Happy hump day,

If you love building Lego, we’re taking the fun out of it today by auto creating your masterpiece with AI, and the next Gen AI video model is released to market by RunwayML. Check it out.

Today’s News 👇️ 

• Instagram is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI' - and photographers aren't happy.

• Google DeepMind announces (V2A) video to audio, the next step in bringing Gen AI movies to life with soundtracks for silent videos.

• Malaysia is emerging as a data centre powerhouse with the demand for cloud and AI services increasing.

• McDonald’s pauses AI drive-thru voice orders whilst looking for another tech partner, and moves back to human ordering.

• Healthcare challenge when a Doctor and an AI app both have 95% accuracy, what’s the difference?

• Paris Olympics IOC are using AI to flag and erase abusive posts of 15,000 athletes for extra safety measures.

🗞️ AI Feature

The Pixelbot 3000 turns simple AI prompts into Lego masterpieces.

The custom printer uses DALL-E 3 to turn anything you can think of into Lego.

A YouTuber has crafted the Pixelbot 3000, a Lego printer that automates creating brick-built mosaics, similar to Lego's art sets like The Mona Lisa. This new invention uses custom code and AI to streamline everything, making it easy to generate stunning Lego mosaics without any manual effort.

With the Pixelbot 3000, users just type in what artwork they want, and OpenAI's DALL-E 3 generates a simplified, cartoon-style image. This 1024 x 1024 image is then cleverly divided into a 32 x 32 Lego grid. Despite the limited palette of 15 colours only, the result is an amazing mosaic that’s fun and easy to create.

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📷️ AI Video

Runway ML introduces Gen-3 alpha.

Gen-3 Alpha, the first in a new series from Runway, is trained on a cutting-edge infrastructure designed for large-scale multimodal training. It significantly enhances fidelity, consistency, and motion compared to Gen-2.

Utilising joint training on videos and images, Gen-3 Alpha will drive Runway's Text to Video, Image to Video, and Text to Image tools.

What does it actually do?

• Fine-grained temporal control enabling highly descriptive videos.

• Photorealistic expressive human characters.

• Designed to interpret a wide range of styles and cinematic terminology.

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💻️ AI at work

Have you ever had a photo that’s cut off and you need to expand it?
Canva AI has a magic feature that expands any photo easily.

• Step 1: Open Canva with a paid subscription.

• Step 2: Upload a photo on a blank canvas, select “Edit Image” and under Magic Studio section, choose “Magic Expand”

• Step 3: Select “Freeform” and drag the frame to expand the photo.

• Step 4: Select “Magic Expand” and watch a few versions of your extended photo become available using Canva AI.

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🎨 Gen AI art

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🔨 AI productivity tools

Take your game to the next level with tools to supercharge your workflow.

1. Namify helps you build a memorable brand with an AI business name generator.

2. SimpleScraper lets you extract data from any website in seconds.

3. Mapify helps quickly transform overwhelming content into simple, clear mind maps.

4. SynthMind uses AI to continuously finds potential clients who are actually in need of your services.

5. GoPeek gets your workspace back in order by automatically organising and summarising your browser tabs using AI.