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Human writers still outperform ChatGPT in creativity, study finds
Humans outperform AI in creative writing, for now: A recent study by UC Berkeley researcher Nina Beguš reveals that human-written stories are more creative and nuanced than those generated by AI, though AI's capabilities are rapidly advancing. Beguš, a lecturer in UC Berkeley's School of Information and Department of History, conducted a comparative study between hundreds of human participants and AI platforms like ChatGPT and Llama. The study, published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, offers insights into the current limitations of generative AI tools in creative writing. Study methodology and key findings: Beguš used a common storytelling structure based...
read Oct 28, 2024How to use AI to transform home videos into cinematic masterpieces
AI-powered animation breakthrough: Runway's new Act-One feature transforms home videos into Hollywood-style animated films, potentially revolutionizing the animation industry by making sophisticated techniques more accessible to a broader range of creators. Act-One streamlines the facial animation process, requiring only a video camera to capture an actor's face during performance. The AI technology reworks facial movements and expressions from the input video to fit an animated character, capturing even the most nuanced emotions. The tool can produce multi-character dialogue scenes by having a single actor perform multiple roles, which are then mapped onto different characters in one scene. Democratizing animation production:...
read Oct 28, 2024Google, Hugging Face launch SynthID to detect AI-generated text
New tool for watermarking AI-generated text: Google DeepMind and Hugging Face have released SynthID Text, a tool designed to mark and detect text produced by large language models (LLMs) without compromising output quality or altering the underlying model. Key features and functionality: SynthID Text encodes a watermark into AI-generated text, allowing for the identification of content produced by specific LLMs. The tool doesn't require retraining of the underlying LLM and preserves the quality of generated text. It offers configurable parameters to balance watermarking strength and response preservation. Enterprises can use different watermarking configurations for various models, with secure storage of...
read Oct 24, 2024ComfyUI’s new desktop app just made AI image generation more accessible
New frontier in AI image generation: ComfyUI, a seasoned player in the AI image and video generation space, has launched a beta version of its first desktop application, ComfyUI V1, marking a significant step towards making advanced AI imaging tools more accessible to a broader audience. Key features and improvements: ComfyUI V1 introduces a new desktop user interface designed to be more user-friendly, particularly for non-technical users. The application offers a one-click install option, simplifying the setup process for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. It provides a comprehensive framework for creating high-quality AI images using various image and video models....
read Oct 18, 2024Suno’s new feature composes songs based on photos and videos
AI-generated soundtracks for visual content: Suno, an AI music creation platform, has introduced a new feature called Suno Scenes that composes custom songs based on photos and videos uploaded by users. Suno Scenes eliminates the need for users to write prompts for the AI to create music, instead relying on visual input to generate appropriate soundtracks. The feature is currently available on the iOS app, with plans to expand to Android in the future. Users can access Suno Scenes through the app's camera mode, where they can take a photo or video and have the AI compose a matching song....
read Oct 18, 20245 ways to get the best images out of your Midjourney prompts
AI-generated imagery evolves: Midjourney, a pioneering artificial image generation platform, continues to push the boundaries of digital creativity with its recent move to a web-based interface and enhanced features. Midjourney's transition from a Discord bot to a web platform has expanded its capabilities, including the addition of an editor for image resizing and AI-powered gap-filling. The platform maintains its position as one of the leading AI image generators, often outperforming competitors across various metrics. While Midjourney has become more user-friendly, mastering its nuances and hidden settings can significantly improve the quality and accuracy of generated images. Maximizing Midjourney's potential: Five...
read Oct 17, 2024Google enhances NotebookLM with customizable AI podcasts
Google's NotebookLM evolves with customizable AI podcasts: Google has introduced a new customization feature for AI-generated podcasts in its NotebookLM software, allowing users to tailor the content and focus of these synthetic audio discussions. Key features and updates: NotebookLM, initially launched in 2023 as an experimental AI writing tool, has gained popularity since introducing AI-generated podcast conversations in September. The new customization tool allows users to provide prompts and specify areas of focus for the AI-generated audio content. Google has removed the "experimental" tag from NotebookLM, signaling increased stability and meeting internal quality standards. How the customization works: Users can...
