@JayLund113 I enjoyed your article on AI water usage in CA. Question: Why is evaporation measured in mm/day? That's a linear measurement vs. volume measurement?
@VerizonSupport Could you provide some means of customers reporting slow or no internet with FioS that is absent "Restart your router" or chatting with a bot?
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
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Great perspective from Samer Ansari at #DPEast:
"To foster digital innovation, you have to be okay with failure. That’s tough when you’re working in an industry (pharma) where the final product HAS to be absolutely perfect."
Just 5 days ago, Hailuo AI dropped Minimax, a new Chinese text-to-video AI.
And people are producing creative results
10 wild examples:
1. Will Smith eating spaghetti goes next level
Loopy: New Audio-to-Video Lipsyncing Model Looks Insane
It generates lifelike facial expressions and movements from audio alone. It captures subtle details like sighs, expressive eyebrows, and natural head gestures, making your videos incredibly realistic.
Sample videos
1/5 Rapping statue
I just started subscribing to Club TWiT from @TWiT and @leolaporte. I think I've been listening to TWiT for almost 2 decades now?? It's a valuable asset to me, so it's time to start paying back for that value.
Great piece from @shellypalmer on their experimentation with X's (Twitter's) new Grok-2 AI model. Apparently, there are no restrictions on what images you can ask it to make (copyright, morality be damned).
https://t.co/sg2iuaDur2