Metas New AI Research Models
Plus a Midjourney image generation hack...
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
June 20, 2024
Welcome back, AI’ers!
Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today
🤖 Metas New AI Research Models
✨ Midjourney Image Generation Hack
📰 News Hot Off The Press
💰️ Newly Added AI Tools
TOOL HIGHLIGHT
TODAY’S FEATURED TOOL
🖥️ Soundify AI
Soundify is an innovative AI-powered sound effect generator that enables users to create unique sound effects from text descriptions. It is a versatile tool that caters to a wide range of audio needs, from background music to ambient sounds and special effects.
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TRENDING STORIES
TODAY’S TOP STORIES
Meta is Releasing New AI Research Models to Accelerate Innovation at Scale
Meta has released several new AI research models to accelerate innovation and collaboration with the global AI community.
Meta's Chameleon models can understand and generate both images and text simultaneously, enabling creative applications like generating captions or scenes.
The multi-token prediction approach trains language models to predict multiple future words at once, building better and faster large language models.
AudioSeal, a watermarking technique for detecting AI-generated speech, enhances detection speed by up to 485 times compared to previous methods.
OpenAI shuts down tools for two AI political candidates
OpenAI has shut down AI chatbots created by political candidates in Wyoming and the UK, citing violations of their policy against using the technology for political campaigning.
The company took action against Victor Miller's AI mayoral candidate in Cheyenne and Steve Endacott's AI parliamentary candidate, emphasizing that their technology is not designed for autonomous decision-making in government.
OpenAI's policy explicitly prohibits using their technology for political campaigning or lobbying
Experts warn against relying on AI for government decision-making, stressing the importance of human judgment
Despite the setbacks, Miller believes his efforts could inspire more AI candidates in the future
Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent
Perplexity, a billion-dollar AI startup, has been accused of surreptitiously scraping content from websites and generating inaccurate information in its chatbot responses, despite claiming to be an accurate and reliable "answer engine".
WIRED's analysis found that Perplexity's chatbot frequently "hallucinates" or makes up false information, such as attributing fake quotes and events to WIRED articles that never happened.
Developer Robb Knight and WIRED discovered that Perplexity appears to be scraping websites from unpublicized IP addresses, even when those sites have blocked its crawler via robots.txt files.
In some cases, the Perplexity chatbot seems to be summarizing articles not by directly accessing them, but by piecing together information from search engine metadata and extracts, leading to inaccurate and fabricated responses.
QUICK TIP
AI QUICK TIP
✨ Using Twitter X To Find Midjourney Styles
Here’s a quick Midjourney creation tip. Go to Twitter X and type in the search bar --sref.
--sref is a new feature in Midjourney, an AI image generation tool, that allows you to specify a reference image to influence the style and aesthetics of the generated image. Here's how it works:
You add --sref followed by the URL of an image at the end of your text prompt. Midjourney will then analyze that reference image and apply its style, color scheme, and visual characteristics to the image it generates based on your prompt.
It's essentially a way to achieve consistent aesthetics across generated images by using a reference image as a style guide. The resulting image will have a look and feel similar to the reference.
When you type --sref in X, you’ll see many different styles that you can start using immediately.
It’s a great way to find inspiration and see what others generate.
QUICK BITS
MORE NEWS
Elon Musk Forecasts A “10%-20% Chance” Of AI-Related Global Disaster (link)
Meta AI removes block on election-related queries in India while Google still applying limits (link)
Adobe is facing a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission (link)
Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist (link)
How Abridge became one of the most talked about healthcare AI startups (link)
Nvidia passes Microsoft in market cap to become most valuable public company (link)
OpenAI shuts down tools for two AI political candidates (link)
Adobe codifies pledge not to train AI on customer data (link)
Nvidia CEO Sees Bright Future for AI-Powered Electric Grid (link)
OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company (link)
Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent (link)
Genspark is the latest attempt at an AI-powered search engine (link)
AI shows how field crops develop: Software can simulate future growth based on a single initial image (link)
Camb AI aims to challenge ElevenLabs - and releases its voice cloning model for free (link)
Apple Developer Academy adds AI training for students and alumni (link)
Notion launched 'AI connectors', a new feature that connects Slack and Google Drive to Notion AI (link)
Autify launches Zenes, an AI agent for software quality assurance (link)
Roblox’s Road to 4D Generative AI (link)
NEW TOOLS
FROM OUR DATABASE
Sead - Smarter Reading - a powerful tool that redefines the way users read and assimilate information from web articles. Its primary features involve saving, summarizing, and transforming articles into a listenable format.
WalleX - an AI-powered wallpaper application that transforms device screens with a dynamic collection of wallpapers. Developed with cutting-edge artificial intelligence and further improved by professional designers, each wallpaper provides a visually impressive and diverse viewing experience.
Igiwe AI Chat - a personal AI assistant app designed with a minimalist approach and a focus on user privacy and security. This tool does not record or share user data and does not require an account or login.
RedactAI - an advanced AI-powered tool designed to enhance your LinkedIn presence. It assists users in creating high-quality LinkedIn posts quickly and efficiently.
ToDoIt - an AI-powered task management tool that utilizes voice command technology to aid in productivity. At its core, the tool provides a method for quick task organization.
See more of the newly added tools here.
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