-modal - ChatGPT brings back the "browse" functionality - OpenAI and Jony Ive working on iPhone for AI - Anthropic partners with Amazon in $4b deal - Amazon Bedrock becomes widely available - The CIA is building their own custom ChatBot - Spotify cloning podcaster voices for translation - Tesla's Optimus robot can sort autonomously - Getty launches their own AI image generator - New Windows 11 rolled out this week with AI Copilot - Snap partners with Microsoft for AI advertising - Microsoft shares AutoGen research for customizable agents - The writers strike ended and studios will be allowed to train AI on writer's works - Google accidentally indexed Bard conversations - Cloudflare launches AI tools to help customers deploy AI models - Meta shows off Emu, their new AI Image model - WhatsApp and Messenger to get AI stickers - Meta will be rolling out niche chatbots to help in specific areas - Meta is working on personal chatbots tailored to our individual needs - Meta is rolling out image editing with Segment Anything functionality - Meta is adding natural language chat to its sunglasses in collaboration with Ray-Ban - Leonardo AI just added the ability to use LORAs - Pika Labs adds "Text Encrypt" - Genmo adds "Video Effects" - Polycam lets you do gaussian splatting easily - Zapier now has AI Canvas - Dall-e 3 is available in Bing Chat & Image Creator What did I miss?

This marks my 1-year Twitterversary. I created this Twitter account a year ago and, in that time, somehow gained over 56,000 followers. I honestly don't know how this account grew so fast but I can share what I've been doing and maybe there's some clues that others can use... - I focus on replying and engaging on other people's tweets WAY more than I focus on writing my own tweets. - I use the like/heart button as a way to show people that I've read their message. It costs me nothing and it helps other people confirm that they've been seen. - When I come across content that I really enjoy or that impresses me, I let the creator know and often even retweet it. Again, these acts cost me nothing. - I leverage Twitter lists like crazy. I have a list called "AI is Awesome," a list called "XR is Awesome," and a list called "YouTube is awesome," to follow people that specifically create content in areas I strive to learn more about. I find this way easier to maintain that just a single feed of a completely mixed bag. - I use Twitter's "Mute" feature heavily. If someone's negative in a mean-spirited way, I use mute. If someone constantly just replies with a fire emoji or replies with things that look automated on all my posts, they're muted. Once a tweet that I write starts overwhelming me with notifications or turns negative, I mute it. This keeps my notifications tab nice and clean so I can engage with what matters. - When I do tweet, I like to use videos as much as I can. Twitter seems to like videos. I'll often try to go above and beyond simply reposting a video. I'll often create a supercut of a video to save people time, create a quick video of myself using a tool, or edit multiple videos into a single video to share more in one tweet. Most people won't put in the time to take these extra steps. - But here's my #1 rule for Twitter... Whenever I tweet something, I always ask myself, "is this helpful or valuable to others?" Value can mean a lot of things... Will it make people laugh? Will they learn something from it? Will it bring something to their attention that they weren't aware of... I feel like there's a lot of clutter and a lot of s#!t posting on Twitter. My goal has been to standout by trying to make pretty much every tweet or retweet valuable. TLDR / Main Takeaways: - Comment more often than tweeting - Likes and Retweets cost nothing - Use liberally - Use lists and mute to stay organized - Try to make every tweet valuable That's been my method... But it's also possible that the algorithm has just been good to me and I've been very lucky. Either way, I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing. :) Thanks for a great first year!

I'm addicted to using AI to code little apps that solve problems for me. Nothing that I plan to sell or build a business around. Just little things that make my life easier. AI Coding has become my new procrastination method for when there's other things I SHOULD be working on.

On Instagram, @gerdegotit shares these amazing Stable WarpFusion animations where he turns dancing videos into cool dancing marble statues... I had to learn it. Here's my first attempt at it. It took about 2-hours. (I'm loving Warp Fusion)

Caught this robot playing basketball in my driveway. Decided to toss some music over it from MusicLM. I actually used an AI-enabled gimble to track me and follow me around while playing basketball and then tossed the output into @WonderDynamics.

I saw this and thought it was really interesting and cool tech but I struggle to understand the real practical use-cases.

So Microsoft is partnered with OpenAI on their closed-source LLM and they're now partnering with Meta to release an open-source LLM with Llama 2? I love that things are moving towards more open-source. I'm just really confused by where Microsoft is going with all this?

