🧙🏻‍♂️ Bards, Fireflies, and Text to Video 🎥 This Week in ChatGPT

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Welcome to The Week in ChatGPT newsletter, where we'll be havin' a grand old time talkin' about the fierce innovative products powered by AI and all the craic (means enjoyable stuff in Irish apparently) in the AI community. If you've got any bits and bobs you'd like us to feature, feel free to drop 'em in here or dm me on Twitter. And if your mate's sent ya this email and you're feelin' as lost as a leprechaun without his pot o' gold, then be sure to subscribe here so you can keep gettin' bewildered every week! Right so, let's get on with it!

Also PSA, I'm sick so if the newsletter is less funny than usual just chalk it up to that.

News Headlines

• Google Released Bard 😮‍💨

• Adobe To Release Suite of AI Tools 🛠

• Text to Video?! 😱

• Microsoft Copilot Is On Its Way 🏎

Bodacious AI Products

• Clipdrop: Your Online Image Studio 🎬

• Duo and Khan Academy 📚

✈️ An AI Flyby for the Week ✈️

Google Released Bard 😮‍💨

But if you were thinking you would just get immediate access to Google's GPT competitor, WRONG. There always seems to be a waitlist nowadays 🤦‍♂️. However, unlike some waitlists (looking at you Bing), this one seems to give you access relatively quickly.

The general consensus on Bard is that Google has a long road ahead of it to catch up to OpenAI's GPT-4. While Bard may be faster than GPT-4, GPT-4 seems to outperform Bard in most categories of questions and assigned tasks. Here are some not so flattering tweets capturing some Bard mishaps 1, 2, 3, 4.

Now I'm not saying I'm some kind of math genius, but that doesn't seem quite right to me. Well, at least Bard is getting more attention than Google Glass. That really was a rough look.

So it looks like Google's behind Bing in the race for AI-assisted search (never thought I'd see the day), since Bing runs off of GPT-4. Does this mean Bing will start to reclaim more of the global search market (it's at 2.5 percent right now)?

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Adobe To Release Suite of AI Tools 🛠

Adobe, everybody's favorite acquirer of Figma, is back at it again with another F to add to the repertoire: Firefly. Firefly is Adobe's up and coming creative suite of AI tools which includes the ability to make images from prompts (nothing new there), replace certain sections of an image, generate custom vectors and textures (no idea what this means but maybe some designer out there does), and edit videos / 3D models. It is slated to become part of the Adobe Creative Suite. All I know is that I'm not paying for another Adobe subscription.

(for liability reasons I do not condone the pirating of Adobe software 😉)

READ MORE HERE.

Text to Video?! 😱

So we've got text to text (chatbots). Text to image (image generation models). Speech to text (transcription models). Text to speech (AI-generated voices). Now, we've got text to video too.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba and AI video editing platform Runway both released big text-to-video models recently. Check them out at Alibaba and Runway.

(FYI Speaking of China, they had a bit of a chatbot flop this last week. Chinese search giant Baidu's Ernie is not receiving the warmest of welcomes. Ernie, the chatbot's Sesame Street namesake can be seen reacting to Baidu's launch below)

Back on topic, these text to video models are open for public use unlike Google's Imagen and Facebook's Make-A-Video. The video quality still leaves a lot to be desired and the coloration is reminiscent of a fever dream, but it works. This article title by Gizmodo sums it up best: "Text to Video Generative AI Is Finally Here and It’s Weird as Hell". Well said, Gizmodo. Well said.

The maturation of this technology could change the way we create films and videos forever! Hollywood better have an eye on this!

READ MORE HERE

Microsoft Copilot Is On Its Way 🏎

Microsoft recently announced Copilot, the assistive tool of your dreams for their entire Office product suite. Here's some examples of what it can do:

• Draft Word documents.

• Prep team meetings.

• Take meeting notes. (Otter.ai making discontented otter noises)

• Making Powerpoints. (tome.app not too happy about this one either)

• Analyzing data for you.

• Copilot can reference any document. It's not "write a press release" anymore; it's "write a press release about [this product we're working on]".

This tool will really bridge the gap between AI and enterprise workflows. It's often hard to get AI to work on product launches or acquaint it with what you are doing, but now it's there from the get-go. Woah.

 READ MORE HERE

Now For Some AI Products

PRODUCT 1: Clipdrop — Your Online Image Studio 🎬

Well, before you go and sign up for that Adobe Firefly waitlist you might want to check this out first. Clipdrop is a creative suite powered by Stability AI, the creators of Stable Diffusion. Taken straight from their website, Clipdrop is:

"The ultimate ecosystem of apps, plugins & resources for all creators,powered by artificial intelligence."

They offer a variety of services that are visible on their homepage including: cleanup (image object removal), background removal, relighting/retouching, upscaling, text to image (of course), replace background, text remover, and others. They also have a set of APIs so you can integrate these services into your products as well. So, before you go and purchase that 20 dollar Adobe Photoshop subscription, maybe give this a try first (probably an unfair comparison, but I don't use either lol). 7$/ month doesn't sound too bad for all that.

PRODUCT 2: Duo and Khan Academy 📚

Duo and Khan Academy are getting a GPT-4 revamp. Duo is a subscription based app that teaches people different languages. Khan Academy, otherwise known as my high school studying savior, is an online education platform with videos on just about any topic.

Duo added two GPT-powered features: Explain my Answer and Roleplay (ooh la la). With the Explain my Answer feature, you can interact with a GPT-4 chatbot to ask any questions you might have. For Roleplay, you can have full on text conversations with GPT-4 in whatever language you are studying. I'd like to think I'd still be fluent in French if Duo had a feature like this a decade ago.

Khan Academy, on the other hand, introduces Khanmigo, an AI-powered tutor and assistant. They intend for Khanmigo to be a multi-pronged solution. It can provide universal tutoring services to students in need, AI-guided lesson planning and feedback for educators, and writing feedback/coaching for students among other things. Sounds like it's about to be Chegg on AI steroids. If you want to try out Khanmigo before its released to the public, here's the waitlist (remember, there's always a waitlist).

If you have any AI products you want featured you know where to find me: @TheAIBloke.

Pretty Pictures With Midjourney

Well, after lackluster Twitter engagement for prompt-guessing, I've decided to just include these pretty pictures with the prompts for people to enjoy!

Prompt: Aaron Kim, a majestic whale breaching the surface of the ocean under the moonlight, surrounded by a glowing aura of bioluminescent plankton, creating a surreal and enchanting atmosphere, painted with acrylic on canvas, --ar 4:3

Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow (But Please Keep Reading LOL)

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