🤖 AI Clones Are Here and You’ve Probably Already Seen One

Hello, fellow nerds 🧙

We got a chance to dive into the Fallout show over the weekend, and boy oh boy were we happy with what we saw. In fact, it got us fired up to play Fallout 4 again, and it looks like a that’s how a lot of fans felt.

According to Steam’s player count Fallout 4 peaked at an impressive 93,294 players, which is huge for a game that’s 8 years old. On top of that every Fallout game saw a giant increase in players. Hat’s off to the studio behind the show 👏 

Here’s the daily quests in AI to complete today:

• 🤖 AI Clones Are Here and You’ve Probably Already Seen One

• 💻️ How Does Quantum Computing Work?

• 😁 Daily Delight

• 👀 Open Source Gene Editing

AI Clones Are Here and You’ve Probably Already Seen One

Hi, welcome to the future. The year is 2050 and everyone has their own AI clone running around in the digital world handling all your digital needs for you. Except, this isn’t the future. That’s happening today.

Thanks to agencies like the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), they’re fully embracing AI's potential to create digital doppelgängers of their A-list clients.

They’ve created an entire facility called the "CAA Vault" specifically designed to capture every little detail of an actor through high-tech scans and synthesis that get combined to create stunning 3-D models.

From body and facial mapping to voice replication and movement patterns, this place has all the bells and whistles to construct startlingly realistic AI-powered avatars. The idea is giving talent more control over how their digital likenesses get utilized across future projects and licensing opportunities.

Rather than having to relinquish total rights whenever a studio wants to go the cost-saving CGI route, actors could essentially rent out their virtual twins for creative endeavors like promoting the next delicious batch of Flamin' Hot Cheeto taquitos or make a surprise cameo appearance in the latest Marvel extravaganza. All while retaining total ownership.

Of course, actually managing the logistical and legal complexities of making sure every deepfaked CG rendering of Tom Cruise maintains to copyrights and royalties sounds...nightmarishly complicated to say the least.

So what does this mean for the average joe like us?

Well, you’re probably gonna be seeing your favorite actor in a lot more movies in the future because this tech is only getting better and better.

And if you’re looking to grab an AI clone of yourself, this probably won’t be available any time soon. Unless we’ve got a couple of movie stars on our hands, this tech is locked behind quite the paywall. Now, there are probably ways to bootstrap this, but that is way beyond our pay grade…

How Transformers Mimic Your Brain

Let’s deep dive into how chatbots like ChatGPT work

A transformer in the context of AI isn’t the electrical transformer device you may think of when looking at a power or phone utility pole.

What is a transformer in AI?
An AI transformer model aka transformers were developed in 2017 by Google and are the powerhouse behind unlocking generative artificial intelligence.

In AI, the quick and dirty definition of a transformer is a model to understand how important different parts of input are.

The long and deep definition of a transformer is a deep learning model used in AI which utilizes a mathematical technique of “attention” to create relationships between data and create a neural network architecture to understand the data.

Did you know, GPT exists because of transformers?
A GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is able to generate text by mimicking the relational understanding of a human brain. By using trained data, it can learn and recognize patterns in language to create relationships.

For example, in the sentence “he is driving a blue truck.” A transformer can identify key words such as driving, blue, and truck. Then, based on understanding patterns from its training data, it could understand the action of driving having little importance to blue and a lot of importance to truck.

To distinguish the key words words in a sentence and relationships between words like driving and truck over driving and blue, we use an “attention” mechanism.

Since the development of computers, we’ve spoken to them in binary bits, 0’s and 1’s.

But what if we could talk to computers with more than just binary? If we’re able to do everything in traditional computing with only two options currently, what if we had the ability to have more?

Well, with quantum computing transistors, qubits, maybe we can. Qubits can have two states, such as 0 and 1 and also have up and down at the same time.

We haven’t unlocked how to quickly and easily transfer data between the qubits but boy are we in for another exponential leap in technology when we do.

Daily Delight

Just something fun and interesting around the web.

I can’t imagine what was going through the cashiers head here, but bless your heart. This shit probably happens every single day 😂 

What’s happening inside the Realm

A list of side quests to explore and more.

• 😢 AI creates a connection between your gut and Alzheimer’s disease progression.

• 📌 Apple is quietly beefing up its AI division by acquiring Datakalab, a French AI company specializing in on-device processing.

• 🙌 Aldi’s is taking a stab at cashier-less AI technology in a store near Chicago using computer vision.

• 👀 Open-source gene editing is a thing now?!? CRISPR-1 and Profluent have teamed up to allow open access to gene therapy…

That’s all the quests we have for today. Check back tomorrow for more!

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