Rewind Your Digital Life

Here's your daily briefing:

  • Everything in this 3-part thread from Sundar Pichai is 🤯🤯🤯 but especially this first tweet showing the increasingly impressive, exciting, and slightly terrifying development of text-to-video generative AI:

  • If you want to know more about DreamBooth (the tool being used to make custom avatars in tools like Astria and Avatar AI) check out this thread by Divam Gupta:

And if you're not a fan of the tweet thread format, check out this essay which also goes into more detail about how to use these tools yourself:

  • And in that vein, here's yet another tool to imagine yourself in different styles, hairstyles that is:

  • Another educational thread, this one about GPT-3 and some commonly used but probably less commonly understood terms:

  • This thread by Dan Siroker about his new (Andreesen Horowitz-backed) project, Rewind AI, has us really excited. This just feels like something that should exist, so we're glad that it finally does. How many times have you accidentally closed a tab that you only vaguely remember and wasted hours trying to find it? Or is that just us?

And for the video version:

  • Today in "things we don't understand but can tell are a really big deal":

  • This is very cool visualization map via Nomic of how people use Stable Diffusion:

That's it for today...we'll see you tomorrow!

"a realistic photograph of an old man looking into a computer with a picture of him as a child on the screen" 🤣