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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:
Google’s virtual try-on 👕
Google lets you visualize top-listed women’s clothing items with AI.
Google’s Bard warning 😨
Alphabet Inc warns employees about Bard.
Grammy’s new AI rules 🎵
AI-generated music can win a Grammy — if it’s “mostly” made by humans.
APPETIZER
Google’s fashion AI 👕
Google rolled out a new generative AI feature: virtual try-ons for online clothing shoppers.
“Hey, do I look fat in this?”
The edge? It’s able to render clothing items on a range of body types and sizes.
It’s powered by a diffusion-based AI model trained on millions of images from Google's Shopping Graph.
For now, the feature only applies to women's top-listed clothes on Google. And, you won’t be able to see yourself with the clothes on. Probably a temporary thing, though.
“The render that looks closest to you looks great, babe.”
Our take: Google’s release isn’t anything strictly new. For example, companies like EyeBuyDirect already leverage smartphone cameras to create a virtual try-on experience for their glasses frames. The big beneficiary here: clothing companies. We predict it’ll be a revenue driver for those who can get to the top listings spots.
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BUZZWORD OF THE DAY
Open Source Software
Open source software is code that’s created and distributed in a way that allows anyone to view, modify, and distribute it.
That’s in contrast with its sneakier counterpart, proprietary software — which is created by a company and kept secret.
The same open-source principle can be applied to AI: open-source (e.g. models on Hugging Face) vs closed-source (e.g. OpenAI’s GPT-4).
MAIN COURSE
Bard says beware 🤖
Alphabet Inc, Google’s parent company, urges its workforce to watch what they say to AI chatbots. Even their own.
So, don’t drink the Kool-Aid?
Why so serious? Google Bard’s FAQ shows us a clue:
“When you interact with Bard, Google collects your conversations, your location, your feedback, and usage information. That data helps us provide, improve and develop Google products, services, and machine-learning technologies.“
Google says it keeps conversations to be reviewed for up to three years.
It also states not to include personal information that can be used to identify you or others in your interactions with Bard.
Good news and… Bard news.
Here’s the full Bard FAQ.
If peace of mind is what you seek, there is, thankfully, a way to achieve privacy. But it takes some effort to set up — namely, running your own instance of an open-source LLM. If your AI chatbot isn’t hosted on OpenAI’s, or Google’s, or Microsoft’s websites, they simply won’t have access to your data.
Our take: The line between AI assistance and privacy intrusion blurs further. Treat your conversations with online LLMs like you would your searches on Google.
A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA
Grammy’s new AI music rules
The Recording Academy unveiled new regulations regarding AI-generated music. Songs with are eligible for nominations only if a significant human contribution is evident.
Grammy.com asked Harvey Mason Jr., the CEO of the Recording Academy, why it’s important to change the rules to account for AI:
“It’s important because AI is going to absolutely, unequivocally have a hand in shaping the future of our industry. The idea of being caught off guard by it and not addressing it is unacceptable.“
Peep the new section on Generative Artificial Intelligence here, on page 14.
Our take: Taking a read through the guidelines… they’re, uh, quite vague. What does “meaningful and more than de minimis” mean exactly? A smart time-buying move on the part of the Recording Academy — but expect boundary-poking very, very soon.
MEMES FOR DESSERT
YOUR DAILY MUNCH
Think Pieces
Can ChatGPT replace your accountant? Not yet, but it’s close.
AI in the economy: is AI funding about to take a dive?
100 top UK-based AI startups. An organized list with funding raised.
Startup News
Meta Releases VoiceBox. A generative speech AI model.
Follow The Whale. Poliant creates AI that notifies you when large investors (known as whales) enter or exit an investment.
Research
Getting the most out of text-to-image. How to get more personalized results out of image generators.
GPT Engineer. Explain to AI what AI you want to build. Then the AI asks the necessary questions and builds AI to your specs.
Tools
Flag AI — A toolkit for AI that allows easier fine-tuning, training, and deployment of Large-Language AI Models.
Before Sunset — AI-powered scheduler to increase productivity
Klap — Ai told content creators to quickly create YouTube shorts, tiktoks, and short-form videos.
TWEET OF THE DAY
Deep learning OG Andrew Ng makes the case for teaching AI and coding at an early age.
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