X-Portrait 2: Highly Expressive Portrait AnimationPortrait animation technology provides a ultra-low cost and highly effective way to creating expressive, realistic character animations and video footages: users only need to provide a static portrait image and a driving performance video, and the model can then use these inputs to generate videos by transferring the driving expression […]
Photographing a sport you’re not familiar with is a challenge. I’ve seen a few field hockey games but most of that was in college and I’ve never played it. I managed to get to two games this year which is many but I’m only one man and no one is paying me.1 Field hockey moves […]
There’s An AI For That – Discover The Newest And Best AI Tools Poe – Fast, Helpful AI ChatTalk to the best AI models like ChatGPT, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, FLUX1.1, and millions of others – all on Poe. EU Artificial Intelligence Act | Up-to-date developments and analyses of the EU AI ActUp-to-date developments and […]
Beyond Tools: LLMs and the Emergence of Extended Cognition | Psychology TodayThis mirroring effect is transformative in ways we’re only beginning to understand. When we engage with an LLM, we’re compelled to externalize our internal thought processes, making them more visible and, therefore, more amenable to refinement. Like a skillful conversation partner, the system prompts […]
I did three AI workshops last week. One was focused on AI in a world building class, one for productivity and one was focused on creativity. You can tell I’m doing too much with AI based on my ads. All our AI presentations will start with the same pattern. This is a condensed version because […]
I took photos for my youngest’s soccer team this year. I publish them to Flickr because I like Flickr still and have been using it for 17 years (!?!). One of the parents put together a gallery for the seniors using Flickr. They then wanted to show it as a slideshow at the upcoming senior […]
System Prompts – AnthropicThe prompts that guide Claude’s basic behavior . . . Tressie McPhD | Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems. | Instagram The Promise of AccessTechnology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope | Books Gateway | MIT PressWhy do we keep trying to solve poverty […]
suno-ai/bark: ? Text-Prompted Generative Audio ModelBark is a transformer-based text-to-audio model created by Suno. Bark can generate highly realistic, multilingual speech as well as other audio – including music, background noise and simple sound effects. The model can also produce nonverbal communications like laughing, sighing and crying. To support the research community, we are providing […]
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font – Braille InstituteOur font, Atkinson Hyperlegible was carefully developed by the Braille Institute to help low-vision readers. It improves legibility and readability through clear, and distinctive letters and numbers. Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers“The motivation for this was mainly because we thought it was […]
stanfordnlp/dspy: DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—foundation modelsDSPy can routinely teach powerful models like GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 and local models like T5-base or Llama2-13b to be much more reliable at tasks, i.e. having higher quality and/or avoiding specific failure patterns. DSPy optimizers will “compile” the same program into different instructions, few-shot prompts, and/or weight updates […]