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🤖 LinkedIn actually shipped an AI feature

PLUS: Text to AI video is weeks away

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Jameson Zaballos
March 21, 2023

You’ll never guess which company just shipped an AI feature.

Alright, you probably will. It’s in the title.

In our defense, we wouldn’t have guessed them.

🤖 Top Stories

😬 AI deepfakes using anyone

Scary good. Source: Samsung

Deepfakes are getting…too good.

Deepfakes are AI-generated photos or videos of a person. Typically, they show them doing something that appears real, but never happened. These videos of Tom Cruise, for example, are not actually Tom Cruise. They're deepfakes.

It's easier when the subject looks like the person they're faking.

Now, researchers at Samsung can create convincing deepfakes using anyone. All it takes is a photo, or even a painting. And the animations can happen in real time.

We show that suggested architectures and methods produce convincing high-resolution neural avatars, outperforming the competitors in the cross-driving scenario. Lastly, we show how a trained high- resolution neural avatar model can be distilled into a lightweight student model which runs in real-time and locks the identities of neural avatars to several dozens of pre-defined source images. Real-time operation and identity lock are essential for many practical applications head avatar systems.

In the examples above, the source looks nothing like the end result.

Deepfakes are the new fake news. Their reach spreads faster than their verification. Slapping a tag that says “This video may be altered” won’t work days after virality.

Every advance in this area is a new problem for social media, and the truth.

It also makes for some great memes.

🤯 LinkedIn shipped a feature in 2023, and it’s AI

Source: LinkedIn

LinkedIn must have had a family meeting with parent company Microsoft. That's where they realized that they were missing out on the AI action.

So, now we get to tell you about some AI features for your favorite professional network.

Unsurprisingly, OpenAI’s GPT-4 powers all them.

First, you can now let LinkedIn generate an “About” section on your profile for you. It takes in all the content you’ve added and suggests an intro that’s customized to you.

Standard stuff.

They’ve also made things easier for recruiters.

Instead of writing an entire job description, you can let AI handle it. Tell LinkedIn’s AI a few things about the role, and watch it fill in the rest.

Again, these are boilerplate generative AI use cases.

We’re just happy to see LinkedIn ship a feature in 2023.

🚀Text to AI video in the next few weeks?

Generated from AI, using the prompt “Sunset through a window in a New York apartment.” Source: Runway

Soon, you’ll just say the video you want to create, and it’ll appear.

Startups like Runway AI are inching closer to that reality.

They’re the team behind Stable Diffusion, a popular text-to-image model. Now, they’ve announced their Gen-2 platform, and it’s got a big feature.

Text to 3-second video.

While it’s still fuzzy, and pretty basic…it’s incredible.

Runway isn’t releasing this to everyone, for safety reasons. But expect to see more and more examples of this in the coming weeks.

If 2022 was for generative AI images, 2023 is for video.

😎 AI tools, links, tips

  1. Someone ran ChatGPT locally.

  1. What’s your new AI-safe job?

  1. Not so open…

  1. Better ChatGPT prompts.

  1. Another ChatGPT tip.

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