🥊Apple’s AI system beats GPT-4

ALSO: Musicians sign a letter to AI music

Estimated Read Time: 6 minutes

Apple just hinted how Siri will work in IOS 18 while the music industry takes a stand against AI. There’s no stopping it though, AI is coming after music, video, and images all the same.

• Apple’s AI can see your screen.

• New York will use crappy AI to detect guns.

• Yahoo acquires a company from the Instagram founders.

• You can edit DALL-E 3 images now!

• The music industry makes its stand.

👀Apple’s AI can see and understand your screen

What happened: Apple released a research paper revealing their new system, ReALM. The system enhances voice assistants by understanding what’s on your screen.

The details: 

• ReALM beats GPT-4 at in tests when used on an AI model with the system.

• The system is smart enough to understand the context of your conversation by looking at your screen. 

• ReALM will likely be included in IOS 18 as part of Siri’s new functionality. 

• It works by turning everything on your screen into text that the AI can read (pretty smart).

• The tech promises to help AI become more conversational and natural.

• Apple fans are a cult. Prove me wrong.

Why it matters: This will likely be part of Siri in IOS 18, and it’ll hopefully help AI be less dumb. Most often AI gives wrong answers because of restrictions and lack of context/specificity. This helps the latter. Although there’s a lot of productivity bonuses this tech can create in the future. The Apple cult fans have a lot to look forward to!

New York will soon use AI to detect guns at subway boarding stations. And the tech is already undergoing testing… to unimpressive results. In the 2022 pilot they barely worked. In the seven months that the Evolv scanners were active, 50,000 of the 194,000 scans resulted in a positive alarm — 85 percent of which were false positives. The few true positives were usually police officers. Hopefully the tech advances. Detecting unauthorized weapons and bombs is a good thing and this tech could save lives.

A museum uses AI to let you speak with virtual WW2 soldiers. The “Voices from the Front” exhibit at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans uses AI voice technology to allow audible conversations with WW2 soldiers. Imagine what else this could be used for.

ChatGPT no longer requires a login to use… but without a login you cannot save conversations and you’ll have stricter content policies. OpenAI had a pretty vague answer for how they’d stop users from abusing the AI (as an account holder could get banned). Let’s be honest, they’ve got no idea what people will subject this AI to now.

Demis Hassabis, co-founder of DeepMind, has been knighted in the U.K. for his contributions to artificial intelligence. I didn’t know they still did this. He’s made huge contributions to AI development under Google’s DeepMind project.

💰Yahoo acquires an AI news app from the Instagram co-founders

What happened: Yahoo is acquiring Artifact, an AI news app from the founders of Instagram. The acquisition promises to use AI to curate news content the viewer wishes to see.

The details:

• Artifact released a post stating they were shutting down in search for a bigger impact elsewhere. Yahoo called shortly after.

• Artifact's tech for categorizing and curating content will be integrated into Yahoo News and possibly other features.

• Artifact's app will be discontinued as their (electronic) soul will live on in Yahoo.

• Artifact’s creators won’t join Yahoo but will be special advisors.

Why it matters: Another day. Another AI acquisition. While AI in news curation is an interesting future, it’s something we’ve dealt with for a while. Youtube, Instagram, and every social platform uses AI to feed you content. Let’s see if Yahoo does something new with the tech.

🛠️You can edit images directly in DALL-E 3 now

What happened: You can now edit DALL-E 3 images right in the program.

Keep these things in mind:

• This is only for desktop users (right now).

• You must download your expanded images before leaving, or else they’ll be lost.

• Your browser may experience lag while downloading.

• You obviously need access to DALL-E 3, which requires a paid subscription.

• Each time you hit “generate” it’ll deduct one credit from your balance.

How to: 

• Create an image with DALL-E 3.

• Left click the image. It’ll enlarge the screen.

• Click the “edit” button in the top right corner.

• From here you click to “paint” over the areas you want to edit.

• When you’re done selecting, go to the chatbox at the bottom right and tell DALL-E what you want.

Example: Let’s change this robot’s arm.

Now let’s DALL-E, “change the robot’s left arm.”

Those are the basics! You can selectively choose what is edited adn changed. Also you can ask for different output images, like PNG or JPEG formats. Give it a test 😉

🤩Music celebrities team up against AI

A group of 200 power-packed musicians have signed a letter against AI making copyrighted music without permission. The petition comes as the music industry worries over AI generated music that uses real music as training data. Note: This doesn’t carry legal power (until an inevitable lawsuit).

The details:

• The 200 musicians include Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Imagine Dragons, the Bob Marley estate, and Katy Perry just to name a few.

• The letter asks for greater protection of artist’s music, voices, and likenesses.

• It goes beyond copyright protection and asks for greater protection from AI period from infringing upon human creativity and musician’s livelihoods.

• Book authors have also signed a letter addressed to OpenAI.

Why this matters: Let me be honest… this won’t change anything. AI generated books, art, music, etc are here to stay. Same with deepfakes (to some extent) as they could fall under parody laws. It’s sad to see art as the first thing we’ve automated away, but it’s the reality of the situation. Prepare to hear this story again, from the movie industry, when Sora releases later this year.

🤠It’s all about style

Source @jamcurl at Midjourney

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