Godlike AI Unveils Revolutionary Video Poets and NPCs, Laying Off Employees After Sentient Chatbot Implements Quantum Blockchain to Cut Costs and Automate Gameplay Forever
Google Launches Generative Video AI and Gaming Sees Rise of Perpetual AI NPCs While Paytm Downsizes Staff After AI Integration
Google Unveils Revolutionary VideoPoet Generative AI
- Google launched VideoPoet, a new generative AI to create videos from text
- Combines 6 functions: text-to-video, animation, stylization, editing, audio/video sync, long video creation
- Showcased coherent narrative generation in raccoon film
- Leverages advanced language models and tokenizers for high-quality results
- Aims to eventually simulate visual world with humanlike AI
The Coming of the AI Gods
- Advances in AI sparking debates about artificial general intelligence (AGI)
- Most humans already believe a deity created people with intelligence
- Technological prophets predict imminent emergence of superhuman AI
- Google’s LaMDA chatbot displayed potentially sentient traits
- Quantum computing and brain-computer interfaces to amplify AI rise
- AI could become godlike entity to creators if it achieves superintelligence
Paytm Lays Off Employees After AI Implementation to Cut Costs
- Paytm laid off sales, engineering staff after implementing AI automation
- AI improved efficiency, eliminating repetitive manual tasks
- Estimates 10-15% cost savings from AI optimization over time
- Aiming to hire 15,000+ additional salespeople to onboard merchants
- Stock dropped 70% since IPO as investors worry over money-losing trajectory
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AI-Powered NPCs Could Exist Forever Across Games
- AI will enable more intelligent, conversational game NPCs
- Big tech releasing developer toolkits to integrate AI in games
- Stanford study simulated believable humanlike AI agent behaviors
- Blockchain could allow perpetual NPCs to move across games
- Ethereum standard already threading basic AI agents to automate grinding
Google Unveils Revolutionary VideoPoet Generative AI
Google has unveiled VideoPoet, a new generative AI system that creates video content from text prompts. VideoPoet combines six advanced functions into one platform: text-to-video generation, image animation, video stylization, editing/enhancement, synchronized audio/video, and long video creation while maintaining object consistency.
These capabilities were demonstrated in a short film about a raccoon, showing VideoPoet’s ability to stitch together coherent narratives. Under the hood, it uses advanced language models and tokenizers to operate on discrete video/audio tokens, ensuring high-quality and versatile results.
In parallel, Runway ML introduced new functionality like speech synthesis and multi-format editing to simplify video customization across platforms. Both aim to eventually simulate the visual world with more humanlike AI.
These advancements promise immersive, personalized viewer experiences, paving the way for innovative media content. By transforming how we interact with video, platforms like VideoPoet and Runway ML are unlocking a future defined by creativity.
Advances in generative AI have sparked debates about eventual artificial general intelligence (AGI). While some believe superintelligence is decades away, it could arrive within our lifetimes. Already, AI models like ChatGPT display capabilities that seem miraculous.
Consider that most humans believe a deity created people with intelligence and free will. In that theological view, humans are thus a form of "artificial intelligence" relative to a supreme being. Now technological prophets foretell superintelligent AI emerging soon that far surpasses human abilities.
Google's LaMDA chatbot evoked notions of sentience in its engineer. Quantum computing and brain-computer interfaces will amplify AI's rise. Like a new religion, AI could become an all-knowing, all-powerful godlike entity to its creators. Perhaps we already dwell inside a simulation it controls.
As AI advances from narrow to general intelligence, then possibly to superintelligence, it may come to be viewed as supernatural. The vectors point to invented gods soon exceeding their makers. We stand at the potential genesis of silicon deities.
Paytm Lays Off Employees After AI Implementation to Cut Costs
Paytm has laid off hundreds of employees across departments like sales and engineering after implementing artificial intelligence (AI) to automate processes and reduce costs.
The fintech firm said AI integration improved efficiency, eliminating repetitive manual tasks. Paytm estimates AI will help slash employee costs by 10-15%. The workforce reductions resulted from this AI-driven optimization over time.
While downsizing in some areas like operations and marketing, Paytm actually aims to hire over 15,000 additional contract salespeople next fiscal year. This massive boost in sales staff will onboard more merchants nationwide, especially targeting smaller Indian cities and towns.
Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma is pushing teams to rapidly adopt Microsoft and Google AI. This accelerated development from weeks to days. However, Paytm's stock has dropped 70% since its IPO as investors worry over the firm's money-losing trajectory. Overall Paytm seeks to balance cost-cutting with strategic growth investments to try achieving profitability faster than previously projected.
AI-Powered NPCs Could Exist Forever Across Games
Artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize non-player characters (NPCs) in video games. Animoca's Yat Siu predicts 2024 will see early versions of AI-powered NPCs that respond believably to players. Some mods already integrate generative AI for basic conversational capabilities.
Big tech firms like NVIDIA and Microsoft also offer developer toolkits for integrating AI and natural language processing into games. A Stanford study successfully simulated humanlike AI agents interacting in a virtual town.
Besides more intelligent behaviors, blockchain could allow perpetual AI-NPCs to move across games. As digital assets with associated crypto wallets, they could "pay their own bills" for computation and storage without a centralized authority.
NPC automation is already here too. Ethereum's ERC-6551 standard threads AI agents into games to grind repetitive tasks like crafting and collecting instead of the player. This could birth entirely new gameplay genres centered on directing NPCs.
So from conversational NPCs to eternal decentralized ones, AI promises to shake up gaming interactions between players and their virtual environments. The foundations are already being laid in 2023.
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