Welcome back to AI for 30! After a few weeks of travel for business and pleasure, I'm back in the saddle, trying new AI tools and delivering insights and news directly to your inbox.

This week’s agenda:

• Spotlighted tool - Synthesia, turns text to video and text to audio/video avatars!

• Educational AI Highlight - MIT Micromasters discussion on AI’s transformative role in the Supply Chain.

• GPT Feature you should be using (feels like a personal assistant)

• AI News Highlights: The top AI news stories from the past week.

For our newcomers: Welcome aboard! Join us weekly as we explore innovative AI tools and technologies reshaping professional landscapes.

Easy Guide: Make Videos with Synthesia

Want to make cool videos without a camera or actors? Try Synthesia! You have an army for voice actors, covering audio and video…. You can even clone your voice if you upload your content. Check out the first video I generated below (it took 2 minutes to make)

1. Sign Up Here 

Go to Synthesia's website, sign up, and log in. They have a free trial too.

2. Pick an Avatar

Choose a digital person (avatar) to be in your video. There are lots to pick from.

3. Write What They Say

Type out what you want your avatar to say in the video. Keep it short and sweet.

4. Make It Pretty

Add some flair! Choose a background or add pictures to make your video look excellent.

5. Create Your Video

Hit the "Generate Video" button and wait a bit. Synthesia will make your video come to life.

6. Check It Out

Watch your video. If you want to change something, you can!

7. Share or Download

When you love your video, you can download it or share it online.

Potential use cases I see:

• Product Training

• New employee onboarding

• Press releases

• Product demonstrations

• Training or how-to videos

The transformative role of AI in Supply chain management

With Walmart’s VP of Supply Chain Strategy

The MIT Micromasters, online series presentation, focused on the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing supply chain management, from data analytics to delivery optimization, highlighting the significance of AI in streamlining operations and improving decision-making processes within the supply chain.

Key points include:

• AI's potential to revolutionize supply chain management by automating routine tasks, enhancing decision-making, and improving efficiency.

• Integrating ethical considerations and human oversight in deploying AI technologies ensures they align with organizational values and goals.

• The role of AI in augmenting human skills emphasizes the need for supply chain professionals to possess AI literacy, critical thinking, effective communication, and a commitment to lifelong learning.

• Challenges in AI implementation include managing complexity, ensuring ethical use, maintaining transparency, and needing continuous monitoring and adaptation.

• Future directions for AI in supply chain management, focusing on its potential to further optimize inventory management, demand forecasting, supplier relationships, and customer experience.

Talk to ChatGPT - It talks back!

Although I talk to Alexa and Siri regularly to accomplish simple tasks I had yet to try GPT's superior talk-to-text try AI functionality. That changed this week! It’s great!!

To activate the GPT listening feature, click on the headphone icon, which will be highlighted. This will immediately transition GPT to the listening mode.

Once you’ve pressed the headphone icon, you can start talking while GPT listens and replies to you once you’ve finished talking.

Your GPT assistant - give it a try!

Weekly AI Highlights

Here are the top seven AI news stories over the past week that you can include in your newsletter:

1. OverflowAPI and Venus Williams’ Palazzo Platform: Stack Overflow is launching OverflowAPI, giving AI companies access to its knowledge base, with Venus Williams bringing her interior design skills to Palazzo, a new generative AI-powered platform. {Source}

2. Meta’s AI Chips Collaboration in Asia: Mark Zuckerberg seeks to expand Meta's cooperation with Samsung Electronics on AI chips as part of his tour in Asian countries. {Source}

3. Anthropic’s Constitutional AI and AI2’s New Fund: Anthropic introduces "constitutional AI" for imbuing AI systems with values, and the Allen Institute for AI Research (AI2) Incubator increases its fund size to $30 million to support AI startups. {Source}

4. EU’s Generative AI Regulation: The European Parliament backed amendments to the bloc’s draft AI legislation, setting safety checks and data governance measures for foundational models underlying generative AI technologies. {Source}

5. Walmart’s Generative AI for Shoppers: Walmart unveils new generative AI-powered capabilities to enhance shopping experiences for customers and associates. {Source}

6. Kin.art’s Artist Protection Tool: A new tool, Kin.art, offers a defense mechanism against AI scraping for artists, using image segmentation and label fuzzing to protect artists' portfolios. {Source}

7. Midjourney V6 and Meta’s AI Image Generator: Midjourney released an alpha test of its new version, Midjourney V6. At the same time, Meta launched "Imagine with Meta," an AI-powered image generator that creates high-resolution images from text prompts. {Source}