In today's rundown:

• 🧠 Connect GPT-4 to your brain: Unlock all the knowledge in the world

• 💻 Replit teams up with Google: The future of software development

• 📱 Perplexity's new iPhone app: ChatGPT with cited sources and voice search

• 🎉 Today's giveaway: 500+ best ChatGPT prompts

Read time: 5 minutes

🧠 Connect GPT-4 to Your Brain

In this incredible YouTube video, Fireship hooked up a device called the Crown into GPT-4 with some basic Javascript programming. Doing this allowed him to communicate with GPT-4 using just his thoughts. 

The Crown is similar to Neuralink, except you can wear it on your head, instead of implanting an entire chip into your brain. Essentially, the Crown works by: 

• Measuring brainwaves with tiny electrodes on the back of the head

• Connecting to a mobile app via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi

• Providing utilities for improving focus and accessing raw data in JSON

This fascinating experiment offers a glimpse into a transhuman cyborg future, where every human (or at least every wealthy human) will have access to all the knowledge in the world, not just at their fingertips but through their very own brain. 

💻 Replit Teams Up With Google

Replit is a free online IDE (integrated development environment) that helps you go from idea to live software with minimal setup. It's been a dream for developers, as they can bring projects to life faster than ever.

And it just got even better- over 20 million Replit developers will now have access to Google Cloud services, infrastructure, and foundation models for generative AI. 

The rundown of the partnership:

• Allows Google Cloud and Workspace developers to use Replit's collaborative code editing platform

• Demonstrates Google Cloud's commitment to building an open ecosystem for AI-generated code

• Represents the next step for Replit's goal of empowering 1 billion software creators

This incredible announcement comes shortly after Github revealed the launch of Copilot X, which we covered in this issue. 

See full announcement

📱 Perplexity's New iPhone App

Perplexity just announced their new iPhone app and a $25.6 million series A funding round.

If you've missed some of our previous issues covering Perplexity, it's an alternative to ChatGPT, providing source citations for its answers. Unlike ChatGPT, which often fabricates sources, Perplexity, Bing, and Consensus are the best bets if you're looking for citations. 

The newly launched Perplexity iPhone app offers users instant answers through text, voice search, follow-up questions, and thread history.

With the recent influx of $25.6 million in funding, alongside the expansion to iOS,  Perplexity is another company making big moves in the AI industry.

Read the full announcement, View the demo, Download it (iPhone only)

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🔥 Trending

• Dispute AI- An AI do-it-yourself credit repair software designed to seamlessly assist in repairing and improving personal credit with just a few clicks (link)

• Genmo- Create and edit videos or images from text using GPT-4 (link)

• Arvin- ChatGPT chrome extension with built-in prompts (link)

• StealthGPT- Generates responses without being detected by AI-detection (link)

• Quizify- Create amazing quizzes 20X faster with AI (link)

• PixelBin- Generate realistic background photos for your products (link)

• Prompting Guide-Recent papers, learning guides, and tools (link)

• ChaturGPT- Talk to your documents using AI (link)

• Quotify-Extract meaningful quotes from books, articles, or text (link)

• Raycast-Write smarter, code faster, and answer questions quicker (link)

• Artifact-Personalized news feed app powered by AI (link)

• Portals- No code customer feedback collection tool (link)

• Pickaxe-Embed AI into your business or website, no code needed. (link)

• Jotte-AI writing tool to turn nodes and summaries into long content (link)

• Neece.ai- Free AI companion bot in discord (link)

• AskHN-Ask Hacker News anything, powered by GPT (link)

• Landbot AI-No-code AI chatbot (link)

• InvoicesGPT- Automate the handling of all invoices (link)

• Harpa AI-Chrome extension to integrate ChatGPT to Google Search (link)

• Lyrical Labs-Write song lyrics faster and better with AI (link)

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🐦 Tweet of the day

The top 20 most incredible things built by GPT-4 in the past 2 weeks:

Today is GPT-4's 2-week anniversary.

