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Good morning, human brains, and welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• A text-to-optical illusion model 🪄 🦄

  Factorized Diffusion uses a pretrained model to create optical illusions.

• Developer dream or developer scream? 👨‍💻 🔥

  GitHub launched CoPilot workplace, a new AI developer environment.

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MAIN COURSE

Eye candy or eye brocolli? 🪄 🦄

Yesterday, University of Michigan researchers introduced Factorized Diffusion. It uses a pretrained diffusion model to generate optical illusions.

What kind of optical illusions?

• Hybrid images — makes images that look different depending on viewing distance or size.

• Color hybrids — changes appearance with color manipulation.

• Motion Hybrids — changes appearance with motion blur. They combine motion-blurred and residual image parts.

• Hybrids from real images — involves splitting and recombining image parts.

• Triple Hybrids — based on three prompts. They use a manually adjusted Laplacian pyramid.

How does it work?

Factorized Diffusion splits an image into elements such as color and detail, with text prompts shaping each part. As it reduces noise during creation, it crafts 'hybrid images' that change appearance with distance and lighting, producing complex visual illusions.

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SIDE SALAD

Code magic or code tragic? 👨‍💻 🔥

On Monday, GitHub launched Copilot Workspace. It’s a developer environment with AI agents that help you with everything from brainstorming to the final coding implementation.

What’s the point?

The goal is to lower the entry barrier of software development. You give it your idea, and it offers a step-by-step guide to develop the code, fix bugs, and more. It’s powered by GPT-4 Turbo and can help you run GitHub actions, scan for security vulnerabilities, and more.

Can I use it now?

GitHub opened sign-ups for a technical preview of Copilot Workspace. It’s designed to be used on your desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.

You can join the waitlist, here.

YOUR DAILY MUNCH

Tools 🛠️

BeeDone — turns productivity into a fun game.

HUUK.AI — An AI-powered travel agent for spontaneous road trip activities.

Play AI — conversational AI agents for your business.

Think Pieces 🧠

AI reduces cardiac death rates in patients with high-risk ECGs. An AI-powered ECG alert system reduced 90-day mortality from 4.3% to 3.6%.

Morris II, the AI-driven malware. It spreads using AI services to hack systems and steal data. It does this by leveraging ChatGPT, Gemini, and more.

Startup News 💰

GitHub introduces Copilot Workspace. It’s a development environment that assists developers from planning to execution using GPT-4 Turbo.

Meta unveiled Meditron. It’s an open-source LLM tailored for the medical fields that outperforms other models in benchmarks like MedQA.

Google expanded Gemini to support older Android models. You can install Gemini via the Play Store and use it as an alternative to Google Assistant.

Research 👨‍🔬

HaLo-NeRF — a framework that allows detailed, text-driven visualizations for improved interaction with virtual environments of real-world places.

Learning H-Infinity Locomotion Control — trains robots by modeling adversarial interactions between the robot and external disturbances.

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Until next time 🤖😋🧠