August 13, 2024
By: Todd Stabley
While Duke’s core strategy for classroom-based lecture recording continues to focus on Dell PCs managed by OIT’s AUDS group, there continue to be use cases where PCs aren’t the best choice, and so we have been continuing our efforts to...
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August 5, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
Gamma is a tool that leverages AI to help you create presentations, documents or websites. I got quite a bit of use out of their free credits to do some testing. I found their process easy and the content, both...
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August 2, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
At SIGGRAPH 2024, Autodesk unveiled new AI-powered tools aimed at enhancing creative workflows for artists and producers. Key announcements include the Flow Generative Scheduling for efficient production planning and new AI capabilities in Maya and Flame. These innovations are designed...
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July 22, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the challenges I had learning music theory at the University of Miami was my minimal keyboard skills preventing me from hearing the chords and scales that I was learning about. I...
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By: Stephen Toback
AI does such a great job using vision to read and solve complex math problems, surely it could convert sheet music to MIDI. Well, it can't and don't call me Shirley. ChatGPT One interesting thing about ChatGPT, is that each...
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July 21, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I've been thinking about and playing around with a lot of AI tools since the onslaught of this new overwhelming technology. So many tools like suno.com are mind blowing - creating fully formed music around a text prompt and other...
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June 26, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I spent some time with the new AI feature in Vyond Animation. We've been using Vyond for several years now as our primary animation tool for course development. It's very similar to Pow Toons and other online software tools. I...
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June 5, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I downloaded the beta of Photoshop so I could test their new Firefly 3 engine. I gave it this prompt, "Please create a very detailed image in the style of Disney animation from the 1940s of a brave hero running...
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May 7, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I gave Tengr a try and while I was really liking its interface, ultimately, it didn't perform as expected. You get 100 drawings a day for free so worth playing around with a bit more.
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