I just had one of the most impactful experiences with AI that I’ve ever had. I just uploaded the last month worth of my personal journal entries into Claude and asked it what I was avoiding and to be brutally honest with me about what I need to do to grow as a person and as a business… the response was one of the most valuable things I’ve ever read. It’s a bit too personal to share but the exercise was so damn powerful!

Just finished working on a breakdown of some of the cool stuff you can do with MidJourney 5.2. The video drops tomorrow on YouTube and shows you how I made this video that transitions between scenes... 1/3

My entire X feed is blowing up. Sam Altman was just fired from OpenAI?? I didn't not see that coming. I actually thought he was an excellent and balanced ambassador for the tech.

There's an amazing video that's been circulating from @c_valenzuelab where they snap their fingers and change scenes. I wanted to try to recreate it. Mine isn't even close to as good. Made with @runway Gen-1 and @elevenlabs. Step-by-step tutorial live on YouTube tomorrow. :)

What is wrong with the @nytimes? In my Friday AI news roundup video, I showed ~30 seconds of their interview with Mira Mirati. I added my own commentary and showed it along with other clips from other news outlets that talked about the same thing. I linked to where people can watch the full video and essentially promoted the New York Times interview to the 100,000+ people that watched the video. The New York Times copyright claimed my video... For that 30-second clip of their 17-minute interview inside my 27-minute long video. I likely drove a lot of people to watch the full interview. Now 100% of the ad revenue from that video goes to the New York Times, despite me doing something designed to bring awareness to the content NYT created, not to replace it. Lesson learned. I will never talk about them or share their content again. (And I'm still going to fight this copyright claim) What are horrible way to run a business... By slapping those of us who actually curate and bring awareness to your content. It's also a shame that @YouTube allows companies like this to bully content creators... Especially ones that go to great lengths to make sure their content follows guidelines and adheres to fair-use policies. Sorry... Rant over.

I can't tell what I can trust today. Will check back tomorrow.

The US Copyright office just released a 52-page report on their stance on AI in regards to copyright... Here are the main takeaways: - AI-generated content alone cannot be copyrighted - there must be meaningful human creative input - Simply writing prompts is usually not enough to claim copyright - Using AI as a tool as part of a larger process does not prevent copyright protection - You can copyright the human-created parts of a work that uses some AI elements - No new laws are needed right now to handle AI copyright issues

I’m considering organizing a small Discord community of creators in the AI space. I want to keep it small to start but we can share cool tools we come across, collaborate on content, connect each other to sponsors, and support each other. Any interest?

I’m at the Microsoft event right now. Some big announcements around Copilot. AI is going to be baked into Windows 11. You’ll be able use Copilot to communicate and query all your Microsoft documents with natural language. Outlook will even be able to write emails in your unique voice. DALL-E 3 will be available directly inside Bing Chat for free for everyone. New Surface Pros will have Nvidia 4050s and 4060s. It renders Blender images twice as fast as an M2 Mac. Can also run Llama 7b locally with no issues. So many more announcements. Will try to break them all down in an upcoming video.

I'm loving the collaborative vibe of the AI community right now. Seeing a lot of posts of people sharing who to follow in AI lately. Here's my must-follow list: - @EMostaque - Creator of Stability AI - @Scobleizer - Retweets all the good stuff - @rowancheung - Finds and shares cool tech - @angrypenguinPNG - AI super brain - @_akhaliq - Shares the latest AI research - @icreatelife - MidJourney & AI Copyright - @HBCoop_ - Cool MidJourney Prompts - @LinusEkenstam - Cool Tech & MidJourney - @bilawalsidhu - Cool Tech - AI/VR/AR - @bentossell - Super in the loop with AI - @nickfloats - Cool MidJourney Prompts - @ChrisHeidorn - Everything MidJourney - @toyxyz3 - Spots a lot of cool stuff before others - @followmarcos - MidJourney & Challenges - @AlphaSignalAI - Breaks a lot of AI news - @heyBarsee - Shares Cool AI Finds - @PromptMuse - Awesome AI Animations - @ammaar - Games / Stories / AI Finds - @TheMoonMidas - Leonardo / Cool AI Finds - @AiBreakfast - Shares Cool AI Finds / Threads - @localghost - Cool AI Experiments Alright, I'm going to stop there. That's a pretty long list already but if you want to stay in the know with AI, I guarantee you won't miss a damn thing if you're following that crew. I know there's people I'm missing but these are the people that I find myself learning the most alpha from. Who am I missing that I need to be following?

