Generative AI News Rundown 7 - Nvidia, Google, Midjourney, TikTok, Roblox, and More - Voicebot Podcast Ep 309

The Generative AI News (GAIN) rundown for March 23, 2023, was
packed with significant announcements. Bret Kinsella hosts this
week along with Eric Schwartz. The top stories in generative
AI land this week include:
Nvidia Moves up the Stack



Picasso and NeMo: Nvidia isn’t going just to
cash checks for GPU sales related to the generative AI
tsunami. They now offer text-to-image and text-to-text
models that compete directly with OpenAI, Google, and
Stable Diffusion.




Omniverse Upgrade: Omniverse is an open
platform for 3D design collaboration and real-time physically
accurate simulations. It announced new services for
creating virtual factories mirroring real-world facilities,
the option to stream simulated experiences and train to
AI-powered robots, and a simulator for testing autonomous
vehicles.


Google Teases Gen AI Features and Models



Show your PaLMs: Google is now letting
testers use its giant large language model (LLM) PaLM.
This is different from LaMDA and might eventually be a
replacement for the brains behind Bard. Right now, it is
Google’s answer to GPT-3/GPT-4. A tool to help developers
using PaLM called MakerSuite was also announced.




Gmail and Docs to Get AI writing
assistant: Docs and Gmail are getting
PaLM-enabled text generation features.




Bard announced again: Google says it is now
offering access to Bard to the general public. But there is
a waitlist.


AI-Generated Beauty



Midjourney 5 is here: There are several
minor upgrades, but the key benefits are enhanced
quality, more coherence, better photorealism, and more
detail.




Bing adds DALL-E: You can now create
images in Bing through a new DALL-E integration. The
quality seems better to me than DALL-E 2, which you can
access today on OpenAI. Might this be the long-awaited DALL-E
3?


Synthetic Media Policy



TikTok to tighten deepfake rules: TikTok
announced new policies around synthetic media and deepfake
use on the platform before its CEO’s Congressional testimony.
The policy description grew from 30 words to nearly 400. Will
others social platforms take this as a cue to make their own
updates?


Games Go Generative



Roblox wants to make development easier:
Roblox added generative AI tools that enable
developers to use natural language to create objects and
generate code.




Unity wants generative AI NPCs: Unity didn’t
make any concrete announcements. However, its CEO
told Reuters that generative AI would help game
makers write dialogue and enable non-player characters to
interact more naturally with human players.


Other News



LinkedIn goes generative: The
Microsoft-owned company added new generative AI features to
create user profiles and job descriptions.




SoundHound shows Chat AI assistant: The new
mobile app offers an assistant that blends SoundHound’s
NLU-based assistant with new LLM features.


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