🪲 ChatGPT has Internet access through its new app store
🎞️ Canva launches AI tools for creators
🖼️ Bill Gates declares the “Age of AI has Begun”
🪰 Fake AI images spread online of Trump and Putin being jailed
ChatGPT has finally gained Internet access
Today, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT launched plugins. Plugins essentially extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases.
What you need to know:
- The plugins launch is only to people who have been granted access via a waitlist.
- Developers on the waitlist will be granted access to OpenAI plugins to begin building new applications within the OpenAI ecosystem.
- The initial launch partners are Expedia, FiscalNote, Instacart, KAYAK, Klarna, Milo, OpenTable, Shopify, Slack, Speak, Wolfram, and Zapier.
- OpenAI released two of their own plugins: web browsing (Internet access) and code interpreter(allowing python code execution for math).
Canva launches all kinds of AI
Launched in 2013, Canva now touts more than 120 million monthly users, which is 35 million more than it had before the launch of its Visual Worksuite in September 2022. The company says more than 15 billion designs have been created using its platform.
Yesterday, Canva introduced new features and tools during its Canva Create virtual event.
What you need to know:
- Launches Assistant for design element search and quick access to features
- Magic Write, AI-powered copywriting assistant, now accessible in all project types
- Magic Write available in 18 languages
- New features include automatic presentation generation, Magic Design, Magic Edit, and Magic Eraser
- Beat Sync matches video footage to soundtrack; Translate feature supports over 100 languages
- New user-requested features: Draw, Layouts, Styles, Layers, and Alt Text support
- Canva adds 953 new fonts, including Arial, Courier, Helvetica, and Times New Roman
- Brand Hub introduced for brand consistency with Magic Replace, brand templates, folders, and guidelines
Check out the full announcement below.
Bill Gates declares the “Age of AI has Begun” in essay
On Tuesday, Bill Gates wrote a piece on his blog GatesNotes titled The Age of AI has begun. Gates mentions AI is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet. He begins the article explaining that in his live time, he’s seen two demonstrations of technology that struck him as revolutionary.
- the graphical user interface
- OpenAI’s GPT
What you need to know:
- Gates believes AI can benefit industries like health care, education, and personal assistants
- He acknowledges potential dangers of AI technology
- He compares ChatGPT’s impact to that of microprocessors, mobile phones, the internet, and PCs
- He believes AI will revolutionize office work, providing constant assistance
- He thinks the health care industry will benefit, especially in poorer countries
- Gates believes AI will play a role to enhance education, measuring student understanding and engagement
- Gates emphasizes balancing AI fears with benefits, ensuring it helps the poor, and overcoming limitations
Fake AI images spread online of Trump and Putin being jailed
As we enter the age of AI and the upcoming election cycle, I fear that AI’s ability to spread misinformation is exponentially higher than what we faced in previous election cycles in the United States. The tools and technology that has been emerging such as DALL-E and Midjourney have the ability to create realistic images from text prompts (as seen in the below images that have been circulating around Twitter for the past week.
What you need to know:
- AI image generators like Midjourney and DALL-E create realistic images from text prompts.
- Midjourney’s latest version can mimic news agency photo styles.
- Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat created and shared AI-generated images of Trump and Putin arrests.
- Midjourney locked Higgins out of their server after the Trump images went viral.
- Public awareness and education is crucial to combat visual misinformation.
- Higgins suggests social media companies develop technology to detect AI-generated images.
- Twitter has a policy against synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media.
- Policy experts worry about regulating deepfakes involving ordinary people.
Cool AI stuff
Deepreview – A tool to review users and analytics audience insights.
Mendable – A tool to create a chat powered search trained on your documentations.
Postly – A tool to design and publish social media marketing campaigns at scale.
Have a cool AI tool to share? Send it to us on Instagram, Twitter, or email and we’ll consider it for an upcoming publication!
Featured AI art of the day
Stunning realistic image found on the Midjourney Showcase from the MJ user Godly. Check out more of this user’s work – it is pretty great!
Prompt: Selfie of small child smiling and kiss space squid friend, artstation, 8k, octane render, unreal engine, very detailed, concept art, realistic, masterpiece, sharp, rule of thirds
Want your art featured? Dm it to us on Instagram, Twitter, or email and we’ll consider it for an upcoming blog!
