Youtube is The New Generative AI Playground

Author

Ts Yotov
September 22, 2023

In today’s edition:

🗞️ News

📰 China's AI 'war of a hundred models' heads for a shakeout

📰 YouTube is going all in on AI

🛠️ Trending Tools - Instant competitor research and more

📚 Nerd section - Boost audio to amazing 48kHz quality and more

💡 Small bits - Tether's massive $420 Million bet on Cloud GPUs and more

🎨 BONUS - "MidJourney Dreams" at the end :D

With geopolitical tensions and chip sanctions by the U.S., there are doubts about China's ability to progress without Western technologies, yet they are.

  • China's AI boom, initiated by the success of OpenAI's ChatGPT, has spawned a "war of a hundred models" as numerous companies push their AI products.

  • China boasts about 130 large language models (LLMs), 40% of the global share, and many are niche, industry-specific LLMs.

  • Most of these models grapple with differentiation, viability, and escalating costs in a crowded market.

  • Geopolitical strains between China and the U.S. have affected the sector. U.S. chip sanctions and reduced early-stage investments are significant hurdles.

Why it Matters: China's AI evolution is at a crossroads, influenced not just by market dynamics but also by global geopolitics. How China navigates these challenges can shape the future of AI innovations and its technological independence.

YouTube has unveiled a suite of AI-powered tools at its annual Made on YouTube event to enhance content creation. Features include:

  • Dream Screen: Allows creators to use AI-generated backgrounds for their YouTube Shorts by inputting prompts.

  • AI-Generated Video Suggestions: YouTube Studio's AI will propose trending video topics tailored to individual creators.

  • Music Recommendation: Based on a video's description, AI will suggest suitable audio tracks.

  • AI Dubbing Feature: This AI-based feature will translate creators' videos into various languages.

  • Impact on Content Creation: As AI becomes more integrated into content production, the way digital content is conceived and created is evolving. Platforms like TikTok have started labeling AI-generated content.

Why it Matters: YouTube's new AI tools highlight the platform's future vision for content creation. While AI can streamline the creation process, it may raise concerns about content authenticity.

🛠️ Trending Tools 🛠️

🔎  Opinly.AI - Instantly research competitors.

✂️ Much - Turn long videos into engaging social media clips.

🧑‍💻 Safurai - Code faster, safer, and better.

👩🏽‍💻 CreateApp.AI - or deploy no-code apps quickly.

📚 Nerd section 📚

🔗 Chain of Density Prompt (CoD), LLM + Knowledge Graph Prompt - GPT-4 automated Summarization technology and prompt engineering with knowledge graph structure integration

🖭 Meet AudioSR: A Plug & Play and one-for-all AI solution for boosting any audio to a stunning 48kHz quality.

📖 Traditional AI vs Generative AI TLDR: Traditional AI follows set rules. Generative AI makes new stuff from patterns.

💡 Small Bits 💡

💵 AI’s New Backer: Stablecoin Tether Makes A $420 Million Bet On Cloud GPUs - gets 10,000 Nvidia GPUs and buys a share in bitcoin miner Northern Data.

🤖 Microsoft pushes Copilot AI to Windows and Office as soon as next week, offering enhanced AI features across their applications for a more unified and comprehensive user experience.

🖼️ LimeWire Expands AI Offerings With Image-to-Image Generation - to bolster its AI tools allowing artists to monetize, with content creators potentially earning up to 70% in ad revenue and subscribers getting 10%.

👨‍🎨 Microsoft to add DALL-E 3 to Bing Chat - allowing users to generate images from text; additionally, Bing has introduced new shopping features for a more personalized user experience.

🧑🏽‍⚖️ Poland opens privacy probe of ChatGPT following GDPR complaint - Polish data protection authority, UODO, following allegations that its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, may not be in compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The investigation follows a complaint that accuses OpenAI of breaches concerning the regulation's lawful basis, transparency, fairness, data access rights, and privacy by design.

🎨 BONUS - "MidJourney Dreams" 🎨

A little wicked, right?

How can you get images like these?

...with no prompt at all! Allow MidJourney to dream for you.

I used this prompt for the images above:

Prompt: .

Yep, just '.'

^^ Prompt: (.)

Experiment and enjoy 🙂 

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- Tsvetelin (Bits and Neurons)Amazon Brings Generative AI To Alexa And Fire TV