Dreamlike videos, mimicked voices and instant essays: 2023 will be a big year for AI, and it can already create almost anything

Generative artificial intelligence is a technology that uses computer algorithms to create new things like text, images, audio and video. Videos created by Google's Imagen AI 'Coffee pouring into a cup' 'Campfire at night in a snowy forest with starry sky in the background' Jeff Dean from Google Research wrote earlier this month that one of the company's research challenges was creating systems which "produce high resolution, high quality, temporally consistent videos with a high level of controllability". Tap or click to play these Google AudioLM examples Voice continuation example 1: Voice continuation example 2: AudioLM's creators said the program could also "learn to generate coherent piano music continuations" despite only being trained on piano audio and not any musical notation. Piano continuation example 1: Piano continuation example 2: Microsoft's VALL-E research project can also synthesise speech while maintaining "the speaker's emotion and acoustic environment", its creators say. AI can turn text prompts into music Announced only this week, Google's MusicLM system generates "high-fidelity music from text descriptions", according to its creators.