🌊 AI Art Invasion, Code Cleanups, and Chegg Takes a Plunge

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4 min readMay 12, 2023

Welcome to this week’s edition of The AI Espresso, your one-stop shop for making AI an ally in your workflow. We’ve got a hot cup of AI goodness ready for you, so let’s dive in! In today’s newsletter, we’ll be covering:

  • 🖼️ AI-Generated Media of the Week
  • 📰 AI News
  • 🚀 Engineering
  • 🎨 Art & Design
  • 💼 Business

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🖼️ AI-Generated Media of the Week:

Source: New Version of Midjourney, AI-generated by Ethan Mollick
Source: Wes Anderson Pandas, AI-generated by KnifeFight3r
Source: Family Fun at the Shark Petting Zoo, AI-generated by GarryWalkerNFTArtist

📰 AI News:

  • AI Godfather Bows Out with a Warning 😲: Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI,” resigned from Google, expressing concerns about the potential misuse and risks of AI technology. The Turing Award winner’s departure highlights growing ethical concerns within the industry. (🔗 Read more)
  • ChatGPT Puts the Squeeze on Chegg 🎓: Online education giant Chegg saw its shares drop over 40% as ChatGPT takes a bite out of its customer base. Despite developing its own AI product, CheggMate, the future remains uncertain. (📉 Read more)

🚀 Engineering: Code Review and Optimization Tools & Prompts

  • AI Tools to Boost Your Game: Streamline your code review process and enhance collaboration with “What the Diff”! (🌟 Learn more)
Source: What The Diff

Engineering Prompt of the Week:

ChatGPT Prompt: Transform your messy code into a clean, efficient masterpiece with our ChatGPT Code Refactor prompt — “You are a Clean Code expert and I have the following code. Please refactor it in a cleaner and more concise way so that my colleagues can maintain the code more easily. Also, explain why you want to refactor the code, the steps, and also where it is modified so that I can add the explanation to the Pull Request. [attach code]“

Partial output from ChatGPT:

🎨 Art & Design: Content Generation and Inspiration Tools & Prompts

  • AI Tools to Boost Your Game: Unleash your creativity with Microsoft Designer, a design platform for professionals and beginners alike. Create stunning visuals with ease by simply writing text descriptions! (🎨 Learn more)
Microsoft Designer

Art & Design Prompt of the Week:

Prompt for Microsoft Designer: “a [media type, ex: a flyer] for [describe the situation]”

Example Prompt: “A flyer for promoting grand opening event for a bakery shop“

Result of the Example Prompt

💼 Business: Marketing Tools & Prompts

  • AI Tools to Boost Your Game: Elevate your storytelling game with ElevenLabs, the most realistic and versatile AI speech software ever. Bring your content to life! (🎙️ Learn more)
Source: ElevenLabs
  • Business Prompt of the Week:

ChatGPT Prompt: “Generate a catchy headline for my marketing campaign targeting [specific audience] to promote [product/service] while highlighting its [unique selling point].”

Result of the Prompt:

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