Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - EP 220: AI News That Matters - March 4, 2024

Episode Date: March 4, 2024

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You can copy off our paper. as we bring you the AI News That Matters. So a lot going on in the AI space this week. From robots that are now way too human, Elon Musk is suing Open AI and some major announcements in the AI video space and a lot more. This is the AI News That Matters with Everyday AI.

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We got it all on your Everyday AI.com for free. All right. So let's get into the AI news that matters. And if you're joining us like, hey, look at this. It's Mike Forgey back. Good to have you. So if you're joining us like Mike Forgey, or Tara or AZN or Josh, thank you all for tuning in.

I want to know from you guys, what do you think is the most important piece of AI news you've seen this week? Or, you know, if maybe it's your first time on the live streamer, you know, long-time listener, let me know where you're joining us from. I always like to see where everyone's joining us from. So let's go ahead and get started with the AI News That Matters for the week of March 4th. All right, let's start here. This one's a pretty big one, y'all.

So humanoid robots company figure has raised another $675 million. So Figure AI is a startup that's focused on humanoid robots. And they're using them for dangerous or undesirable jobs. And they just secured $675 million in funding at a $2.6 billion valuation. All right. And that's, yeah, that's the important part. But look who it's from. It is from Jeff Bezos, Invidia,

Microsoft, et cetera. Yeah, pretty big. All right. So the company's new robot, it's Figure 01 or Figure 1. I'm not even sure which it's called, but Figure 01. So it mimics human movements and it aims to address labor shortages in industries like manufacturing, logistics, and retail. Figure AI also, if you didn't know, is partnering with Open AI to develop advanced AI models

for these humanoid robots and also utilizing Microsoft's Azure Clare. cloud services for AI infrastructure. Yeah, it's not just a, you know, a random humanoid robots floating around. It is powered being powered by Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia. That's why we got to pay attention here, y'all. So let's just talk about the market in general here, the market. So the humanoid robot market is projected to reach 38 billion by 2035, with over 250,000 units estimated to be shipped by 2030, so in like six years.

And that's from Goldman Sachs. But these humanoid robots require expensive components, and it may take some time for the cost to come down enough for a broad rollout. So yeah, the right now, you know, the cost of these robots is expected to decrease. So current expenses are ranging from, yeah, $30,000 to $150,000 per unit. but that is down from $250,000 per unit last year. So if you haven't seen these figure robots or this new figure one from figure AI, you got to check it out in the newsletter.

We have a couple examples, but it's kind of wild, right? So I'm showing it here on the live stream. This isn't what you think, you know, kind of like an R2D2 Star Wars type robot. It is very human-like in terms of its movement, you know, and it's now doing very complex tasks, you know. So a lot of times people think of, you know, these robots being very clunky. They're not. They walk like humans. They can use their arms and fingers like humans.

And although right now, you know, they're a little clunky and doing some tasks less. the thing you got to look at is they're completing human tasks, right? Things that involve complex rationale, right? Things that require fine motor skills, right? Like picking small things up off of assembly line and using, you know, machine learning and computer vision to determine what it is you need to pick up. So, you know, I try real hard on the everyday AI show to always be an optimist, right? But, I mean, you just have to pay attention to the company's investing here.

All right. So we just talked about some of them, right? But let's talk about the big ones in the room here. Okay. Open AI, Microsoft, Bezos, and Nvidia. All right. Those are four of the biggest partners in the world. If you are a humanoid robots company.

And you know what? If you are joining us alive, what are your thoughts or, you know, what are your questions? I'll try to get to what I can. But it's very, if you haven't seen these before, I just encourage you to check me out in the newsletter. We're going to be linking to a couple of, you know, Twitter threads and examples in the newsletter. But it's pretty, pretty astounding. If you've never seen these before, you know, we look at these new videos and also, yes, like Douglas Bolin is chiming in here. You know, Tesla kind of has their AI bot as well. But I'd say figure right now is very far ahead of anyone else in this kind of humanoid robotics space. And the reason, you know, we say humanoid is because these new robots are being made kind of for that, right?

they're not really technically being made to be a human companion. They're being made to do human tasks, right? And so when you combine that, when you combine the outer kind of body, human function, the ability to kind of quote unquote see, walk, move around, avoid objects. It's pretty impressive how far the technology has come in the last year or so. But again, you got to look at the investors here, y'all. Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, and Bezos.

