All of This AI News Is Getting Absolutely Crazy!

Insane Week in AI

This transcript covers the major announcements in the AI space from last week and this week. It includes announcements from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Stable Diffusion, Runway Research, and Nvidia.

Gen 2 by Runway Research

• Runway Research announced Gen 2, a multimodal AI system that can generate novel videos with text images or video clips.

• The new model promises to have complete text to video capabilities.

• Gen 2 has a waitlist for now but will be rolled out over the next coming weeks.

Nvidia's GTC Conference

• Nvidia is doing their GTC conference where they talk about all of their biggest breakthroughs and advancements that they're building inside of Nvidia.

• Jensen Huang gave his keynote where he talked about all of the crazy things that Nvidia's been working on.

• One of the big standout moments was when they announced Nvidia foundations which is designed to give really impressive compute power to anybody in the cloud so you no longer need insane crazy systems to generate things with AI and run things like large language models.

Adobe Partnership with Nvidia

• Jensen also announced a significant expansion of their long time partnership with Adobe to build a set of Next Generation AI capabilities for the future of creativity integrating generative AI into everyday workflows of marketers and creative professionals.

Overall, this transcript covers some major announcements in the field of AI including Runway Research's Gen 2 announcement, Nvidia's GTC conference highlights including GPU Cloud compute offering and Adobe partnership with Nvidia.

Nvidia and Adobe Partnership

The partnership between Nvidia and Adobe allows companies to build their own generative models using AI image generation that is built on licensed images. Adobe Firefly beta is a new AI art model that is completely trained on licensed images and open source images only.

Nvidia and Adobe Partnership

• Companies can build their own generative models using AI image generation built on licensed images.

• Partners include Getty Images, Shutterstock, and Adobe.

• Adobe Firefly beta is a new AI art model trained on licensed and open-source images only.

Features of Adobe Firefly

• Compensation for artists who allow use of their images inside the models.

• Ability to change scenes, draw, mask certain areas out, tweak AI images, change color of things, generate style variations, add trees or remove background from an image.

• Ability to find objects in an image such as lighthouses and change the style of it.

Text Effects with Adobe Firefly

Text effects with Adobe Firefly allow users to create unique fonts by turning letters into different objects like popcorn or melting chocolate.

Text Effects with Adobe Firefly

• Users can turn letters into different objects like popcorn or melting chocolate.

• Different themes are available such as narrow depth of field Golden Arrow bioluminescent concept art digital art which generates a completely different style of image.

Recolor Vectors with Adobe Firefly

Recolor vectors with Adobe Firefly allows users to generate images using a diffusion-based model similar to that of Mid-Journey or Stable Fusion.

Recolor Vectors with Adobe Firefly

• Users can generate images using a diffusion-based model similar to that of Mid-Journey or Stable Fusion.

• Examples include a UFO and a Chihuahua dog holding a sword.

Firefly AI and Bing Chat Image Creator

In this section, the speaker talks about two new AI tools: Firefly AI and Bing Chat Image Creator. He discusses the limitations of Firefly AI and its non-commercial use policy. He also demonstrates how to use Bing Chat Image Creator to generate images using text commands.

Firefly AI

• Firefly AI is a new tool for generating images using artificial intelligence.

• It does not support upload or export of video content, nor can it be used for commercial purposes while in beta.

• The speaker recommends following Bilo Sidhu on Twitter for more information on AI.

Bing Chat Image Creator

• Bing has released a new version of Dolly that allows users to create images directly within Bing chat.

• The tool uses a more advanced version of Dolly than previous versions.

• The speaker demonstrates how to use the tool by generating an image of a cat eating tacos.

• The generated images are much better than those produced by previous versions of Dolly.

• Google's Bard is similar to Bing chat and is now available for testing in the US and UK.

Google's Bard

This section discusses Google's new search AI called Bard, which is based on their llama model. The speaker explains how to access Bard and mentions that there is currently a waitlist.

Accessing Bard

• Bard is Google's answer to Bing chat, based on their llama model.

• It is currently being rolled out in the US and UK with a waitlist for access.

• To get access, go to bard.google.com.

Ben's Bites Newsletter

This section discusses Ben's Bites newsletter and his ability to constantly learn and grow by accessing information from the real world through Google search.

Ben's Bites Newsletter

• Ben has an awesome daily newsletter called Ben's bites.

• He has access to information from the real world through Google search and keeps his responses consistent with search results.

Cloud Compute Services

This section talks about the pros and cons of popular cloud compute services, including AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, Alibaba, IBM, and Oracle.

Popular Cloud Compute Services

• AWS is discussed first followed by Microsoft then Google Cloud.

• The pros and cons of each service are given.

• Other cloud services like Alibaba, IBM, and Oracle are also mentioned.

Bard Announcement

This section discusses the announcement of Bard chat service by Google.

Bard Chat Service

• Bard chat service was announced by Google.

• It is a massive news in AI space.

• A deep dive video will be made about it when access is granted.

Bill Gates' Thoughts on AI

This section summarizes Bill Gates' thoughts on AI as discussed in his article on gatesnotes.com.

Bill Gates' Thoughts on AI

• Bill Gates wrote an article about AI on gatesnotes.com.

• AI can reduce some of the world's worst inequities.

• AI is essential in creating personal assistance for people and leading to a huge boost in productivity.

• Advancements in health are being made as a result of AI being able to use diffusion models and computer vision to detect early issues in people's health.

• Boosts in education are also seen from AI.

• The development of AI is fundamental and will change the way people work, learn, travel, get healthcare, and communicate with each other.

Advancements in AI

This section discusses the rapid advancements happening in the field of AI.

Advancements in AI

• Last week was the craziest week ever seen for advancements in AI.

• Every day there are more news announcements about advancements.

• Things that were said we won't see for years are now happening weeks later.

• This is becoming exponential and very exciting.

• There is so much cool stuff happening like Adobe Firefly, Google's Bard, Microsoft's new version of Dolly, Gen 2 etc.

TLDR of the Week

In this section, the speaker introduces a weekly video series where he summarizes the best AI advancements and tools of the week.

TLDR Video Series

• The speaker creates a video every day but understands that it's hard to keep up with.

• He sends out a weekly summary every Friday on futuretools.io.

• The summary includes the best AI advancements and tools of the week.

• To receive the summary, join the free newsletter on futuretools.io.

Conclusion

In this section, the speaker concludes his video and thanks his audience for watching.

Thank You

• The speaker thanks his audience for tuning in.

• He encourages viewers to like and subscribe to support his channel and see more AI content.