ESPN Testing Generative AI Avatar FACTS

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• ESPN Testing Generative AI Avatar FACTS

• Coca-Cola recreated its famous Ad using AI

• Study finds AI video generators don't grasp basic physics

• Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3 for scientific use

Generative AI
👋 ESPN Testing Generative AI Avatar FACTS

ESPN has announced an AI avatar called FACTS to help foster engagement and provide insights into complex sports analytics. The avatar will be a part of Saturday's college football show SEC Nation.

Insights for you:

• FACTS uses NVIDIA's ACE, an Azure OpenAI integration for language processing, and ElevenLabs for its text-to-speech capabilities.

• ESPN has clarified that it isn't meant to replace journalists or other talent.

• In addition to FACTS, the sports network is using generative AI to produce text game recap stories of select sporting events, which will appear on ESPN digital platforms.

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Coca-cola
🎄 Coca-Cola recreated its famous Ad using AI

Coca-Cola has recreated its well-known 1995 "Holidays Are Coming" commercial using artificial intelligence. The company worked with three AI studios to create different versions of the classic advertisement.

Insights for you:

• Coca-Cola has reimagined its classic 1995 Christmas commercial "Holidays Are Coming" using generative AI models such as Leonardo, Luma, Runway, and Kling.

• The AI-produced commercials feature the likenesses of the original actors, who gave their permission for the use of their images in one of the videos.

• While AI production allowed for significant savings in time and cost compared to traditional methods, some critics argue that the commercial appears cheap and occasionally odd in comparison to the original.

AI Research
🚗 Study finds AI video generators don't grasp basic physics

A new survey by Bytedance Research and Tsinghua University researchers shows that AI video models like OpenAI's Sora can create impressive visuals but fail to understand the physical laws governing them.

Insights for you:

• Researchers have found that current video AI models, such as OpenAI's Sora, can generate impressive images but lack understanding of the underlying physical laws.

• The models were tested in three scenarios, revealing that they do not learn universal rules but instead rely on superficial features from the training data, leading to failure in unfamiliar situations.

• The researchers stress that simply upscaling the models is insufficient for discovering fundamental physical laws, and tempering expectations for video models like Sora, which some AI labs are trying to develop into real-world models.

Google
🧪 Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3 for scientific use

Google DeepMind and its AI medicine spin-off Isomorphic Labs have introduced AlphaFold 3, the latest version of their protein prediction model. To build on AlphaFold 3’s potential for drug design, Isomorphic Labs is already collaborating with pharmaceutical companies to apply it to real-world drug design challenges.

Insights for you:

• Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaFold 3, a new AI system for predicting protein structures that can model complex interactions between proteins, DNA, RNA, and ligands for the first time.

• It outperforms previous methods by 50% in predicting protein-ligand interactions, accelerating drug development.

• For non-commercial research, DeepMind makes most of the AlphaFold 3’s features available for free through the AlphaFold Server.