Sunday Reads #11: Musk Buys Twitter, The Future on Metaverse, And What AI Can Do

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Every week I read countless stories on Medium some are good, some are not so good, some are just fluff, but some are great. Each Sunday I will share my greatest finds. The pearls of Medium. Fascinating, insightful, packed with value, and often overlooked stories.

Here’s a list of previous Sunday Reads posts:

Sunday Reads

This week on Sunday reads — We are going to look at what’s in store for Twitter with Elon Musk as its new owner. How much Mark Zuckerberg is spending on his dream of building the metaverse. Some cool use cases for Artificial Intelligence. And new developments in the space of AI-generated art.

1. Now Musk owns Twitter, what will he do with it? — Enrique Dans

The Twitter saga has finally been resolved. Elon bought the company after all. But this is probably just the beginning of the changes ahead for this social network. Here are some insights from Enrique on how the company might change in the near future:

Now Musk owns Twitter, what will he do with it?

2. Shutterstock Partners With OpenAI to Provide AI Content — Thomas Smith

AI is changing the landscape of media. And news like this gives us an insight into the future. AI-image generation has enabled the creation of new images at an unprecedented pace. The internet is being flooded with AI-created content. Read more on the terms of this partnership to get an idea of how AI-generated content will be used in the future:

Shutterstock Partners With OpenAI to Provide AI Content

3. I’m consuming 5500+ hours of Joe Rogan with the help of AI — Enias Cailliau

We live in an age when there is way more information available to us each and every day than we could possibly process in a whole lifetime. How to keep up? Can AI come to the rescue?

Read this article by Enias to find out how AI can potentially be used to filter out the irrelevant and leave you with just the information you are looking for:

I’m consuming 5000+ hours of Joe Rogan with the help of AI

4. Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Dream May Change the World. It May Also Kill His Company - Stephen Moore

What’s the next great innovation in communication technology after to come after smartphones? Metaverse — At least, that is what Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is betting on heavily. And he is really going all in. The technology does seem promising, but it’s not quite there yet. And there are challenges ahead.

Will Zuckerberg succeed? Will we be having meetings in the metaverse 5 to 10 years from now? Find out more about where we currently stand by reading the article below:

Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Dream May Change the World. It May Also Kill His Company

5. Google UniTune: Text-driven Image Editing - Salvatore Raieli

There are so many new developments in AI that is hard to keep up. You have probably seen AI-generated images and perhaps even videos. But did you know images can also be edited using AI?

Here is a great example from Google:
Google UniTune: Text-driven Image Editing

That’s it for the week. See you again next Sunday! :)

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