read Oct 16, 2024Using LLMs? Here’s where you may be wasting the most money
The big picture: Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, Claude, and Mistral have significantly boosted productivity in content creation, but inefficiencies arise when making small changes to large documents, leading to wasted time and resources. The Pareto Principle in AI-generated content: As content grows in size, even minor modifications become increasingly tedious, inefficient, and costly in terms of time and resources. This pattern is particularly noticeable in code generation and text creation. The issue becomes more pronounced as the content length increases, making small changes disproportionately challenging. A real-world example: Creating and modifying a landing page using an LLM illustrates...
read Oct 16, 2024All the major announcements from Adobe’s MAX 2024 event
Adobe MAX 2024: A New Era of AI-Powered Creativity: Adobe's annual MAX conference showcased a significant shift in the company's approach to AI integration, moving from generalized prompts to more targeted, workflow-specific AI tools across its Creative Cloud suite. Key announcements and product updates: Adobe unveiled a range of new features and tools aimed at enhancing creative workflows and productivity for designers and content creators. The company introduced its first generative AI video model, now available in Premiere Pro, beating competitors like OpenAI and Google to market. Adobe is transitioning from the "prompt era" of AI to a new "control...
read Oct 15, 2024How NVIDIA is turbocharging Adobe’s latest AI video updates
AI-powered creativity enhancement: Adobe's latest updates to Creative Cloud products and Substance 3D Collection introduce advanced AI features accelerated by NVIDIA RTX GPUs, streamlining content creation workflows for professionals. Adobe MAX creativity conference showcased updates to Premiere Pro, After Effects, and the debut of Substance 3D Viewer app, all optimized for NVIDIA RTX and GeForce RTX GPUs. The October NVIDIA Studio Driver release, designed to optimize creative apps, will be available for download soon. Video editing breakthroughs: Premiere Pro's new Generative Extend feature, powered by the Firefly Video Model, allows seamless frame addition to clips, revolutionizing video editing capabilities. Generative...
read Oct 14, 2024PicsArt’s creative playbook: A vision AI in the creative industry
PicsArt's AI-driven evolution: PicsArt, a popular image and video editing platform with over 150 million monthly active users, is leveraging artificial intelligence to stay competitive and meet the evolving needs of its user base. Competitive landscape and challenges: PicsArt faces stiff competition in the mobile editing domain, with companies like Canva and Adobe offering similar products and features. Artavazd Mehrabyan, PicsArt's CTO, acknowledges the difficulty in maintaining a unique edge in the market, as competitors often copy successful features. The company was an early mover in smartphone-based editing, launching its all-in-one editing service for mobile in 2011. With the rise...
read Oct 14, 2024Adobe launches GenStudio for AI-powered performance marketing
Adobe unveils GenStudio for Performance Marketing: Adobe has launched a new generative AI-powered application designed to streamline the creation and delivery of global advertising and marketing campaigns for brands and agencies. Addressing content demand challenges: The new offering aims to solve a critical issue facing businesses today. Nearly two-thirds of marketers anticipate a fivefold increase in content demand by 2026, driven by consumers' expectations for personalized brand experiences. GenStudio for Performance Marketing provides a single, self-service platform for creating various marketing materials, including paid social ads, display ads, banners, and marketing emails. The application leverages pre-approved, on-brand content to ensure...
