AI IS EXPLODING ALL AROUND US

It's the Oklahoma Land Rush.  Everyone, that is everyone, is rushing forward to develop AI with or for their existing operations and applications.  Not only chatGPT for text and midJourney for graphics, but Bing for Microsoft and Bard for Google.  Check them out with a Google search and you'll see.

Also do a search for AI on YouTube and it will blow your mind.  There are dozens if not hundreds of YouTube videos on how AI works, it's current and future effects on the world and humanity, and (wait for it now), promotions, rollouts and tutorials on all the new AI products that are coming on the market, and how they work in tandem with other AI projects.

ThinkTech is interested in all these things, not only how AI text can help us, how midJourney can generate interesting graphics for us, but also making AI movies, no surprise.  We use animation programs to make our various animated videos (which we use for promotional videos, conversations and commentaries), but now, with the help of Eleven Labs and D-ID in tandem we can create amazing AI videos with AI text to AI voice to AI Avatars and AI Videos.

These programs and techniques are improving every day, and become more appealing to anyone who wants to create AI productions.  Further, the prices they some of them charge seem to be going down.  Others like chatGPT remain free.  In any event, what we have here is an explosion of technology, an explosion of products, and an explosion of functionality and implications for the future.

We'll be watching and thinking about all this because we know these AI technologies and products will be of great use to us and our viewers.  You should likewise be watching and looking for the best and most powerful of these technologies and products every day.  Start with Google searches, and don't forget to search on YouTube, which is an expanding treasure trove on the subject.

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