Here are the top 20 most incredible things created by GPT-4 already:

(history unraveling before our very eyes)

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
3:34 PM • Mar 28, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

In today's rundown:

• 🤖 AI Pope Francis: Puffy vest Pope blows up the internet

• 🍎 Apple Acquires AI startup: Video compression and more

• ⚡️ Zoom releases Zoom IQ: AI-powered smart companion

• 🎉 Today's giveaway: 200 ChatGPT UX Prompts

Read time: 5 minutes

🤖 AI Pope Francis

AI-generated images have gone viral before, but a recent picture of the pope wearing a swagged-out puffy jacket has blown up the internet. 

The image, first posted on this subreddit for Midjourney, spread rapidly on social media platforms as a meme before being debunked. 

The image is definitely fake, and there are important tells:

• Somebody posted it alongside three alternatives on the Midjourney subreddit.

• Details such as a hand not quite grasping the coffee cup, a crucifix with improper angles, and the edge of a glasses lens transitioning into its own shadow indicate AI generation.

Despite telltale signs of AI generation to us AI enthusiasts, 99% of the world thought this image was real. 

The bottom line: Reality and simulation are likely to blur further as AI technology evolves, raising both concerns and fascination.

Regardless, you must admit the pope has some swag in that white puffer.

🍎 Apple Acquires AI Startup

Apple is silently making moves in the AI scene and recently acquired WaveOne, a startup specializing in AI-based video compression algorithms. 

Key points about WaveOne:

• Founded in 2016 by Lubomir Bourdev and Oren Rippel

• Developed "content-aware" video compression and decompression algorithm

• Technology leverages AI-powered scene and object detection

• Claims to reduce video file sizes by up to 50% and more in complex scenes

• $9 million in funding from investors before Apple acquisition

This acquisition could help Apple make streaming more efficient for services like Apple TV+. 

Other tech giants, such as Google, have already incorporated AI into video compression, resulting in a 4% reduction in YouTube's data usage. Apple might be planning to introduce something similar with the help of WaveOne.

⚡️ Zoom Releases Zoom IQ

Zoom just announced its partnership with OpenAI to enhance Zoom IQ, their AI-powered assistant. Here's the rundown of Zoom IQ's capabilities:

• Summarizing missed meeting content and answering follow-up questions

• Generating whiteboards based on text prompts

• Providing recaps of meetings and summarizing threads in Zoom Team Chat

• Generating AI-powered responses to colleagues, similar to ChatGPT in Slack

Starting in April, these features will roll out by invitation only, with select meeting summary capabilities made more broadly available.

Zoom is working hard to stay relevant while their main competitors, Google and Microsoft, race to develop the most powerful AI technologies.

Read more from Zoom

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🔥 Trending

• GPT Anywhere- Chrome extension, lets you use AI anywhere on the browser (link)

• Praxy Labs- AI-powered productivity tool for students (link)

• AI Lawyer- Gives you expert legal help anytime, anywhere (link)

• Illustroke- Stunning vector illustration from text prompts (link)

• BeatBot- AI song maker (link)

• FlowCog- Predict your SaaS company's revenue and cash runway (link)

• STORYD-Create data presentations in seconds (link)

• Fabrie- Lets designers create stunning renderings from sketches (link)

• Upheal- AI assistant for mental health professionals with automated (link)

• Yarnit- Reduce time, cost, and complexity of digital content creation (link)

• AI Gift for you- Search for gift ideas with AI based on personalized filters (link)

• CourseAI- Create courses online in seconds with AI (link)

• Upheal- AI assistant for mental health professionals with automated (link)

• Refact- Making programming enjoyable without privacy concerns (link)

• ChefGPT-AI-Powered digital chef that makes meal ideas easy (link)

• OpenRead-Experience the future with AI-powered interactive papers (link)

• CommentReply- Generate thousands of YouTube comments in seconds (link)

• MovieBot- Create, edit, and share AI-generated movies instantly (link)

• RATH-Data, exploration, and visualization with automation (link)

• Reflect- GPT-4 in your notes, and write your own custom prompts (link)

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🐦 Tweet of the day

How to get started with AI (if you don't know where to start):

History is unraveling right before our very eyes.

The release of GPT-4 and ChatGPT plugins is bigger than the iPhone and App store.

Here's all you need to know to get started with AI:

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
3:34 PM • Mar 27, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

In today's rundown:

• 📚 New OpenAI study: Will AI take your job?

