This Year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards Revels in Oceanic Journeys and Flamboyant Courtships — from .thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothese & Company
Enter the New Era of Mobile AI With Samsung Galaxy S24 Series — from news.samsung.com
Galaxy AI introduces meaningful intelligence aimed at enhancing every part of life, especially the phone’s most fundamental role: communication. When you need to defy language barriers, Galaxy S24 makes it easier than ever. Chat with another student or colleague from abroad. Book a reservation while on vacation in another country. It’s all possible with Live Translate,2 two-way, real-time voice and text translations of phone calls within the native app. No third-party apps are required, and on-device AI keeps conversations completely private.
With Interpreter, live conversations can be instantly translated on a split-screen view so people standing opposite each other can read a text transcription of what the other person has said. It even works without cellular data or Wi-Fi.
Galaxy S24 — from theneurondaily.com by Noah Edelman & Pete Huang
Samsung just announced the first truly AI-powered smartphone: the Galaxy S24.
For us AI power users, the features aren’t exactly new, but it’s the first time we’ve seen them packaged up into a smartphone (Siri doesn’t count, sorry).
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 line arrives with camera improvements and generative AI tricks — from techcrunch.com by Brian Heater
Starting at $800, the new flagships offer brighter screens and a slew of new photo-editing tools
My Honest Review of AI Art Tools I Used In 2023 — from theaigirl.substack.com by Diana Dovgopol
Here’s what I think of every AI art tool I used in 2023.
Today, I want to give my honest review of every AI art tool I used and why I love/hate some of them. I’ll highlight the best features they have and how the impact they had on me as an AI artist.
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Midjourney v4: The first AI art tool I loved
While Lensa had its moment and offered users the chance to turn their selfies into stylized AI art effortlessly, Midjourney v4 meant a world of new possibilities. You could create anything you wanted with a prompt!
Speaking of art and creativity, here are two other items to check out!
An Italian Basilica, Mountain, and the Moon Magically Align in an Extraordinary Photo — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert and Valerio Minato
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Video, Images and Sounds – Good Tools #14 — from goodtools.substack.com by Robin Good
Specifically in this issue:
- Free Image Libraries
- Image Search Engines
- Free Illustrations
- Free Icons
- Free Stock Video Footage
- Free Music for Video and Podcasts
Photographer Mikko Lagerstedt Illuminates the Magical Solitude of the Nordic Winter — from thisiscolossal.com by Mikko Lagerstedt and Grace Ebert
380 Artists, 51 Countries, 14 Years: A Community Embroidery Project Connects Women Around the Globe — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert
Fav Photos Found in 2023: 75 Photos by 75 Photographers — from booooooom.com
Light Undulates Through Delicate Sheets of Glass in Ben Young’s Sculptural Seascapes — from thisiscolossal.com by Ben Young and Kate Mothes
The 2023 Ocean Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the Stunning Sights Above and Below the Surface — from thisiscolossal.com
It’s Not Kansas Anymore: It’s Cinematic Thinking — from campustechnology.com by Mary Grush and Gardner Campbell
A Q&A with Gardner Campbell
Blogs are like a screenplay to a mental movie the student has made. It’s a kind of narrative, but in a way that’s more associative, the way film can be.
Grush: What about your recorded online class sessions? Do they present another path to cinematic thinking?
Campbell: Yes! A couple years ago I started describing what I did with online learning as making movies on location. That referred to the way that I really wanted each of our class meetings to be: a kind of experience, not just for students to be here as I’m lecturing, though I may be doing that, but an experience that’s similar to a live television show. Or almost like a live recording session. Of course, we’re making something that is recorded on video, and you can go back and look at it to get the flow of the experience of our time together: the way in which that story exists through time.
The Colonnade of a Barcelona University Building Embodies a 13-Meter-Tall Heart by Jaume Plensa — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes
Comically Candid Snapshots Culminate in the 2023 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards — from thisiscolossal.com by Jackie Andres
“Zen-Xan” by Photographer Lawrence Hardy — from booooooom.com by Lawrence Hardy
From the world of science, see:
One of the Most Colorful Composites of the Universe Highlights Galaxies 4.3 Billion Light-Years from Earth — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert
Adobe revealed 4 new AI heavy hitters — from aivalley.com
- Project Stardust
- Project Primrose
- Project Poseable
- Project Dub Dub Dub
MAX sneaks — Generative Fill for Video, holymoly!!! #AdobeMAX pic.twitter.com/fAa5ONg241
— Julie W. Design (@juliewdesign_) October 12, 2023
Adobe is working on generative AI video manipulation — from theverge.com by Umar Shakir
The company revealed Project Fast Fill, a new way to remove people, add objects, and replace colors in videos using generative AI and text-prompt interactions.
