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The Rise of AI-Generated Videos

Peter Gostev, Head of AI at Moonpig, recently shared his experience with AI-generated videos on LinkedIn. It’s a topic I’ve been following closely, and I’d like to share my thoughts on this evolving technology. Gostev noted that while AI video generation has long seemed promising, the results have often fallen short. However, he reported a rece... Read more

AI-Generated UI/UX: Promise and Pitfalls

From Ethan Mollick’s LinkedIn post about AI-generated sound effects to the recent Heise iX article on AI in UI design, it’s clear that AI is making inroads into every aspect of digital creation. But as with any new technology, it’s crucial to approach these developments with a critical eye. The Heise iX article, for instance, shows that while C... Read more

GPT2 Chatbot

People on Social Media are excited about a new model on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena: gpt2-chatbot. Some theorize that it may be GPT-2. I have fingerprinted the Tokenizer, and no: not GPT-2, but consistent with OpenAI cl100k (used for GPT 3.5 onwards). Peculiar gaps in world knowledge (both niche and common knowledge) were the same as in the other GP... Read more

Website/Bing Copilot Integration

Inspired by some recent discussion about website optimization, I have posed a query for factual background information to Bing Copilot - which I have recently come to like. In my tests, this pulled background information from a relevant Confluence and Service Desk, but mixed up two products by the same company - while I was actually looking for ... Read more

[UPDATED] Flux Text

description: “Introduces FluxText reactive text editing framework, detailing collaborative APIs, performance optimizations, and real-time synchronization features.” layout: post title: “FLUX.1: Examining Text Rendering Capabilities in AI Image Generation” date: 2024-08-25 last_updated: 2024-08-25 tags: [ai, text-to-image, flux1, black-forest-lab... Read more