About33 PostsCultureWhy Hollywood Worries About AI: Filmmakers at At the Sundance Film Festival expressed anxiety about AI. But Hollywood can benefit from AI, and the two communities have interests in common.I recently spoke at the Sundance Film Festival on a panel about AI.Culture2 Hours With AI Versus 6 With Teacher: Inside Alpha School, a Texas-based program using algorithms and video monitors to teach childrenA growing private school system replaces the typical 6-hour school day with 2 hours of personalized, AI-assisted education. CultureMachine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languagesAI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.CultureMusic Generation for Pros: Google upgrades its AI music tools for professional useGoogle refreshed its experimental tools for composers and producers.CultureNew Image Generator for OpenAI API: OpenAI launches API access to GPT Image 1, ChatGPT’s viral image generatorChatGPT’s image generator is available via API.CultureDeepfake Developers Appropriate Celebrity Likenesses: Viral video uses AI to depict celebrities without consent, sparking legal debateA viral deepfake video showed media superstars who appeared to support a cause — but it was made without their participation or permission.CultureMassively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI trainingHarvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.CultureAudrey Tang: AI that unites usAs we approach 2025, my greatest hope for AI is that it will enable prosocial platforms that promote empathy, understanding, and collaboration rather than division.CultureDavid Ding: Generated video with music, sound effects, and dialogueLast year, we saw an explosion of models that generate either video or audio outputs in high quality. In the coming year, I look forward to models that produce video clips complete with audio soundtracks including speech, music, and sound effects.CultureHanno Basse: Generative AI for artistsStability AI’s aim is to liberate artists of all trades from the repetitive, mechanical aspects of their work and help them spend the majority of their time on the creative side. So our highest hope for next year is that generative AI will help people to be more creative and productive.CultureGenerative Video Takes Off: Generative video models revolutionize content creation with stunning realismVideo generation exploded in an abundance of powerful models.CultureMusic Titan Targets AI: Sony Music accuses AI developers of copyright violations.The world’s second-largest music publisher accused AI developers of potential copyright violations.CultureActors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TVThe longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended as actors and studios reached an accord on the use of generative AI in making movies. CultureData Disappears: Creative workers don't want AI developers to train models on their workThe latest advances in AI are built on freely available training data. What will happen if it becomes off-limits? Creative workers don’t want AI developers to train models on their works without permission or compensation, or at all. Data is vanishing as they scramble to lock it down. CultureChatbots for Productivity: Microsoft extends Copilot to 365 and Windows.Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered assistants will roll out in the coming months.Load MoreSubscribe to The BatchStay updated with weekly AI News and Insights delivered to your inbox