I decided to try a theme with this week’s cover imagery to see how creative MidJourney could be with simple prompts. Each category cover image is a name tag + art style. It was pretty neat to see the variances. The goal is not perfection. By posting the mistakes, we’ll get to see how imagery improves over time. Here is the prompt for the cover:
Glitch Art sign reading “Agents” –ar 5:3 –style raw
“We’re sharing Project Astra: our new project focused on building a future AI assistant that can be truly helpful in everyday life. Watch it in action, with two parts – each was captured in a single take, in real time. ↓ #GoogleIO
I/O 2024: New ways to experience Google AI on Android
“Whether you need a yoga bestie or calculus tutor, in the coming months you’ll be able to customize Gemini, saving time when you have specific ways you interact with Gemini again and again. We’re calling these Gems. #GoogleIO
Microsoft
“You don’t understand… they can measure out the intelligence bits in little dollops. Distribution still takes time. You gonna see this baby integrated into your MS Office this year. Most people will never use Excel again. You can just tell it to do stuff.
Meta
“Meta is reportedly in the early stages of developing AI-powered earphones, known internally as “Camerabuds” The project aims to compete with OpenAI and Apple as tech giants rush to infuse AI into wearable devices. Read more:
“Meta is reportedly building headphone-based AI hardware, codenamed “Camerabuds,” w/ 2 outward-facing cameras to detect surroundings & provide real-time AI assistance. The best form factors aren’t intrusive- will people wear headphones all the time? A worthy experiment.
Meta Explores AI-Assisted Earphones With Cameras — The Information
Meta is reportedly working on camera-equipped AI earphones – Android Authority
OpenAI
“OpenAI desktop app deeply integrated into my day to day environment. Not sure if I’ll ever need to rely on search by default. This is pretty existential for search engines.”
“ChatGPT Desktop participating in a zoom meeting > keeps track of different speakers including names > summarizes conversation When can we delegate the entire meeting to the bot?
“ChatGPT desktop app + @CleanShot is a new magical experience, holy shit. I wish they let me increase the font though (and take native screenshots with a shortcut @TheRealAdamG, that clicking around small buttons must stop!) But again, holy shit this unlocks so many usercases
“The voice/video/text model from OpenAI GPT-4o can now act as a senior-pro pair programmer for every person on Earth. In fact, it’s not just “programming” but any job on the PC. Even more! It can see the camera stream via glasses/devices, so it’s pretty much any existing job🫨”
Other Agent News
Eraser AI Eraser AI, the first copilot for technical design
“It’s very good at writing code, making much less mistakes compared to opus and seems to have some more recent knowledge (october)”
Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt | TechCrunch
Large language models (e.g., ChatGPT) as research assistants – Daniel Lemire’s blog
“1. Real time translation
“2. Emotion and face detection
“3. Code understanding/debugging via voice commands
“4. Generate a wide range of emotion-based voices
“5. Visually understand images, plots, and code.
“In the near future many meetings could be led by Ai. It can discern voices, be objective, summarize, empathetic, send follow-ups.
Verizon unveils new AI tools to transform customer experience | News Release | Verizon
https://www.verizon.com/about/news/verizon-unveils-new-ai-tools-transform-customer-experience
Heads up! You’ve scrolled to the end of this category. There may have been just one or two links (above), so go back up and double check to be sure you didn’t quickly scroll down past it.
Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #33: Week Ending 05/17/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 58 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
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