Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home from Monday, March 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

New Bots to make video from Texts, Fending off the bots from biting your style, falling in

love with the bots.

Brief sojourn into the streaming wars where the ad supported experiments seem to be working

and pricing power is a thing but back to the

bots and the startup that says it's about to introduce humanoid bots real

definitional robots here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Let's just get right into the AI beat. Runway, which helped create stable diffusion,

has announced its Gen 2 system to generate three second

snippets of video from prompt words. It's available right now via a wait list, quoting

Bloomberg. Artificial Intelligence has made remarkable progress with still images.

For months, services like Dolly and Stable Diffusion have been creating beautiful arresting and sometimes

unsettling pictures.

Now a startup called Runway AI is taking the next step.

AI generated video. On Monday New York-based Runway announced the availability of

its Gen 2 system which generates short snippets of video from a few words of user prompts.

Users can type in a description of what they want to see, for example, a cat walking in the rain,

and it will generate a roughly three second video clip showing just that or something close

Alternatively users can upload an image as a reference point for the system as well as a prompt

The product isn't available to everyone. Runway, which makes

AI-based film and editing tools announce the availability of its Gen 2 AI system

via a waitlist. People can sign up for access to it on a private discord channel that the company

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