• 💸 Character AI raises $150 million: a16z's big bet

• 🎓 Stanford students create RizzGPT: Charisma as a Service (CaaS)

• 🎉 Today's giveaway: 100 ChatGPT Business Ideas

Read time: 4 minutes

📚 New OpenAI Study

OpenAI's latest research, using its new GPT-4 language model and human expertise, has shed light on the potential impact of AI on the job market. 

Here's the rundown:

• Jobs most exposed: mathematicians, tax preparers, and quantitative financial analysts.

• Other highly exposed occupations: survey researchers, writers and authors, interpreters, and translators.

• Limitations of the study: subjectivity, sensitivity to prompt alterations, and potential omission of specific skills or tasks

While the study isn't a crystal ball, it does reveal that a staggering 80% of the workforce could see at least 10% of their tasks impacted by GPTs. And for 19% of workers, a whopping 50% of their functions could be affected.

Our advice: Learn to harness and embrace AI. Keep an open mind, stay curious, and be ready to learn new skills as the rapidly-changing world of AI and technology reshapes the job landscape.

Read the full paper

💸 Character AI raises $150 Million

AI chatbot startup Character.ai just reached a whopping $1 billion market cap, thanks to a new $150 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz, despite not generating ANY revenue.

Character.AI, founded by two ex-Googlers, hosts various AI-powered personalities that users can interact with through text. You can also:

• Chat with AI celebs such as Tony Stark or Saul Goodman

• Create your own AI companion to chat and hang out and interact with

• Get a productivity boost, life advice, and even a bit of entertainment

The app is currently free, but the company has its eyes set on a subscription model and is flirting with an ad model.

Regardless of how fun Character.AI might be, raising $150 million without generating revenue is no joke, and it's clear that Silicon Valley can't resist the allure of AI.

🎓 Stanford Students Create RizzGPT

Three students named Bryan, Alix, and Varun from Stanford University combined GPT-4, Whisper, and augmented reality glasses to create RizzGPT. 

RizzGPT listens in real-time conversations and guides you on what to say next. They're calling it Charisma as a Service (CAAS for short).

It uses:

• Whisper to transcribe live audio from conversations

• GPT-4 to come up with a response

• Monocle AR glasses to display the response live in the glasses

While it's probably best to keep human interaction at just that, this fun experiment showcases the combined power of AI and AR technology. It will be exciting to see future technologies emerging from this sector.

Check out the demo video here

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🔥 Trending

• FlowGPT- Multi-threaded conversations for ChatGPT - Explore AI conversations with improved structure and clarity using node based flow editor (link)

• Job AI- Extension to generate unique, winning proposal cover letters (link)

• ChatORG- ChatGPT for team collaboration (link)

• Video Highlight- Summarize and take notes from videos (link)

• Beatoven- Advanced royalty-free AI music generation (link)

• ChattyPDF- lightning-fast, question-answering PDF viewer (link)

• ChatCrafted- Craft the perfect text response by using this AI app (link)

• Oscar- AI bedtime story generator for children (link)

• Interview Jam- Platform for interview prep and helping land dream jobs (link)

• Gift Genius- Find the perfect gift for any occasion (link)

• Mini Course Generator- Build engaging & distinctive mini courses (link)

• To Teach- Artificial intelligence for your classes (link)

• 60sec- Generate landing pages with AI (link)

• Mobile GPT- ChatGPT on Whatsapp (link)

• Insula- Communicate in natural speech with a 3D avatar humanoid (link)

• Uncode- Explains code from code snippets (link)

• WTF DOES THIS COMPANY DO- What companies do from landing page (link)

• Tugan- Enter a URL to generate your emails instantly with GPT-4 (link)

• Maimovie- AI-powered movie & TV show search (link)

• Vidby- Fast and accurate video translation and dubbing into 70 languages (link)

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🐦 Tweet of the day

Turn a webpage into a chatbot you can talk to:

How to turn any webpage into a chatbot like ChatGPT that you can talk and ask questions to:

(productivity cheat code)

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
3:34 PM • Mar 25, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

In today's rundown:

• 🔥 ChatGPT releases plugins: The app store of ChatGPT

• 🎁 Canva launches new AI tools: Transforming creativity

• 🌎 Unity gives a sneak peak: Insider program

• 🎉 Today's giveaway: 500+ best ChatGPT prompts

Read time: 5 minutes

🚨 ChatGPT Releases Plugins

Things just keep getting crazier in AI. The team at OpenAI just released plugins for ChatGPT, effectively making thousands of websites completely obsolete.

