AI Top-of-Mind for Dec 20
Note: After Dec 21, I’ll be taking a bit of time off until the new year.
Top-of-mind for today is the latest Gartner research stating that some organizations (20%) will pivot ‘AI-free’ for differentiation by 2027. It looks at expected decrease in search traffic, the need to hire AI experts, content authenticity, and the mandate to deliver ‘differentiated results’ from AI.
Continuing the deep dive on some of the more popular image tools, below are a few links if you’d like to learn more about Leonardo.ai. One positive point about Leonardo.ai is its support of different image generation models. As an example, I offered it the basic ‘/create dog’ prompt and selected three models –
· https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/leonardo-ai/
· https://education.apple.com/story/250012617
· https://sites.google.com/view/creativeapptitude/ai-art
Also on the creative front, continued comparisons of the different image tools, this time looking at the open source model ‘Distillery’ vs ‘Midjourney.’ From the article:
· Distillery is an AI art generation service that is fully open source, created by FollowFox, which is an AI venture studio focused on small AI models. According to the company, they are committed to disclosing all their backends and models to the community.
· You can check out the open-source model in CivitAI to run the model on your local machine.
This a follow-up to the ChatGPT spoofing article I wrote about yesterday. The same author looked at how the bot interprets prompts asking it to describe various aspects of the human body. We all hope that our family physicians or hospital surgeons are not trained on this!
Finally, yet another look at 2024 predictions, this time from ‘AdWeek’ on three areas to be mindful of when introducing gen AI to your organization:
· Brands build agent AIs
· Multimodality and managing unstructured data
· Some movement to regulate AI
And…. Some cautions from Soohyun Ahn on the use of bots for writing. From the author:
· For me, the impact of AI on student writing is individual improvement at the expense of collective diversity.
· Ironically, all the essays are ‘good’ in a certain sense — there are no poorly written essays with grammatical errors or ingenious ones in a bad way.
· All the essays are polished and well-organized, yet I can’t help but think they are “individually brighter, collectively duller.”
