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Nathaniel Whittemore Profile picture
@nlw
Apr 21 • 15 tweets • 6 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Runways Gen2 text-to-video is here, and it's mind blowing. Truly another 0-to-1 AI moment.

Here are some of the coolest examples of a new tool that just started rolling out in beta a couple hours ago 🧵👇
2/x For a bit of background @runwayml Gen1 video-to-video was already pretty amazing. Creators could use images and video to modify other videos and produce something entirely new:
3/x Exactly a month ago though, Runway got everyone completely, madly hyped announcing that Gen-2 was text-to-video, and that it was on its way.

"If you can say it, now you can see it"

4/x Over the last week or so, some folks with early access (who tended to be @runwayml employees) dropped some teasers that had the community salivating over the possibilities.

5/x Welp, earlier today they started rolling out the beta and the first prompts people are trying are already *so cool*. Here are some of my fav so far:

"a woman wearing a white dress meditating, standing on water, peaceful day, the most beautiful scene"

6/x "futuristic car speeding"
7/x 'Man walking through urban wasteland'
8/x "Woman washing window of car in Brooklyn new york intersection."
9/x "a cat at the stage of the music festival"
10/x prompt unknown, but rad
11/x "visualize a 140 year old millennial in the future."
12/x Now of course, it's impossible to see these text-to-video creations and not start to imagine all the storytelling possibilities.

Could we make entire movies this way?

Already happening.
13/x The video from my opening tweet comes from @mrjonfinger

It was entirely AI -- from the tweet gpt4 wrote that inspired it, to using Gen2 to prompt each and every shot.
14/14 I'm so excited to see what people do with @runwayml #Gen2 next (and to get my hands on it).

If you want more on Gen2 plus other text-to-video news this week from NVIDIA and Adobe, check out my latest @AIBreakdownPod

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Man the movies are coming so soon

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Apr 19
Imagine an AI model that can:

🥘Look at an image of food and spit out a recipe
🖼️Look at an image of art and tell you who made it and how it makes people feel
🌅Look at a sunset photo and write a poem

That AI is here and it's called MiniGPT-4.

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If you want to learn more about MiniGPT-4, here are a few resources.

First, the researchers who created it!

Some of the folks who also tried out the demo:


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Apr 18
The AI Arms Race is one of the defining features of tech companies in 2022.

In the last week alone we've had major announcements or news leaks from Amazon, Google, Adobe and more, so where does everyone stand?

Listen or keep reading pod.link/1680633614/epi… Image
2/x

News of Google's Project Magi broke yesterday. It's a total reimagining of the search experience that has shaped our interaction with the internet for two decades. List of ten results OUT. Chatbot interface IN.

@NathanLands with the full details
3/x
Amazon appears to be taking a developer-first approach to AI. Last week they announced Bedrock, which allows devs and companies to build off base models from @StabilityAI @AnthropicAI and others, and CodeWhisperer which is akin to Github Copilot

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Apr 16
From Amazon getting in the game to AutoGPT enabling task lists that complete themselves to viral Drake songs that Drake didn't actually perform on, it was another big week in AI.

Here's everything that happened in AI this week 👇🧵 twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
2/x 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀
•Amazon Bedrock lets devs build on models like Stability AI and @AnthropicAI and starts previewing their Titan FM language model
•@StabilityAI releases latest update Stable Diffusion XL which improves photorealism and improves text in images
3/x 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 (cont.)

•Lots of chatter about Elon starting an AI company, incorporating X.ai and hiring AI engineers Image
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Apr 14
✅Task lists that can complete themselves
🧠Businesses that can start themselves
💻Apps that can code themselves

The undisputed Big Thing™ in AI this week was AutoGPT.

It is mind blowing, for sure. But is it also dangerous? Let's talk about it. 🧵 Image
2/x So what are we talking about?

Last week @SigGravitas introduced AutoGPT, which "chains together LLM "thoughts", to autonomously achieve whatever goal you set."

It exploded.
3/x A few days before that @yoheinakajima shared BabyAGI

Akira Sakamoto described it: "Starting from an initial task, Babyagi utilizes GPT-4 to generate solutions and new tasks, storing the solutions... for further retrieval."
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Mar 21
One of the most compelling ideas I've heard lately is the idea that the Fed's forward guidance is effectively useless owing *not only* to questions of Fed credibility, but because of the broader breakdown in consensus reality.

If that's true, it has BIG implications.

Quick 🧵
This idea has been put most acutely by @kofinas.

In episode 299 of @HiddenForcesPod he and @JonAskonas put scholarly weight behind a feeling we can all recognize: that we no longer live in a world where there is one "truth," but a never-ending competition b/n competing truths
We see this in the realm of politics, of course, but also in the interpretations of events, news -- basically anything.

In the US we tend to ascribe it terms like "culture war" but it is actually something more fundamental.

But what about the implications for economics?
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Jan 18
Bloomberg reporting that Genesis is preparing to file for bankruptcy.

Is this:

A) Bullish - finally some resolution on one of the big overhanging issues

B) Bearish - its a bankruptcy that will mean more capital locked up and more confidence lost

?
To the extent this impacts your opinion
More here:
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