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Good morning, human brains. Welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.
Here’s what’s on the menu today:
The Unabomber on AI 💣
His dystopian views on AI written back in 2008 have people talking.
Adobe’s AI overhaul 🎨
Adobe integrated its Firefly art generator into its graphic design app, Express.
Bing’s Chat updates 🗣️🖥️
Several updates for its intelligent chat box, including voice chat on Desktop.
APPETIZER
Yep, the Unabomber was a doomer 💣️
The notorious Ted Kaczynski penned a dark vision of AI world domination before his death.
His writing on intelligent machines has regained attention, with the optimism-pessimism AI debate in full swing. In stark contrast with the optimistic outlooks of those like Marc Andreessen, this feels a lot closer to Eliezer Yudkowsky’s point of view.
A blast from the past, one might say…
Kaczynski painted AI as a tool capable of making human labor obsolete, potentially leading to societal collapse.
As an example, on the flip side, more than half of businesses in Britain believe that AI will create more jobs than it replaces.
Ted: Kaczynski's bleak outlook is no shocker. Pieces of what he predicted ring true, though, in terms of increased automation and specialization.
Counter-Ted: Cautionary tales are important, but it's also vital to remember that new tech creates societal and economic shifts, birthing new industries and opportunities. And we’ve seen this phenomenon play out even before AI — so all of this should be taken with a grain of salt.
BUZZWORD OF THE DAY
Creative Destruction
A term popularized by the Austrian-American economist Joseph Schumpeter, creative destruction refers to the process by which economic structures are disrupted and replaced by new ones.
We’ve seen creative destruction at an accelerated pace since the Industrial Revolution, e.g. steam replacing wind-powered sails and the horse and buggy being replaced by the automobile.
We’ll continue to see this macro-economic idea played out with AI as the economy adapts to the new tech.
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MAIN COURSE
Adobe’s AI revamp
Adobe added its text-to-image AI model, Firefly, to its graphic design app, Express.
The Firefly integration breathes new life into Adobe Express with AI features including:
1/ Images and text effects generated from a text prompt
2/ Video editing and mixed-media creation
3/ Photoshop compatibility
4/ Multi-player creation
The notable feature: text effects. We’re seeing AI prompting for adjusting individual design elements now.
Our take: It seems that AI is a part of staple in creative work at this point — expect the trend to continue. The fusion of AI and creativity is no longer a distant dream but a present reality.
A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA
New Bing updates 🗣️🖥️
Microsoft released several updates for its Bing Chat interface, including voice functionality on Desktop.
Now, users can access Bing's voice input for chat by clicking the microphone icon in the Bing Chatbox in the lower-right corner.
Other updates include enhanced visuals, citations, graphic-centric answers, more image creation, chat history export, third-party plugins, and multi-modality. Bing Chat cites its answers with links, and it’s powered by a version of OpenAI’s LLM, called Prometheus.
Our take: Bing's voice chat for desktop is a step towards bringing an intuitive and engaging AI chat experience to a wider audience. The trends we’re seeing indicate that we’re in the integration phase now — embedding AI support into software, and making its outputs faster to use for everyday tasks.
MEMES FOR DESSERT
YOUR DAILY MUNCH
Think Pieces
Information Age: AI will create more jobs than it will replace.
Startup News
Salesforce announces that they are increasing funding for AI startups and releasing new cloud product offerings.
Research
Research paper on GANeRF. A new technique that leads to more realistic virtual and mixed reality environments.
Paper on the social effects of generative AI. An in-depth read covering everything from economics to ethical dilemmas.
Tools
Tweet Hunter: Join 5000+ Twitter creators leveraging AI. Powered by GPT-4. [Sponsored]
Deepshot: AI reshoot and DeepFake generation tool.
AI Spend: Keep tabs on your OpenAI usage and costs.
TWEET OF THE DAY
Elon Musk’s, err, classy new tweet about AR and the future of human relationships:
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