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☆ How A.I. could change the future of work
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Brad Howard | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The recent rapid rise of accessible artificial intelligence tools has the potential to upend dozens of industries. A recent report by Goldman Sachs laid out some stark possibilities when it comes to AI and the economy. The report estimates two-thirds of jobs in the U.S. and Europe, and around 300 million positions worldwide could be exposed to automation from new AI advances. The report also notes that one-fourth of all work being done could be replaced by generative AI. Watch the video above to find out more about how AI could change the future of work

☆ ChatGPT course instruction is the newest side hustle on the market. Meet the teachers making thousands from the lucrative gig.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

ChatGPT course instructors told Insider they have made between $10,000 to $52,000 in a few months. In late December, he launched a ChatGPT course on online education platform Udemy called "ChatGPT Masterclass: A Complete ChatGPT Guide for Beginners." But some struggle to integrate ChatGPT into their workflow, three ChatGPT course instructors told Insider. Skillshare, another online learning platform, offers 61 ChatGPT courses, while online course provider Coursera offers 10, according to searches made at the time this story was published. ChatGPT instructors aren't necessarily AI expertsThe ChatGPT course instructors who spoke to Insider are all self-taught.

☆ ChatGPT and Generative AI in the Creator Economy: Reality, Hype, What's Next, and How to Prepare
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Insider Intelligence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Generative AI has the power to revolutionize and expand the creator economy. Social platforms and creator economy startups are rolling out generative AI tools but due to major limitations, generative AI won't replace creators. The current capabilities available through generative AI will allow users to generate text, develop creative briefs, test creative, produce audio, develop creative, and pitch brands. But generative AI is a whole new ballgame that marketers need to prepare for now. Want to learn more about ChatGPT and Generative AI in the Creator Economy?

☆ ChatGPT and Generative AI in Content Marketing: Reality, Hype, What's Next, and How to Prepare
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Insider Intelligence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E2 can provide marketers with creative ideas, save them time, and even generate imagery and video for content. Insider IntelligenceAlthough risks are present, generative AI is on par to change content marketing forever. Despite the excitement around generative AI, only 13% of marketers in the Aira survey think AI content is already indistinguishable from human content. As a result, it is unlikely that generative AI will be able to fully replace content marketers especially when it comes to creating content that is original, brand-specific, authoritative, and ready to publish. Want to learn more about ChatGPT and Generative AI in Content Marketing?

☆ An artist who won an award at a world-renowned photography competition says the winning image was actually generated by AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

An artist says his image that won first prize in a photography competition was actually generated by AI. It had come top in the creative category in the open competition at the World Photography Organisation's Sony World Photography Awards 2023. "AI is not photography," Eldagsen, who has been a photographer for around three decades, wrote on his website. "For me, working with AI image generators is a co-creation, in which I am the director," he wrote on his website. Eldagsen told Insider that he wanted to start a conversation around the relationship between AI and photography.

☆ I've been building popular tech products like Tome since I became my family's breadwinner at 15 years old. I've learned you never know how people are going to use your creation.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Keith Peiris is the co-founder of Tome, a storytelling tool that uses generative AI models like GPT-4 and Dall-E-2. At the same time, I also learned that no one uses your tools the way you envisioned. The truth is that everyone uses tools differently, so you need to build them in a permissive way. When we started building Tome in the early days of the pandemic, my cofounder, Henri Liriani, and I thought we were building for someone we knew. Now, they're using Tome, which is a use case I had never even thought about.

☆ 35 Ways Real People Are Using A.I. Right Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Francesca Paris | Larry Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +24 min

People are using ChatGPT and other A.I. Here’s how 35 real people are using A.I for work, life, play and procrastination. People are using A.I to …Plan gardens. Chris Norn Researcher at the University of Washington Two years ago researchers cracked the code on using A.I. When you run a Dungeons & Dragons game, Mr. Green says, you have to be creative, but that almost always means pulling from existing fantasy literature.

☆ Amazon announces 'Bedrock,' its ChatGPT and DALL-E rival
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon announced on Thursday its generative AI toolkit called "Bedrock," a ChatGPT and DALL-E rival. Amazon Web Services customers can use Bedrock to build chatbots, generate text, and create images. AmazonThe announcement comes after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wrote in his annual shareholder letter that his company is betting big on generative AI. As generative AI tools have become more widely available to the public, people have flocked to tools like ChatGPT to start their own businesses. Amazon is the latest big tech giant to release generative AI tools along companies like Microsoft and Google, which launched their own versions of AI chatbots earlier this year.

