🐇 Meta's new AI strategy & Runaway's video innovation in AI

Hello there, trailblazers of the digital world! 🎩

Here’s today’s summary:

📣 Meta Boosts its AI Development Amid Struggles
🎬 Runaway's Gen 2: AI-Powered Video Generation at Your Fingertips
🎨 Unleash Creativity with AI Text-to-3D Character Engine
👔 AI to Bolster Employment, Negating Common Fears
🌐 Global Workforce's Perception of AI: A Detailed Snapshot
🐦 Hottest Tweets
🧰 How to Use AI to Expand Images or Photos Backgrounds:
🤏 The Curator’s Picks

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🗞️ Hottest News

1. 📣 Meta Boosts its AI Development Amid Struggles

Despite financial challenges, Meta is venturing into new AI tools, encompassing ChatGPT-like chatbots, Instagram enhancements, and a productivity assistant named 'Metamate'. While the company continues its metaverse journey, it's also focusing on AI, emphasizing open-source models despite potential criticisms.

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2. 🎬 Runaway's Gen 2: AI-Powered Video Generation at Your Fingertips

Runaway has launched a cutting-edge AI tool, Gen 2, enabling users to create short video clips using a text-to-video interface. The AI tool, while currently battling animation hurdles, opens the door to broader concerns regarding AI regulation in the industry.

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3. 🎨 Unleash Creativity with AI Text-to-3D Character Engine

A breakthrough in creative technology, Tafi's Text-to-3D Character Engine, empowers artists and developers to effortlessly create high-quality 3D assets. This innovation paves the way for content creation, transforming the process of creating 3D characters.

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4. 👔 AI to Bolster Employment, Negating Common Fears

In a turn of events, Manpower Group's survey suggests AI might lead to job growth, as over half of British firms foresee more job opportunities due to AI. Balancing AI integration and human involvement seems to be the key to leveraging AI's benefits.

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5. 🌐 Global Workforce's Perception of AI: A Detailed Snapshot

The comprehensive 'AI at Work' survey by BCG provides valuable insights into the global workforce's attitudes towards AI, highlighting the importance of AI training, the prevailing optimism among regular users of generative AI, and the need for a balanced perspective on AI integration.

Here are the highlights:

• Survey respondents, particularly leaders, are generally optimistic about AI.

• There are significant differences in AI perception between leaders and frontline employees.

• Employees acknowledge the need for AI training and regulation, but few have been trained.

• Regular users of generative AI are more optimistic and recognize its transformative potential.

• AI training is currently more prevalent among leaders than frontline employees.

• There has been a significant increase in AI usage in companies, from 22% in 2018 to 50% in 2023​.

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🐦 Hottest AI Twitter Posts

Marc Andreessen has started an AMA tweet on AI or topics from his recent article, “Why AI Will Save The World”

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🧰 AI How-To

How to Use AI to Expand Images or Photos Backgrounds:

Another exciting news item - that is also today’s “How-To” - is Stability AI’s Clipdrop new feature, which does a similar job to what Photoshop’s AI-generated ‘outpainting’ tool does, launched just a couple of weeks ago. So here’s your free to use alternative, so you can play around as well even without Adobe Photoshop!

1. Access Clipdrop.co Uncrop tool: it’s free to test, and you get more credits by creating a login.

2. Add an image: Upload your image by dragging it into the box, or click on the dotted box.

3. Select Dimensions: Resize the image so that its content is filled by the generative AI.

4. Select the final result: You will be presented with a few options to choose from. You can go back and edit the image’s dimensions, or generate new options.

5. Download: When you’re happy with the result, download it!

6. Try other tools: Clipdrop has a few other tools, such as Background Remover, Image Upscaler, and Text Remover. Try them on your designs!

🤏 The Curators Pick’s

🐇 And that's a wrap on this edition of The Rabbit Hole

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