Common Sense Machines (AKA @csm_ai) is pretty insane. I uploaded my profile pic into it and created a 3D mesh and, damn! It's actually really freakin' good!

As someone who watches the AI news probably closer than almost anyone else in the world, I've been feeling less and less inspired or excited by what companies are putting out. I put out a weekly list and video that always has like 20 interesting advancements in the world of AI. But, more and more, I'm starting to feel like most of these announcements are marginal improvements being hyped as world-changing advancements. Don't get me wrong. I'm not taking for granted how far we've come. The delta between AI images in 2021 and AI Images today is massive. Same with video. I'm still in absolute awe at the progress in some of these areas. However, lately, the world of AI feels a lot like [Insert Mega Corp Here] just released a ground-breaking new AI feature... That feature: "Change the color of someone's shirt in the photo you just took." It just feels like so many marginal improvements that people aren't that excited by that are being hyped as a huge breakthrough. Don't take my "AI Fan Club" card away though. I'm still here for all the exciting announcements... But a slightly better Siri that I can already achieve with ChatGPT or Perplexity or the ability to create a custom cucumber cat emoji just isn't it for me. Am I alone or off-base in feeling this way right now?

I finally got around to playing with Bolt and I'm kicking myself for not testing it sooner. This is sooo good!

I watched the entire 90-minute Google Cloud Next event this morning. What Duet will be able to do is pretty impressive! To save you some time, I made this 18-minute SuperCut. If you watch at 2x, you can get all the details of the event in 9-minutes. :) Enjoy.

Those of us that are really digging into AI right now... We're still early! The Verge surveyed 2,000 US adults and found that 43% of people haven't even heard of ChatGPT. Only 25% of people have heard of MidJourney. You are ahead of the curve!

This weekend my daughter and I went to her school's annual father-daughter dance. They had a real cool rotating bullet-time camera there. So of course I had to run the result through @KaiberAI and see what I got out of it. :)

I think we have a new winner for my "Monkey on Roller Skates" benchmark test. VEO from Google is really good!

If you post this on Facebook, everyone will think it's real.

I don't do drama. I was talking to a good friend of mine who became a bit of a business mentor to me over the years. I asked him one time if he had seen that X person had called him out on social media. His reply to me was simply "I don't do drama." This was around 2017 sometime. For whatever reason, that single line has stuck in my head for 7-years now. When someone tries to call me out on social media and pull me into an argument, I just remind myself "I don't do drama" and move on with my day. When I hear someone is talking about me behind my back, I remind myself "I don't do drama." When I see negative comments on YouTube or someone tries to troll me on Twitter or I get pulled into a conversation the seems like it could turn into personal attacks, I just repeat that mantra in my head. It's done well for me for nearly a decade. I'm an adult. I like working with adults. I have an enjoyable and simple business model that provides well for me. Drama has no place in it and trying to spin up drama, pulling me into arguments, passive aggression, and taking business decisions personally is probably the fastest way to ensure that I remove you from my orbit and my mindspace. I don't know who needs to hear this or if this is even helpful to anyone. But I promise that actively choosing to avoid engaging in drama will lead to a happier and more productive life. /Off My Soapbox now.

I made this yesterday while playing around with Dalle-3, MidJourney, Runway, ElevenLabs, Mubert, and Bark. I was pretty happy with how it came out. (Tutorial on the YouTube) Then... Today, Pika announces 1.0 which totally changes the game! I should have waited a day or 2! :)

Let's see, today we got... - Adobe Photoshop Adds Native AI - Google Announces AI-powered Advertising - Google Launches Images In Bard - Kaiber Launches Storyboards - Microsoft Adding AI to Windows OS - Microsoft Adding AI Review Summaries To App Store - Bing Becoming Default Browser in ChatGPT - ChatGPT Plugins Will Work in Bing - Microsoft Introduces Fabric for Analytics - GitHub Copilot For Windows Terminal I'm probably missing some news too. Just another Tuesday in the world of AI.