read Oct 14, 2024Photoshop is getting a lot of new AI tools — here’s what’s inside
AI-powered enhancements revolutionize Adobe Creative Cloud: Adobe has unveiled a suite of new AI-powered features across its Creative Cloud applications, with significant updates to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere Pro aimed at streamlining design workflows and enhancing creative capabilities. Photoshop's AI-driven upgrades: The popular image editing software receives several powerful new tools to automate complex tasks and improve output quality. The new "Distraction Removal" feature, an extension of the Remove Tool, can automatically identify and eliminate common distractions like people, wires, and cables with a single click. Users can now choose between generative AI (powered by Adobe's Firefly image model)...
read Oct 14, 2024Adobe just announced its Firefly AI video generator — here’s how to sign up
Adobe's Firefly Video Model: A leap in AI-powered content creation: Adobe has unveiled its groundbreaking Firefly Video Model at the Max conference, marking a significant advancement in AI-driven video generation and editing capabilities. The new model supports both text-to-video and image-to-video generation, offering creators unprecedented flexibility in producing visual content. Integrated into the standalone Firefly web application, the model provides a user-friendly interface for content creators of all skill levels. Adobe has trained the model on hundreds of millions of high-quality assets, ensuring a diverse range of outputs and styles. Join the waitlist here Key features and functionalities: The Firefly...
read Oct 14, 2024The top 10 Leonardo AI alternatives to enhance your image creation
AI Image Generation Landscape: Alternatives to Leonardo AI: The field of AI image generation is rapidly evolving, with numerous platforms offering unique features and capabilities to cater to various creative needs and workflows. Leonardo AI, while popular, is just one of many options available for AI-powered image creation. The growing demand for AI-generated visuals has led to the development of diverse tools, each with its own strengths and specializations. Top Contenders in AI Image Generation: Midjourney stands out for its high-quality image output, utilizing Discord as its primary interface for generating images from text prompts. Simplified offers an intuitive platform...
read Oct 12, 2024How to use ChatGPT in your marketing mix
ChatGPT's role in modern marketing: A game-changing tool with caveats: ChatGPT, the advanced language model developed by OpenAI, is revolutionizing various aspects of marketing, offering both opportunities and challenges for professionals in the field. Content generation and ideation: ChatGPT's capabilities extend far beyond simple text creation, encompassing a wide range of marketing-related tasks. The AI can identify trending topics, analyze competitor content, and generate relevant keywords, providing marketers with valuable insights for content strategy. It can draft various types of content, including blog posts, website copy, social media captions, ad headlines, and email newsletters, streamlining the content creation process. Marketers...
read Oct 11, 2024What to do if Generative Fill is grayed out in Adobe Photoshop AI
Unlocking Adobe Photoshop's Generative Fill: Adobe's Generative Fill AI feature in Photoshop has generated excitement among users, but some have encountered issues accessing this innovative tool. Generative Fill is part of Adobe's Firefly and Sensei AI initiatives, available to Creative Cloud subscribers. Some users have found the feature disabled or grayed out, leading to frustration. A solution exists, but it's not immediately apparent to most users. Steps to enable Generative Fill: Verify software version: Check the Photoshop version by selecting "System Info" from the Help menu. Ensure you're running version 25.0.x or higher. Confirm you're logged into the Creative Cloud...
read Oct 10, 2024Wikipedia cracks down on AI-generated content
Wikipedia's battle against AI-generated content: Wikipedia editors have launched a new initiative called "WikiProject AI Cleanup" to combat the increasing problem of low-quality, AI-generated content on the platform. The project aims to identify and remove poorly-written, unsourced, or hallucination-filled AI content that threatens to degrade the usability of Wikipedia. Editors emphasize that they are not seeking to ban responsible AI use outright, but rather to ensure that AI-generated content is "acceptable and constructive." Identifying AI-generated content: Wikipedia editors have developed methods to spot AI-generated text, ranging from obvious signs to more subtle indicators. Clear indicators include chatbot auto-responses like "as...
