The Rundown Studio team spent the week looking at corporate comms workflows and breaking outcomes into tasks to see how AI can enhance our productivity without compromising on quality and our own critical thinking. It comes down in large part to upping our prompting game and starting a coding 101 journey (gulp). I’d encourage everyone reading this to spend 10 minutes a day improving prompting ideas for work or personal.

One fun thing I did this week

Hey Gen Photo to Video Test. Avatar IV. I uploaded a photo, instructed a few movements I wanted, and added a sentence. Here’s what I got. Do not freak out … I only sound Australian because I have not subscribed to the paid version but it catches the mild hues of my voice. Aussie Aussie Aussie. Oy Oy Oy.

Big AI Health News

A cure for HIV could be a step closer after researchers found a new way to force the virus out of hiding inside human cells.

The virus’s ability to conceal itself inside certain white blood cells has been one of the main challenges for scientists looking for a cure. It means there is a reservoir of the HIV in the body, capable of reactivation, that neither the immune system nor drugs can tackle. Now researchers from the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne, have demonstrated a way to make the virus visible, paving the way to fully clear it from the body - The Guardian

Radar

AI Film Festival Showcases Creative Revolution: The Runway festival received approximately 6,000 submissions this year, compared to just 300 in its inaugural 2023 event, demonstrating explosive growth in AI filmmaking. Jacob Alder's "Total Pixel Space" won the top award, exploring the vast possibilities of digital imagery through mathematical calculations and AI-generated visuals.

The Rundown Studio Team is working on creative workflows and prompts with AI tools for audio, video, and photo. Stay tuned for a Creatives Masterclass we are working on with Tech Cabal in July. We want creatives in Africa to be across the top tools, prompts and ideas so we can tell our stories. No Dey AI Carry Last.

Jacob Alder's "Total Pixel Space"

Orange Spearheads AI Language Accessibility for Africa: Orange is leading an initiative to expand AI accessibility across African languages, addressing the critical gap in AI development for the continent's diverse linguistic landscape. Yebo. We need to make sure that AI technologies can serve African communities in local languages.

Global AI Market Set for Unprecedented $4.8 Trillion Expansion: A UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report forecasts the global AI market will surge from $189 billion in 2023 to $4.8 trillion by 2033, representing a remarkable 25-fold increase.

Weekend Homework For Me

• Learning How to Use VS Code, Copilot

• Coursera : Python for Everyone (Gulp)

• Improve 5k Run Time

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