🤖 Hollywood’s AI Cloning Vault?!

PLUS: AI Tackles L.A.’s Homelessness Pandemic, Cohere’s Multilingual Aya Model

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James Roesser
April 23, 2024

Welcome back AI enthusiasts!

In today’s AI Report:

  • 🎬Hollywood’s AI Cloning Vault?!

  • ⛺️AI Tackles L.A.’s Homelessness Pandemic

  • 🗣Cohere’s Multilingual Aya Model

  • 🛠5 Trending Tools

  • 💰Venture Capital Updates

  • 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

AI AND HOLLYWOOD

🎬Hollywood’s AI Cloning Vault?!

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Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a leading entertainment company delivering opportunities for world-class clients, developed the CAA Vault to create “digital doubles” for artists.

Key Details:

  • The CAA Vault leverages AI technology to capture detailed scans of an artist’s body, face, movements, and voice. Then, these scans are used to develop high-fidelity digital replicas for various media productions.

  • These high-fidelity digital replicas can be used in reshooting, dubbing, and stunt double superimposing.

  • CAA’s AI roadmap involves democratizing access to the CAA Vault across the acting industry, expanding the creative boundaries of film production studios.

Why It’s Important:

  • Hollywood mogul Tyler Perry paused his $800 million film studio expansion after witnessing OpenAI’s text-to-video Sora model.

  • Now, the entertainment industry is facing ethical and legal dimensions of digital personas relative to an artist’s Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL).

🚨Watch CAA Vault create a “digital double” here.

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L.A.’S HOMELESSNESS

⛺️AI Tackles L.A.’s Homelessness Pandemic

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The California Policy Lab at UCLA developed an AI model to predict homelessness using data provided by Los Angeles County’s Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Key Details:

  • The CIO collected de-identified data from seven county departments on emergency room visits, criminal justice system engagement, and reliance on public benefit programs like SNAP’s food stamps.

  • L.A.’s Homelessness Prevention Program (HPP) uses the predictive AI model to identify individuals and families at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid for rent, utilities, and basic needs to help them stabilize and remain housed.

  • Dana Vanderford, associate director at the Department of Health Services (DHS), explained: “We often meet our clients within days of losing housing. The timing with which we meet people feels critical.”

Why It’s Important:

  • In 2023, California hosted over 181,000 homeless individuals, up more than 30% since 2007. A California State Auditor (CSA) report highlighted that California spent $24 billion on homelessness from 2018 to 2023.

  • The predictive AI model helped HPP serve nearly 800 individuals and families at risk of homelessness, with 86% retaining permanent housing.

AI RESEARCH

🗣Cohere’s Multilingual Aya Model

Cohere researchers developed Aya, a multilingual generative language AI model that follows instructions in 101 languages, of which over 50% are considered lower-resourced.

Aya was trained on 2.5X more data than previous multilingual AI models, outperforming mT0 and BLOOMZ on most tasks while covering double the number of languages.

Cohere researchers improved Aya’s performance by implementing extensive data weighting (i.e., assigning different importance to different data points) and pruning (i.e., removing redundant information from the training data).

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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

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