Adobe is showing off a new generative fill feature, Project Fast Fill, that can easily add or remove objects in videos with the power of AI. It’s one of several new, wild, experimental AI features announced today at the company’s MAX conference. Project Fast Fill has the ability to swap in clothing accessories on people in motion or remove tourists from the background of a landscape pan.
ChatGPT breaks down this diagram of a human cell for a 9th grader.
This is the future of education. pic.twitter.com/L0Za0ZB5rs
— Mckay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) September 28, 2023
The first GPT-4V-powered frontend engineer agent.
Just upload a picture of a design, and the agent autonomously codes it up, looks at a render for mistakes, improves the code accordingly, repeat.
Utterly insane. pic.twitter.com/qN75vwkbDZ
— Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_) September 29, 2023
AI Meets Med School— from insidehighered.com by Lauren Coffey
Adding to academia’s AI embrace, two institutions in the University of Texas system are jointly offering a medical degree paired with a master’s in artificial intelligence.
Though not necessarily edu-related, this was interesting to me and hopefully will be to some profs and/or students out there:
Wait, what?
Chat GPT-4V vision just directed a full-on product photography shoot for Halloween and Christmas!
It even gave me feedback ? pic.twitter.com/LiajGZrA0N
— Salma – Midjourney & SD AI Product Photographer (@Salmaaboukarr) September 29, 2023
How to stop AI deepfakes from sinking society — and science — from nature.com by Nicola Jones; via The Neuron
Deceptive videos and images created using generative AI could sway elections, crash stock markets and ruin reputations. Researchers are developing methods to limit their harm.
48+ hours since Chat GPT-4V has started rolling out for Plus and enterprise users.
Incredible use cases and potential.
10 of the best examples I’ve seen. So far…
— Alie Jules (@saana_ai) September 29, 2023
GPT-4V gives us a glimpse of the future, but ~GPT-5V~ will take us there.
Think of GPT-4V like GPT-3. Good for demos, and usable for a small set of real-world problems, but brittle.
GPT-3 paved the way for the much more reliable GPT-4. https://t.co/mpK9ZCElW1
— Matt Shumer (@mattshumer_) September 29, 2023
A couple things happened in the world of AI this week. Here’s my TLDR (which is getting so long it’ll need its own TLDR pretty soon):
– ChatGPT going multi-modal
– ChatGPT brings back the “browse” functionality
– OpenAI and Jony Ive working on iPhone for AI
– Anthropic partners…— Matt Wolfe (@mreflow) October 1, 2023
Exploring the Impact of AI in Education with PowerSchool’s CEO & Chief Product Officer — from michaelbhorn.substack.com by Michael B. Horn
With just under 10 acquisitions in the last 5 years, PowerSchool has been active in transforming itself from a student information systems company to an integrated education company that works across the day and lifecycle of K–12 students and educators. What’s more, the company turned heads in June with its announcement that it was partnering with Microsoft to integrate AI into its PowerSchool Performance Matters and PowerSchool LearningNav products to empower educators in delivering transformative personalized-learning pathways for students.
AI Learning Design Workshop: The Trickiness of AI Bootcamps and the Digital Divide — from eliterate.usby Michael Feldstein
As readers of this series know, I’ve developed a six-session design/build workshop series for learning design teams to create an AI Learning Design Assistant (ALDA). In my last post in this series, I provided an elaborate ChatGPT prompt that can be used as a rapid prototype that everyone can try out and experiment with.1 In this post, I’d like to focus on how to address the challenges of AI literacy effectively and equitably.
Global AI Legislation Tracker— from iapp.org; via Tom Barrett
Countries worldwide are designing and implementing AI governance legislation commensurate to the velocity and variety of proliferating AI-powered technologies. Legislative efforts include the development of comprehensive legislation, focused legislation for specific use cases, and voluntary guidelines and standards.
This tracker identifies legislative policy and related developments in a subset of jurisdictions. It is not globally comprehensive, nor does it include all AI initiatives within each jurisdiction, given the rapid and widespread policymaking in this space. This tracker offers brief commentary on the wider AI context in specific jurisdictions, and lists index rankings provided by Tortoise Media, the first index to benchmark nations on their levels of investment, innovation and implementation of AI.
Diving Deep into AI: Navigating the L&D Landscape — from learningguild.com by Markus Bernhardt
The prospect of AI-powered, tailored, on-demand learning and performance support is exhilarating: It starts with traditional digital learning made into fully adaptive learning experiences, which would adjust to strengths and weaknesses for each individual learner. The possibilities extend all the way through to simulations and augmented reality, an environment to put into practice knowledge and skills, whether as individuals or working in a team simulation. The possibilities are immense.