Developers are now dropping everything to rush and go all in on creating ChatGPT plugins, with many labeling it as the equivalent of the initial release of the iOS App Store.

Some of the first third-party plugins have been created by Expedia, Instacart, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Speak, Wolfram, Zapier, and more. Here's a quick rundown:

• Expedia- Planning trips and booking accommodations

• Instacart- Ordering groceries

• OpenTable- Getting restaurant recommendations and booking

• Shopify- Searching for products from the world's greatest brands

• Speak- Learning languages

• Wolfram- Accessing computation, math, and real-time data

• Zapier- Interacting with 5,000+ apps like Google Sheets, Trello, and Gmail

Another incredible new capability includes a new plugin that uses the Bing API, allowing ChatGPT to browse the current, up-to-date internet. Watch demo.

History is unraveling right before our very eyes. This is yet another opportunity for developers to create million-dollar startups, and we're incredibly excited to cover and unravel all of the products that will come out of this.

Read full release, Read API documentation & Join the waitlist

🎁 Canva Launches New AI Tools

At Canva's "Canva Create" event, they announced a suite of new AI tools on top of their existing Text-to-image and Magic write features. Here's the rundown:

• Magic Design: Personalized templates based on uploaded images

• Draw Your Ideas: Enhanced drawing with shape recognition

• Translate Designs: Instant text conversion across 100+ languages

• Magic Eraser/Edit: Quick photo editing and element swapping

• Beat Sync: Align video footage to soundtrack beats

• Magically Generate Presentations: Automatic draft creation

• Create an Animation: Professional animations with a drawn path

• Improved Text-to-Image: 16 higher quality outputs and 68% faster generation

Along with these new tools, they upgraded text-to-image with 16x higher quality outputs and 68% faster generation. View demos of all the tools here.

🌎 Unity Gives a Sneak Peak

Unity is diving into the world of artificial intelligence by developing AI tools for its creative suite.

The company recently announced Unity AI, an ecosystem designed to provide AI-powered game development tools to millions of creators. Key features:

• Open and unique AI ecosystem for game development

• The ability for creators to quickly create and deliver real-time 3D content and experiences

• Prompt-based system that generates or collects assets for developers' projects

As of now, the signup for the Unity AI Insider program released on Twitter is the only route for developers to access the beta and receive further details when they are released.

Join the insider program here.

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🔥 Trending

• Insight7- ChatGPT for customer feedback. Visually identify themes, insights, sentiment, and even the insight source. 100% automated (link)

• Quizgecko- Generate quizzes from any text, URL or file (link)

• Call My Link- AI meeting portal. Listens/transcribes live meetings (link)

• Straiberry- AI based dental checkup with more than 90% accuracy (link)

• Consensus- Ask a question, get conclusions from research papers (link)

• ClipDrop- The ecosystem of apps, plugins & resources for all creators (link)

• Dreamlife- Take a photo with your phone and get designs within seconds (link)

• Keeper- AI-driven online dating matchmaking (link)

• Alexa ChatGPT- Use ChatGPT in Alexa (link)

• Great Headlines- Write hooky headlines, fast with AI (link)

• Fliki- Turn text into videos with AI voices (link)

• Paradiso- Text, voices, and videos with a human-like spokesperson (link)

• Mixo- Launch a startup in seconds with AI (link)

• Pragma- streamlines customer messaging and knowledge (link)

• Praygen- GPT based prayer generator (link)

• 1-decision- Provides everyday busy parents with an AI decision maker (link)

• Promptpal- Discover all the best AI prompts (link)

• Promptitude- Develop, test, manage, and improve prompts in one place (link)

• Exemplary- Convert audio & video into engaging content (link)

• Aura AI- Writing assistant built into your iOS keyboard (link)

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🐦 Tweet of the day

GPT-4's career advice for young people today:

GPT-4's response when asked "what career advice would you give young people today"

(The advice was scary good)

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
3:34 PM • Mar 23, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

In today's rundown:

• 🚨 ChatGPT Bug Exposes Chat History: OpenAI "feels awful"

• 💻 Github Copilot X: Coding superpowers

• 🅾️ Opera releases in-browser AI tools: Enhanced browsing

• 🎉 Today's giveaway: 200 AI Startup Ideas

Read time: 5 minutes

🚨 ChatGPT Bug Exposes Chat History

A recent bug in OpenAI's ChatGPT exposed the titles of some users' past conversations to others, as first reported by Bloomberg. 