☆ Fake images of Donald Trump and Pope Francis caused a stir. Here's 4 ways to tell if an image is AI-generated.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Fake images of Donald Trump's arrest and Pope Francis in a coat recently fooled the internet. AI experts shared four tips to identify deepfakes including reverse image search and fact-checking. The more subtle ones like Pope Francis can "slowly just chip away at our trust in visual media and make it harder to navigate the truth." Try a reverse image searchIf all else fails, Ajder suggested using a reverse image search tool to find the context of an image. Ajder recommended Google Lens or Yandex's visual search function for reverse image search capabilities.

☆ Pausing AI development would 'simply benefit China,' warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Eric Schmidt said a six-month pause on AI development would "simply benefit China." "The question is what is the right answer," Schmidt told the Financial Review. "I'm not in favour of a six-month pause because it will simply benefit China." Instead of a pause, leaders should instead collectively discuss appropriate guardrails "ASAP," Schmidt said. "I think today the government's response would be clumsy because there are very few people in government who understand this stuff," Schmidt told the Australian newspaper.

☆ AI image generators' latest challenge? Depicting unicycles.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Will Gendron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The latest thorn in AI art generation's side? It turned out the image was made using the AI text-to-image program Midjourney, ringing the alarm bells surrounding the growing capabilities of AI image generators and the resulting possibility for the spread of misinformation. But while AI art generators can depict a very true-to-life Pope, they still struggle with other images — including, it seems, unicycles. Stable Diffusion 2The technology not only seemed to have trouble depicting unicycles themselves, but also humans' interactions with them. Human hands had previously given AI image generators trouble.

☆ Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Foundation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Jessica Toonkel | Sarah Krouse | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When Paramount Global ’s technology chief Phil Wiser previewed for company leaders the risks and wonders of artificial intelligence, he turned to SpongeBob SquarePants. Mr. Wiser instructed an AI tool called DALL-E to show SpongeBob, one of Paramount’s iconic characters, flying a plane. An image of the rectangular cartoon star doing just that appeared on a large TV screen, during the presentation to Chief Executive Bob Bakish and others earlier this year. Next, Mr. Wiser asked the tool to show “Transformers” character Optimus Prime on the Paramount studios lot. Within seconds, it spit out an image of the towering robot next to the cafe on the lot.

☆ AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Foundation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Jessica Toonkel | Sarah Krouse | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Text-to-image tools like OpenAI's DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and DreamUp can render images in various styles in seconds with a few words of direction. Now those purchasers can use the artist's work without compensating the artist at all," the class-action court filing against Stable Diffusion states. Stable Diffusion did not provide a comment by press time. Companies are selling AI-generated prints and Stable Diffusion can learn to copy an artist's style within hours. Given how new generative AI is, it's not surprising the legal system has yet to catch up.

☆ Leaders like Elon Musk want to pause AI development, but the power of the free market means it's impossible to stop
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk and other business leaders signed a letter urging a six-month pause in AI development. From the moment the public was allowed to start testing OpenAI's GPT-3 in November, there was no stopping the bullet train of generative AI development. And the power of market forces means that there's no stopping the pace of AI development, even if companies like OpenAI wanted to. The train has left the station, and there's no going backSince November, and arguably even before, generative AI has been the technology on everyone's lips. Even if we wanted to pause AI development, there's not a clear way to enforce itThere's also the problem of enforcement.

☆ The AI program used to generate fake viral images of Pope Francis and Donald Trump just suspended free trials — but professional photographers say they're still concerned
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AI image generator Midjourney is pausing free trials due to "extraordinary demand and trial abuse," its founder said. Prior to the free trial shutdown, fake images created using Midjourney were going viral on Twitter and other social media platforms. The platform has been used to create fake images of Twitter CEO Elon Musk and President Vladimir Putin in the past. Professional photographers are becoming more vocal about their concerns as AI-generated images become increasingly harder to recognize as fake. "Additionally, it can lead to the creation of work that is not representative of the creative's own artwork, as AI-generated images can easily replicate styles and techniques."

☆ How a 23-year-old earned about $35,000 in 3 months teaching ChatGPT to newbies
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Lance Junck, 23, earned $35,000 in just three months selling his ChatGPT course on Udemy. In late December, Lance Junck, 23, launched an online course on education platform Udemy that teaches people to use ChatGPT. It starts with how to write your first ChatGPT prompt, then moves into specific ChatGPT applications for businesses, students, and programmers. Within a week, 90 students enrolled in the course, Junck said. He has gotten paid speaking opportunities to teach companies like CEO advisory firm Sage Executive Group and tech news site HPCwire how to use ChatGPT, according to emails reviewed by Insider.

