A week in Generative AI: Search, Personas & Aliens
A week in Generative AI: Search, Personas & Aliens
News for the week ending 15th October 2023
There’s another flood of new generative AI features being released this week from Character.ai, Adobe, Meta and Google. I expect this trend to continue until the end of the year. Some great articles below on the environmental impact of AI as well as new research and long reads from Deloitte, Sequoia and Ben Evans
Character.AI introduces group chats where people and multiple AIs can talk to each other
Nice little development at Character.AI here. As I keep saying, they’re definitely one to keep an eye on due to the volumes of younger users and amount of time they spend with the app. I think we’ll see future uses of this sort of thing for research - imagine hosting a qual group with multiple generated personas!
Incredibly smart or incredibly stupid? What we learned from using ChatGPT for a year
Great summary of some practical uses of ChatGPT as well as some brilliant examples of how the technology is being used in the real world.
Google's AI-powered search experience can now generate images, write drafts
The future of search is starting to come in to focus, but I think there are still a lot of changes to go. Although I am not really sure what drafts and being a writing assistant has got to do with search….?!
Adobe's project fast fill is generative fill for video
Great to see generative AI image features coming to video - it will probably take another 12-18 months, but then I suspect both image and video generative AI production will be on a par.
You Can Now Chat With One of Meta’s Horrifying AI Personas
My favourite quote from this article - ‘it feels like you’re DMing an amateur screenwriter‘ 🤣. BUT - I do think there’s something very interesting in this approach when the technology has matured, similar to character.ai.
‘Instant Evolution': AI Creates a Squishy Purple Blob That Uses Air to Walk
I love this - using AI to effectively ‘speed up’ evolution and seeing the novel forms that it can produce. This might be the closest we get to seeing how life could evolve differently on other planets.
This week’s AI Ethics news
AI on Track to Gobble Up as Much Energy as a Country, Study Finds
ChatGPT-4V Multimodal decodes a Redacted government document
Google’s AI Is Making Traffic Lights More Efficient and Less Annoying
Google Has Your Back If Its AI Lands You in Copyright Trouble
Downing Street trying to agree statement about AI risks with world leaders
AI revolutionizing MRI scans — A Munich startup banked $32M to scan eggs, and says humans are next
This week’s long reads
Deloitte - Gen AI powers content marketing advantage for early adopters
Sequoia - AI’s $240B Question
Ben Evans - Unbundling AI
OpenAI - OpenAI’s technology explained
Flyte.org - Getting Started with Large Language Models: Key Things to Know
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.“
William Gibson