We now know the nightmare ChatGPT outage on Monday was caused by the bug that made many AI enthusiasts take a hit in productivity, and realize how quickly they've become reliant on the chatbot. Here's a quick rundown:

• The bug allowed a small percentage of users to view other users' conversation titles.

• The content of the conversations remained private.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed the bug's origin in an open-source library and assured that only a small percentage of users were affected: 

we had a significant issue in ChatGPT due to a bug in an open source library, for which a fix has now been released and we have just finished validating.

a small percentage of users were able to see the titles of other users’ conversation history.

we feel awful about this.

— Sam Altman (@sama)
8:16 PM • Mar 22, 2023

Our friendly reminder: Be cautious when using AI tools still in development or beta testing phases like ChatGPT. Keep your information safe by not sharing any sensitive details during AI-based conversations.

💻 Github Copilot X

GitHub released Copilot X, an upgraded version of Copilot, to power up the developer experience to write code faster and more efficiently using AI. 

Exciting new features of GitHub Copilot X include:

• Chat and voice interface for more accessible communication within the editor.

• AI-generated descriptions for pull requests and suggestions for missing tests, improving workflows.

• A conversational interface for quick access to documentation, enabling efficient learning.

GitHub's recent research revealed shocking data showing that Copilot has helped developers write 46% of all code and code up to 55% faster.

With the potential to enhance productivity significantly, AI tools like GitHub Copilot X will be essential in improving productivity for developers, allowing them to focus more on creativity and innovation in their work. 

Read more & watch the demo

🅾️ Opera

A day after Edge announced injecting their browser with an AI-image generator, Opera launched a suite of AI tools in Opera Browser and Opera GX.

The AI tools are built with ChatGPT, and Chatsonic is integrated directly into their browser. 

Key features include:

• AI Prompts: Accessible when highlighting text or from the address bar- interpret, summarize, and explore the web according to your interests and needs.

• Sidebar access to ChatGPT and ChatSonic: Web versions assist with various queries and issues, from generating ideas to drafting the text.

The pre-made AI prompts bring a unique new browsing experience to users and will make crafting prompts even easier for beginners or when you're just feeling lazy. 

The best part: there's no waiting list. You can download or update your existing Opera browser and start using it now. 

Check out the demo & Learn more

🎨 Canva (Sponsor)

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🔥 Trending

• AskNotion- Easily create advanced AI chatbots on top of Notion (link)

• MealGenie- Generates custom recipes tailored to your dietary needs (link)

• Lyrical Labs-Write song lyrics faster and better with AI (link)

• Namifai- ChatGPT powered domain name generator (link)

• Cuil- An advanced chat assistant with multi-modal capabilities (link)

• Reflect- Use GPT-4 in your notes, and to write your own custom prompts (link)

• Raizer- Find & reach out to perfect investors with AI (link)

• DoNotPay- Legal services and self help with AI (link)

• Landbot AI-No-code AI chatbot (link)

• Creatus- Turns text into eye-catching short videos. (link)

• Replicate Codex- Exploring and discovering AI models on Replicate (link)

• Quotify- Extract meaningful quotes from books, articles, or text (link)

• Painta- The functionality of Canva using Midjourney (link)

• Addy AI- Write emails 10x faster with A.I. (link)

• CoverDesign AI- AI cover designs for indie writers (link)

• Quizify- Create amazing quizzes 20X faster with AI (link)

• ChatGPT 4 Youtube- Extension that to get summaries of YouTube videos (link)

• Harpa AI-Chrome extension to integrate ChatGPT to Google Search (link)

• ResearchGPT-Open-source research assistant chatbot (link)

• Mememorph- Turn yourself into all your favourite memes (link)

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🐦 Tweet of the day

How to remove photobombers from images using AI:

How to remove any unwanted background objects in your photos in seconds using AI:

(game changer for editing photos)

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
7:06 PM • Mar 22, 2023

That's all for now!

