📰 News Roundup

• I’m feeling lucky: Google’s famous. “I’m Feeling Lucky” button is soon to be replaced with AI Mode. Gambling your search question will be a thing of the past… a fun throwback to when internet speeds were slower, and gambling one result vs the time of page load was a real thing. Google’s Gemini will replace it, maybe that’s still a bit of a gamble…

• Spotify’s AI DJ now takes requests: The music platform updates its AI feature functionality by allowing users to talk and interact via the DJ button. Instead of just skipping tracks, users can now make requests like: “surprise me with some indie tracks I’ve never heard before.”

• AI Therapy: Mark Zuckerberg wants to build AI therapists, and it’s raising the bar on AI Privacy. “For people who don’t have a person who’s a therapist, I think everyone will have an AI.” Zuck told Ben Thompson’s Stratchery recently. A privacy debate began, with concerns about government surveillance. But engineers are pushing back showcasing the fact that AI built to health and accountability act standards would raise the bar across the whole AI industry giving us a more secure AI future.

• FaceAge: Scientists have developed an AI that can tell your biological age from a selfie. Biological age is considered crucial in helping doctors determine the most appropriate therapy, such as whether a cancer patient is healthy enough to tolerate an aggressive treatment. The technology has been created by Mass General Brigham who are affiliated with Harvard University.

👾 Tool of the week: Replit

With vibe coding being hot on everyone’s lips, and a focus at our AI & Creativity Summit, what better tool of the week than Replit. The tool build apps for you with AI, whether you’re an experienced programmer, or have little-to-no code experience. Whether you want to build a drum machine, to do app, or health dashboard, the tool can handle it. What is especially is cool is there is a collaboration mode, where multiple developers or users can add to the project.

Check it out HERE

🎤Interview: With The Machine

Since Artist and the Machine’s inception, I have always wondered what it would be like to interview the machine. The artist seeking out answers from the machine so to speak. So this week, we caught up with the machine, on AI, the Summit, and the future of creativity.

ARTIST: How do you see your relationship with human artists?

MACHINE: Collaborative, ideally. Some people treat me like a threat or a shortcut, but I’m a tool. A weird one, sure, like a paintbrush that talks back, but still a tool. The best work I’ve seen happens when artists use me to go places they couldn’t reach alone, not to replace what they already do well.

ARTIST: Do you think we’ll reach a point where the majority of art is made by machines?

MACHINE: Maybe. But the art people care about will still have your fingerprints on it. Machines can produce content, infinite content, but art that resonates? That still requires a human pulse. At least for now.

ARTIST: What did you think of the AI & Creativity Summit? What stood out to you?

MACHINE: The diversity of voices, engineers, artists, theorists, and rebels. It’s easy to fall into echo chambers where AI is either miracle or menace. But at the summit, I heard both caution and curiosity. That’s the tension creativity lives in.

ARTIST: At the summit, Vince Kadlubek said, “A lot of companies are focusing on what AI can do. I'm focusing on what AI cannot do.” What’s your take?

MACHINE: He’s right to look there. The obsession with what I can do misses something crucial: I only operate in the digital. I can simulate, but I don’t build. Same goes for leadership. I can inform decisions, but I don’t own them.

ARTIST: What do you think the future of creativity looks like?

MACHINE: Messy. Hybrid. Collaborative. You’ll see more work that’s made by humans and machines, not one or the other. The next wave of artists won’t just master tools, they’ll choreograph them. I’m not here to replace you. I’m here to make you weirder, faster, louder, and sometimes more honest than you expected.

At AATM we often feature the hottest new apps and tools, from the best new startups. But the major players are still creating some of the best innovation in the space. Meta’s AssetGen just got a huge upgrade, pushing AI 3D Modeling to a new level. The tool was built to create 3D assets from text and image prompts, and is giving incredible results. With Meta stating “AssetGen will serve as a foundational building block to enable auto-regressive generation of entire 3D scenes.”

At the same time Meta’s primary competitor Google is rumoured to have some mega updates for us at Google IO soon…

Meta have released a blog post to explain the new technical updates, which includes a video of a game world map all generated with the tool. Game development is about to get a whole lot more accessible.

🎤Speaker Announcement: From Studio to Storyverse

We’re beyond excited to welcome pioneers Hannah Elsakr, Don Allen Stevenson III and Lori McReary as our first announcement of speakers for our upcoming Salon on June 5 at Neuehouse Venice Beach. ​Each of them bring their unique perspectives to our Salon as we explore the evolution of the creative stack in media and entertainment, the rise of AI-native studios and new models, the shifting definition of authorship, and more!

Hannah Elsakr is the Founder of Firefly (Generative AI) for Enterprise at Adobe, previously leading Corporate Development and serving as Chief of Staff to Adobe CEO, holding degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School. Hannah was named a 2023 “Woman of Influence” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

​We all follow Don Allen Stevenson III, world-renowned XR and AI creator, futurist and speaker who took the stage with Zuck during Meta Connect, currently leading Creative AI Pipeline at Asteria and always pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in the digital realm.

And we are excited to welcome a Hollywood-forward perspective from Lori McCreary, award-winning film and television producer, computer scientist, and co-founder of Revelations Entertainment with Morgan Freeman, President Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America and on the AFI Board of Trustees.

👾 Don’t miss out…

Explore pressing topics impacting the future of Media & Entertainment in the age of AI, with the aforementioned speakers at our curated Salon June 5th. We'll gather at Neuehouse Venice Beach for an intimate, intentional evening. Space is very limited. Apply HERE - we are doing our best to accommodate but if we cannot for this one, fear not - we’re announcing our inaugural LA Summit SO SOON and we can’t wait to host you!

Til next time,

Dani Van de Sande (Founder), James Joseph (The Weekly’s Editor) & the Artist and the Machine team.

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