DreamFusion, Google's next-gen, AI-powered text-to-3D-image generator, is here. A proof-of-concept paper is here, at least. DreamFusion is an evolution of Dream Fields, a text-to-3D-image generator revealed by Google back in 2021. And like Dream Fields, DreamFusion creates its 3D images by combining a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) -- or a neural network that can create synthetic 3D scenes using partial 2D datasets -- with a pre-trained text-to-image prompt model. Unlike Dream Fields, which utilized OpenAI's CLIP technology as that latter pre-trained model, DreamFusion now uses its own: Imagen, Google's DALL-E 2 competitor.

Google has developed a computer program that teaches itself. The company's AI division, DeepMind, has unveiled AlphaGo Zero, an extremely advanced system that managed to accumulate thousands of years of human knowledge within days. DeepMind says it's the most powerful program it has created, because it isn't "constrained by the limits of human knowledge". AlphaGo Zero is the latest evolution of AlphaGo, the first computer program to ever defeat a world champion at the ancient Chinese game of Go. Unlike previous versions of AlphaGo, however, Zero was only provided with the rules of the game. It had to learn how to play all by itself, whereas the others were trained using data from thousands of games played by humans.