The big story this week:

Microsoft’s VASA-1: Generating videos from one photo and one audio clip.

Forget profile pictures on Linkedin and your resumes, soon AI will be able to let you introduce yourself, your business and your services with just a short clip and a photo. Sounds impressive no? Microsoft’s VASA-1 now lets you make a video with just one photo and an audio track. While the result aren’t quite perfect yet, they are impressive.

What about the risks? If all it takes is a photo and an audio clip, technically we can get anyone to endorse anything. The question is how will we mitigate the risks that technologies like these will be used to to mislead and deceive people? As this technology improves rapidly, what is the likelihood that mitigating measures will be able to keep pace with the development of this technology? These are questions that we hope to find answers to, soon.

In the meantime, check out the following video for a useful summary:

Curated headlines

1. Majority of business leaders are already using Generative AI at work, according to a survey by INSEAD. Additionally, most leaders were not too concerned about job displacement and loss of human connection.

2. If your business relies on creativity or significant human labour, Generative AI may commoditise or disrupt your business, which raises question on what kind of novel ways you will rely on to deliver value to your customers.

3. AI continues to break records and surpass humans in even more tasks. What will tomorrow’s developments mean for the gap between humans and AI? Check out the full report here.

Thanks for reading!

Hardesh.