Category: AI

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who owns Twitter and acts as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, announced on Wednesday the launch of his new artificial intelligence company xAI.

“Announcing formation of @xAI to understand reality,” Musk tweeted Wednesday afternoon.

According to xAI’s website, the goal of Musk’s new company “is to understand the true nature of the universe.” More details about the project will be revealed during a Twitter Spaces event on Friday, July 14th.

“Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. We have previously worked at DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto. Collectively we contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field, in particular the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the discovery of adversarial examples,” xAI’s website states.

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First, it came for art and college essays, now AI is set to take the place of supermodels by creating digital humans.

A German company has launched a system that sees state-of-the-art ‘digital humans’ pose for campaigns.

ColorDigital claims that their DMIx StudioAvatars have a ‘never seen before’ photorealistic quality.

This enables brands ‘to build up their own completely unique team of digital models to use in sales and marketing’.

The Digi-models – who come with names including Joy, Nina, Noah and Theo – can be customised and individualised to a brand’s preference.

In partnership with Verce, the studio that specialises in creating realistic virtual models, ‘it brings together a high-quality end-to-end virtual model workflow for fashion brands including a virtual 3D photo studio’.

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The ChatGPT setup that will allow you to speak to your dead relatives has been revealed. Sooner than later, you can engage in dialogue with the digital likeness of your loved one.

If you save your voice, movement patterns, and personality traits onto Artur Sychov’s Live Forever mode, an AI chatbot will allow your surviving relatives to have a conversation with you in the metaverse after your death, Vice said.

Sychov works for metaverse creators Somnium Space, and his project is aimed at allowing grieving humans to engage with their loved ones in a realistic way after they die.

His inspiration was the death of his father, and advancing tech means about “five years” from now, it will be normal for these VR robots to mimic conversing with the person of interest.

He said: “The AI is progressing extremely fast. Honestly, it is progressing faster than even we anticipated.”

Somnium Space is active on virtual reality headsets already, and users can dive deep into the 3D world.

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