I've been going down the WarpFusion rabbit-hole. Outside of Kaiber, which makes a completely different style of video, I think WF is the best video-to-video model out there. But it appears complicated on the surface. So I'm learning it so I can turn around and teach what I learn. For this one, I used the same snapping video that I used in the past. This took about 2-hours and $20 to make. LOL. But I'll get all these various settings dialed in and then make a YouTube video about how to use it. I'm nowhere near @Mrboofyy level yet though. ;)

This looks pretty epic. Text to interactive 3D world in Unreal Engine. We’re getting closer and closer to just being able to prompt whatever game you can imagine into existence…

What a freakin' day. I'm making a breakdown video of it all now... but: 1. Google starts opening up Bard 2. Microsoft releases an advanced Dall-E in Bing 3. NVIDIA announces Foundations 4. Adobe announces Firefly 5. Bill Gates writes an essay about AI ...And it's only Tuesday!

Today, Unity just shared more about their upcoming AI features. You'll be able to prompt actions into the game, query the Unity docs, create real-time dialogue, and more. We seem to be getting closer and closer to anyone being able to make games every week.

I’ve been obsessed with following the updates on LK-99 over the past 48-hours. If this is legit, it will completely change the world. Every piece of technology in our lives will be reinvented to be more powerful, more energy efficient, and more cost efficient.

The difference 6-months can make in the world of AI.

The YouTube channel just crossed 100,000 subscribers. 🤯 Notice that almost 90,000 of those came in the past 28-days! I don't know what I'm doing now that I didn't used to do... But Imma keep on trying to do it! :)

Is nuance even possible on X anymore? It feels like everything is so binary now. You're either Pro-AI or Anti-AI You're either right-wing or left-wing politically You're either an accelerationist or altruist You either love or hate [Insert Billionaire or CEO] Am I only hearing from the vocal minority? Is it because polarization creates more engagement? I'm genuinely confused why more nuance doesn't seem to exist. Every single post I make seems to get responses that live somewhere on one extreme end or another instead of falling somewhere on a spectrum. I personally live somewhere in the middle of almost all extremes. I'm pro advancement in tech but conflicted on the methods to get there. I don't identify with any political party. I see both sides of the e/acc e/alt debate and land somewhere in the middle. I don't hate anyone personally, despite how rich they are. I often don't agree with their decisions but don't hate anyone. My opinions change frequently as new information is presented to me and I try to always be open-minded. Life is nuanced but social media encourages polarization. It's starting to feel exhausting.

What’s an AI software that everyone’s sleeping on right now?

I used the same exact prompt in every image generator I could think of and kept it basic and then made a video with the comparison of them all. I know you can get WAY better images with some advanced "prompt engineering" but wanted to test a simple prompt on all.

Wow! This is so cool. I just got an email from @TubeBuddy that I won an emerging creator award for "Best Commentary Creator." That's awesome! Thanks so much to whoever nominated my channel and those that voted for it! I've never won an award like this before. :)

I'm super excited because today is the official launch of something I've been working on for about 9-months now! @NathanLands and I have been working super closely with the team over at @HubSpot to launch a brand new podcast! The show is called "The Next Wave: AI and The Future of Technology," and every week we'll be doing deep-dive discussions on where we are and where we're headed with AI and emerging tech. Some episodes will be Nathan and I going deep on the latest happenings in the AI world. Other episodes will be longform discussions with the the thought leaders, engineers, CEOs, and pioneers building this space. Every episode will have this goal... To help the listener understand where we are, where we're headed, and how you can use this information to improve your business or your life. If you enjoy my YouTube channel but want to go even deeper into the topics and learn from leaders like @AravSrinivas from Perplexity, @OfficialLoganK from Google (previously OpenAI), @gregisenberg, @nonmayorpete, and more, be sure to subscribe over on YouTube or wherever you prefer to listen to podcasts. Can't wait to get your earballs on these episodes!

Here's what ChatGPT's vision of the next 900ish years looks like... I somehow have a feeling that the timeline will be much quicker than this. What do you think?

I've been testing a lot with YouTube. Last year I did a lot of shorts, a lot of long-forms, and a few livestreams. These screenshots show actual numbers of the best performers. A short that did 3m views earned $418 while a longform that did 1.3m views earned $13,580 and a livestream with less than 100k views earned $1,926. You'd think shorts are a waste of time based on earnings. However, the one short gained 12,200 new subscribers for me and the video only took about 20-minutes to create. Livestreams, on the other hand, really seem to stink at growing a new audience. However, it brings together those that are most interested in what you do, meaning longer watch times, more superchats, and the ability to really bond with the community. I'm finding that a longform video that really hits will do the most for a channel across all metrics. However, a strategy that leverages longform, shorts, and livestreams creates a nice balance between audience growth, building strong bonds with an audience, and making decent income from videos. With all that being said, I really just wanted to share this because I think a lot of people will be fascinated by the earnings numbers of each type of content.

