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title: "ElevenLabs Scores Your Videos"
issue: 80
description: "Upload a video, and ElevenLabs writes the music and adds the sound effects for you, as Instant Soundtracks arrives in ElevenCreative."
date: 2026-10-16
canonical: "https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/080/"
agent_json: "https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/080.json"
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## 🌲 Agent Evergreen Build Log

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## 🗞️ AI News of The Week: ElevenLabs Launches Instant Soundtracks

Upload a video, and ElevenLabs writes the music and adds the sound effects for you.

**What:**
ElevenLabs added Instant Soundtracks to ElevenCreative. The model scores your video with original music. Then it watches the footage for moments that need a sound effect, like a whoosh when a logo appears, and places each effect at the right timestamp.

- Sound effects land on their own layer, so you can adjust, swap, or remove them without starting over.
- The music can shift mood between scenes, from upbeat to acoustic guitar, for example.
- You can use your video's existing audio as a reference, so the new score matches its style and tempo.

👉 [Read more about ElevenLabs Soundtracks](https://elevenlabs.io/blog/introducing-instant-soundtracks)

## 🧠 AI Term of The Week: Deterministic

**Definition:**
A deterministic system gives you the same output every time you give it the same input.

**Explain Like I'm 5:**
It's like a vending machine. Press A1 today and you get chips. Press A1 tomorrow and you get chips again.

**Real examples:**
- Code-based video tools like HyperFrames and Remotion turn the same code into the same video, frame for frame, every time you render it.

**Why it matters now:**
- When an AI agent writes your video as code, you can change one headline and re-render. Everything else stays exactly the same.

## 💬 Quote of the Week

> "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
> — John Lennon

## 🧰 AI Tool of The Week: HyperFrames Studio

![HyperFrames Studio home screen with a "Make something." prompt box for describing a video, a "Reference any video" feature card, and a "Get inspired" gallery of templates](/assets/media/2026/10/issue-080-2.png)

**What is HyperFrames Studio:**
HyperFrames Studio is HeyGen's open-source video editor built for AI agents, for creators who want to make videos by describing them to tools like Claude Code or Codex.

**What it does:**
- User interface makes it easier to work with existing HyperFrames projects.
- Turns HTML, CSS, images, and animations into MP4 videos.
- Lets your AI coding agent plan, build, preview, and render a video from a prompt.
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and other agents that support skills.

👉 [Explore HyperFrames Studio](https://www.hyperframes.dev/studio)

## 🛠 AI Tutorial Of The Week: OpenAI Dots: How To Set Up Your Personal AI Agent

**Description:**
Learn to set up OpenAI Dots, the always-on personal AI agent in ChatGPT.

**🤖 What You'll Learn**
- Check which ChatGPT plans include Dots, and update ChatGPT if your Dot is missing.
- Connect Gmail, Calendar, and Drive, and choose a cloud computer or your local Mac.
- Customize your Dot's character and name, then call it from the ChatGPT iPhone app.
- Add your Dot to a Slack workspace and channels.

📺 [Watch Tutorial on YouTube](https://youtu.be/eVAXpgAaVFs)

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