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Meta introduces AudioCraft AI for text-to-music
Plus: AI for predicting cardiovascular disease
Wesley McKnight
August 04, 2023
Happy Friday! Here is what we got for you today:
🎹 Meta introduces AudioCraft AI for text-to-music
❤️ AI for predicting cardiovascular disease
📦 Amazon says every team is focused on AI
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🎵 Today we’re sharing details about AudioCraft, a family of generative AI models that lets you easily generate high-quality audio and music from text.
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1:54 PM • Aug 2, 2023
Artificial Intelligence continues to amplify the song of the future as Meta introduces AudioCraft, a suite of generative AI models designed to create high-quality, realistic music from mere text prompts.
Now, you can essentially type your way to a new tune. Here are the details:
Key Points:
Meta's AudioCraft incorporates three key generative AI models: MusicGen, AudioGen, and EnCodec. While MusicGen and AudioGen turn text into music and specific audio effects, EnCodec uses neural networks to enhance audio quality.
Now open for exploration on HuggingFace, MusicGen allows you to describe the music you want to hear from any era, yielding compositions based on your text prompts.
Meta has made all three models open-source, allowing researchers and practitioners to use weights and code to train other models.
Anticipating the impact, Meta hints at AudioCraft's potential to evolve as a new standard instrument, drawing a parallel to the game-changing rise of synthesizers.
It appears so, as cutting-edge AI technology is set to reshape how we detect and prevent life-threatening diseases. A new artificial intelligence model developed by a team at Edith Cowan University can predict a patient’s risk of developing serious cardiovascular conditions, such as heart disease, in a fraction of the time it would take an expert.
Key Points:
AI vs. Cardiovascular Diseases: Cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of death globally, could soon be predicted more effectively and efficiently with the help of AI. A newly developed AI can analyze X-rays to detect "abdominal aortic calcification" (AAC), an early warning sign of heart disease.
Faster and Accurate Analysis: The AI has shown an impressive ability to match human specialist accuracy in analyzing AAC, scoring similarly around 80% of the time. Moreover, it can analyze 60,000 images a day compared to a human's potential 500.
Preventive Measures: With this technology, large-scale screening could become a reality, enabling at-risk people to implement lifestyle changes early on, fostering a healthier future.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed that every single business under the Amazon umbrella is actively engaged in multiple generative AI initiatives.
Key Points:
Every facet of Amazon, from AWS to retail, is actively pursuing generative AI initiatives to improve efficiency, streamline operations, and enhance customer experiences.
Amazon may unveil generative AI-enhanced improvements for Alexa at their devices event on September 20th, based on their ongoing work with an improved large language model (LLM).
It's not just Amazon - other tech giants like Apple, Alphabet, and Meta are also escalating their AI endeavors, embedding the technology into virtually every product and service, and calling it the next big evolution in their offerings.
Quick Hits
Helicity.ai is a new AI-powered game engine that allows you to create and publish games in minutes.
ChatGPT update adds contextual questions and answers, similar to Microsoft's Bing Chat.
Baidu partners with Great Wall Motors and ECARX to integrate its ERNIE large language model into cars.
Tools of the Week
Funding Friday
It’s another Friday, and money has not stopped flowing into AI so let’s look at some of the big hitters from this week.
Akkio got $15 million series A to deliver AI to businesses
Inworls AI got $50 million to build an AI character creation platform
Jericho Security got $3 million pre-seed round to build AI tool to stop phishing attacks
Language I/O got $8 million series A to provide AI translation platform
