Meta’s AI is Making Your Ads Move?

What we’ll cover today:

🤖 Meta’s New AI Tool.

🤯 CEOs Could Easily Be Replaced With AI. Experts Argue.

👨‍💼John Hopfield Calls New AI Advances ‘Unnerving’.

🔗 The Event Roundup.

Meta’s New AI Tool.

Meta is testing AI tools on Facebook and Instagram.

These tools turn static images into engaging videos.

Imagine a still photo of strawberries now floating around a jar.

Pretty cool, right?

Here’s a quick breakdown:

• Animate images: AI transforms static photos into dynamic videos.

• Upscale videos: AI adds unseen pixels to enhance video quality.

• Coming soon: Available to all advertisers by 2025.

• More AI tools: Adds to Meta's text and image generation features.

Amazon is also using AI to create video clips from product images.

TikTok is testing AI avatars for ads, too.

AI is reshaping the future of ads to be more creative and interactive.

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1. CEOs Could Easily Be Replaced With AI, Experts Argue.

This is an article from Futurism.

CEOs better start endearing themselves to their employees real quick because, oh boy, the case for replacing them with AI just keeps mounting.

"Some people like the social aspects of having a human boss," Phoebe Moore, professor of management and the futures of work at the University of Essex Business School, told The New York Times. "But after COVID, many are also fine with not having one."

Here’s The Article

2. John Hopfield Calls New AI Advances ‘Unnerving’.

Nobel laureate John Hopfield expressed concerns over AI advancements, warning of potential catastrophes if not properly managed. 

He emphasized the need for a deeper understanding of deep-learning systems to prevent uncontrollable technological developments.

Here’s the Article

1. AI’s Penicillin and X-Ray Moment.

The Nobel Committee officially recognises artificial intelligence’s godfathers in the pantheon of human achievement.

The resulting Nobel Prizes have since been awarded to the discoverers of penicillin, X-rays, and the structure of DNA—and, as of today, to two scientists who, decades ago, laid the foundations for modern artificial intelligence.

2. OpenAI Expands Globally, Seeks Engineers for AI Development.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, plans to open a factory in Singapore later this year to meet the growing demand for AI tools in the Asia-Pacific region. ChatGPT usage in Singapore has grown impressively, doubling weekly users since January.

3. Uber will launch an OpenAI-powered AI assistant to answer driver EV questions.

Uber is continuing its push to bring more electric vehicles onto the ride-hail and delivery platform, and it thinks giving drivers a chatbot to answer all their EV questions will help. Starting early 2025, Uber will launch an AI assistant for drivers in the U.S. powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o.