After successfully creating a few selfie avatar images in the first 30 minutes, in this post, I move on to test Synthesia video creation in various scenes using my likeness and a stock avatar. App: Synthesia.io🕒 Time: 60 Minutes 📂 Topic: Selfie and Stock Avatar Video What is Synthesia.io? Synthesia is an AI video and image creation platform that allows users to generate professional-looking videos using AI avatars and voiceovers. With just a few clicks, you can turn text into polished images and videos—featuring yourself or others—with zero production skills required. Quick Start: Simply uploaded five different headshots—and started creating videos with a few clever prompts. 💡 The videos below are 100% AI-generated using text prompts and one video uses a presentation template. No edits. No enhancements. These are very rough as I was trying out a wide range of prompt scenarios. Hand gestures are very unnatural, and I will need to smile more on refined head shots to better show my upper lip. Video 1: My avatar in blue suit, introducing services in an office (13 sec.) https://share.synthesia.io/e9f3543b-1fa2-4001-a2e8-c53bffb8ab89 Video 2: My avatar as a keynote speaking at an event with a doppelganger (not by design) (8 sec.) https://share.synthesia.io/f11b6413-94cc-4c6c-99d1-bff27533b542 Video 3: My avatar in blue suit, introducing services in an office version 2 (12 sec.) https://share.synthesia.io/128a207a-8f87-48f8-82df-d467ea7fe07a Video 4: Stock presentation/avatar with company logo. (1 min. 35 sec.). This video used an avatar available in their library. They have several to choose from in the event you don’t want to use your likeness. https://share.synthesia.io/7340c4d6-21d5-4416-b2ba-c3803498ac2b

A Poem for the AI Geeks at Heart... Under the hum of servers, the future breathes— Data flows like blood through veins of glass. Enterprises dream in code now, Algorithms make the calls we once made in instinct. Dashboards are the new stained glass, KPIs our commandments. We pray to uptime, Measure faith in latency. Yet beneath all logic, A human pulse still beats. Hope hides in the variable names, Doubt lingers in the syntax. We forecast everything but meaning, Predict demand, not purpose. Automation scales faster than ethics, Yet we still deploy—again and again. Neural networks whisper strategy, APIs negotiate in silence. But leadership lives between the data points— In judgment, trust, and risk. The cloud remembers every keystroke, Every decision archived in binary. Still, the question persists: Who trains whom? The human or the machine? When the final system sleeps, And the network falls quiet, A voice remains—Not of silicon, but of intention. “Did we build it right?” And somewhere, deep in the circuitry, The answer returns: “You built what you believed.”

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They say the first hundred are the hardest. They’re also the most important — because they shape the culture of everything that follows. AI Bits & Pieces isn’t just another AI group. It’s a living experiment in curiosity — where each post, prompt, and idea adds a new “bit” that helps us all build and experience AI in a smarter way. From quick insights to deep dives, we’ve built a rhythm here: Short posts. Big ideas. Always human. 🚀 What’s Next Now that we’ve hit 100, we’re not chasing size — we’re building signal. Expect: • More classroom lessons • New contributor voices • Member spotlights and collabs • And a few surprises we’ve been saving for this exact moment 💡 The Takeaway Growth isn’t about numbers — it’s about momentum. And right now, we’ve got it. ✍️ Written by Michael Wacht 👉 Founder of AI Bits & Pieces — exploring how small ideas create big shifts in AI + people.

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