Google Goes All-AI at I/O Event + ChatGPT Plugins for Plus Users
Stability AI releases Stable Animation tool & this week's favorite image prompts
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AI News This Week
Google Announces Several New AI Products
Google announced a LOT of new and upcoming AI tools at their I/O event this week, including ( link ):
Maps with Immersive View for Routes, Magic Editor for Photos, and interactive ChatGPT-type dialogue in Google Search
Bard is available w/ no waitlist and upcoming integration with Adobe Firefly, Khan Academy, Instacart, and more
PaLM 2 language model powered the new PaLM API and was used to create the Med-PaLM2 tool to summarize medical texts
Wendy’s and Google Cloud will expand their partnership to bring Wendy’s FreshAI to fast food drive-thru lanes, soon. ( link )
ImageBind by Meta
ImageBind is a new creation by Meta that helps computers see and understand images similar to how people do, by identifying the relationships between objects in the pictures.
This could lead to improvements in virtual reality and other computer-assisted experiences. Read more here.
Stable Animation by Stability AI
Stability AI released Stable Animation SDK, a user-friendly tool that helps create lifelike and seamless animations. Read about it here.
Stable Animation SDK creates animations in three ways: text to animation, text + image, and video + text. Try it in the Colab notebook here.
ChatGPT Plugins & Web Browsing Available to ChatGPT Plus Users
OpenAI announced Plus users will get early beta access to Plugins and Web Browsing in ChatGPT. Plus users will soon see a new beta panel in their settings with these options, and plugins will need to be installed and enabled from the Plugins store. Read the notes here.
👉 The Friday Generative AI Twitter Space is back after a 3-week hiatus, and we had another epic conversation yesterday. We covered new developments and predictions for the next few months in Gen AI with Robert Scoble, Paul Trani (Adobe), pharmapsychotic (Stability AI), and many more.
Don’t worry if you missed it - find out what 4K+ listeners learned and listen to it right here (it’s almost 3 hours long so fast-forward if you need to, and topics started with Midjourney, Stable Animation, Google, Adobe Firefly, followed by open conversation):
🌟 I’m launching a 2-3 week cohort-based course on AI-generated images for social media creators through Maven! Learn inspiration, art styles, techniques, GPT tools, and more. I want to know what you want to learn to provide more value through this course. I read every, single answer and I look forward to hearing from you!
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🎨 Favorite Image Prompts This Week
This is a great prompt and extremely easy to use, from my friend Alie Jules on Twitter:
High fashion portrait shoot of [ insert your subject ], curved mirrors, symmetrical lines, neoclassical style, ultra-realistic, hyper-detailed --ar 16:9
Create a wallpaper, banner, email, or whatever you want with this prompt! Just three words and you've got it! RGB stands for "Red, Blue, and Green", so you can add tons of color with just a few letters.
Create images in landscape sizes for banners, computer wallpaper, and portrait layouts for phone screens.
The universe, RGB
Switch subjects for this cute prompt:
Illustration of puppies playing, splashy paint splotches, jewel-tone color palette, hyper-realistic, UHD
Cubism involves simple 2D geometric shapes and angles, and chiaroscuro uses contrasts between light and dark colors. This prompt creates impressive images.
Digital art colorful [ your subject ] drawing, in the style of cubism graphic, bold colorful lines, airbrush art, Flickr, dark chiaroscuro contrasts, highly detailed, hyper-realistic, UHD
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CatBird: Free AI image generator creates dozens of images from a single prompt, using more than 15 different models. ( link )
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CLIP Interrogator 2.1: Upload an image to generate a prompt to create your own, similar image with this free tool by Pharmapsychotic. Try the free tool here: ( link )
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Thanks for reading and have a creative week!
Ooh, this is fantastic! I just found your publication and already have several new image AI tools to try! Thanks for putting it together and sharing!