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Innovation Profs - 11/19/2024
Your weekly guide to generative AI tools and news
Innovation Profs
November 19, 2024
HOLID-AI is back
Join us for HOLID-AI 2, a free event on Dec. 6, to learn about recent updates in the world of generative AI. We will discuss ChatGPT with Canvas, computer use with Claude, the potential plateau of LLM abilities, and the latest movement in the chatbot leaderboard.
On the multimedia side, we will discuss updates to the Midjourney editor, new Ideogram features and Meta's new AI video tool. Did we mention the event is free? What are you waiting for? Sign up today.
Generative AI News
Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard
A new Google Gemini large language model, Gemini-Exp-1114, which is only currently available through Google AI Studio (which is intended primarily for developer use), has risen to the top of the Chatbot Arena, outperforming both OpenAI’s GPT-4o model and OpenAI’s advanced reasoning model o1-preview. Rankings on the Chatbot Arena are determined by user input, who rank the model via blind head-to-head comparisons of performance in response to user prompts. It is unknown whether this model is part of an improved version of Gemini 1.5 Pro or is a foretaste of the capabilities of the forthcoming Gemini 2.
OpenAI's New AI Agent 'Operator' Could Change How You Work
Three weeks back, we reported on Claude’s Computer Use, which gives AI access to your computer to perform tasks such as moving the cursor, taking screenshots, and typing text. It seems that with every Anthropic action, there is an equal (but not opposite) OpenAI reaction, and so it comes with no surprise that OpenAI will soon unveil its own version of Computer Use, namely Operator. Reportedly launching in January 2025, no specific details about Operator have been released, but we expect it to have some additional features to differentiate it from Computer Use.
Google could bring another layer of AI to AI Overviews
Google Search’s AI Overviews, which provides an AI-generated summary of the results of a Google search, will soon incorporate a new feature that will allow users to select a portion of the text summary and request additional information. This additional content, in turn, would also be AI-generated, resulting in “an AI Overview of an AI Overview.” Apparently, no AI Overview of an AI Overview of an AI Overview will be possible, as users can only make one such request.
Quick Hits
Tool of the week: Meta Imagine Me
Meta will create AI characters based on your face and whatever description you give it.
Go to a Meta AI chat window in Instagram or Messenger and type in “Imagine me.”
Follow the instructions, and then ask it to imagine you in different scenarios. Below is Professor Snider as an astronaut and as a clown.
AI-generated image of the week
Some Thanksgiving traditions are difficult for generative AI to understand. Like the turducken, for example.
Prompt: a duck stuffed into a chicken, further stuffed into a turkeyGet starting with Generative AI
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