So why, you know, the other three might sound kind of common, but why am I throwing Bezos out there, right? Bezos expeditions. Well, guess what happens everywhere in Amazon? Yeah, you have constant human labor doing repetitive tasks over and over, right? And when we look at those costs, right? So we look at those costs right now. So they're currently $30,000 to $150,000 per unit. Yeah, guess where I think a lot of the initial orders are going to come

from? Well, I think they're going to come from people like Amazon or, you know, companies that have obviously large factories, right? Because when you look at, you know, $30,000 per unit to $150,000 per unit, all right, well, that's, you know, obviously falls within the range of an average salary, right, for for someone, you know, working on a manufacturing floor. So again, I'm not going to, you know, start the show off today with doom and gloom. But if you haven't been paying attention in the generative AI space, you know, humanoid robots aren't some future fiction, you know, Skynet Terminator, nightmare dream scenario. No, they're here. they're slowly being rolled out between figure and Tesla and some other big players in the kind of humanoid robotics game. You have to pay attention. I do think it's going to be pretty disruptive.

You know, it says that they're going to be estimated to ship in 2030. I would expect that timeline to probably move up. Also, when you're talking about 250,000 units estimated to be shipped by 2030, I would also say that estimate from Goldman Sachs is also a little under. I would expect it to be more, especially with how quickly this technology is moving, how much money is being invest into these humanoid robotic companies. I would expect it to be much more than 250,000 units to kind of be out there in the wild by 2030. But those are the projections. All right.

Yeah, Juan here saying the humanoid robot is super interesting to me. I think they will bring products being made more locally in the U.S. rather than overseas. Yeah, that's a great point, Juan, that this does bring the capability to, yeah, cut down on shipping costs as an example, right, and not having to, you know, manufacture so many things overseas and being able to kind of have more kind of homegrown. So, yeah, maybe even if it is, you know, more humanoid robots doing work, but yeah, maybe doing more works in your country of origin, right? So we're based here in the U.S.

So this could bring more technically jobs from overseas back here to the U.S. to be able to develop and build things faster. So a good side point there, right? Because we talk about, you know, oh, are all these robots going to be taking manufacturing jobs? Well, maybe they're going to be taking jobs from overseas and bringing them here back to the U.S. I love that take one. All right. Our next piece of AI news, Elon Musk has sued OpenAI.

over alleged betrayal of the mission. All right, so here we go, y'all. So Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, accusing the group of prioritizing profits over the benefit of humanity. So the lawsuit from Musk claims that Open AI once, you know, a small little nonprofit, you know, is now focused on developing AI or AGI, really, has, they're alleging that, Open AI that was once a nonprofit is now a for-profit and has become closed source, a closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft.

So that is the lawsuit there. And you've got to know a little background here, right? Because Elon Musk is obviously a founding board member of Open AI. And he's alleging, you know, among other things, that now Open AI is more focused on developing AGI, which is artificial general intelligence. So they're more focused on developing AGI for profit. rather than for the benefit of humankind, which was kind of the original mission of Open AI. And it still kind of technically is. But Musk is essentially alleging that right now

Open AI is more focused on profit. They've become a close source. And they are kind of moving too fast with AGI or maybe they already have, you know, working artificial general intelligence. So that's what the lawsuit is alleging. And the lawsuit is also highlighting concerns that the AI, AGI technology could pose significant risks to humanity, if not controlled properly. All right. So a lot of things to talk about and to unwrap here, right, because I think there's, I think there's merit. You know, I think there's a little bit of merit to this lawsuit, right?

Open AI was started as a, you know, quote unquote small nonprofit company. But, you know, I think Elon Musk does bring up some good points, regardless of what you think about Elon Musk. I know that he's a very polarizing figure in the tech and in the AI space. But, you know, he does bring up some good points. I think some are not valid, but I think some are valid. But this lawsuit seeks to compel Open AI to return to its original mission of developing AGI for the benefits of humanity. So this legal battle, it's going to be kind of fun to watch, but it's so the legal battle between Musk and Open AI does shed a lot of light on the complex dynamics and ethical considerations surrounding the development of advanced AI technologies. The lawsuit also raises questions about the influence of major tech companies like Microsoft in shaping the future of AI research and development.

