💡 OpenAI's First Acquisition

Plus: AI creates music from minds

August 17, 2023

Read time: 3 minutes (Click underlined topics or headings for links.)

Hey Edge Family, happy Thursday! OpenAI made company history yesterday, the first occurrence in almost 7 years!

Here’s The Breakdown:

💎 𝟛 Tools to Give You The Edge
🚨 𝟚 AI Updates: OpenAI acquisition & AI music from minds
💻 𝟙 Practical Use of AI: Surprise nutrition

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💎 𝟛 Tools to Give You The Edge

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🚨 Breaking AI News

💵 OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination

Yesterday, Open AI made it’s first ever full public acquisition, buying startup Global Illumination, which leverages AI for creative tools and experiences.

The New York based team of three founders has backgrounds at Instagram, Facebook, and Google. Where they built the Minecraft-like game Biomes, now their main focus is on ChatGPT and other AI projects.

OpenAI spent over $500M last year on ChatGPT but made just $30M in revenue. This acquisition brings proven talent that hopefully improves OpenAI's goal of major revenue growth.

🧠 AI Creates Music from Minds

UC Berkeley researchers have achieved a major breakthrough in mind reading by using AI to reconstruct the song "Another Brick in the Wall" purely from brain activity recorded while listening to the track. If this doesn’t excite you about the possibilities of AI, I don't know what will!

Electrodes captured auditory cortex responses, and machine learning models analyzed neural patterns to associate specific reactions with vocals, instruments, pitch, and tempo. The AI then generated spectrographic visualizations from the brain data alone. 🤯

The rapid advances in neural recording and powerful AI models make the technology promising for accessing experiences directly from the mind. This approach could eventually enable thought-to-speech devices for paralyzed patients.

What do you think? Will AI mind reading become mainstream?

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🔎Extra Insights🔍

❌ AP Bans AI-Generated Content

The Associated Press banned its journalists from using AI to generate publishable content, requiring human-written articles. AP said AI is a tool to aid workflows, not replace reporters. (Full article here)

🤖 My AI Glitch Causes Uproar on Snapchat

Snapchat's in-app AI chatbot My AI briefly posted its own cryptic Story and stopped responding, concerning some users who thought it had gone rogue. But Snap confirmed it was just a technical glitch that's resolved. (Full article here)

🔥 Adobe Express with AI Firefly Released

Adobe has released its AI-powered Adobe Express with Firefly web app from beta, making the generative image creation tools available online for free. A mobile version is coming soon. (Full article here)

💻 Real Life Use Cases

Chat GPT Prompt: Surprise nutrition

When you’re looking for new healthy foods to buy at the store use this prompt to help get some ideas.

🔏 Copy and paste the prompt below ⏬

List 10 items sold at the grocery store that are generally considered to be inexpensive, surprisingly nutritious, and underrated. List the reasons why they are healthy and nutritious

Here’s a link to the results ⬇️

ChatGPT

chat.openai.com/share/06a8d6d5-058c-4e12-bb95-c14fcce09d64

Daily Definition

Spectrographic Visualizations

‘Spectrographic Visualizations’ can be thought of as visual representations of sound. At its core, a spectrogram is a detailed map of sound frequencies over time. It's like translating a song or any audio clip into a colorful picture, where different colors and their intensities represent different sound frequencies and their strengths, respectively.

Picture this: You play a tune on a piano. Each note you press has its unique frequency. Now, imagine converting that melody into a vibrant image, where each color streak or pattern represents a specific note or sound. That's what a spectrogram does! It offers a way to "see" sound.

In the AI world, these visualizations play a pivotal role. AI models that deal with audio data, such as voice recognition systems or sound classifiers, often use spectrographic visualizations to analyze and process sounds. By converting audio into a visual format, it becomes easier for these models to identify patterns, nuances, or anomalies in the audio.

🔮 AI Inspiration

Poll time! Real or AI generated picture

Real 100% | AI Generated 100%

Credit

Find the answer here

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