If you have any interesting projects or ideas, please reach out to us by responding to this email or by sending us a DM on Twitter: @rowancheung & @therundownai

As always, thanks for reading, and see you next time. 🫡

In today's rundown:

• ⚡️ Bing injects image generation: Create images from words

• 💚 Google just unleashed the Bard: A new ChatGPT competitor

• 🔥 Adobe creates an AI image editor: Introducing Firefly

• 🎉 Today's giveaway: 200 ChatGPT UX prompts

Read time: 4 minutes

⚡️ Bing Injects Image Generation

Bing just announced "Bing Image Creator," enabling you to create images from words in their chat. Here's the rundown:

• It utilizes OpenAI's advanced DALL-E model to generate images based on text input.

• The feature will be integrated into Bing chat and Microsoft Edge, making Edge the first browser with a built-in AI image generator.

• Microsoft adheres to responsible AI principles, implementing safeguards to limit the creation of harmful or unsafe images.

• Initially, the feature will be available in English, with more languages to be added later.

Alongside this incredible update, they also launch Stories, an AI-powered visual summary that you can click through to learn more about the topic you’re searching for. As well as Knowledge Cards 2.0, an AI-powered infographic-inspired experience that provides fun facts and key information in seconds.

These updates are significant because it's the first time generative imaging will reach the masses.

Read more & Try it here

The average Rundown reader- created by By Bing Image Creator

💚 Google just unleashed the Bard

Google just unleashed the Bard, a brand new chatbot built on their LaMDA model with 137 billion parameters. Bard offers conversational responses to complex questions similar to ChatGPT.

Currently, Bard is rolling out in the U.S. and U.K. (sad face for us Canadians 😭), and you can request access through the waiting list here.

Many users seem to be getting access quickly, and there have been several alarming responses from Bard thus far, such as: 

• 🚨Claiming its training dataset includes Gmail [link]

• 👎Refusing to write any code [link]

• 🤯Agreeing that Google is a Monopoly [link]

Although we don't have access ourselves and cannot verify these claims, it seems that some issues were anticipated. Google's CEO had warned employees in a memo before the full release that "things will go wrong."

🔥 Adobe Creates an AI Image Editor

Adobe just announced a powerful AI image editing tool called "Firefly." 

Firefly allows users to type commands, generate images, and make instant image modifications. Here's the rundown:

• It encompasses multiple AI models and utilizes a diffusion-based model.

• It's trained on Adobe Stock images, meaning images generated will mitigate harmful and ethical concerns around typical AI image generation.

• It will be integrated directly into Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Adobe Express workflows (meaning direct integration into creator favorites- Photoshop & Premiere Pro)

Access to Firefly will be expanded slowly and is currently only in Beta for select users. As avid Photoshop users, we're pumped to gain access to this one!

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🔥 Trending

• Nero- Enlarge image size and resolution while maintaining high quality (link)

• Estimate Agency- A non-intrusive estimation of the development process (link)

• Rask AI- AI dubbing that is as good as a human (link)

• SlidesGPT- ChatGPT for presentations- Powerpoint/Google Slides (link)

• MailBuddy- A free GPT-3.5-powered Chrome extension for Gmail (link)

• WavTool- An AI assistant to create high-quality music and audio (link)

• Bubble Buddy- Ask Bubble buddy and get answers from GPT-4 (link)

• Evoke Music- Royalty-free music library with music made with AI (link)

• HoppyCopy- Save hours by writing high-converting emails, 10x faster (link)

• Agent- Custom trained language models, workspaces, and more (link)

• Looka- Design a logo and build a brand you love (link)

• Yoya- Build personalized generative AI apps without code (link)

• Journee- Collaborative AI workspace to prevent teacher burnout (link)

• Speak- Turn your language data into insights with no-code (link)

• Everylead- Writes messages to prospects based LinkedIn profiles (link)

• HelloScribe- Writing and brainstorming tool for PR & marketing (link)

• Pictory- Make short, branded videos from long form content (link)

• Scispace- Your AI research assistant, hours worth of reading in minutes (link)

• Unschooler- AI-powered video courses for your personal career goals (link)

• Dottie- Media marketing manager to help you create scroll-stopping posts (link)

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🐦 Tweet of the day

GPT-4 creates a new emotion and explains it using human senses:

I asked GPT-4 to create a new emotion.

