Artificial intelligence has been used to make avatars that appear capable of translating text into sign language. But one of the researchers behind the demonstration videos says they are being overhyped – and experts in Deaf culture and sign language describe the AI translations as often incomprehensible. "We are very much in the experimental and research stages where AI is being tested," says Melissa Malzkuhn at Gallaudet University, a university for deaf and hard of hearing students in Washington DC, who wasn't involved in the…

AI technology is quickly creeping into every industry, prompting new questions about whether online content comes from a human or a computer. Chatbots can write a story for you in seconds, image generators can produce high quality photos by being given just a few words, tools are out there that can clone a voice with just a few minutes of recorded video. AI technology is everywhere, and now converting text into video content is another technology becoming increasingly popular. Lots of different companies have AI software to convert text to video. It is commonly used as a way to create professional-looking content quickly.

A Microsoft executive has revealed OpenAI is planning on releasing its upgraded model that powers AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing Chat. The news comes from Microsoft Germany's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andreas Braun, who appeared on stage at the AI in Focus - Digital Kickoff event on March 9 alongside other Microsoft Germany employees. All of the Microsoft officials discussed the upcoming ventures with artificial intelligence language models and the involvement of OpenAI's GPT series. Reports now indicate that OpenAI, in which Microsoft has heavily invested with more than $10 billion already pledged, is nearing the end of development for GPT-4, the next upgrade in the underlying technology powering the now immensely popular AI tools. According to Baum, OpenAI will be rolling out GPT-4 sometime "next week", which means we can expect some kind of announcement from OpenAI this week since Baum made those comments on March 9. "We will introduce GPT-4 next week, there we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities - for example videos," Braun said.

ChatGPT, the revolutionary chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI), will soon be able to do much more than send human-like text messages. A Microsoft executive has revealed that the next version - set to be released this week - will be able to turn text prompts into unique videos. The tech giant has invested heavily in ChatGPT, and has already unveiled a host of new products which incorporate it as an AI assistant, like search engine Bing. But this updated version, dubbed GPT-4 and tipped to launch on Thursday, will have'multimodal models', according to Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun. This means that it will be able to generate content in multiple formats, like audio clips, images and video clips, from a text prompt.

Releasing a paper with their work and findings so far, the team introduced MusicLM to the world with a number of examples that do bear a surprising resemblance to their text prompts. The researchers claim their model "outperforms previous systems both in audio quality and adherence to the text description". Using Al to generate music is nothing new - but a tool that can actually generate passable music based on a simple text prompt has yet to be showcased yet. That is until now, according to the team behind MusicLM. The model also allows for audio input, in the form of whistling or humming for example, to help to inform the melody of the song, which will then be "rendered in the style described by the text prompt".

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.

Having machines turn text into speech is nothing new. Professor Stephen Hawking communicated with a computerized voice for many years, and by now, we're used to our GPS devices or smart speakers asking questions and responding to our queries. What is different these days is that the quality of synthesized speech is improving, thanks to several companies using AI to create voice skins for enterprise companies and content creators that give more options for turning text into speech. LOVO, an AI voice and synthetic speech startup company, uses a voiceover API to turn text into speech in real-time using 200 human-like voices in 33 languages using their "voice library." Users also can clone their own voices to create their own skins, simply by reading 15 minutes of a script.

Having machines turn text into speech is nothing new. Professor Stephen Hawking communicated with a computerized voice for many years, and by now, we're used to our GPS devices or smart speakers asking questions and responding to our queries. What is different these days is that the quality of synthesized speech is improving, thanks to several companies using AI to create voice skins for enterprise companies and content creators that give more options for turning text into speech. LOVO, an AI voice and synthetic speech startup company, uses a voiceover API to turn text into speech in real-time using 200 human-like voices in 33 languages using their "voice library." Users also can clone their own voices to create their own skins, simply by reading 15 minutes of a script.