The Secret Life of Jasper — A Conversation with Sarah Guo about the Artificial Intelligence’s Creativity and Influence on AI Audio and AI Video
A buzzy salon with an animated crowd of engineers, entrepreneurs, and financiers was held by Sarah Guo, founder of venture capital firm Conviction. The artificial intelligence’s creative capabilities are what they think about all the time.
You may be familiar with AI text and AI images, but these mediums are only the starting point for generative AI. Google is beginning to share even more information about its research into the possibilities for AI audio and AI video. There are lots of startups in Silicon Valley vying for attention as more mainstream uses for large language models emerge.
The party was held in San Francisco by Stability AI, which creates tools for generating images with few restrictions. The company secured $101 million in new funding and is currently valued at $1 billion. Tech celebrities that attended the gathering include Sergey Brin.
When Jasper launched two years ago it was mostly considered a really cool toy, but a year ago I had to let some of you go because I couldn’t get you to return my emails. “Now my inbox is flooded.” Valentine’s Day be damned: This was love in the time of generative AI.
Dan Winters, Photographer, said that using the artificial intelligence was inspiring and entertaining. I couldn’t be happier with the results—this is actually a better cover than the one that ran.”
Margaret Swart, Design Director“I’ve been trying to better articulate to myself the differences between prompting DALL-E and working with an illustrator. DALL-E gave me updated versions of the information that I provided, as well as the fact that it works in a more literal world of “things”. I think that’s the most important aspect. Illustrators think differently than I do. They take the information that I supply, and then they expand on it. They do their own supplementary research, and they offer alternate approaches and unexpected solutions. The results of the DALL-E were based on random data crunching from the information I provided. I didn’t get the innovative solutions because I wasn’t giving the unexpected ideas in the prompt. AI (or at least this version thereof) has a huge reserve of data, but not the curiosity and the experience to look at a concept from a different POV—an artist’s POV. I don’t see severing ties with my illustrator database anytime soon.”
But Google’s competitors don’t seem to have “slow” in their vocabularies. While Google has provided limited access to LaMDA in a protected Test Kitchen app, other companies have been offering an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord with their own chatbots and image generators. The most consequential release to date is OpenAI’s latest version of its powerful text generation technology, which spits out coherent essays, poems, plays, and songs. millions of people have tinkered with the bot to make it better and have shared its amazing responses to make it an international obsession, as well as a source of wonder and fear. Will ChatGPT kill the college essay? Destroy traditional internet search? Put millions of copywriters, journalists, artists, songwriters, and legal assistants out of a job?
On February 8, the company will announce artificial intelligence integrations for its search engine. You can watch live on video sharing website, YouTube.
Generative language tools like ChatGPT will surely change what it means to search the web, shaking up an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, by making it easier to dig up useful information and advice. A web search may become more of a matter of leaning back and taking a chatbots word for it. The underlying language technology can transform many other tasks as well, for example email programs that write sales pitches or spreadsheets that summarize data for you, because of the underlying language technology. To a lot of users it seems to signal a shift in the ability of the artificial intelligence to understand and communicate with us.
Not to be outdone by Bing’s AI reboot, Google said this week that it would release a competitor to ChatGPT called Bard. A person who works for the company tells me the name was chosen to reflect the artistic nature of the algorithm underneath. The company, like Microsoft, showed how the underlying technology could answer some web searches and said it would start making the AI behind the chatbot available to developers. Google is apparently unsettled by the idea of being upstaged in search, which provides the majority of parent Alphabet’s revenue. According to researchers at the Artificial Intelligence Lab, they have developed a machine learning algorithm and a key technique used to make AI imagery that may be a tad upset.
The new Bing is full of information. Demos that the company gave at its headquarters in Redmond, and a quick test drive by WIRED’s Aarian Marshall, who attended the event, show that it can effortlessly generate a vacation itinerary, summarize the key points of product reviews, and answer tricky questions, like whether an item of furniture will fit in a particular car. It’s a long way from Microsoft’s hapless and hopeless Office assistant Clippy, which some readers may recall bothering them every time they created a new document.
In case you’ve been living in outer space for the past few months, you’ll know that people are losing their minds over ChatGPT’s ability to answer questions in strikingly coherent and seemingly insightful and creative ways. Do you want to understand quantum computing? Need a recipe for something in the fridge? Can’t be bothered to write a high school essay? ChatGPT has your back.
China is home to the biggest search company in the world, Beijing-based Baidu. It joined the fray by announcing another ChatGPT competitor, Wenxin Yiyan (文心一言), or “Ernie Bot” in English. Baidu says it will release the bot after completing internal testing this March.
Jasper’s Generative AI Conference sold out in a wedding banquet on February 21st, 2000 at the Embarcadero
Dave Rogenmoser, the chief executive of Jasper, said he didn’t think many people would show up to his generative AI conference. It was all planned sort of last-minute, and the event was somehow scheduled for Valentine’s Day. Surely people would rather be with their loved ones than in a conference hall along San Francisco’s Embarcadero, even if the views of the bay just out the windows were jaw-slackening.
The event Jasper held called “Genai” sold out. More than 1,200 people registered for the event, and by the time the lanyard crowd moseyed over from the coffee bar to the stage this past Tuesday, it was standing room only. Pink and purple lighting made the walls seem as though they had been thrown at a New Jersey wedding banquet.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/jasper-generative-ai-conference-2023/
Ask Jeeves: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence to the 21st Century, and the Shadow of Tech existentialism
Openai introduced a simple search box late last year. The tool got a graphical user interface. And suddenly, we understood. This was Ask Jeeves in the modern era. A new type of search that took our dumb questions and made smart answers out of them. Microsoft took note, made (another) investment in OpenAI, and launched a chatbot within Bing. The machine learning-powered search tool was demoed by the search engine giant. Smaller companies like Jasper, which sells its generative AI tools to business users, are now faced with tech existentialism. There’s the sunny side of all that attention, and the shadow of Big Tech looming over you.