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:
a contemporary name tag that reads “Meta” –ar 5:3 –style raw
“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
“New Meta R&D Reveals Shortcut to Ultra-wide Retina Resolution Holographic Displays for XR Headsets Read the report 👉
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/
For previous issues, please visit the archives!
Thanks for reading!
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