Google & MIT Team Up Against Photoshop

…And we’re back!

Yep, the Neural Frontier is bringing you yet another roundup of sizzling updates from the world of AI technology. There’s a lot to dig into this week, from groundbreaking updates to weekly picks of the best AI tools on the market.

In this issue, we’ve got:

🤯 Google, MIT, and the Max Planck Institute team up against Photoshop?

💸 NVIDIA experiences an AI-powered stock rise

🤖 ChatGPT finally releases its iOS app!

🤔  Is AI taking it too far?

⚡ The Neural Frontier’s weekly picks: 3 AI tools you should be using.

🤯 Google, MIT, and the Max Planck Institute team up to take down Photoshop?  

With the release of a research paper showcasing the Drag-based Generative Adversarial Network (DragGAN), it’s safe to say that generative AI is still at the top of its game. Though the latest iteration of image-warping AI tools is just a research paper for now, it’s pretty impressive—to say the least.

Think of DragGAN as Photoshop’s WARP tool—but on steroids 💊. However, with DragGAN, you’re not just moving pixels around; you’re leveraging the power of generative AI to, well, regenerate the object in question. This comes with some perks—for one, you can rotate or reorient 2D images as if they were 3D models.

Evidently, this means that the era of deepfakes will probably reach its peak. However, the image editing possibilities are enough to tickle any creator’s fancy.

💸 NVIDIA experiences an AI-powered stock rise 

With a 24% stock value leap, NVIDIA approached a whopping 1 trillion dollar valuation on Thursday. Why the sudden leap? Well, let’s thank our AI-driven ecosystem for that. Here’s the thing, to meet the computation needs of ChatGPT and other generative AI-centric tools, there’s been an increase in the demand for NVIDIA’s chips.

This, in turn, led to a massive leap in stock prices, causing the company’s valuation to soar over competitors Intel and AMD. To sum it up, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Jensen Huang added, “We’re seeing incredible orders to retool the world’s data centers.” He then emphasized how the budgets of most data centers will shift to accelerated computing in the coming times.

🤖 ChatGPT finally releases its iOS app!

With its Android app still in the works, OpenAI took the world by surprise with the release of its free iOS app. Featuring voice input and backed by Whisper—the company’s speech recognition model—this free application gives users yet another reason to tap into the AI ecosystem.

Similarly to its web-only counterpart, there are still concerns about privacy and the possibility of fabricated information. As such, users are urged to fact-check data and refrain from sharing sensitive information with the application. In any case, the app rolls out first in the US and will arrive in other countries in the coming weeks.

🤔 Is AI taking it too far?

With the rapid rise of large language learning models, the release of Seance AI might finally beg the question, “Is AI taking it too far?” This AI-powered tool is essentially a chatbot designed to mimic people’s dead loved ones.

According to product designer Jarren Rocks, “It's essentially meant to be a short interaction that can provide a sense of closure. That's really where the main focus is here. It's not meant to be something super long-term. In its current state, it's meant to provide a conversation for closure and emotional processing.”

With the name Seance AI, you can tell that the team behind it wants to leave you with a sense of magic and wonder. All you need to do is enter the name of the person you want to “speak” to, alongside their age, personality traits, how they died, and some other text-based info pertaining to how they conversed when they were alive.

So, what do you thing? Is AI taking it too far? Or are some of us getting worked up over nothing?

⚡ The Neural Frontier’s weekly picks: 3 AI tools you should be using.

As usual, we have a stellar pick of AI tools to supercharge your productivity-related endeavors this week. There’s even something there for users who just want to have some creative fun. Dig in!

1. 🧙Bricabrac AI: Here’s one for the lovers of no-code tools! This tool allows you to create apps in seconds with only text-based prompts. From easily creating the classic snake game to a basic version of Tetris, this tool shows that it’s brimming with potential..

2. 💡Open Art: Poised as an image generator that levels up your creativity ten times over, Open Art brings the power of personalized AI models right to your doorstep. With this tool, you can generate images for content marketing or personal purposes—instead of searching tirelessly for royalty-free images.

3. 🌐Browse AI: If you’re a web scraping buff, you’re gonna love this one! Offering itself as a best-in-class web scraping solution, this tool allows you to extract data from websites in minutes. Even better, it doesn’t require any coding knowledge.

Whew! That was a heavy one. As usual, we’re more than happy to bring you sizzling updates from the AI world. As things heat up—like NVIDIA’s stock prices (😏)—we hope you hop on the AI train and leverage the information here to remain ahead of the curve.

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