it's not required for you to use depth maps to fix hands in ControlNet anymore, it can be done with pose2img in ControlNet 1.1

Harmony-Rhythm Disentanglement audio remixer plugin
Sadly, only for macOS

“Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior”
The paper aims to introduce a new approach to creating believable proxies of human behavior that can be used in various interactive applications such as immersive environments and prototyping tools . The authors propose a generative agent that can imitate human actions and interactions in a virtual environment . These agents can form opinions, socialize, and plan activities , making them useful for various applications such as immersive environments and prototyping tools . The evaluation shows that the generative agents produce believable individual and emergent social behaviors, such as forming relationships and coordinating group activities.

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BabyAGI as a plugin for chatGPT.

BabyAGI is an open-source platform that draws inspiration from the cognitive development of human infants to facilitate research in various fields, including reinforcement learning, language learning, and cognitive development. It is a simplified AI-powered task management system that leverages OpenAI and Pinecone APIs to create, prioritize, and execute tasks.

A follower provided some valuable reading material.

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein has written a blog post titled “The hot mess theory of AI misalignment: More intelligent agents behave less coherently” . In this post, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein argues that misalignment risk is not about expecting a system to “inflexibly” or “monomanically” pursuing a simple objective but about expecting systems to pursue objectives at all. The objectives don’t need to be simple or easy to understand.

The AI texture/sprite generator package for Unity

OpenAI released a implementation of Consistency Models

Stability AI released their language model

This trailer was fully generated by AI using text2video tool GEN2 from RunwayML, and sound was obtained from soundraw

Here's a quick overview of what's coming in the future

“AI gravedigging” is coming, like it or not. Boi himself, Timbaland, just squeezed Notorious B.I.G.’s rotten balls so hard, AI voice has replicated his pain in broken artificial timbre.

Isn’t it beautiful? Artists don’t need to spend their valuable time in boring studio recording vocals anymore, when they can do an extra concert. Just next time you plan to die like Juice WRLD or Lil Peep, keep in mind, that labels and producers that own the copyrights, don’t give a fuck about your existence, they will milk the shit out of you being alive or dead.

Speaking of ethical AI in music industry, Korean tech startup Supertone AI offers Voice Synthesis/Conversion and claims that they "do not monetize on a voice without the permission of its rightful owner, under any circumstances". It's hard to tell how their technologies are superior to opensource not-so-ethical alternatives available right now, because they ask for business proposals only and minimum 3 months of production time.

Good news: they released a 3-knob VST plugin GOYO (FREE, but requires internet connection) for real time voice separation. Useful for any purposes, regardless of your ethical views. De-Noise. De-Reverb. De-Voice. De-Eznuts.