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Innovation Profs - 8/27/2024
Your weekly guide to generative AI tools and news
Innovation Profs
August 27, 2024
Generative AI News
Midjourney opens website to all users, offering 25 free AI image generations
If you regularly read our newsletter or have attended one of our workshops, you may know that Midjourney is one of our favorite tools for AI image generation. Now Midjourney is available on the web for all users (as an alternative to being accessed via Discord). Head over to midjourney.com and give it a whirl!
Move over Midjourney — Ideogram drops v2 and it's a masterpiece of AI image generation
Speaking of AI image generation, Ideogram, one of the first tools to successfully incorporate text into images, has just released a new version. Reportedly, Ideogram v2 is “more customizable, photorealistic and design-orientated than the previous generation.”
OpenAI Aims to Release New AI Model, ‘Strawberry,’ in Fall
Two weeks back we shared the story that OpenAI was working on Strawberry, a new foundation model. Today we received further confirmation of the development of Strawberry, along with news that the model may be coming this fall. We’ll be waiting with baited breath to see the extent to which Strawberry will surpass the capabilities of GPT-4o.
Why AI can’t spell ‘strawberry’
It’s ironic that OpenAI’s is developing a new foundation model called ‘Strawberry’ when GPT-4o, the top performing OpenAI large language model, cannot even spell the word. Dig into the article if you want to learn why transformers are not well-suited to count the number of occurrences of the letter ‘r’ in ‘strawberry’ even though they can output the word without a hint of trouble.
Quick Hits
Tool of the week: Gauth
Gauth is a new app from TikTok parent company ByteDance that bills itself as an AI study companion. More specifically, Gauth lets you take a photo of your homework questions, and then it answers those questions using AI.
It says it can help with Math, Chemistry and more. It also lets you choose from different AI models, including its own, ChatGpt and Gemini. So you can explore how well each model performs. Prof. Snider tried it out in a couple of his classes.
AI-generated image of the week
We’re back to school at Drake University, and of course we forgot to take a first-day-of-school photo. But Ideogram just released an updated version - 2.0. Generative AI to the rescue! Here’s “Chris Porter and Chris Snider” on the first day of school. Blue blazers was a nice touch!
prompt: A photo of two 45-year-old male college professors posing for a photo on the first day of school. One professor has gray hair, a shortbeard, and glasses. The other professor has brown hair, a short beard, and does not wear glasses. They are holding a large sign that says "First day of school". The background is a college campus with trees and buildings.Get starting with Generative AI
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What we found
We have some more details on how Arizona State University is implementing ChatGPT Edu throughout the school. A post on the ChatGPT website says that ASU started with an AI Innovation Challenge early this year.
ASU faculty and staff were asked to submit proposals for how ChatGPT could be used in one of three areas: Supporting teaching and learning, Advancing research for public good or Enhancing the future of work.
More than 400 proposals were received, which resulted in more than 200 projects. ASU now has a library of Custom GPTs that include a writing companion and a bot that helps students in the College of Health Solutions practice patient-provider interactions through role-based conversations.