Generative AI News 2023-03-14
GPT-4, GrammarlyGO, ChatGPT for Slack, Midjourney V5... So. Much. News.
It’s only been a week and there’s already So. Much. News.
Big Newses
GPT-4 to Launch Next Week - “Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Germany, at a recent event titled “AI in Focus — Digital Kickoff” (via Heise). According to Braun, “We will introduce GPT-4 next week … we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities — for example videos.””
Midjourney V5 May Drop Any Time - They’re letting users rate images generated with V5.
ChatGPT for Slack - “ instant conversation summaries, research tools, and writing assistance directly in Slack”
Microsoft Announces Power Virtual Agents and AI Builder - “Simply point your bot to your company-specific resources, like your website or an internal knowledge base, and watch it start to answer questions in minutes”
GrammarlyGO - “If you are writing a paper or a column like this one, it will ask you a series of questions — and from the resulting answers, it will write the piece faster than you could type it.”
Experimental Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Generative Artificial Intelligence - Generative AI significantly closes the gap between good writers and weaker writers.
Researchers Reconstruct Images from Brain Activity Using Stable Diffusion
Little Newses
A Whole Bunch of Sites to Help You with Image Prompts -
has the rundown.Snapchat launches AI Chatbot - The kids will not be OK.
Robot Lawyer Get Sued - DoNotPay Inc, which launched "the world's first robot lawyer," is being sued for practicing law without a license. Their defense - “the ROBOT LAWYER isn’t a lawyer.”.
Halio Bring AI to the Edge - “Hailo announced the launch of its latest processor family to bring AI models to the edge and specifically, to power intelligent cameras.”
OpenAI Targets the Enterprise - The company is “working with enterprise clients to train its models in particular domains and has effectively reduced hallucinations.”
SupportGPT Beta - The company Forethought has a GPT powered customer support chatbot in beta.
Prompt Injection Attack - In the future you might get mugged by a chatbot.
Artists can Opt-Out of Generative AI - In which generative AI companies externalize the costs and put the onus on artists.
Logan.GPT on Twitter: "What are you hacking on with the new ChatGPT API this weekend? Show me cool stuff 🧵👇" / Twitter - OpenAI came out with low ChatGPT prices, and people got to work over the weekend trying to build stuff on it. Here’s a twitter thread of things they’re working on.
Blender can now use AI to create images and effects from text descriptions
YouTube’s new leader teases AI tools that can virtually swap outfits - “One of the most intriguing features that Mohan teased was a set of generative AI tools that could help video creators enhance their production value. For example, he said that YouTube was working on an AI tool that could let creators virtually change their outfits or backgrounds in their videos. He also said that YouTube was experimenting with an AI tool that could generate fantastical images based on text inputs.”
TikTok’s new face filters are alarmingly good - Can we get some of these filters for Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams??? I’d like to look alarmingly good on company meetings.
Lucidpic: AI Generated Stock Images of People
Meta’s LLaMA Model Has Been Leaked - “Meta’s LLaMA model was created to help researchers but leaked on 4chan a week after it was announced.”
Nice roundup. And thanks for the shout-out!