👀 Sora’s About To Get Down and Dirty

Hello, fellow nerds 🧙

We were always told to think before we speak, so why not have AI do the same?

Yep, AIs are now being developed to have an “inner monologue” to think about an answer before spitting it out. The results? A massive improvement in common sense reasoning and math performance. Hmm, maybe there is something to this whole “think before speaking” thing after all…

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

• 👀 Sora’s About To Get Down and Dirty

• 👨‍⚕️ AI Nurses Are Here and They’re 90% Cheaper Than Humans

• 🎮️ IWHBYD Broke Halo 3

• 📷️ Hello, Litter Cam

Sora’s About To Get Down and Dirty

Announced: February 15, 2024
Release Date: By the end of 2024 (no official announcement yet)
Description: Text-to-Video (doesn’t include voice currently)
Latest Controversy: Nudity

Warning: This article is not for the faint of heart

Rating Pending
Sora is anticipated to be released by the end of 2024 and the anticipation is killing us! They have 8 months to decide whether to allow the text-to-video generator to create videos with lots, little, or no nudity.

It’s not an exaggeration, Sora creates such captivating realistic looking videos, OpenAI is using watermarks to help combat deepfakes (manipulated digital media that is intentionally disguised as authentic).

In the latest interview with their CTO, Mira Murati, it’s clear they haven’t made the decision whether they’re going to stay rated E for everyone, T for Teen or go full bore AO for Adults Only.

Although OpenAI hasn’t explicitly said yes or no, there have been rumors they are exploring the idea of “creative flexibility” for artists. But what does that mean and where is the line in the sand?

Now that’s a bold statement, cotton.

To Centerfold or Not to Centerfold
The question OpenAI is asking themselves… would AI pornography be a net negative or net positive for the $97 billion dollar industry? After all, the industry exists and we’re still plagued with issues like human trafficking, sexual abuse and child pornography.

History Leaves Clues
Although the U.S. hasn’t created any significant legislation (rules and regulations) around AI yet (unlike our European counterparts), it’s likely we will come up with something quick and we’re usually quite strict.

According to an AI Policy Institute poll, they found 87% of respondents believe companies developing the AI models should be held legally liable.

With great power, comes great responsibility, Sora. Write that down.

AI Nurses Are Here and They’re 90% Cheaper Than Humans

Yep, you read that right. A whopping 90% cheaper.

We’re talkin’ $9 an hour kind of cheaper.

Hats off to HippocraticAI, who dropped an entire suite of nurses trained in different specialties.

What’s crazy is these AI nurses are actually outperforming human nurses in bedside manner, something you’d think AI couldn’t nail because of, well, this thing called emotions. Particularly, empathy.

But, it’s 2024 so anything seems to be possible.

To show you what the future will look like, here’s Linda, a congestive heart failure discharge specialist:

Now, Linda is far from perfect. She could still be a lot more conversational, but this is the worst she’s ever going to ever be.

Why This Matters
The world of healthcare is about to get hit with a hurricane and AI is the eye of the storm. And well, it starts with nurses.

We see two sides to this coin:

1. Nurses can finally catch a break if AI can offload some of the more administrative and arduous tasks. This’ll leave more time and energy devoted to patients and lessen the burden nurses already carry, hopefully leading to less burnout.
   

2. Hospitals will see the $9 an hour price tag and be incentivized to replace the vast majority of their nursing staff, leaving only a few human nurses on deck for the more critical or human-preferring patients.

Our gut says number two will be the knee-jerk reaction for many, but option one will be the ultimate result.

Whatever side of the coin, finding the balance in the force between humans and AI has to be done with caution. If we’ve learned anything from Yoda, this can be done, it can.

⌛️ Throwback Thursday

A little blast from the past.

That Time When IWHBYD Broke Halo 3

Ah, 2007. Halo 3 was out, Mt. Dew Gamefuel stocked the fridge, and copious amounts of Roma pizzas were being cooked back to back to fuel the grind.

What a time to be alive.

You’d think life couldn’t get any better in that moment. Well, you’d be oh so horribly wrong.

You see, there was a moment in Halo 3 that had gamers do a Gamefuel-infused spit take everywhere.

And it was all thanks to a certain skull —aka easter egg— that had you jump through rings in a very particular order (4654534) during “The Covenant” mission. The skull? IWHBYD, or spelled out, “I would have been your daddy”.

Don’t ask, I have no idea where that came from.

Now the beauty of IWHBYD was it cranked up the one-liners of every NPC in the game to 10, and even unlocked special phrases. And, geez, there were a lot of them.

There was a particular set of NPC’s that could totally lose their AI minds at any point in time. Enter, the Marines.

The AI for these guys would get so gun-ho about their cute little one-liners that it would override every function.

So imagine you’re knee-deep in grunts and brutes when all of a sudden your AI marines stop everything and start screaming, “Hello, boys! I’m back!” or “Betcha can’t stick it!”. Better yet, “THIS IS SPARTA!”. All on repeat.

This was legit game-breaking. Need to progress through a mission with your Marine pals? Forget about it. Bart's brain is busted and he can’t move another inch until he dies of one-liner exhaustion. Or a friendly plasma grenade.

Whatever comes first.

Daily Delight

Just something fun and interesting around the web.

Hello, Litter Cam

This new technology used in Britain, detects when litter has been thrown out of cars.

Um, it’s cool but unless you’re Captain Planet, you probably agree… they are more important things they should be focused on?

What’s happening inside the Realm

A list of side quests to explore and more.

• 🔌 A true gamer… man installs Neuralink to play copious amounts of Civilization VI until his heart’s content.

• 🎬️ Since when did AI Film Festivals become a thing? Watch “Another” the first short horror film using Live-Action VFX and generative AI together.

• 🤐 Full disclosure, YouTube is asking creators to add an AI label for complete transparency when realistic videos are made using AI.

• ⚽️ FIFA players may be able to hack corner kicks soon with Google’s new TacticAI system designed originally for Liverpool.

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

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