Welcome to Hollywood AI, the weekly newsletter covering the latest AI developments in the entertainment industry.

• 🤝 An AI-Enhanced Social Media App Is Born

• 🎮 The GenAI Gaming Revolution

• 🍿 AI Kernels

Birth of a New AI-Enhanced Social App

This was the announcement for Naval’s new app Airchat, a new social media app that is like a combo of TikTok and Twitter plus AI art.

It’s fully async conos with automatic language translation, AI art, and more. It’s currently on limited access right now, but it looks pretty slick!

“It has the sleekest AI translation experience and art generations,” wrote AI investor and builder Ben Tossell.

“I've had multi-day multi-party nuanced conversations on AirChat, and it feels really different as a format from anything else out there,” wrote Replit founder Amjad Masad. “It unlocks something new.”

“AirChat is the best thing to happen to French people since sliced baguette,” wrote founder Alex Masmej. “France has many educated critical thinkers who suck at English— effectively blocked from participating in the global intellectual discourse about tech, climate or our future. RIP language barriers.”

There’s been some pretty crazy use cases so far.

• Automatic language translation via AI (video)

• A voice-to-image AI contest (video)

• Documenting an oral history of a company (tweet)

Looks amazing, hope to get access soon!! Will keep you updated.

The Generative AI Gaming Revolution

Generative AI is here. And it’s hitting gaming hard!

“There hasn’t been a technology this revolutionary for gaming since real-time 3D,” wrote venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). “Artists are now creating high-quality images in a matter of hours that would otherwise take weeks to generate by hand.”

In their newest report on generative AI in gaming, a16z listed out a few major predictions for the next few years. While Hollywood and gaming are different, there are many major parallels.

Here’s a few of a16z’s major predictions:

1. Learning how to use Generative AI effectively will become a marketable skill. “As content becomes abundant, we believe it’s the artists who knows how to work most collaboratively and effectively with the AI tools who will be in the most short supply.” Same with the movie biz or any other field of entertainment. Supply and demand!

2. The price of content will drop dramatically, going effectively to zero in some cases. One developer told a16z that their time to generate concept art for a single image dropped from 3 weeks to a single hour. Artists won’t be replaced, but they will work much faster. “It’s the ‘auto-complete’ for game creation. Using generative AI tools will make it much easier and more accessible to build games. Same with movies, TV shows, etc.

3. A rise in AI-assisted “micro game studios”. a16z believes we will start to see more viable commercial games produced by tiny studios of 1 or 2 employees. This will result in an increase in the number of games released each year. The same could be said about movies, TV, animations, YouTube, etc.

As my friend Jordan Mix says, “we’re all learning how to talk to robots!”

It’s true. No matter what part of the entertainment biz you’re in, it’s time to start mastering AI tools.

AI Kernels

Here’s a round-up of interesting news and stories that caught our attention this week:

Train a chatbot on your YouTube. Got a YouTube? Train a chatbot on all of your videos and get people chatting with you AI self. → Emmet Halm

Storyboard with AI. Learn how creators are using AI image tools like Midjourney for storyboarding. → The Artificially Intelligent Creator

Spotify may be adding AI-host-read ads. As a podcaster, I hate reading out ads and intros. This could be quite cool. → TechCrunch

AI-Themed Content of the Week

Every week, we’ll hit you with a piece of content centered around AI. It might be a book, movie, whatever.

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