Smart Person Roundup
OpenAI on Monday, today is Humane
Humane Launches it’s AI Pi
On Monday people were saying that OpenAI was having it’s “iPhone moment”, or at least it’s “App Store moment” as they are now launching a new marketplace for mini GPTs. And by Thursday we finally saw the release of the new AI powered pin from Humane that is supposed to usher in the post smartphone era. Check it out
MIT: Generative AI Explained
Even though I’ve read a lot of articles like this in recent months, I still have a hard time explaining how all these things work. If you need a quick refresher about what Generative AI and how we got here via 50 years of computer science, you probably enjoy this article. Check it out
Harvard Business Review AI tools in the Workplace
Do you consider yourself a “knowledge worker”? And are you ever overwhelmed with the amount of information required to manage your daily work and life? Get ready to tame the complexity and read the how to better manage things with the use of Generative AI tools in the workplace. Check it out
As these cases demonstrate, delegating some of structured tasks to generative AI can help to relieve the stress of cognitive overload so you can focus on more important tasks. The drudgery can be done faster, and possibly better, by a computer, while you can improve your performance on the tasks that remain.
Person of the Week: Fei Fei Li
Li is co-director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute and one of the key figures in the development of contemporary AI and machine learning, particularly for her work creating ImageNet in the 2000s. Check it out
Google is Bringing Generative AI to Advertisers
Google has created a new browser based tools that let’s just about anyone upload an image of their product and turn it into an ad, swap backgrounds, or make seasonal changes. That’s OK, I never liked making banner ads. Check it out
It’s pitching the tool for use by both advertising agencies as well as businesses without in-house creative staff. Using text prompts, advertisers can iterate on the text and images they generate until they find something they like.
That’s it for today! Hope you’re having a great veteran’s day. I’ll be back with another big Midjourney tutorial on Monday.