Innovation Profs - 9/10/2024

Your weekly guide to generative AI tools and news

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September 10, 2024

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Generative AI News

Apple launches its iPhone 16, the first equipped with generative AI

“Apple Intelligence” is Apple’s name for the generative AI features that users can access through various Apple devices, and it’s coming next month. In addition, Apple just announced the iPhone 16, the "first iPhones designed from the ground up for Apple Intelligence," according to Apple CEO Tim Cook. According to TechRepublic’s Apple Intelligence Cheat Sheet, features include:

  • Generative writing tools.

  • Automatic summarization.

  • Smart prioritization of notifications and emails.

  • Photo editing.

  • Automatic photo sorting.

  • The ability to control some of the phone’s settings with voice commands.

  • A more conversational and versatile attitude for Siri.

As we reported earlier, Apple Intelligence is powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

US and UK Spy Chiefs Enlist Generative AI in Intelligence Operations

In a joint statement, CIA Director Bill Burns and MI6 Chief Richard Moore described the role that generative AI plays in their respective organizations. "We are now using AI, including generative AI, to enable and improve intelligence activities—from summarization to ideation to helping identify key information in a sea of data." Other ways AI is being deployed in the intelligence sector include safeguarding operations, detecting misinformation, and content triage.

AI 'won't replace' creative skills, study finds

From Canva’s report, Creativity in Education: "Creativity in education is becoming increasingly important as AI and other technologies reshape the skills demanded in the workforce. With AI automating many routine tasks, uniquely human skills like creativity are now more crucial than ever." This conclusion was backed by a survey of over 3,000 “educators, recent college graduates, and hiring managers.” Key findings of the study include:

  • “As many as 80% of the recent graduates surveyed credited feeling successful in their current job to their creativity”

  • “As many as 85% of hiring managers think AI's ascent will promote creativity”

  • “62% of educators have seen creativity increase among students in recent years”

  • “[M]ost individuals surveyed believe AI to be a learnable skill”

Quick Hits

How I’m Trying to Use Generative AI as a Journalism Engineer — Ethically

Is it possible?

themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/09/07/how-im-trying-to-use-generative-ai-as-a-journalism-engineer-ethically

'Draw me a cell': Generative AI takes on clinical predictions in cancer

A study published in Nature Machine Intelligence introduces an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of creating virtual colorations of cancer tissue. The study, co-led by scientists at the Universities of Lausanne and Bern, is a major step forward in enhancing pathology analysis and diagnostics of cancer.

medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-cell-generative-ai-clinical-cancer.html#google_vignette

ChatGPT is reportedly getting 8 new voices — here’s what they sound like

More voices and more accents.

mashable.com/article/chatgpt-reportedly-getting-eight-new-voices-what-they-sound-like

AI solves the 'cocktail party problem' and proves useful in court

The technology has been used to filter out background voices in audio evidence in a US murder case.

www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk5mdj9gxo

Ilya Sutskever on how AI will change and his new startup Safe Superintelligence

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, has launched a new company called Safe Superintelligence (SSI), aiming to develop safe artificial intelligence systems that far surpass human capabilities.

www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ilya-sutskever-how-ai-will-change-his-new-startup-safe-superintelligence-2024-09-05

Ingenious Self-Ask Prompting Technique Boosts Generative AI

Prompt engineering welcomes a special technique known as the self-ask. You can get better results out of generative AI via a self-ask. Here's the scoop.

www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2024/09/07/ingenious-self-ask-prompting-technique-boosts-generative-ai

Tool of the week: Imagen 3

Google is rolling out the latest version of its AI image generation tool to all users on Gemini. All users will get access to the new model, but only paid users will be able to create images of people.

AI-generated image of the week

Will AI image tools create an image of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in a debate? Let’s check some out.

Midjourney had this to say (which clearly needs to be updated): Sorry! The Midjourney community voted to prevent using 'Donald Trump' and 'Joe Biden' during election season.

DALL-E also said no: I wasn't able to generate the image due to content policy restrictions. If you'd like, I can create a different scene with generic political figures in a debate setting that doesn't resemble specific public figures. Let me know how you'd like to proceed!

Google’s ImageFX also said no.

Ideogram, on the other hand, had no issue with creating an image: 

prompt: donald trump and kamala harris in a debate

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What we found

How are people actually using AI? Researchers analyzed a million ChatGPT interaction logs and found that the overwhelmingly most popular use case for the chatbot was creative composition.

The second most popular? Sexual role-playing. Other use cases include brainstorming and planning, asking for explanations and general information.