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The breakdown
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You can now share photos and talk to ChatGPT.
Getty will let you make AI photos.
Amazon invests in Anthropic.
Is AI taking over your 9-to-5?
Some cool AI tools to try out.
Plus, a few recommendations and AI tool reviews.
Source: Stable Diffusion. Prompt: A photo-realistic image of someone stepping through a magic portal that connects two worlds.
AI news
Chatting with ChatGPT
Following last week’s quality-of-life improvements for Dall-E, OpenAI has added a fresh coat of paint to ChatGPT.
The AI company is rolling out an update that will let users create prompts by speaking to ChatGPT, or by simply uploading a picture. To use your voice, you just tap a button and state your request. Image support is a little more interesting, as you can ask the chatbot questions about a picture, and even dig into details across multiple images.
OpenAI is definitely playing catch up with Google’s Bard here, but it’s great to see voice and image prompts become table stakes in the world of generative AI bots.
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em
Getty Images, the photo licensing operator you know from all those watermarked images, is jumping into the AI game.
The company has partnered with Nvidia to launch Generative AI by Getty Images (GAIGI). As the poorly-thought-out name suggests, it’s an AI-powered image generation tool trained solely on Getty’s enormous library of photos. And the most interesting part? Getty says it’ll pay photographers if their content was used to inform an AI image.
It sounds like a compelling service - particularly if GAIGI can generate legitimate photo-realistic results. But perhaps the best part is that Getty promises there will be no watermarks on the final graphic.
GAIGI is rolling out via Getty’s website.
Amazon delivers billions of dollars to Anthropic
Amazon has announced it is investing a cool $4 billion in AI company Anthropic.
As part of the arrangement, Anthropic will use AWS for its online computing needs. It will also work with Amazon on generative AI projects.
Anthropic, which is perhaps best known for its Claude LLM, was established by some former OpenAI executives. It had previously raised a solid $1.4 billion.
The intern is a robot
The conversation about AI supplanting workers is not a new one, but what if people are inadvertently training the very machines that will ultimately replace them? That’s the premise of a new think-piece from Wired, in which the publication explores the prospect of companies using subversive training software in the workplace.
MIT economics professor David Autor suggests tools can learn from humans as they’re being used. Autor also posits the endgame may not even be machines taking the place of humans at work, but rather that certain jobs will simply cease to exist over time.
Poll
Results from our last poll: Is the threat from AGI overhyped?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✅ Yes. AI that is smarter than people could unlock major benefits for humankind.
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ❎ No. We don’t want the machines to take over.
Featured response: “I think if we make [AI systems] smarter and somehow implicate some type of reasoning system in them, then the benefits of having us around would outweigh any evil desires.”
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AI tools you should try
GPTBots (free with paid options): All companies generate data, but how many have found an efficient way to use their volumes of information in day-to-day operations? This is a problem GPTBots is trying to fix with its AI bots service. You upload your documents and databases, and then start tooling around with the data via a large suite of APIs and plugins.
Coqui XTTS (public beta): Text-to-speech startup Coqui is one of the best in the business when it comes to voice emulation. But now the company is pushing things even further with its XTTS voice generation model that lets you create speech in different languages. The tool is currently available via a Hugging Face space, but it’s already extremely capable and certainly worth checking out.
Elicit (free with paid options): Writing essays, articles, and other longform pieces often means having to back up what you’re saying with facts. That means you’ll probably spend a lot of time researching sources, reading studies, and identifying usable quotes. Elicit’s AI app promises to cut down on a lot of that work by pulling out data, summarizing documents, and even synthesizing your information.
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