I'd love to hear what you all think. maybe I'll, you know, feature, you know, one of my favorite comments on your take on this in today's newsletter. So what do you think does this lawsuit from open, or sorry, does this lawsuit against open AI from Elon Musk? Does it have any teeth? What do you see? Is it, is it meritless? Is this just, you know, maybe sour grapes? I mean, what do you think? Because you also have to think what else Elon Musk is up to, right? So he has his, you know, overarching. and company X-A-I, you know, he has now Twitter called X, and he has GROC, right? So GROC is the X or Twitter large language model that I don't know if anyone uses. Sorry, I had to get that in there.

I know it's not Hot Take Tuesday. You know, but we even said this, you know, back in our bold predictions for 2024, we said, hey, rock is, you know, the new large language model from Twitter X, Elon Musk. really going to do much. So, you know, a lot of people are saying, okay, is there actual merit here in this lawsuit from Elon Musk? Or is this maybe, you know, he's seeing all of the success and the big partnerships and what Open AI is working on? And maybe is Elon Musk filing this lawsuit just because he's, you know, got some sour grapes, right? He's a little like, ah, man, you know, I was once part of this, you know, a founding member of Open AI. I'm not anymore. And look where,

look where the company's going. So also what's important to note here is that OpenAI's deal with Microsoft is under scrutiny, not just from U.S. regulators, but also competition authorities in the EU and UK as well. So there's obviously a huge regulatory dimension to this ongoing dispute. So what do you know, you know, Tanya saying Elon is a visionary. What are we not seeing? All right, that's a good point. What are we not seeing?

I think there's a lot, Tanya, happening behind the scenes. And we do link to the entire lawsuit in today's newsletter. So make sure to read that. I haven't read the entire thing yet. I've read a good chunk of it. A's hand coming in with a comment here saying, I don't think the lawsuit has teeth, not yet. From the looks of it, there are no specific examples of what he claims,

other than maybe open AI's closed source. but that isn't illegal and not sue worthy. Yeah, that's a good point, AZan. And I think that's probably where I'm seeing a lot of a lot of the attention going right now, at least with this lawsuit. Frank joining us from YouTube. What's up, Frank? Thanks for joining us.

So he's saying, does Elon, bottom line, have a profit motive or a safety motive or what? Hard to figure that one. What's everyone's thoughts? Yeah. You know what, Frank? I'm going to say this. every week we do AI news that matters on Monday, and most weeks we do a hot take Tuesday.

And yeah, tomorrow's hot take Tuesday is exactly this. So I don't want to give away too much of my show. But Frank, I do think that there's points to be made on each side. But hey, I guess you've got to tune in tomorrow if you want the full unfiltered hot take. Jason's saying, I don't think Elon has sour grapes. I think he has a point because Open AI was a nonprofit and is migrating to more of a for-profit. firm. That is a major shift. Agree. Yeah. And I think that's where I'm saying. I think that there's definitely a merit to at least some of the points that Elon is making in this lawsuit. Yes.

Obviously, you know, it goes into profit on what is a nonprofit or sorry, it goes into thought. What is a nonprofit company? Right. It looks like Open AI is making a ton of profit, right? And they are. And then you go and think, should a nonprofit have a profit focus? Or are they, technically, you know, finding a kind of a legal gray area and operating legally in that gray area. So again, we'll talk about that tomorrow. All right. I need to drink water here. Guess what, y'all? Awesome free stuff. Yeah. We're going to take like one minute to tell y'all. Some of our partners are amazing. Yeah, we just started partnering up with companies here at Everyday AI after like telling people no for 10 months. So first, one thing you have to know is we,

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video leap, but they just introduced LTX Studio in AI-driven filmmaking tool. All right, so LTX Studio helps creators from ideation to generating AI-powered short clips for storyline visualization. So users can input ideas and the tool creates scripts, creates storyboards, and can create consistent characters through prompts. All right. So the tool allows customizations of scenes, styles. You know, you can just type in if you want cinematic, anime, etc.

