AI Roundup: Apple Steps into the AI World, Latest in Stability AI, Microsoft & More Weekly Insights
Welcome to the twelfth edition of the PixelBin Newsletter. Every Monday, we send you one article that will help you stay informed about the latest AI developments in Business, Product, and Design.
In Today’s Newsletter
🔥 Apple Steps into the AI World, Stability AI’s Latest Update, Microsoft, and More in AI This Week
🌟 Latest AI Advancements Presented at NVIDIA GTC 2024
🎨 3 Simple Factors to Frame Best Midjourney Prompts
🚀 Revolutionizing 3D Scene Reconstruction with AI: SceneScript
🔥 AI in Fast Lane
Apple Steps into the AI World, Stability AI’s Latest Update, Microsoft, and More in AI This Week
Neuralink revealed the first patient using a brain-chip implant to play online chess and other games by mind control. Read More…
Open Interpreter unveiled the 01 Light. A new, portable open-source voice interface that connects to a user’s computer, allowing the AI to control apps, learn skills, and observe screens. Read More…
Apple is in talks to let Google Gemini power iPhone AI features. Read More…
Stability AI introduces Stable Video 3D, a generative model based on Stable Video Diffusion. Read More…
Nvidia gives humanoid robots a mind, with its latest GROOT. Read More…
Microsoft hires Suleyman to lead AI push. Read More…
AI unlocks MRI-to-image mind-reading. Read More…
🌟 Product Innovation through AI
Latest AI Advancements Presented at NVIDIA GTC 2024
In a significant announcement at GTC 2024, NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang introduced the groundbreaking Blackwell AI processor. This innovation, together with other new products and platforms, represents a pivotal moment in artificial intelligence, offering unmatched computing power, efficiency, and scalability. The Blackwell AI processor received high praise from industry giants such as Sundar Pichai, Andy Jassy, Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk, underscoring its impact on the AI sector.
NVIDIA also unveiled the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, powered by the NVIDIA GB200 Grace, an AI supercomputer capable of delivering 11.5 exaflops of AI supercomputing at FP4 precision. These developments are a testament to NVIDIA's dedication to leading innovation in AI, robotics, and embodied AI, heralding a new era in technology.
The Incredible Announcements at NVIDIA GTC 2024:
Blackwell: An AI superchip that reduces cost and energy consumption by 25x
Project GR00T: A general purpose foundational model for humanoid robot learning
OpenUSD Omniverse digital twins announced to be coming to the Apple Vision Pro
Earth-2: A digital twin of the earth for predicting extreme weather using AI
Nvidia introduces the leading robots powered by Nvidia, including the WALL-E-looking bot from Disney Research
Nvidia showcases AI-driven digital twins for warehouse ops and simulated 3D environments with AI agents
Inference Microservices (NIMs): a new approach to speed generative AI model deployment from weeks to minutes
Nvidia announces drug discovery using AI with BioNeMo NIMs
🎨 Design Meets AI
3 Simple Factors to Frame Best Midjourney Prompts
Crafting text prompts has become an art in today’s time. It is a process that is both an art and a science. Here’s a guide that simplifies this process into three essential components:
Medium: The canvas or platform where your creation will come to life.
Subject: The central figure or theme of your artwork.
Environment: The backdrop or setting that frames your subject.
However, the landscape of AI-driven design is evolving, with tools like midjourney introducing innovative ways to enrich your creative prompts. Image references now play a pivotal role, allowing you to infuse your projects with unparalleled depth and precision.
To enhance your text prompts, consider elaborating on the three main elements:
Medium and Subject: Describe not just what you're creating, but how it exists or acts within its space.
Setting/Environment: Paint a vivid picture of where your subject resides, focusing on mood, atmosphere, and key features.
Mood and Theme: Utilize lighting and color palettes to underscore the emotional tone or overarching theme of your work.
Midjourney further empowers your creative process with style and character reference tools, accessible through simple commands:
Style Reference: `
--sref{img URL}` to dictate the overall style.
Character Reference: `
--cref{img URL}` to specify characters. Read here for more details on using this feature.
Customization: Use `
--sw`, `--cw`, `--stylize`, and `--weird` for fine-tuning. Get more details on different midjourney parameters by reading here.
Exploration: Leverage `remixing` and `vary (region)` for variations. Read our previous edition to know how you can leverage midjourney’s ‘remix‘ feature.
Embracing images in your prompts despite the initial complexity, is becoming crucial. These powerful tools are not just augmenting the midjourney workflow; they are reshaping how we think about and interact with AI in design. Now is the opportune moment to dive into this synergy of visuals and text, unlocking new realms of creativity and innovation.
🚀 Innovations in AI
Revolutionizing 3D Scene Reconstruction with AI: SceneScript
SceneScript stands at the forefront of AI and ML innovation, transforming 3D scene reconstruction with a novel approach. Developed by Reality Labs Research, it harnesses machine learning to directly derive a room's geometry from visual data, producing detailed and understandable models of physical spaces. This technique employs large language models to convert visual information into a basic scene framework, which is then described in a language detailing the room's layout. This allows for the precise and efficient recreation of complex environments.
Introducing SceneScript paves the way for cutting-edge augmented reality (AR) technologies, including AR glasses that merge digital elements with the real world in a context-aware manner. Such advancements promise to revolutionize our interaction with spaces, enabling immersive applications from live renovation concepts to personalized spatial assistance. Despite its potential, the application of this technology raises important privacy and data security concerns, especially regarding personal space information.
How does SceneScript differ from other 3D scene reconstruction methods?
Direct Inference from Visual Data: SceneScript distinguishes itself by employing end-to-end machine learning to deduce the geometry of a room directly from visual inputs.
Compact and Interpretable Representations: It generates compact, comprehensive, and easily interpretable representations of physical environments.
Superior Handling of Complex Geometries: Traditional reconstruction methods often falter when faced with unusual or complex geometries, relying on heuristic approaches. SceneScript, however, excels in reconstructing intricate environments accurately and efficiently, thanks to its advanced machine learning backbone.
Integration with Large Language Models (LLMs): SceneScript is uniquely trained using LLMs, employing next token prediction techniques. This innovative training empowers the model to transform visual data into a fundamental scene representation and articulate it in descriptive language, offering a nuanced understanding of room layouts.
Advanced Reasoning Capabilities: The use of LLMs endows SceneScript with a sophisticated vocabulary for reasoning about physical spaces. This capability paves the way for next-gen digital assistants to offer context-sensitive responses to complex spatial inquiries, enhancing user interaction with digital environments.
Applications of SceneScript
Augmented Reality (AR) Glasses: SceneScript has the potential to revolutionize the development of AR glasses by enabling them to understand the layout of physical environments in 3D.
Digital Assistants: SceneScript equips next-generation digital assistants with the ability to reason about physical spaces, enabling them to provide context-aware responses to complex spatial queries.
Real-Time Renovation Ideas: SceneScript can be utilized to generate scene layouts and representations using language, making it a valuable tool for generating real-time renovation ideas.
Custom Wallpapers: In the context of Wallpaper Engine, SceneScript allows users to program specific behaviors for individual properties of wallpaper components.
SceneScript is a revolutionary step and can benefit multiple industries due to its capabilities in 3D scene reconstruction, spatial reasoning, and dynamic content creation.
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