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It’s time! Our first AI Art Competition, Virtual Vision, officially sponsored by WonderCraftAI, will take place from the 1st to the 10th of July! 🥳 

It’s simple, enter for FREE, you will be given a prompt, generate an image using any generative AI platform, and submit! Only the first 100 signups can participate and the top 5 win several prizes, which include subscriptions to up to $500 of AI software you can try! Sign up below now! 👇

Looking forward to everyone participating! P.S. If you don’t want to pay for MidJourney, there are several free generation software available (e.g. https://rundiffusion.com/) - just one Google away from $500!

Here’s what we’ll learn about today:

• Mercedes + ChatGPT → toward the future of automotive 🎺!

• Google Makes Virtual Try-On a lot more realistic 👗

• Workers in several fields have already been replaced by AI ⚒️

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News Reel:

Highlight 1: Mercedes + ChatGPT = drive of the future

The famous luxury automotive maker Mercedes announced a partnership with Microsoft and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT as an assistant in some of its cars! 🤯

• 900,000 cars in the U.S were equipped with this functionality on June 16th (join the beta program to unlock it!) 🚗

• ChatGPT will make the current voice assistant, which is already industry standard, even more capable and natural to talk to 📈

Guess what? … privacy concerns 😆 Well Mercedes thought of it stating that “Mercedes-Benz retains complete control over the IT processes in the background.“ There is definitely more to understand about it and some people won’t be happy.

This innovation may be too much because what will keep you focused on driving when you can have a conversation about existence and ethics with your car? 🙃

Read Mercedes's statement here.

Highlight 2: Google Makes Virtual Try-On a lot more realistic

Google's new generative AI model revolutionizes virtual try-on for apparel 👓 by utilizing diffusion and cross-attention techniques to generate high-quality, photorealistic images of clothing 👕on real models with different body shapes and sizes. Here’s the bits of it:

• Google has developed a new generative AI model for virtual try-on (VTO) apparel. 🙌

• The model uses diffusion, a process of gradually adding and removing noise pixels to reconstruct an image, to generate realistic clothing images.

• Instead of using text as input, the model utilizes pairs of images: one of the garment and another of a person wearing it.

• The images are processed by separate neural networks and share information through cross-attention to generate photorealistic images of the person wearing the garment. 🔮

• The AI model was trained using Google's Shopping Graph, a comprehensive dataset of products, sellers, brands, reviews, and inventory.

• The training involved matching garment shapes in different poses to generate realistic images from all angles. 📸

• Virtual try-on for women's tops is currently available for brands like Anthropologie, LOFT, H&M, and Everlane, with plans to expand to more brands in the future. 📈📈

Is this the future of shopping as we know it?

Here’s the research paper for those interested and the detailed blog post.

Highlight 3: Workers in several fields have already been replaced by AI

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought about concerns regarding job displacement, as businesses across various sectors integrate AI systems that can potentially replace human workers. 💸

Here’s the bits of it:

• Copywriters have experienced layoffs as AI systems can generate content quickly, although the quality ✨ may not be on par with human writers.

• A report from Goldman Sachs suggests that AI could replace 300 million full-time jobs, particularly in administrative and legal professions (44% and 46% job losses respectively). 🧑‍⚖️

• However, the introduction of AI can also boost productivity, and growth, and create new job opportunities.

• Some companies, like IKEA, have integrated AI into their operations without resulting in job losses, instead retraining employees for new roles. ✅

• A survey by Boston Consulting Group indicates that frontline workers are more worried about job replacement by AI compared to managers.

• Voiceover artist Alejandro Graue experienced his work being replaced by AI-generated voiceovers, raising concerns about the future of his profession. 🎙️

• While AI may not completely eliminate human involvement in certain jobs, it is likely that working alongside AI will become more common in the future.

Here’s the whole article from BBC for you!

A.I. Showcase: Rows - the end of Excel

Will this be the end of Excel? Well…maybe. We might just be before one of the most powerful tools we have ever seen in this newsletter. Rows allows you to create and edit data analysis dashboards in a matter of seconds📈.

The coolest thing about this tool is that you can work with any document you already have in a CSV file or load any desired data from any website you want📊! In our case, we will be analyzing the LinkedIn data of our AI Bits page. Here is how:

• Create an account at http://rows.com by clicking on “Sign in”:

• In the dashboard, click on “Create spreadsheet”:

• You will now see something like this 👇🏽. In order to load the data from LinkedIn, click on “Data actions”:

• In the search bar, type “LinkedIn” and we will be selecting “LinkedIn pages” (But feel free to extrapolate to any desired website of your choosing and any activity, this is just an example😉!):

• To get relevant information about our LinkedIn webpage, we will select “Get insights about your LinkedIn pages”:

• Now, just enter the name of the page you want to research🔍:

• And, just like that, our table is created! Now, for an extra dose of magic🪄, in the right top corner, click on the stars symbol:

• And this will give us an instant detailed analysis of the data by the built-in AI Analyzer. And you can create another table by just clicking “Insert table” on the feature!😋

• Select the data in the table desired and click on “Insert” and select “Chart”:

• And that is it! Our final output in a matter of seconds😀 

Incredible, right? Well, what if I told you that the data will keep updating as LinkedIn refreshes? You just need to click on the three dots of the table/graph and select “Refresh source”. And this is just the tip of the iceberg…make the most of it! 🤓.

Incredible, right?

AI Art of the Week: rickyjin!

Sometimes a portrait is the most beautiful image you can click and today’s featured artist really proves that💎! In today’s newsletter, we want some cute and gorgeous images that are very much a picture of an ideal summer picnic 🌞. Ricky Jin’s gorgeous composition and colours shine through in his portrait works. Here they are!

You can find him on Discord with his tag: rickyjin#7060!

Looking forward to you taking part in the competition!

-AI Bits