I believe you’re familiar with Google Lens, Google’s powerful AI search tool. Well, it’s now become an integral part of every image search you make. From now on, you can access all of the cool Google Lens features straight from your browser, including images, translations, finding text, and more.
Sell your drone and use Google’s new AI to “fly” through a landscape photo
After text-to-image, text-to-video, and AI-generated video in general, is definitely the next big thing. Shortly after introducing its own text-to-video AI, Google introduced another AI-powered video tool -and it’s pretty darn awesome!
Google’s new program InfiniteNature-Zero lets you “fly into” a landscape scene, similar to what we often see in drone landscape videos. But you don’t need a drone – all you need is a single landscape image and AI does all the magic, turning it into a video and giving you a three-dimensional feel.
AI-generated illustrations for “Goodnight Moon” are pure nightmare material
I never perceived Goodnight Moon as creepy. Quite the opposite, actually. However, text-to-image always has some weird ideas, and so does
Joris Bax. He didn’t only use Midjourney’s AI tool to create illustrations for the famous bedtime poem. He also added a super-creepy voice and music to it, turning it into pure, distilled nightmare material. Something like this music video, only even scarier.
AI image generator DALL-E chooses 1 million creators for beta testing
Earlier this year, OpenAI introduced DALL-E, an AI-based tool that generates images from a textual description. If you’ve joined OpenAI’s waiting list, get ready: the company has selected the lucky users who get the chance to test out DALL-E. One million people have been selected, and if you get to be among them, the developers have shared some details to help you out.
This nightmare music video was made from AI-generated images based on the song lyrics
I believe that you’re already familiar with the power of text-to-image AI. Tools like DALL-E and Google’s text-to-image AI turn any random text into illustrations. They try hard to make it as realistic as possible, but more often than not, the resulting images are bizarre.
So, have you ever thought about what happens when you put song lyrics into a tool like this? Jason Scott did. He took lyrics of a song about data encryption (how appropriate), let AI turn them into images and made everything into a video. The result – pure, unrefined nightmare-material that. But if you’re anything like me – you’re going to absolutely love it!
Google’s text-to-image AI will create photorealistic images of anything you can possibly imagine
What’s the strangest thing you can dream up in your mind? Give it a go, the weirder the better. How about a pineapple riding a T Rex wearing blue striped pyjamas and a Viking helmet at a Rodeo?
It would take considerable effort to draw such a thing, let alone make a photograph of it, even with superior Photoshop skills. But Google has just reported that their new text-to-image AI programme, funnily enough, called Imagen, can do just that with a click of a button.
Google’s new skin tone scale could reduce AI’s racial bias
We’ve already seen some cases of AI being biased towards lighter skin tones. But Google wants to turn it around and it’s now using an alternative, more inclusive skin tone scale.
Teaming up with a Harvard professor, Google is using and open-sourcing the Monk Skin Tone (MST) Scale. It’s more inclusive than the current tech-industry standard, making various skin tones included in search results.
These creepy images were completely generated by AI from just photo captions
AI just gets weirder and weirder. And creepier. Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI have published new research which builds on OpenAI’s GPT-3 machine learning tech to generate images from scratch based just on the captions of photos.
It’s kind of the reverse of what Facebook does when you upload a photo to the platform and it generates captions. Here, you feed it captions and it generates the photo.
Google Lens can now solve your kid’s math homework from a photo
Google Lens has a bunch of interesting and helpful features, from identifying your pets in photos to translating text from them. And now Google Lens is about to introduce a new feature that could be a double/edged sword. It could help your kid learn and understand math, but also do quite the opposite and just solve the problem for them.
Google Lens now copies handwritten text and pastes it straight to your computer
Are there still folks among you who, like me, prefer handwriting to typing? If you’re in this group, you’ll love this new feature on Google Lens. The app now lets you scan your handwritten notes, copy them, and paste them straight to your computer. I gave it a spin, and I bring you my impressions as well as more information.[Read More…]
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