Watch Battalion—My First Ever 5-Minute Gen AI Short Film. I had to upload it in two parts. This is part 1; part 2 is in the comments. I created this over a few weeks using 100% image-to-video and text-to-video Generative AI. While not perfect, the tools advance daily, even during production, helping to produce incredible results. This is my most in-depth and longest Gen AI narrative film project. It was created by one person. Watch the full-length 4K pro res here: youtu.be/5NZubOOeeV0?si=vv65… Various tools helped me bring it to life, and it wouldn't have been possible without the power of AI. The story chronicles the 320th Barrage Balloon Batallion, the only unit to storm the beach during D-Day composed entirely of African American soldiers. They provided critical protection to the ships and soldiers below them from attacks by enemy aircraft. AI tools used: @Kling_ai @runwayml @LumaLabsAI @Hailuo_AI @midjourney @Magnific_AI @elevenlabs @OpenAI @StabilityAI @udiomusic @FilmConvert @Adobe Premiere Pro @Photoshop @grok Comfyui, Live Portrait

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In 2006, I was 1 of 4 designers on Google Search. For 20 years, every search engine has copied Google. Now ChatGPT, Bard Claude look like Google's offspring - "better” search engines. But last week signaled we're on the brink of a design revolution. ChatGPT unveiled incredible new features. These could give us the opportunity to completely shift how we interface with AI. Here's the full story: ––– When I was a designer on Google Search, all major search engines looked the same – Google, Yahoo, MSN Bing. Google was the market leader with a heavily optimized UI that supported billions of dollars in ad revenue. Naturally, it became THE way to show search results. Its success made it illogical for Google to consider big UI changes. And any changes they did make were just mirrored by everyone else. So 20 years later, we’ve only seen incremental changes to search engine UIs. ––– Today, we have consumer-ready LLMs (Large Language Models) freshly in our hands. As consumer products, these are in their infancy. We’re very early in understanding their capabilities and defining how people interact with them. These are uncharted waters. And yet ChatGPT, Bard, Claude etc. all chose a text-based input box — just like Google’s search box — as the core interface. Why? The input box is simple, versatile, and familiar. - It’s simple to understand → you type your questions into the box. - It’s versatile → the box can handle all sorts of questions/queries. - The paradigm is super familiar → people immediately know how to use it. Because of this, LLMs have essentially become “a better Google.” ––– But last week’s ChatGPT announcements thrust open the doors to new possibilities. ChatGPT is now multi-modal — it can see, hear, and speak. These are the recent announcements from @OpenAI : Voice: twitter.com/OpenAI/status/17… Photos: twitter.com/OpenAI/status/17… The example of ChatGPT explaining how to lower a bike seat was incredible. But, it could be so much better! The video showed you'll have to post multiple new photos to keep adding new information and to progress the conversation. It was still a linear conversation centered around the text box. But what if we rethought the interface to center around the image? What if ChatGPT supported both images AND voice simultaneously? Could we end up with a more immersive experience? ––– How else could interacting with LLMs mimic IRL conversations? Could we (or the AI) pinch to zoom or rotate the image? Could we interact in real time with video? What new possibilities open up with context being preserved over time? ––– There is so much energy and excitement around what AI can do. But we are limiting the potential by assuming the conversation box is the best interface. Right now, designers have the chance to create truly novel interactions and bust through the 20 year old search UI paradigm. The ideas above are just to illustrate some potential options. But they are also intended to spark a flame. Now is the opportunity to be creative and explore divergent UIs. What are the craziest, coolest, most creative UI ideas we can unleash? LFG 🚀

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.@gsu_cmii added two new additions to its esteemed Artists-in-Residence program! We're thrilled to have media entrepreneur @imarioliver and mixed reality and installation artist @krispatl in our #GSUArtSci community! Read more: t.gsu.edu/3PkJrPe

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