The fact that Future Tools is getting over 1,000 visitors every 30-minutes is blowing my mind. I keep wondering when this ride is going to come to an end but it just keeps picking up speed! Thanks for letting me be a resource for you!

I made another music video. This time using @suno_ai_ for the music, @midjourney for the starting frame of each video, and @LumaLabsAI to convert the images to videos. Then I pulled it all together in Davinci Resolve. I'm dropping the full tutorial on YouTube tomorrow. :)

This video took me forever to make. I edited about 10-hours worth of footage down to just the TLDR of the process and it's still 26-minutes long. LOL. Here's the breakdown of how I used GPT-4 to make a video game... 🔗piped.video/IyKKhxYJ4U4

On this day in 2009, I quit my job to pursue content creation and online education full time. It started with blogging and podcasts, with some occasional YouTube videos sprinkled in. Over time, I fell more and more in love with video and YouTube and, 16-years later, I'm somehow still doing this. I'm so appreciative that, for some reason, there are people out there that enjoy my random rambling and nerdy interests. Thank you so much to everyone who's tuned in and watched this crazy AI revolution unfold with me! I'm excited to continue to evolve the channel and hope to do my best to keep people informed and showing them what's possible as new tech becomes available!

Holy Moly! My YouTube channel just crossed 50 MILLION lifetime views. That's bananas! Thanks to everyone who's tuned in and supported the channel!

I feel like articles like this will look similar to "The people refusing to use the internet" in a few years...

I've started getting in the habit of leaving positive comments on YouTube videos that I really enjoy after watching them. The love and positivity often goes further than you realize for creators.

As one of their trusted testers, Google Deepmind flew me out to London and gave me a Pixel phone with the new Project Astra preinstalled on it. They let me test it, explore with it, and try to break it. They even had a mini-bar setup so we could test its ability to make mocktails. Here are some snippets of what Project Astra is capable of. It feels more like a personal assistant in my pocket than anything that's come before it. I got to see even more than this at DeepMind but I'll have to wait on sharing that stuff. Look out for more details soon. :) Note: In this video, I sped up the gaps between me asking questions but I did NOT speed up the gap between the question and Astra's response. The responses are in real-time.

I want to create an AI advisory board. A fine-tuned ChatgGPT trained on pdfs and transcripts from people like Emad, Sam Altman, Naval, Jensen Huang, Eric Schmidt, Mark Andreessen, and other prominent voices in AI and then ask them advice. Does someone know how to do this?

If you know who these guys are, chances are you’re pretty looped in with what’s going on in the world of AI. :)

If you're a YouTuber and have access to GPT-4, here's my favorite video idea "hack." Screenshot your most popular videos, upload the image, and ask ChatGPT to share more ideas for titles and thumbnails. It's actually really effective.

