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Google's AI Trojan Horse 🐴
Featuring Google Sheets AI Integrations, A Massive $1.3B AI Acquisition, Exploring Midjourney's New Features and More.
Good morning, AI explorers! Hope you had an excellent weekend!
Welcome to another edition of AI Authority, delivering all of the top groundbreaking AI news shaping our world into a bite-sized newsletter every weekday morning.
As always, we’ve got one daily AI headline, two exciting tools, and three pieces of content we love from the community for you today.
In this edition:
✍️ News: Google’s AI Mass Adoption Moves
🛠️ Tools: Dropbox’s New AI Tools, OtterAI
🎨 Creator Corner: ChatGPT Role Reversal, Midjourney Zoom Fun, Video Generation
Let’s dive in 👇
One top headline in the AI space to know:
🌎 Google’s DuetAI Mass Adoption Moves
Since launching in November, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has ushered in a wave of AI adoption (and in February broke records for the fastest app to 100M users).
But Google’s push to integrate the tech into its existing suite may be the biggest trojan horse for mass adoption of AI out there.
Is Google the key to unlocking AI for the masses?
Google's unveiled the 'Help me organize' feature in Workspace Labs for Sheets this past week — bringing the power of generative AI directly into spreadsheets used by the masses.
This new integration can suggest and create customizable table templates for anything from dog walking business rosters to product roadmaps. It's like having your own personal assistant (Microsoft’s Clippy walked so AI tools could run!) — helping you to keep track of complex tasks and potentially revealing factors you might have overlooked.
A nice preview of what the tool looks like below:
Duet AI for Google Workspace can now help you stay organized in Google Sheets. Just describe what you want to accomplish, and Sheets will generate custom templates to help you get started. Rolling out now in #GoogleWorkspace Labs → goo.gle/3AVHBMB
— Google Workspace (@GoogleWorkspace)
5:03 PM • Jun 22, 2023
The feature is now available to testers in Google's Workspace Labs programs. You can join the waitlist to try these new capabilities before they are fully released to the masses by registering here.
With the new Sheets integrations, the recent additions to Google Docs and Gmail, and image generation reportedly on its way to Google Slides, it seems Google is betting big on AI to make our work lives just a little bit easier — all in the familiar confines of apps already used by billions of people across the world.
While AI is a polarizing topic (and when you leave the tech bubble, there is a LOT of hate) — supercharging workflows in products that are already used by the masses is an easy way to change sentiment.
And the Google Suite might be the perfect trojan horse.
Still hungry for more AI headlines? Some other news that caught our eye:
— AI’s Use in Elections Sets Off a Scramble For Guardrails (link)
— Databricks Picks Up MosaicML, an OpenAI Competitor, For $1.3B (link)
— AI Chatbots Will Eventually Be Teaching in Primary Schools (link)
— AI Helps Dentists Catch Cavities and Gum Disease (link)
— Everything You Need to Know About AI But Were Too Afraid to Ask (link)
Two AI-powered platforms to add to your toolbox:
⚡⚡INTRODUCING OTTER AI CHAT ⚡⚡
We’re excited for you to check out the new Otter AI Chat. Now you and your team can unlock all the insights from meetings with live AI-powered answers and content right when and where your meetings happen.
Check it out: otter.ai/chattwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Otter.ai (AI Powered Voice Meeting Notes) (@otter_ai)
1:00 PM • Jun 21, 2023
Three of our favorite tweets, threads, AI generations and more:
Now YOU can be the large language model! Funny role-reversal experiment from @nateparrott:
little chatbot experiment... **role reversal**
press a button to become chatgpt and answer the bot's dumb questions
— nate parrott (@nateparrott)
2:14 AM • Jun 26, 2023
Now you can download a video of your Midjourney generations, which look pretty awesome:
Did you guys see the --video parameter in Midjourney is that new?
Use the --video parameter and reply with ✉️ and Midjourney bot sends you this video of the generation basically and you can download it 🤔
#midjourney52
— 4rtofficially1ntelligent (@4rtofficial)
11:09 PM • Jun 23, 2023
Midjourney’s new zoom out feature is a nice hack for keeping consistent characters throughout generations:
When done right, I feel like this new zoom out feature could be the key to getting a consistent character in MidJourney.
1. Generate a super closeup of a face.
2. Do a custom zoom with whatever scenario you want.
3. Zoom out 2x again on the resulting image.— Matt Wolfe (@mreflow)
5:03 AM • Jun 24, 2023
P.S — we also explored Midjourney’s new feature in a big way (with GODZILLA):
Exploring Midjourney's new zoom outpainting feature using Godzilla.
There's always a bigger fish... 😳
— AI Authority (@Authority_AI)
6:34 PM • Jun 23, 2023
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