The Deeplocal Séance Bot uses a large language model trained with “personas” from spooky literature, urban legends, and history. Think Dracula or Frankenstein answering questions about their food preferences.
Experience design company Deeplocal said in an email that it used speech-to-text models to recognize people’s questions. It also rigged the table with magnets to move the planchette.
During Xiaomi’s 14 series launch event (the slideshow below is taken from the video), the company showed off this generative AI tool in development for its HyperOS. Fed several pictures of a particular person, it can create new photos in new places, with examples showing generated pictures of them at the base of a mountain or in front of the Eiffel Tower — like a supercharged version of HeadshotPro.
While impressive, this tool goes way farther than Google’s new generative AI photo features — is the what-is-a-photo apocalypse already here?
The company said in a blog post that it is experimenting with LLMs to flag abuse of its products to enforcement teams. “Our aim is to be able to rapidly build and train a model in a matter of days — instead of weeks or months — to find specific kinds of abuse,” it said. “We’re still testing these new techniques, but the prototypes have demonstrated impressive results so far.”
Google did not specify which of its many LLMs it is using to track misinformation, nor offer examples of specific ways they could be used to target it.
This is not a future that I like or one that I think will happen, but it’s a way things could go.
Here’s the full quote, as part of predictions from Zuckerberg about AI, from Meta’s Q3 2023 earnings call (emphasis mine):
What I predict is… I do think that the fundamental technology around generative AI is going to transform meaningfully how people use each of the different apps that we build. For the feed apps, I think that over time, more of the content that people consume is going to be either generated or edited by AI. Some of it will be… creators will now have all these tools to make content more easily and more fun. And I think over time, maybe we’ll even get to the point where we can just generate content directly for people based on what they might be interested in.
Zuckerberg also shared an update on Threads.
