AI Chatbots, Avatars and Space Insurance?

Strap in for a wild ride through the ever-evolving world of AI as Martin and Paul provide an entertaining overview of some major developments in the field. Tune in to hear their honest takes on using AI tools like ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion. You’ll get insights into the applications of AI, from generating art to powering virtual assistants. Martin and Paul also explore thought-provoking topics like AI copyright issues, multimodal models, and the rise of AI in customer service. With their trademark wit and candour, the duo shares valuable perspectives on embracing AI as former media professionals pivoting into tech entrepreneurship. This episode offers something for both AI newbies and experts alike. So plug in, and let Martin and Paul be your AI spirit guides!

In show links #No Affiliations - Visit at your own risk 

Colony Shared Office Space Manchester https://colonyco.work/fabrica

Turing Innovation Catalyst https://www.linkedin.com/company/turing-innovation-catalyst-manchester/

Tory Conference fringe event   https://www.manchesterdigital.com/event/manchester-digital/conservative-party-conference-fringe-event

Flair Brand Image Creator

https://app.flair.ai/

Hollywood studios can use AI now - content creation and payment models are going to change https://www.reuters.com/technology/hollywood-studios-can-train-ai-models-writers-work-under-tentative-deal-wsj-2023-09-26/

ChatGPT can Now listen and talk https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak 

Phil Birchenall https://www.linkedin.com/posts/philbirchenall_chatgpt4-educationtech-voiceai-activity-7115244163792547840-RIgD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Bing Chat DALL-E 3 Images https://www.bing.com/images/create?FORM=IRPGEN

Spotify cloning podcasters voices and translate them https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/25/23888009/spotify-podcast-translation-voice-replication-open-a

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Sable Diffusion AI Generated Voice Example https://youtu.be/rytoKTs--Y4?si=8oAVYbpCeGPaljG1

Breaking AI Image Watermarks https://wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-watermarking-issues/?ref=futuretools.io

Guardian - AI Image Copyright https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/24/an-old-master-no-its-an-image-ai-just-knocked-up-and-it-cant-be-copyrighted

Black Mirror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNYmFrfbCg

Pendant AI wearable https://www.rewind.ai/pendant

Matte Wolf YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow

AI Explained YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official

X: @meatpuppetspod

LinkedIn: The Meat Puppets Podcast

Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/themeatpupc - Obviously you don't have to, but if you wanna that would be amazing

Detailed List of topics

Networking with the tech community and attending tech events

Trying out shared office spaces like Colony

Working on launching our first digital product - an audio sample pack

Using AI like ChatGPT for web copy and Stable Diffusion for product images

Testing services like Flare.ai to place product images in scenes

Running AI models locally and the challenges faced

Getting a refund via the NowTV chatbot and rise of AI in customer service

Training a personalised text-to-speech voice model with Eleven Labs

Resolution of the US writer's strike allowing use of work to train AI models

New voice capability for ChatGPT and release of DALL-E 3 image generator

Spotify using AI to clone podcaster voices for translations

DeepMind's SynthID technique to watermark AI images, and issues around detecting AI art

Multimodal models blending vision, language and robotics like Google's PaLM

Metaverse meeting between Lex Fridman and Mark Zuckerberg

Lack of copyright for AI generated images despite human art direction

Rewind pendant concept recording everything you say and do

Running intensive AI models locally strains consumer hardware

Shoutouts for Matt Wolfe and AI Explained YouTube channels

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