Sunday Snaps #06
Sunday Snaps #06
Bard, Text-to-Music AI, A Copilot Competitor and a AI Powered Notetaking Tool
This was the week of Google I/O which shed light on lot of new and innovative products Google has been working on since the last few years including Bard, PaLM 2, a more robust Firebase hosting among other things.
And well, Google is putting AI in basically everything, including search.
Google Bard is now Open to All
The company is removing the waitlist for Bard and making the system available in English in 180 countries and territories.
Google is adding new features to its chatbot Bard, including support for new languages, easier ways to export text to Google Docs and Gmail, visual search, and a dark mode.
Bard is being upgraded to use Google's new PaLM 2 language model, which should improve its general answers and usability. The new features include enhanced citations for code, and the ability to analyze images and generate visuals using AI. Bard will soon integrate with third-party web services like Instacart and OpenTable. The chatbot is an experiment and not a replacement for Google's search engine.
Text-to-Music AI from Google
Google has released an experimental AI tool called MusicLM that can create music based on text descriptions. Users can specify the instruments and the mood they want, and the tool will generate multiple versions of a song.
Google has previously previewed the technology, but it has also noted some ethical challenges, such as the system's tendency to incorporate copyrighted material into the generated songs.
However, Google says it has been working with musicians and hosting workshops to "see how [the] technology can empower the creative process." Some experts believe that AI-generated music violates copyright laws, and lawsuits pertaining to the rights of artists whose work is used to train AI systems are making their way through the courts.
After Amazon, Google now launches a GitHub Copilot competitor
Google has announced a suite of AI-centric coding tools at its annual I/O developer conference. These include a competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding and Google Cloud services, and AI-assisted coding in Google’s no-code AppSheet product.
At the core of these tools is Codey, which was trained on a large corpus of open-source code, internal Google code, and the company’s code samples and reference applications.
The model is available through an extension for Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, the Google Shell Editor, and Google’s cloud-hosted Workstations service. In the near future, Google plans to use these models to help developers manage all of their services on Google Cloud using chatbot technology.
AI Powered Note-Taking Tool
Google announced at its I/O developer conference that it is building an AI-powered notebook tool called Project Tailwind to automatically organize and summarize users' freeform notes.
The tool is available through Labs, Google's experimental product hub, and is powered by PaLM 2, the successor to Google's PaLM large language model.
Tailwind can generate a study guide, answer natural language questions about the notes, and cite all sources within the docs. Google is not yet sure who the tool is for, but it is open for preview and the waitlist for U.S.-based users is now open.
Users first need to pick files from their Google Drive. Tailwind then creates a private AI model with a focus on that information.
Tailwind can generate a study guide, for example, highlighting key concepts and suggesting questions or even creating a reading comprehension quiz. The tool can also answer natural language questions about the notes, citing all of its sources within the docs.
MiscellaneousYour Chance to Meet Sam Altman
In May and June of 2023, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI - the company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E - will embark on a global tour to engage with individuals interested in artificial intelligence, OpenAI users, and developers. Altman announced his plan on Twitter and invited people to join him to discuss their feedback, feature requests, and other insights related to AI.
During his world tour, Altman will travel to 16 cities across five continents, including Toronto, Washington DC, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos, Madrid, Brussels, Munich, London, Paris, Tel Aviv, Dubai, New Delhi, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
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