read Oct 10, 2024Industry titans discuss future of entertainment, content at Advertising Week
AI in the spotlight: The 2024 Advertising Week in New York featured discussions on the growing influence of artificial intelligence in various industries, from music streaming to automotive technology. Spotify's AI DJ, which uses a team member's voice and AI-generated content, was highlighted as an innovative way to personalize playlist generation and enhance user experience. Ford is integrating AI-powered features into their vehicles, including hands-free highway driving and high-tech security systems controlled through smartphones. IBM is focusing on leveraging AI for enterprise-level changes, aiming to automate tasks and free up human resources for more value-creating activities. Evolving media landscape: Industry...
read Oct 9, 2024Why you shouldn’t over-rely on AI content detectors — and what to do instead
AI content detectors: A flawed approach to distinguishing human-written text: Recent experiments and real-world experiences have highlighted the unreliability of AI content detectors in accurately differentiating between human-generated and AI-generated text. Kiran Shahid, a writer, conducted an experiment testing four different pieces of content through three popular AI content detectors: ZeroGPT, Copyleaks, and TraceGPT. The experiment included poorly-written and well-written samples of both AI-generated and human-generated content. Results showed varying accuracy rates among the detectors: ZeroGPT and TraceGPT achieved only 25% accuracy, while Copyleaks performed better with 75% accuracy. Limitations of AI content detectors: Several factors contribute to the inconsistent...
read Oct 9, 2024AI image showdown: Midjourney vs FLUX.1
AI image generation showdown: Midjourney 6.1 vs Flux 1.1 Pro: A comprehensive comparison of two leading AI image generators reveals Midjourney's continued dominance in creating realistic and visually compelling images across various scenarios. Test methodology and criteria: The comparison involved seven diverse prompts, each designed to challenge the AI models in different ways. The prompts covered landscapes, cityscapes, human portraits, futuristic scenes, fashion photography, alien environments, and motion photography. Each model received customized prompts to optimize its performance, recognizing the slightly different prompting techniques that work best for each. Images were evaluated based on detail and texture, lighting and shadows,...
read Oct 8, 2024China-based MiniMax launches AI image-to-video tool
AI video generation breakthrough: Hailuo AI, a product of Chinese startup MiniMax, has launched an Image-to-Video (img2video) feature, expanding its capabilities in the competitive AI-generated video market. Hailuo AI, backed by tech giants Alibaba and Tencent, has quickly gained prominence in the AI video space since its release in early September 2024. The platform initially offered text-to-video generation, earning praise for its vivid, coherent videos with fluid and lifelike human motions. With the addition of img2video, Hailuo now allows users to upload static images, bringing it in line with U.S. competitors like Runway and Luma AI. Feature-rich platform: Hailuo AI's...
read Oct 8, 2024Hailuo MiniMax is a great AI tool for turning images into videos
Hailuo MiniMax's Image-to-Video AI: A Leap Forward in AI-Generated Video: The latest upgrade to Hailuo MiniMax's AI model introduces impressive image-to-video capabilities, marking a significant advancement in the field of AI-generated video content. Key features and improvements: The new image-to-video model allows for greater control over video appearance Hailuo MiniMax now offers a dedicated English-language website and community The upgrade builds on the existing text-to-video model, which already produced high-quality, realistic motion Testing methodology: Five diverse prompts were used to evaluate the model's capabilities Images were generated using Flux 1.1 Pro from Black Forest Labs Custom motion prompts were provided...
read Oct 8, 2024Forget chat. AI that can hear, see and click is already here
AI's Evolution Beyond Text: The landscape of artificial intelligence is rapidly expanding beyond traditional text-based chatbots, with new multimodal models capable of processing and generating content across various formats including audio, video, and images. Google's NotebookLM, originally launched as a research tool, has gained viral popularity with its AI podcasting feature called Audio Overview. Users can create AI-generated podcasts on various topics, including personal profiles and content summaries. The quality of multimodal generative content has improved significantly in a short period, as evidenced by the advancement from Meta's Make-A-Video to its new Movie Gen tool. Shifting Interaction Paradigms: The way...
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