Then explain the emotion through sight, sound, and smell.

It created "Meldoria", and it's absolutely incredible:

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
7:06 PM • Mar 21, 2023

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In today's rundown:

• 🍎 Apple is testing Siri with AI: Codename "Bobcat"

• 🧬 AI creates cancer treatment in 30 days: Transforming cancer care

• 🎥 Runway releases Gen-2: Generate videos from text

• 🎉 Today's giveaway: 100 ChatGPT Business Ideas

Read time: 5 minutes

🍎 Apple is Testing Siri with AI

Apple is working on improving Siri, their famous voice assistant, by testing new natural language generation (NLG) features under the codename "Bobcat." The goal is to make Siri better understand and respond to users more naturally.

Here's the rundown:

• Apple is giving these improvements a test run on Apple TV first through tvOS 16.4 beta.

• Currently, features are only available on Apple TV, but code for these features exists across iPhone, iPad, Mac, HomePod, and Apple TV, indicating potential expansion.

• People have been discussing whether Apple is trying to make a chatbot like ChatGPT, but it seems they're just focusing on improving Siri.

• There is no set timeline for expanding NLG technology beyond Apple TV.

In summary, Apple is improving Siri's understanding and talking to users by testing new language features on Apple TV.

While it might take a little while for these improvements to reach all devices, it's clear that Apple wants to make Siri more like a human friend who can chat with us.

Read more

🧬 AI Creates Cancer Treatment in 30 Days

Artificial intelligence just developed a treatment for cancer in just 30 days that can predict a patient’s survival rate.

Researchers from the University of Toronto and Insilico Medicine have made a potential treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a common type of liver cancer, using a drug discovery platform called Pharma AI. 

By using AI to analyze large datasets, researchers can identify new drug candidates faster and more accurately than ever, leading to more effective treatments and better patient outcomes.

Overall, developing a potential treatment for HCC using Pharma AI demonstrates AI's enormous potential to transform the drug discovery field and revolutionize healthcare as we know it.

Read the paper

🎥 Runway Releases Gen-2

Yesterday, we talked about the first-ever text-to-video model and how it's an incredible feat for generative AI, but it has a few downfalls.

A new multimodal text-to-video AI system is released just ONE day later, which takes things to a whole new level.

Gen-2 by Runway is here, and it can generate videos using text, images, or video clips as input. Here are some key features: 

• Text to Video: Generate videos in any style using a prompt.

• Text + Image to Video: Create videos using a driving image and a prompt.

• Image to Video: Generate videos using only a driving image.

• Stylization: Transfer the style of an image or prompt to every video frame.

• Storyboard: Turn mockups into fully stylized and animated renders.

• Mask: Isolate subjects in a video and modify them with simple text prompts.

• Render: Convert untextured renders into realistic outputs using an input image or prompt.

• Customization: Customize the Gen-2 model for even higher fidelity results.

The way we create content that is about to change completely, and it's about to get a whole lot more fun. 

View demos & read the full paper

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🔥 Trending

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• Revolvdiv- AI integrated podcast platform with integrated editing tool (link)

• Exemplary- Create summaries from audio/video with simple prompts (link)

• MarsX- Free, low-code platform for building web and mobile applications (link)

• AskPaper- Extract datasets, summarize research papers then chat with it (link)

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• Targum- Translate any video in seconds using AI (link)

• Upheal- AI assistant for mental health professionals with automated (link)

• UniJump- Quick access to ChatGPT from any website (link)

• Warmest- Let GPT-4 draft your emails, based on emails you previously sent (link)

• Kaya- Create and share a personal AI, trained on your knowledge (link)

• Nutriplan- Create a customized meal plan in a matter of seconds (link)

• SymptomChecker- ChatGPT powered Symptom checker (link)

• SecGPT- Revolutionizes cybersecurity with AI-driven insights (link)

• Tiipe- AI powered product descriptions ready in seconds (link)

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🐦 Tweet of the day

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, on the potential of AI eliminating jobs:

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI on the potential of AI eliminating jobs:

"It is going to eliminate a lot of current jobs, that's true. We can make much better ones."

