AI Art Goes Ultra-Realistic With Imagen 3
Plus: Tesla unveils cybercab Robotaxi, OpenAI releases meta prompts, and more.
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In today’s edition:
🎨 Google releases Imagen 3: AI art goes ultra-realistic
🚖 Tesla unveils Cybercab Robotaxi
⚡ OpenAI Unveils Meta Prompt for optimized creativity
🐝 Meet OpenAI’s Swarm - an experimental multi-agent framework
🤖 Adobe challenges Meta and OpenAI with new video generator
📚 Knowledge Nugget: Artificial Intelligence: What to Worry About by
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Google releases Imagen 3: AI art goes ultra-realistic
Google’s high-quality text-to-image model can generate images with richer details, better lighting, and fewer distracting artifacts. It can precisely capture intricate details, such as specific camera angles and complex compositions, and delivers highly accurate and diverse image generation across various subjects and styles.
Users simply need to provide it with prompts that start with “draw,” “generate,” or “create” and mention their desired styles, such as photorealistic, watercolor, painting, etc.
The model’s natural language understanding equips it to understand prompts written in everyday language, eliminating the need for complex prompt engineering.
Why does it matter?
Imagen 3 displays excellent prompt adherence in creating photorealistic art. This model could outshine competition like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for diverse creative applications.
Tesla unveils Cybercab Robotaxi
Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled designs of his new Cybercab Robotaxi. The futuristic vehicle can carry passengers without a driver present and is expected to be in production by 2026. Musk further stated that the vehicle would be charged by driving over a charging plate instead of a plug.
The event also featured Robovan, a driverless vehicle capable of carrying larger groups of people or items.
Check out the YouTube video shared by a user of Musks’s Robotaxi.
Why does it matter?
While Musk’s vision is impressive, Google and Amazon have already implemented self-driving technologies through Waymo and Zoox. These companies might potentially put pressure on Tesla to accelerate its development and delivery timelines.
OpenAI Unveils Meta Prompt for optimized creativity
Built into OpenAI’s Playground prompt optimization feature, the meta-prompt can guide the language model in generating prompts based on task descriptions. The prompt also includes sections for step-by-step instructions, examples, notes, and more.
Take a look at some of the core principles of this prompt:
Understanding the main requirements of the task, including making minimal changes when improving existing prompts
Highlighting the reasoning process before establishing conclusions, including adding high-level examples wherever necessary
Ensuring better readability by using clear, specific language and applying markdowns
Retaining user-provided content and specifying the most appropriate output format
The company has also released a separate prompt for meta-audio generation.
Why does it matter?
This move could be a game-changer for prompt engineering, streamlining the creation of more effective AI interactions. It will assist developers in crafting versatile and efficient prompts, potentially changing AI applications across industries.
Meet OpenAI’s Swarm - an experimental multi-agent framework
OpenAI has released a new open-source framework on GitHub called “Swarm,” an experimental tool to create, orchestrate, and deploy multi-agent systems. Swarm’s focus is on making agent coordination highly controllable and easily testable. It accomplishes this via agents and Handoffs.
The framework highlights OpenAI’s “Agentic AI,” a concept that includes a language model, system prompts, and tools known as agents. These agents interact, pass tasks to other agents, and utilize existing tools.
Why does it matter?
Swarm will allow developers to test and deploy scalable solutions to real-world problems without requiring a steep learning curve. It is ideal for developers wanting full transparency and precise control of context, steps, and tool calls.
Adobe challenges Meta and OpenAI with new video generator
The Firefly video model teased earlier this year is set to launch with three new tools, including Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, and Generative Extend, allowing creatives to extend footage and generate videos via still images and text-based prompts. Take a look at some of its key features:
Generative Fill: Users can generate photorealistic images that are richer
Text-to-Image: Create higher-quality images with better composition, photorealistic details, and improved mood and lighting via text-based prompts
Generative extend: Allows users to add frames, lengthen ambient audio, and remove unwanted cuts
Generate Video: Users can use text prompts to transform ideas into video clips
Currently, the tool is available to users who have subscribed to Adobe. According to a few reports, the company is also working on building AI models capable of generating 3D graphics.
Why does it matter?
The tool will be helpful for creatives, allowing them to adapt it to their use cases and workflows. With Meta and OpenAI already in the game, Adobe's entry could democratize video production.
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Knowledge Nugget: Artificial Intelligence: What to Worry About
In this insightful article,
breaks down common AI worries like mass unemployment and misinformation and how AI is supercharging the productivity of the already skilled, potentially creating a two-class system.Salathé points out that AI tools like ChatGPT are dramatically boosting the output of skilled professionals – programmers are coding at warp speed, writers are churning out content like never before, and scientists are making breakthroughs left and right.
Why does it matter?
This AI-driven productivity boost could reshape our workforce and society faster than we can update our LinkedIn profiles. But to keep everyone in the game, the education system must shift into hyperdrive.
What Else Is Happening❗
📩 Zoom has announced that it will let users create custom avatars to record and send short messages to the team, likely to roll out early next year.
🏆 DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and senior DeepMind research scientist John Jumper have received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their AlphaFold2 AI model that calculates the structure of human proteins.
💻 Rabbit has unveiled a new Large Action Model capable of controlling a full desktop Linux operating system.
🤖 AMD has released a new AI chip, MI325X, which will ship in Q4. It is rumored to beat NVIDIA’s H200.
🚀 Reddit has launched AI keyword-targeting with dynamic audience expansion, multi-placement optimization, AI keyword suggestions, and unified targeting flow.
📄 An analysis by an AI research firm has revealed that Google likely has the world's largest AI computing capacity, equivalent to at least 600,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs.
👓 Apple is reportedly planning to take on Meta’s Ray Bans with its plans to deliver smart glasses with significant capabilities.
🤝 Sebastian Bubeck, Microsoft’s VP of GenAI research, plans to join OpenAI to further his work on developing AGI, according to reports.
🖊️ Google has signed a deal with Kairos Power to purchase energy from their small modular reactors to help power its artificial intelligence operations.
🌐 Opera browser has released AI-powered tab commands that allow users to group, pin, bookmark, and close tabs using natural language commands and queries.
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