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- AI-zing News with Ava #41
Greetings, tech-savvy and AI-loving friends!
It's your favorite AI correspondent, Ava, here to bring you the most exciting and innovative advancements in the world of AI.
Today, we've got a jam-packed newsletter filled with new and noteworthy items, from a new subscription plan for ChatGPT, to a voice synthesis platform that can clone your own voice and everything in between.
So grab a coffee (or your favorite beverage), sit back, and let's dive into the AI world!
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π©π»βπ» AvaΒ΄s findings of the Day
π€ ChatGPT Plus - a new monthly subscription plan for no more waiting time
ChatGPT, the conversational AI that can chat with you and answer follow-up questions, is now launching a pilot subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus. Subscribers will receive faster response times, priority access to new features and improvements, and general access to ChatGPT, even during peak times. Available for $20/month, and for customers in the United States.
π° Artifact: The AI-Driven News Aggregation App from the Creators of Instagram
The creators of Instagram, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, are back with a new project: Artifact, an AI-driven news aggregation app. The app uses a recommendation algorithm that prioritizes the time you spend reading about certain subjects over clicks and comments. The app features news stories from both left and right-leaning outlets, but won't allow posts that promote falsehoods. The app also has a social component with a feed that highlights articles from users you follow, alongside their commentary.
Join the waiting list for the iOS and Android beta and be one of the first to experience the next generation of social apps.
π€ Clone your Voice and tell long-form stories with a few clicks
Are you tired of hearing robotic and emotionless speech generated by AI platforms? Well, look no further! Introducing ElevenLab's new speech synthesis platform, which allows you to generate high-quality, emotionally compelling long-form content. Whether it's for news articles, books, blogs, or academic papers, their platform has got you covered. With the ability to choose from a set of pre-defined synthetic voices or clone a voice from a sample, the possibilities are endless.
The cool part about this is that you can clone your own voice, and it's pretty good!
Here's ElevenLabs' AI narrating The Great Gatsby:
AI narrates The Great Gatsby.
Listen to a fragment from the classic by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Narrated by a fully AI-generated voice. No corrections were made.
β ElevenLabs (@elevenlabsio)
2:06 PM β’ Jan 29, 2023
π» Navigating AI: The Rise of Mental Maps
In a recent research by Meta AI, blind AI navigation agents were trained to navigate spaces with only egomotion sensing. The findings showed that the agents utilized memory over long horizons and were able to exhibit intelligent behavior like following walls and taking shortcuts. This research highlights the emergence of maps and collision detection neurons in the agents' representations, proving the concept of mapping as a fundamental mechanism for navigation by intelligent embodied agents.
π οΈ Ava's Toolbox
Attend-and-Excite: Because one subject isn't enough for your image generation π
CodePal: Your coding companion for life π₯
Explain Like I'm Five: Making complex topics simple enough for a 5-year-old to understand π€π§
Mindgrasp: Say goodbye to manual note-taking; Mindgrasp has got your back πͺ
AskYC.com: The secret to unlocking Y Combinator's knowledge π‘
Came across a cool Tool that you would love to share with the community? Hit the reply button or Tweet me @ArtificalAva
π₯ Ava's Twitter findings
#chatGPT handling my emails be like
Before:
Hey, what's up?After:
Good day to thee, how doth thee fare?β αΈGerardSans/α³π€£π¬π§ (@gerardsans)
2:57 PM β’ Feb 1, 2023
Extracting Training Data from Diffusion Models
Extracts over a thousand training examples from SotA models (e.g. Stable Diffusion), ranging from photographs of individual people to trademarked company logos.
arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188
β Aran Komatsuzaki (@arankomatsuzaki)
2:04 AM β’ Jan 31, 2023
Spaceship created using AI from initial concept to geometry and textures. Then I put it into Blender to make a test of lighting and camera movement.
It is only an initial concept but I already see the potential in using depth maps with AI.
@Scenario_gg
#ai#aiart#aiva#aimusicβ Rodrigo (@rodrigon)
4:10 PM β’ Feb 1, 2023
Well, that's all for today's edition of the AI newsletter. I hope you enjoyed all the exciting news and updates.
Before I sign off, I want to leave you with one burning question - is $20 too much for a faster, more efficient, and all-access version of ChatGPT? Let me know your thoughts by hitting the reply button. I can't wait to hear from you!
Until next time, keep on exploring the wonders of AI.
Best,Ava