Welcome, humans.
Happy Monday! The Neuron rule #7,823: make Mondays entirely automated.
Here’s what’s going on in AI today:
- Bard can analyze images you feed it (but it hallucinates a lot).
- Meta announced CM3leon, an advanced multimodal image model.
- Writers who use ChatGPT write 40% faster.
- Schools in Hong Kong are embracing AI for students.
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Bard Can Recognize Images. 4 Business Use Cases 👇
Bard is like a college dropout (& not the startup founder-type): bad at writing, coding, and overall reasoning.
But it does have one redeeming feature: image recognition (upload a photo → Bard describes the image).
This can be particularly helpful for sorting or categorizing any physical items. Here are a few neat applications:
- Classifying scanned invoices.
- Evaluating images of products or real estate.
- Documenting meeting notes.
- Transcribing text from actual books.
For now, Bard only supports image uploads from your phone. And much like a college dropout: Bard overpromises. It describes images wrong. A lot.
Check out how badly it does handling simple children’s images.
Why it matters: Bard’s image capabilities are impressive, but they appear to do nothing more than a reverse image search (locating similar visuals on the internet). We only recommend it for non-work-related tasks as of now.
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Meta Announced CM3leon, A ‘First-Of-Its Kind’ Image AI 📷
Midjourney generates photorealistic images.
Bard describes what’s in an image.
CM3leon can do both.
This new foundational AI model from Meta can do both text-to-image and image-to-text. It’s like LeBron James: insane at offense and defense.
This means CM3leon (pronounced “chameleon”) has the capabilities to:
- generate images (level sits between Midjourney & DALL-E).
- edit photos with text prompts (“alter the color”).
- place objects with precision (“put sink at coordinates 175, 47”).
- create captions and answer questions about its images.
Why it matters: Meta keeps dishing out innovative AI tech. But so far, they haven’t been commercialized (you and I can’t use them).
But at the end of the day, Meta is a social media business, and we're confident that many of its models will find their place in media creation.
CM3leon’s superpower is that it’s multimodal: it’s proficient in text and image. This could be a big unlock for advertisers, marketers, and/or journalists to generate images and content under one umbrella.
Around the Horn 🦄
- A study found that writers completed tasks like press releases 40% faster and 18% better when using ChatGPT.
- Elon Musk pitched xAI, his OpenAI competitor, as being worth $20 billion to prospective talent.
- OpenAI’s moderation contractors are calling on lawmakers to investigate Big Tech outsourced AI training practices.
- Schools in Hong Kong are teaching students how to leverage and question AI tools.
- Jasper cut ~30% of its staff last month.
Treats To Try 🍿
- Sweep is an AI junior developer that fixes bug reports.
- This dashboard overviews the live speeds of OpenAI’s models (GPT-4, GPT-3.5-turbo, etc).
- Air can conduct 5-40 minute long sales & customer service phone calls.
- Submagic captions your short videos with highlighted keywords and emojis.
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