ChatGPT Ushers in a New Era
It's only been eleven months
Everything that Happened at OpenAI Dev Day
ChatGPT is now faster, and cheaper, and more powerful, and you can use it to make little baby GPTs. Well, that’s not quite right. You can use it to develop your own applications that will harness the power of ChatGPT without knowing any code. So if you have a great idea for a particular problem that could be solved with this technology and you think their might be a demand for it, you can create an application and place it OpenAI’s new marketplace. Summary on TechCrunch or more detail from the Verge
Jakob Nielsen with More UX for AI Advice
Hopefully you read the Centaurs and Cyborgs article last week, because the OG UX designer is back in his weekly article, pointing to the same group of consultants and how they increased their productivity with UX tools. If you’re a UX professional who’s still thinking about adding UX tools your repertoire, this is the approach I’m recommending to all my current students.
The ultimate reason for any individual UX professional to learn AI is Jakob’s second law of AI, which says: You won't lose your job to AI, but to someone who uses AI better than you do. Given the substantial performance gains with AI, you don’t stand a chance without it. This will be even more true in the future as the AI tools improve.
Figma Introduces Figjam AI
I don’t think there is anything new here, Figjam has already had a ton of great templates to kick start your meeting and these “AI generated” boards look pretty familiar. Still, they are a time saver and you will look like a rockstar facilitator when you click on those sparkle icons. read more
Graphite: A Free, Web-based Vector Graphics Tool
They say it has AI features (doesn’t everyone, these days?), but I couldn’t find them, but it has a pretty cool web-based interface that works just like Illustrator and you can read all about the upcoming features. Or you can just check out the article. If you pay for your Creative Cloud ala carte, this might save you a few bucks.
Building a Vector Illustration Design System with Midjourney
For the last few months I’ve felt that it must be possible to create an entire library of illustrations in Midjourney. I’d ensure their was consistent styling and then I’d convert them to vectors with vectorizer.ai or a similar tool. However, that’s the sort of project that takes a long time and never gets off the back burner. So when Midjourney launched it’s style tuner feature last week, I knew it was time to act.
Read the full article on Medium.
That’s it for this week, pretty slow week for AI news since OpenAI is grabbing all the attention. Oh wait, it’s only Tuesday. I’m sure there will be a ton more AI news by Friday. Hope you’re getting smarter every week and you’re helping your friends get smart by forwarding this newsletter.