Weather's, locations, colors, outfits. You got to check out the demo. It's in the newsletter. All right. So the features of LTX Studio include shot editing, character modifications, and the ability to preview and export the films. Lighttricks CEOs emphasize that LTX studios, usefulness for professionals like filmmakers and ad agencies is through the root. And I agree.

All right. So the company actually leverages various AI models, including text to video and in the tools creation process. All right. So if you don't know, Lightchurchs has actually been around for a while. Like we talked about, they have probably, you know, some of the earlier AI kind of AI powered apps that hit the app store in FaceTune and Video Leap. So they've already raised, geez, back like three years ago, I think in 2021, they've already raised hundreds of millions of dollars. They already have their Series D funding round, so they're very deep in the game. But this LTX studio shows a major shift toward AI professionals and the future of AI video

making. So I'm going to show just some little examples here. And hopefully for our podcast audience, I can talk you through it. But make sure we do give a lot of examples of this in the newsletter. So if you haven't already signed up from the newsletter, make sure to go to your everyday AI.com. So here's an example. So LTX Studio on their website, it's not publicly available yet.

You can join the wait list. So in this example, they kind of show a boxer, right? So it's kind of a video generated of a boxer. And it's a close up, right? And then kind of if you let it go, if you let the website load for about three seconds, you'll see kind of the power. So what happens is this one close up of a boxer becomes like six separate kind of short form videos of other boxers, of the crowd, of other elements, you know, zoomed out, you know,

visuals of the same boxer in the same ring. So why are we talking about this? Well, I think so far, whether we're talking about AI image tools like Dali in Mid Journey or we're talking about the current AI video tools that are available, PICO Labs in runway, one of the hardest things is getting usable footage, right? And one of the biggest reasons why is, well, number one is quality. And the quality is getting there and it's catching up, I believe. But number two, it's creating consistent scenes that can work together.

Because even right now with photos, that can be difficult. You got to really be like a mid-journey whiz to get, you know, consistent, you know, photos from different angles, right? Because a lot of times you can say, all right, well, I'm going to create, you know, an advertising campaign based around one person. Well, guess what? It is so difficult right now or so time-consuming to, get that, whether it's in AI photos or in AI videos, to get that, you know, kind of a consistent

character, you know, in an advertising scene or a short story, et cetera, because that character, because of the nature of generative AI, it's going to look wildly different from each generation. So you really got to do a lot of shortcuts, a lot of behind the scenes, essentially a lot of duct tape to get this thing to work to get consistency from image to image or from video to video. And it's not always that accurate. So this is where LTX Studio is coming in and it's looking a little different because it is going to create. And again, check this out in the newsletter. We have a lot more information. But think of it like this, starting with a text prompt, right? And then it creates an entire short story. Think of like 20 separate, you know, short kind of video boards, right? So you could

put in a simple prompt like, you know, boxer, you know, fighting in Las Vegas, right? Showtime fight, whatever, right? Normally in any other program, you would get kind of one piece of that. So what LTX Studio does, among other things, is it will give you dozens of short storyboards that are consistent. And you can go in and change these with text prompts. But it keeps that consistency from a kind of short shot to short shot. So then you can very easily start piecing together all of these different visuals. And you can also very easily rearrange them, drag and drop, So now all of a sudden, you can create a short story with consistent characters throughout the entire thing. And just with text, you can change something.

So they do give examples where, as an example, you could change the boxers, you know, gloves from red to black. Or you can, you know, change the color of the lights in every single scene. So just talk about crazy consistency, right? I said back in, you know, this was in 2023 when we were doing our bold predictions for 24. And I said, it's the year of AI video. You know, people didn't believe me when I, you know, I said, yeah, I think we're going to see very high quality AI videos, you know, short stories. I think we're still going to get there. Like, I wouldn't be surprised if consumers between these tools and Open AIs, SORA, obviously, I wouldn't be surprised.

if we see the ability to create 15, 20, 30 minute short videos, anyone, right? We don't know what the cost is going to be. Presumably the cost is going to be a little higher with these tools than you're, I think we've been spoiled with tools like, you know, chat GPT or co-pilot pro or the paid version of Gemini, you know, that are between $20 to $30 a month. I don't think that this kind of next generation of tools is going to be that affordable just because the compute required to do this AI video is much, much higher. But the quality, right?

