September 4, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I've tested a lot of these auto video creators in the last few months. Revid.ai just works. There is a free tier but because I used the best model for AI, I had to pay the introductory $39/month fee to...
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September 2, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
Playground.com allows you to select a design from their library or upload a design and then transform the text and images to your liking. I selected one of their logos to test first. I gave it the prompt: "Change the...
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August 21, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
Flux from Blackforest Labs has been called the "Stable Diffusion Killer" and lauded much praise. In my standard image testing, meh. Prompt: The Duke Blue Devil mascot holding a sign that says, "Welcome Class Of 2028!" in front of the...
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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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