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🤖 A NEW AI image generator is in town
PLUS: HADAR lets robots see in the dark
Rowan Cheung
July 27, 2023
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Happy Thursday!
Aliens, Robots with night vision, and AI regulation.
What a day. Let’s dig in…
In today’s AI rundown:
🤖 Stability AI releases SDXL 1.0, rivaling Midjourney
🔒 Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI launch AI safety body
👁️ HADAR revolutionizes AI visualization systems
🛠️ 6 New AI tools and 3 quick hits
Read time: 3 minutes
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
STABILITY AI
Image source: Stability AI
The Rundown: Stability AI has released SDXL 1.0, an open model that is the next major leap in the evolution of text-to-image generation models.
Key points:
The model can generate high-quality images in any art style, including photorealism.
Improved ability to interpret simpler language and accurately distinguish between similar terms with different meanings.
The model is the largest open image model, with a total parameter count of 10.1 billion.
Try SDXL 1.0 on Clipdrop here.
Our take: The quality of SDXL 1.0 is shockingly good, rivaling that of Midjourney. It will be very interesting to watch what folks build in the coming weeks using the open model.
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NATURE
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The Rundown: A new study published in Nature introduced HADAR (Heat-Assisted Detection and Ranging), a camera imaging system based on AI interpretations of heat signatures that could revolutionize how autonomous vehicles and robots perceive the world around them.
Details:
HADAR cuts through visual obstructions like fog, smoke, and darkness.
Unlike sonar, radar and LiDAR (which rely on reflected signals), HADAR uses invisible infrared radiation to reconstruct scenes with clarity similar to daylight, even in darkness.
HADAR could be utilized in AI systems for self-driving vehicles, autonomous robots, and touchless security screenings at public events.
What this means: HADAR lets machines see in the dark. A little scary, but this could lead to safer autonomous systems in the future.
FRONTIER MODEL FORUM
The Rundown: In response to growing calls for regulation, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have formed the Frontier Model Forum, an industry body that promotes the safe and responsible development of AI models.
Details:
Aims to advance AI safety research, identify best practices, and collaborate with policymakers, academia, and civil society to mitigate risks.
Plans to support the development of applications that address major societal challenges, such as climate change and early cancer detection.
Reflects Big Tech's desire to address safety concerns proactively and potentially create their own rules ahead of imposed regulations.
Why it matters: With the formation, big tech makes it clear that it's not just about creating awesome tech anymore. It's about making sure that tech plays nicely with the rest of the world.
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QUICK HITS
Daniel EK, the CEO of Spotify, mentioned during yesterday's earnings call that the streaming service is looking to introduce more AI-powered features, including personalized experiences, podcast summarization, and AI-generated audio ads.
Rewind just launched its truly personalized AI for iPhone. It captures and makes everything you've seen on your Mac and iPhone searchable, acting as a personalized AI in your pocket. Within 7 hours, it broke into the top 100 productivity apps in the App Store and is still moving up fast.
Amidst the ongoing labor strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, partly due to fears of AI replacement, studios are doubling down on their investment in AI. Netflix is seeking a Product Manager for its AI Machine Learning Program to optimize content production. It will pay the right candidate $900k/year!
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