Is it going to look AI generated at first? Absolutely. Will it probably toward the end of the year? Probably not, right? Like if you've seen SORA, make sure because actually one of the, we have an example of a new SORA video here with a collab from PICA Labs. But the quality of just even open AI's SORA is through the room. All right. So speaking of AI video, that is also our last piece of news for today.

So two kind of similar, but much different announcements. So two new AI video tools are adding lip sync, both PICA Labs and Emo from Alibaba. All right, so let's first look at PICA Labs. So Pika Labs has introduced a new feature that allows lip syncing to audio and AI characters, similar to OpenAI's recent AI video generator. So this development represents a significant advancement in AI video technology and has the potential to compete with established companies in the future. I'd say this is pretty big for PICA Labs, right?

It's something that runway, it's kind of main competitor, at least for AI video tools that are publicly available right now. I do think this kind of pushes them ahead. So the technology is still in its early stages, and it's not yet perfect, but it does show promise for further advancements in AI video. So this is pretty simple. It's pretty cool. But essentially, you can literally just generate a video with text.

So you can do text to video and you can just upload your own audio or you can put in your own text. And essentially the characters are going to mouth whatever text or whatever audio that you put in there. So is the lip syncing perfect? Not yet. Is it, does it look a little computer generated? Absolutely, right? Is it Pixar style yet? No, but pretty huge leap forward from Pika Labs because this is something that really

wasn't available yet in any of the big kind of brand name generative AI tools. So Peket Labs made a huge splash in the middle of last week when they announced this. We actually should have done this on our live show that we had, you know, going over Pika Labs. didn't, but that's okay. All right. So now a similar announcement from Emo video, not to be confused with Meta's Emo video. Yeah, all these names are starting to blend together, like Alphabet soup, y'all. All right. So Alibaba has developed an AI video generator, emo, which can turn a single still image and vocal audio into an animated avatar video with facial expressions and poses. So the model can sync lips with real

audio and works with various artistic styles and languages. The model itself is built on a stable diffusion backbone and is considered already to be one of the most effective of its kind. All right. So even if we're just kind of comparing the two, we're comparing apples and orange slices here. So definitely different. So think of right now the Pika Labs lip sync. I'd say it's probably a little bit more usable in its current form for, you know, animated shorts.

I wouldn't say it's very good yet. If you're trying to get realistic video of people, lip syncing, it's not quite there. But it works very well with source video, right? That's the difference. Whereas emo from Alibaba, it works with source photo. All right. So it does create video, but you start with a photo. So if you want to animate video right now, you don't have that option in emo, in emo from

Alibaba. the quality is through the roof. Yeah, what Liz is saying here. We're showing examples. I just have some screenshots. So, yeah, it's an Audrey Hepburn, an Audrey Hepburn example that they have on their website. And we link all of those in the newsletter. It's pretty impressive.

So I will say this, that the emo is much better in terms of quality of the lip syncing. You have to see this. I didn't believe it, right? There's very few tools that I see and I'm in disbelief because I've used hundreds of generative AI tools. This was probably one of them, right? So again, it's not publicly available yet. So, you know, who knows kind of what's going on behind the scenes, how many generations maybe this took. But the quality is hard to believe that you can take a photo.

And it is going to, you know, so it's making as an example, the Mona Lisa talk, or famous photos from history. It's bringing them to life. But the lip sync and the facial expression is through the root. It's far ahead of Pekal Labs. But again, different use cases. I think Pika Labs is a little bit more for AI video. And I think works really well right now for animated.

This is with emo, not so much. This is short form. You start with a photo. But the lip sync and facial expressions are wild, right? Like some of the videos that come out, you know, of someone singing as an example, you know, they're moving their face up and down and closing their eyes as they hit, you know, high notes and, you know, their lips are kind of, you know, moving just perfectly. It is extremely impressive, extremely impressive.

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