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
7:06 PM • Mar 20, 2023

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In today's rundown:

• 🚨 Sam Altman on AI: Potential pitfalls and harnessing potential

• 🎥 Text-to-video is here (sort of): Breakthrough for generative AI

• 👁️ GPT-4 for greater accessibility: Exclusive preview of Be My Eyes

• 🎉 Today's giveaway: 500+ best ChatGPT prompts

Read time: 5 minutes

🚨 Sam Altman on AI

In a recent ABC News interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed the potential pitfalls of AI. 

We found two quotes particularly impactful:

1. On AI taking jobs: "It is going to eliminate a lot of current jobs, that's true. We can make much better ones." [full video here]

2. His motivation for developing AI: "In terms of impact on our lives and improving our lives and upside, this will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed" [full video here]

Sam did an excellent job in this interview by acknowledging AI's challenges but also highlighting AI's potential to revolutionize industries and improve countless lives.

🎥 Text-To-Video is Here (sort of)

The first-ever open-sourced text-to-video model is out, and it's, well, interesting. 

The model, available here to try on Hugging Face, is trained on a whopping 1.7 billion parameters. 

We think it's "interesting" because it appears as if the model was actually trained on videos from Shutterstock. A lot of videos that it produces, have Shutterstock watermarks written across them.

For example, check out this Twitter post where someone created their own Star Wars movie clip using this model.

While it's incredible that text-to-video is here, our excitement feels somewhat damped by the fact that there are Shutterstock watermarks all over it. However, this is a giant leap forward, and we can expect even better text-to-video models very soon. 

👁️ GPT-4 For Greater Accessibility 

Be My Eyes, an app that allows blind and low-vision individuals to seek assistance from sighted people has just launched their new "Virtual Volunteer" feature.

The feature is the first to integrate the new image-to-text generator powered by OpenAI's brand-new GPT-4.

Users can soon send images to the AI-powered Virtual Volunteer, who provides instant identification, interpretation, and conversational visual assistance for various tasks. 

We slid into Be My Eyes CEO Mike Buckley's DM's on Twitter, and he generously shared some never-seen-before exclusive access to the current use of GPT-4's image-to-text model:

The images he sent us were incredible, to say the least. GPT-4 was able to detect content from a TV screen from a small corner of an image and translate it in real time to another language. 

Be My Eyes remains one of our favorite AI companies, demonstrating the powerful potential of AI for the greater good. We look forward to providing ongoing coverage of their progress.

Sign up for the Virtual Volunteer waitlist on their website here.

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🔥 Trending

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• Chat Thing- Chatbots for anything powered by data from anywhere (link)

• PromptPal- Share and discover the best AI prompts (link)

• MovieBot- Create, edit, and share AI-generated movies instantly (link)

• GetBotz- Set your blog on autopilot with AI (link)

• Bloop- Understand codebases with GPT-4 (link)

• RATH- Data, exploration, and visualization with automation (link)

• OpenRead- Experience the future with AI-powered interactive papers (link)

• Storywizard- Create incredible children’s stories in no time using AI (link)

• Easy Peasy- Create amazing content 10x faster (link)

• My AskAI- Your own AI Q&A, powered by ChatGPT with no-code (link)

• AI Gift for you- Search for gift ideas with AI based on personalized filters (link)

• Cody- ChatGPT with bonus of being able to train it on business (link)

• STORYD- Create data presentations in seconds (link)

• Gitfluence- Quickly find the correct Git command (link)

• Sizzlepop- Create custom t-shirts with AI (link)

• AItinerary- Creates personalized travel plans in seconds using AI (link)

• ConversAI- Respond to anything across any social media platform (link)

• Magic Eraser- Erase unwanted background objects in images (link)

• CanceledGPT- Finds old offensive tweets before you get canceled (link)

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🐦 Tweet of the day

20 jobs that GPT-4 thinks it will replace:

20 jobs that GPT-4 will replace, written by GPT-4:

— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung)
6:06 PM • Mar 15, 2023

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