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Meta announced Make-A-Video, a tool that generates short video clips from text descriptions—an unsettling, albeit inevitable, next step for the world of AI image generation.  Watch on YouTube Generative AI research is pushing creative expression forward by giving people tools to quickly and easily create new content. With just a few words or lines of text, Make-A-Video can bring imagination to life and create one-of-a-kind videos full of vivid colors, characters, and landscapes. The system can also create videos from images or take existing videos and create new ones that are similar. It's much harder to generate video than photos because beyond correctly generating each pixel, the system also has to predict how they'll change over time.  Research Paper Make-A-Video solves this by adding a layer of unsupervised learning that enables the system to understand motion in the physical world and apply it to traditional text-to-image generation. The example videos on the Make-A-Video

A Japanese start-up AERWINS Technologies debuted a flying hoverbike in the US at the Detroit Auto Show. Touted as the world's first flying bike, the XTURISMO is a hoverbike that can fly in the air and looks like something straight out of Star Wars. The XTURISMO hoverbike, which weighs more than 300 kg, can stay in the air for up to 40 minutes at a time reaching speeds of over 100 km per hour.  Watch on YouTube The hoverbike uses two large central rotors powered by a 228-hp gas-powered Kawasaki motorcycle performance engine for thrust. Along with the primary rotors, four smaller electric support rotors are also placed on the vehicle's outer edges for stability. Currently, the hoverbike's lightweight carbon fibre body weighs only 299 kg, and it's roughly 12 feet long. The hoverbike also features an automatic control unit designed to enhance safety. The XTURISMO hoverbike comes with a huge price tag of $777,000 (over Rs 6 crore). The hoverbike is already on sale in Japan.

A temple in Kerala, India has taken a revolutionary step and added a robot elephant to do religious rituals. This move towards events held in a cruelty-free manner. The elephant model donated by PETA is 11 ft (3.3m) tall, weighs 800 kg (1763.7 lbs) and is made of an iron frame.  Watch on YouTube Chained, saddled and decorated, elephants play an important part in temple festivals in Kerala - the state is home to about a fifth of the country's roughly 2,500 captive elephants. PETA said the that subjecting live elephants to extreme loud noises during festivals was "cruel" and urged all temples in the state to switch to lifelike mechanical elephants. Temple priest Rajkumar Namboothiri told that authorities were happy to receive the mechanical elephant.