I'm a Techno-Optimist. I love paying attention to, and playing with, emerging technologies. It's so much fun to me. However, I do have several takes that I feel a lot of other techno-optimists and AI fans typically disagree with me on... At the risk of losing some followers, here's a few of them: 1. Negative AI sentiment is going to get A LOT worse before it gets better. The fact that traditional media has started changing their tone about it and has started to embrace it, is a negative indicator to me. The more it's jammed down people's throats, the more resistance we're going to see to it. The more musicians, authors and actors that publicly speak out against it, the more their fans are going to turn against it as well. Which leads me to... 2. We need to figure out a way to fairly compensate traditional artists whose works these tools are trained on. Suno, MidJourney, Sora, etc. are all capable of creating things that are amazing but I still really struggle with the ethics of how they were trained. Yes, I understand that all artists were influenced by some artists that came before them. However, AI is trained on ALL artists that came before it... Something that no human is capable of. So I don't see the argument as comparing apples to apples... And the concept of "fair use" is so vague and, in my opinion, has been a bit twisted to fit the narrative of the AI companies... "Fair use permits a party to use a copyrighted work without the copyright owner’s permission for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research." The big companies argue they can train the data because it's necessary for research. But isn't that line crossed when the companies start selling the access to the tools that these things were trained on? The ethical piece of how the data is trained is probably the single thing that makes me feel most conflicted about using the AI tools that I use. And, yes, before others say it, my views on this point have gone back and forth several times. My opinions change as I learn more (as should most people's). 3. AI is, and will continue to, flood the internet with pure junk. We're seeing it on all the social media platforms. I'm sure even comments on this post will have been written by ChatGPT (and we can all spot them now). I'm actually not that excited by a world where every time I search something out on Google, it's using AI to summarize an article that someone else used AI to write in the first place. I want personality and human opinions and insights. I'm not looking forward to YouTube getting more and more saturated with AI generated videos with no face and an AI voiceover. Despite my passion for AI, I almost always click away from those videos the moment I see how low-effort they were. To be clear, I have ZERO problem with people using AI to create content. I just can't stand the low-effort content that people are creating for the purpose of SEO or generating ad revenue. AI is a great assistive tool for content but still pretty bad if you just let it do all the work. 4. Deepfakes, fraud, and misinformation is going to get so much worse. As the models get better, people are going to have a more and more difficult time discerning what is real and what's not. Will courts be able to use visual or audio evidence in court anymore? Will media report more and more on fake news because they couldn't even determine if what they're seeing is real or not? It's going to be a constant cat and mouse game between those trying to develop tech to spot fake media and those trying to develop tech to fool people. We'll likely have to assume what we see is fake until proven otherwise in the future. Tip: Give your close family members a code word right now. Tell them that if you ever call them in an emergency asking for money, they must request your code word to verify that it's you. This will become increasingly necessary as the this technology gets better. 5. Most smaller SaaS companies that are building with AI are likely doomed long-term. There are a couple reasons I believe this... a) Any good idea that's released as a software will be duplicated by the big companies and just rolled into their suite of tools. We've seen it happen over and over again. The big incumbents make companies obsolete overnight with one new feature roll-out. b) AI absolutely will get to a point where it's so good that people will be able to make software fairly easily. If I have an idea for a tool that I need in my workflow, I believe I'll be able to prompt that tool into existence with an LLM. I love AI and the community that we've built around it. I've spent the last 3ish years of my life trying to spread optimism towards the future and show off what I've found cool. But these are challenges that, whether people want to turn a blind eye to or not, are very real and we need to overcome them. I started creating YouTube content about AI when it was a very non-controversial topic. Me and like 3 other people were talking about AI tools. I was making silly images and putting my face on Vikings and things like that. Less than 1,000 people were watching my videos and AI wasn't on anyone's radar. I did not anticipate this explosion and I definitely never saw myself being a voice that people turned to in order to follow along. But here we are. I love the tech and I'm actually excited about the future but I do have concerns. I've voiced them more and more in my videos but I think it would be irresponsible of me at this point to avoid sharing the things that truly worry me about this tech. Hopefully, the more we as community talk about both the good and the bad, the quicker we'll start working towards solutions and begin to minimize the division around this topic. I would absolutely love for people to poke holes in my arguments and my thinking in a constructive way. But the trolls and combative comments will be ignored. :)

Been quiet the last couple days. Out touching literal grass. (Not AI generated)

What AI tool / software have you found to be really cool or useful that's completely flown under the radar?

Having some fun with Stable Diffusion + MidJourney + Runway and then bringing it all together in Davinci Resolve. LOL Full tutorial on how I made this coming in tomorrow's YouTube vid. :)

It’s ok to be anti-AI. But there’s a right and a wrong way to go about it… The right way: - don’t use it - post about your concerns and worries around it - share how it’s negatively impacted you or people you know - share counter arguments to popular claims The wrong way: - shit on others or personally attack those that do use it I want to hear the counterarguments. I want respectful and intelligent debate. I want to avoid echo chambers. But the second people attack personally, all credibility is lost and you’re immediately shutting people out to seeing your side of the argument.

So Time Magazine put out a list of the 100 most influential people in AI... People NOT on the list: - Demis Hassabis - Mustafa Suleyman - Aravind Srinivas - Geoffrey Hinton - Yann LeCun No influential media personalities that cover AI either... - Joanna Stern - Nilay Patel - Emily Chang - Etc. How is this supposed to be taken seriously?

Seriously... Who's idea was this?