Generative AI

Beyond the Voice: Can AI Voice Generators Truly Capture Human Emotion?

AI voice generation has become incredibly realistic. The tools of companies such as ElevenLabs, Murf AI, Respeecher and Synthesys can create speech all but indistinguishable from a human’s, mimicking accents and tones with uncanny skill. But mimicking the sound of a human voice is one thing; mirroring the authentic emotion behind the text is the next big challenge. […]

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Short & Snappy: Using AI to Repurpose Long Videos for Social Media

Short & Snappy: Repurposing Long Videos for Social Media Using AI You’ve just finished creating an amazing hour-long podcast, webinar, or interview full of information. But how do you share that brilliance on platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts, where people’s attention spans are measured in seconds? It takes hours to manually scrub through footage looking

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Getting Text Right: Which AI Image Generators Excel at Adding Words?

Adding clear, well-placed text to AI-generated images was a frustratingly common failure point relatively recently. Otherwise impressive visuals often marred by gibberish phrases and distorted letters. Fortunately, the most recent generation of image models is slowly beginning to address this challenge, as a number of platforms have demonstrated (subtle) ability to incorporate text in a coherent manner. Why

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Unlocking Data: How AI Understands Tables, Forms & Complex Documents

AI language models are magicians with prose, but a lot of the world’s useful information isn’t particularly well-formed into paragraphs. It is trapped in tables, forms, charts, scanned documents and complex layouts like comic strips or pages of math equations. The challenge of teaching AI to reliably interpret this structured and semi-structured information and extract insights from it

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The Double-Edged Sword: GenAI’s Impact on Jobs and Critical Thinking

GenAI: the double-edged sword affecting Jobs and Critical thinking Generative AI is changing our world at breakneck speed, creating incredible tools but also deepening complex questions about our future. Although the scope for innovation is enormous, the conversation is increasingly around two big areas of concern: the impact on jobs and the likely impact on our mental capabilities.

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From Silent Videos to Rich Soundscapes: The Magic of AI Video-to-Audio

And now you’ve got a gorgeous AI video clip, but it’s eerily silent. That had long been the way things were. However, a new frontier in AI is addressing this challenge in an unprecedented way: Video-to-Audio (V2A) synthesis, the technology that allows AI to automatically synthesize synchronized, realistic audio sounds directly from visual input. Making realistic audio that

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LLMs Becoming Mainstream: Are Open Source Models Catching Up?

We are experiencing a tectonic shift in the world of Large Language Models (LLMs). Extremely powerful proprietary models such as OpenAI’s GPT series and Google’s Gemini used to be the only true players on the field, but high-performing open-source alternatives are quickly catching up in terms of capabilities, democratizing access to frontier AI. Meta released Llama 3 (7B/13B/70B),

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The AI Movie Studio: Comparing Google Veo, OpenAI Sora, and Other Video Generators

AI Movie Studio: Google Veo, OpenAI Sora, and other Video Generators The vision of typing out a scene description and having it instantly materialize in a video clip is becoming a reality, and fast. AI video generation is booming, with leading actors releasing models that generate results that are stunning and more and more coherent. Out in front are

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AI Hallucinations and How to Spot Them: Navigating the Truth in AI-Generated Content

LLMs are able to perform a wide range of tasks: they can produce imaginative text, summarize writings, and answer questions; however, these miraculous machines are blessed with a headstrong problem: They hallucinate. An AI hallucination is not like taking a box of acid, when the model reveals something that is wrong, nonsensical or unrelated individuals

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Beyond Prompts: OpenAI’s 4o Takes Image Generation to the Next Level

Once It Sees You, It’ll Never Forget: OpenAI’s 4o – A New Kind of Image Generator AI image generation has progressed well beyond simple prompt-following. Now, OpenAI seems to be taking a big step closer to intuitive, flexible and controlled visual creation by rolling out image generation support in its 4o model just recently. Announced only last month,

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