AI is a Lie - Cutting Through the Hype

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Here’s what’s on the agenda today…

  • 🗣️ SAY WHAT?: AI Quote of the Day

  • 🔨 FEATURED: AI Tool of the Day

  • 🗞️ NEWS: Top “AI Tools” News Story

  • 📈 TRENDING: Top AI Tools of the Day

  • 🤔 AI INSIGHTS: AI is a Lie - Cutting Through the Hype

  • 🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS: Brand New AI Tools

  • 📰 OTHER NEWS: Additional AI News

  • 🤷‍♂️ Q&A: AI Tools Questions and Answers

  • 📝 PROMPTING TIPS: Prompt Tutorial by Jonathan Mast

  • 🖼️ IMAGE: AI Image with Prompt

Read Time: 10 Minutes

Responsible AI is not just about liability — it's about ensuring what you are building is enabling human flourishing.”

- Rumman Chowdhury, CEO at Parity AI

FEATURED

AI Tool of the Day

Gen-3 Alpha: Create videos in any style you can imagine with Text to Video generation.

This is not a sponsored post

Are you looking to boost your video creation skills without spending a ton? Check out Runway's Gen-3 Alpha—it's a game-changer.

Runway's Gen-3 Alpha uses advanced AI to help you make amazing videos easily and consistently. Just describe a scene with a text prompt, and the AI creates stunning video content for you.

It simplifies the creative process with its intuitive settings, so you can quickly get the hang of video creation. It also speeds up brainstorming and experimentation, perfect for marketing videos, short films, social media content, and more.

And the best part? It’s budget-friendly. You get all these incredible features without breaking the bank.

Imagine having an AI-driven video studio at your fingertips for a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. With Runway's Gen-3 Alpha, it's not just possible—it's easy.

Explore endless creative possibilities without the hefty price tag. Runway's Gen-3 Alpha is your new creative partner, helping you unleash your full potential.

NEWS

Top “AI Tools” News

What is Microsoft's New VALL-E 2 AI Tool?

Have you heard about Microsoft's new AI tool, Vall-E 2? It's causing a lot of buzz in the tech world, and for good reason. This isn't just any text-to-speech tool—Vall-E 2 can mimic human speech so well that it sounds like an actual person talking.

What makes Vall-E 2 special is its ability to pick up on and replicate the nuances of human speech, like emotions, tone, and style. It captures those subtle differences in how we express ourselves, making interactions with AI way more engaging and realistic. Just imagine having a virtual assistant that sounds like a friend or a customer service bot that communicates as empathetically as a real person.

The potential uses for Vall-E 2 are huge. It can create more lifelike virtual assistants, improve accessibility tools for people with speech impairments, and even enhance user experiences in gaming and entertainment. Microsoft is really pushing the boundaries with Vall-E 2, making our interactions with AI smoother and more natural.

So, whether you're into AI, a developer looking for cool new tools, or just curious about where tech is headed, Vall-E 2 is something you should definitely check out. It's a big step toward making our interactions with machines as seamless as talking to another person.

TRENDING

Top AI Tools of the Day

📃 Copy Monkey: Generates and optimizes Amazon listings in seconds.

📃 OSSA AI: Allows you to streamline your short-form content creation process without sacrificing creative control or content-quality.

🔘 Bannerbear: helps you and your team auto-generate social media visuals, ecommerce banners, podcast videos and more.

🖼️ Looka AI: create a logo that matches your vision — no design skills required.

🛠️ Cody AI: Elevate productivity with a personalized AI assistant, effortlessly answering queries, streamlining workflows.

INSIGHTS

Deep Thoughts by Brad Gaines

AI is a Lie - Cutting Through the Hype

AI seems to be everywhere these days? There’s a lot of confusion about what it really is, though. People often think AI is like the super-smart robots from sci-fi movies, like Commander Data or HAL 9000. But the reality is quite different.

Most of what we call AI today is actually narrow AI (ANI). These systems are designed for specific tasks, analyzing data and spotting patterns using machine learning. For instance, language models like GPT-4 are great at understanding and generating text, but they don't think or reason like humans.

Machine learning, a part of AI, involves training algorithms on different data types to make predictions or create content. Models like GPT for text or DALL-E for images can generate new content based on their training but are still limited to their specialized tasks.

The tech industry often hypes up AI to sell products, which can lead to unrealistic expectations. Take Tesla’s autopilot system, for example. It's marketed as having advanced AI capabilities but often struggles with unexpected situations. This overhyping is usually just a sales strategy.

The next big thing in AI is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which would learn and adapt continuously, like a human. However, we're still far from achieving AGI due to current tech limits. Plus, there are significant ethical and legal concerns about misrepresenting AI capabilities, especially in critical areas like autonomous driving.

While today’s AI technologies are impressive and useful, they’re not the general-purpose AI many people imagine. Understanding the true nature of current AI can help set realistic expectations and highlight the importance of being honest about what AI can and can't do.

-Brad Gaines

HOT OFF THE PRESS

AI Tools Just Released

💻 Fusion OS:  Revolutionize ad creation and testing with AI-powered efficiency.

🤖 Robopost AI:  Automates and enhances social media content creation.

📝 Copysense AI:  Optimizes, enhances, and checks content for SEO and readability.

🇹🇻 OneShot:  Revolutionize GTM with AI-driven personalization and multi-channel integration.

🤳 Scoopika:  Revolutionize app integration with multimodal, real-time AI capabilities.

OTHER NEWS

Additional AI Tools News

Amazon's cloud launches blitz of new AI products (Link)

The first Miss AI has been crowned — and she’s a Moroccan lifestyle influencer (Link)

The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (Link)

Researchers customize AI tools for digital pathology (Link)

Q & A

AI Questions and Answers

Q: What is TensorFlow?

A: TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning framework developed by Google. It is widely used for building and deploying machine learning models, particularly deep learning models. TensorFlow supports a variety of neural network architectures and provides tools for both beginners and experts to develop AI applications.

Q: What is PyTorch?

A: PyTorch is an open-source machine learning library developed by Facebook's AI Research lab. It is known for its flexibility and ease of use, particularly in research and development. PyTorch provides dynamic computation graphs, making it intuitive for developing and testing neural network models.

PROMPTING TIPS

Prompt Tutorial by Jonathan Mast

Tailor Your AI to Match Your Writing Style!

Did you know you can make your AI write more like you just by describing your typical sentence structure or style? Here's how to do it:

Take a cue from Sarah, a budding novelist with a penchant for long, descriptive sentences that paint vivid pictures. Frustrated with her AI's tendency towards choppy replies, she started including instructions like,

"Please use elaborate and flowing sentences with rich imagery," in her prompts.

The transformation was like magic—suddenly, her AI was crafting responses that felt like they were pulled right from her own manuscripts!

Whether you're a fan of quick, punchy statements or prefer a more poetic approach, just tell your AI. It’s like giving a painter a preferred palette—what comes out is uniquely yours.

Give it a shot! You might be surprised at how well your AI captures the essence of your personal writing style.

-Jonathan Mast (IG @jonathanmast)

IMAGE

AI Image with Prompt

Prompt: Create a hyper realistic watercolor with vivid colors, featuring a majestic lion standing beside a body of water with its reflection. The background has purple and dark blue hues, a large full moon rising behind a forest of pine trees anda huge willow tree all set within a magical and ethereal landscape that includes various flowers.

That’s all for today, folks!

Have a safe weekend. I’ll see ya in your inbox Monday morning.
- Ninja AI Tools Team

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