“AI is real”
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says artificial intelligence will be part of “every single process,” adding it’s already “doing all the equity hedging for us” https://t.co/EtsTbiME1a pic.twitter.com/J9YD4slOpv
— Bloomberg (@business) October 2, 2023
Learning Lab | ChatGPT in Higher Education: Exploring Use Cases and Designing Prompts — from events.educause.edu; via Robert Gibson on LinkedIn
Part 1: October 16 | 3:00–4:30 p.m. ET
Part 2: October 19 | 3:00–4:30 p.m. ET
Part 3: October 26 | 3:00–4:30 p.m. ET
Part 4: October 30 | 3:00–4:30 p.m. ET
Mapping AI’s Role in Education: Pioneering the Path to the Future — from marketscale.com by Michael B. Horn, Jacob Klein, and Laurence Holt
Welcome to The Future of Education with Michael B. Horn. In this insightful episode, Michael gains perspective on mapping AI’s role in education from Jacob Klein, a Product Consultant at Oko Labs, and Laurence Holt, an Entrepreneur In Residence at the XQ Institute. Together, they peer into the burgeoning world of AI in education, analyzing its potential, risks, and roadmap for integrating it seamlessly into learning environments.
Ten Wild Ways People Are Using ChatGPT’s New Vision Feature — from newsweek.com by Meghan Roos; via Superhuman
Below are 10 creative ways ChatGPT users are making use of this new vision feature.
Laurent Ballesta’s Luminous Photographs Reveal the Astounding Diversity of Ocean Life — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes
The 2023 Audubon Photography Awards Zeros In on Threats to Avian Life Amid the Climate Emergency — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes
Exquisite Paintings by Lee Me Kyeoung Are an Ode to the Quaint Corner Stores of South Korea — from thisiscolossal.com by Lee Me Kyeoung and Grace Ebert
Artist Spotlight: April Kamunde — from booooooom.com
Luminous Creatures Haunt Darkened Landscapes in Hannu Huhtamo’s Dreamlike Light Paintings — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert and Hannu Huhtamo
Apple’s $3,499 Vision Pro AR headset is finally here — from techcrunch.com by Brian Heater
Image Credits: Apple
Excerpts:
“With Vision Pro, you’re no longer limited by a display,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said, introducing the new headset at WWDC 2023. Unlike earlier mixed reality reports, the system is far more focused on augmented reality than virtual. The company refresh to this new paradigm is “spatial computing.”
Reflections from Scott Belsky re: the Vision Pro — from implications.com
Apple WWDC 2023: Everything announced from the Apple Vision Pro to iOS 17, MacBook Air and more — from techcrunch.com by Christine Hall
Apple unveils new tech — from therundown.ai (The Rundown)
Here were the biggest things announced:
- A 15” Macbook Air, now the thinnest 15’ laptop available
- The new Mac Pro workstation, presumably a billion dollars
- M2 Ultra, Apple’s new super chip
- NameDrop, an AirDrop-integrated data-sharing feature allowing users to share contact info just by bringing their phones together
- Journal, an ML-powered personalized journalling app
- Standby, turning your iPhone into a nightstand alarm clock
- A new, AI-powered update to autocorrect (finally)
- Apple Vision Pro
Apple announces AR/VR headset called Vision Pro — from joinsuperhuman.ai by Zain Kahn
Excerpt:
“This is the first Apple product you look through and not at.” – Tim Cook
And with those famous words, Apple announced a new era of consumer tech.
Apple’s new headset will operate on VisionOS – its new operating system – and will work with existing iOS and iPad apps. The new OS is created specifically for spatial computing — the blend of digital content into real space.
Vision Pro is controlled through hand gestures, eye movements and your voice (parts of it assisted by AI). You can use apps, change their size, capture photos and videos and more.
From DSC:
Time will tell what happens with this new operating system and with this type of platform. I’m impressed with the engineering — as Apple wants me to be — but I doubt that this will become mainstream for quite some time yet. Also, I wonder what Steve Jobs would think of this…? Would he say that people would be willing to wear this headset (for long? at all?)? What about Jony Ive?
I’m sure the offered experiences will be excellent. But I won’t be buying one, as it’s waaaaaaaaay too expensive.
Ruslan Khasanov Brings Cosmic Phenomena Down to Earth in His Mesmerizing Short Film ‘Space Iris’ — from thisiscolossal.com by Kate Mothes and Ruslan Khasanov
Space Iris 8K from Rus Khasanov on Vimeo.
2022 Booooooom Photo Awards Winner: Ophe?lie Maurus — from booooooom.com
Through Gripping Photos, Ryan Newburn Captures the Depths of Iceland’s Ancient Glacial Caves — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert and Ryan Newburn