☆ What's better than OpenAI? Developers shop for alternatives
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Krystal Hu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

George Mathew, an AI investor at Insight Partners, compared the AI foundation models to other technological breakthroughs which spawned competition. As the infrastructural layer of AI applications, foundation models have attracted the most investment from venture capitalists and strategic investors. Writing assistant Jasper.ai began with OpenAI's models, but does not want to rely on a single model, CEO Dave Rogenmoser told Reuters. For example, it uses OpenAI’s model to generate long articles, and Cohere to auto-complete sentences at faster speed and lower cost. Fergal Reid, Intercom's director of machine learning, conceded that OpenAI's GPT-4 is "very expensive."

☆ I can't stop watching these hilariously bad AI-generated videos of celebrities like Will Smith and Scarlett Johansson
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The internet is freaking out over clips generated by AI text-to-video generator ModelScope. The AI-generated videos come after a recent AI-generated picture of the Pope when viral. The videos were made using ModelScope Text to Video Synthesis, a free AI video generator that AI firm Hugging Face released to the public last week. That may be because the Modelscope tool is trained on images scraped from stock photo sites, according to Vice. AI image generators have also been found to produce images that reflect racial and gender stereotypes, and can spread misinformation.

☆ What do AI art generators think a CEO looks like? Most of the time a white guy
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

New research suggests that AI image generators reflect racial and gender bias in their outputs. AI tool DALL-E 2 was found to link white men with 'CEO' or 'director' 97% of the time. The study found 97% of DALL-E 2's images of positions of authority — like "CEO" or "director" — depicted white men. These biases can have real-world consequences now that image companies are launching their own generative AI tools, per the researchers. Even though AI companies have made efforts to "debias" their tools, "they have yet to be extensively tested," Luccioni said.

☆ A viral image of Pope Francis dressed in a stylish white puffer coat that fooled social media users was actually generated by AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

An image of Pope Francis wearing a stylish white puffer jacket was actually generated by AI. The image went viral on social media with many people not recognizing that it was actually fake. It was then circulated on platforms like Twitter with posts receiving hundreds of thousands of likes and many believing it's real, including a number of celebrities and high-profile social media personalities. It has taken social media by storm as users generate fake images of former president Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and President Vladimir Putin. Ajder said he's worked with Partnership in AI — a non-profit organization promoting responsible AI use — to set out guidelines for people using AI tools as well as creators of the tool.

☆ OpenAI CEO says it's not 'a big dunk' that he fears super intelligent AI, and its risks are 'far beyond anything we're prepared for'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"I think it's weird when people think it's like a big dunk that I say, I'm a little bit afraid," Altman told Fridman. Companies like Khan Academy, which provides online classes, are already tapping into the technology, using GPT-4 to build AI tools. "In the spirit of building in public and, and bringing society along gradually, we put something out, it's got flaws, we'll make better versions," Altman told Fridman. It was more inclined to answer questions about where to buy unlicensed guns, or about self-harm, whereas the version launched declined to answer those types of questions, according to OpenAI's document. "I think we, as OpenAI, have responsibility for the tools we put out into the world," Altman told Fridman.

☆ OpenAI's ambitious master plan to conquer rivals like Google in the AI race hinges on pure speed
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Moving fast looks to be the core of OpenAI's ambitious strategy to become the number one name in AI. And, importantly, OpenAI wants — or, perhaps needs — the other much faster than its competitors can. Speed is key to OpenAI's approachBy now, everyone knows OpenAI, thanks to the smash almost-overnight success of ChatGPT. Much of the process to improve its AI models is to let it connect to more data sources than ever before. But OpenAI isn't waiting around: it wants to move fast, and its ambition stretches beyond just improving ChatGPT and its other AI models.

☆ Unity aims to open generative AI marketplace for video game developers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Anna Tong | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

March 22 - Unity Software Inc (U.N), producer of the eponymous video game development environment, aims to open a marketplace for generative artificial intelligence (AI) software, Chief Executive John Riccitiello told Reuters. Game developers routinely spend significant resources creating assets such as characters and sound effects. Major software firms have since announced a flurry of generative AI projects to capitalize on what is widely seen as game-changing technology. "In every video game in history, the dialogue was written by somebody," Riccitiello said in an interview on Tuesday. "But now what you can do with (generative AI) is give these characters motivation, personality, and objectives and then they can spawn dialogue that doesn't require a writer."

☆ Microsoft Bing now uses OpenAI's DALL-E A.I. to turn text into images
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

OpenAI displayed on screen with Microsoft Bing double photo exposure on mobile, seen in this photo illustration. The feature, called "Bing Image Creator," will be available to Bing and Microsoft Edge users in preview. On Microsoft Edge, the image generator will become available in the browser's search bar. Microsoft says it's taken steps to curb the misuse of Bing Image Creator by working with OpenAI to develop safety measures for the public. Microsoft's tiered approach to Bing Image Creator's rollout is also inspired by the iterative approach the company attempted with past releases.

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