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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
This is our last issue of the year, and we want to thank you for the support.
2023 has truly been the year of AI, join us to recap the most important AI-related news and developments of the year
Let's jump into it!
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2023, The Year of AI: A Recap 🎆
Top 10 most popular AI tools of 2023
AI Tutorial: Create AI videos for free with Pika 1.0
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2023: The Year of AI: A Recap 🎆
Pseudomnesia: The Electrician, the AI image that won the creative open category at the Sony World Photography Awards 2023
Let's go through the months and recap the developments in the world of AI this year.
January
In January, Microsoft and OpenAI announced a strategic alliance, with Microsoft investing $10 billion in OpenAI over several years.
The user base for ChatGPT skyrocketed, increasing from 266 million to 616 million.
February
Stanford scholars created DetectGPT, the initial tool in a series designed to distinguish human from AI-generated text.
Meta launches Llama, a large language model with 65 billion parameters, setting new benchmarks in the AI industry.
Open AI announces their paid subscription called ChatGPT Plus.
Google announces Bard its own chatbot to compete with ChatGPT, just days later, Microsoft announces its Bing chatbot.
March
OpenAI released GPT 4, a significantly enhanced model over its predecessor and still the best model of the year.
Bard makes its debut.
Midjourney introduced version 5 with significant upgrades, positioning it at the forefront of image generators
Adobe introduced Firefly, an AI-backed image-generating and editing tool.
April
Google DeepMind is announced- a combination of Google Research and DeepMind.
Amazon joins with the announcement of Bedrock which allows AWS users to develop applications using generative AI models.
May
Google announced its new Search Generative Experience, with limited access, supercharging Search with generative AI.
Elon Musk launched a new brain implant startup, called Neuralink, which aims to create and implant AI-powered chips in people’s brains
NVIDIA's market capitalization surpassed $1 trillion, solidifying its position as the AI chip leader.
June
Apple launches Vision Pro, an AI-powered augmented reality headset.
McKinsey predicts GenAI has the potential to add up to $4.4 trillion in value to the global economy.
July
Microsoft announced Bing Chat Enterprise, with a focus on data privacy and confidentiality.
Meta introduced Llama 2, an open-source Large Language Model (LLM).
Anthropic released Claude 2, a strong competitor to ChatGPT.
August
ChatGPT Enterprise is introduced, offering enterprise-grade security and privacy.
Google announces their new watermarking technology, SynthID, which is designed to prevent deepfakes.
September
OpenAI announced Dall-E 3, its text-to-image generation tool.
Meta announces several new AI tools, including AI stickers and ‘AI Characters’ based on celebrities.
Several writers including Jodi Picoult, George R. R. Martin, and Jonathan Franzen sued OpenAI for copyright infringement.
Amazon announced a $4 billion investment in OpenAI competitor Anthropic.
October
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on artificial intelligence.
"Ernie 4.0" is announced, The Chinese company Baidu claims it is as good as ChatGPT.
The AI '90s yearbook trend takes over social media with several celebrities joining into creating AI images through Epik’s app.
November
Elon Musk announces Grok.
Microsoft unveils Bing Chat 2.0 — now called Copilot — together with several upgrades.
Sam Altman was abruptly dismissed as OpenAI's CEO, only to be reinstated shortly after with a new board of directors, all within the span of a week.
OpenAI launched custom versions of ChatGPT, known as GPTs, introduced the GPT Store, and GPT-4 Turbo.
Nvidia launches a new must-have AI chip, the H200 chips.
December
PikaLabs makes its powerful AI video generator, Pika 1.0, free and available for everyone.
Google announces its OpenAI rival, Gemini, poised to be as good or even better than GPT 4.
Midjourney upgrades to V6 with significant improvements in image generation, making it the best AI image generator today.
The New York Times sues Microsoft and Open AI for copyright infringement.
AI TOOLS
Top 10 most popular AI tools of 2023
Writerbuddy examined more than 3,000 artificial intelligence tools through the analysis tool SEMrush, a widely used SEO software, to identify the most USED tools throughout the year.
1. ChatGPT
Unsurprisingly, Open AI’s chatbot takes the first place as the most used AI tool of the year, with a total of 14.6 billion visits.
2. Character.ai
This chatbot has a great ability to generate responses that feel truly human, mimicking almost exactly what you would expect the characters would say if they were real. This helped it gain great popularity and reach 3.8 billion visits
3. Quillbot
A Paraphraser that helps you write better, faster, and smarter. It is a very easy to use tool that reached 1.1 billion visits this year.
4. Midjourney
The best tool for AI image generation, got a significant update a week ago and despite there being free alternatives to it, it still maintains its popularity due to its superior quality images. It reached 500.4 million visits this year.
5. Hugging Face
Hugging Face is a machine learning (ML) and data science platform and community that helps users build, deploy and train machine learning models. It reached 316.6M visits.
6. Bard
Google’s conversational AI tool, a direct competitor to ChatGPT. It reached 241.6M visits
7. NovelAI
The AI storyteller, offers: AI-assisted authorship, storytelling, virtual companionship, or simply a LLM powered sandbox for your imagination. It reached 238.7M visits.
8. Capcut
CapCut is an all-in-one creative platform powered by AI that enables video editing and image design. The tool got 203.8M visits this year
9. Janitor AI
This chatbot offers a diverse array of AI characters to interact with, providing a personalized and unique chat experience. It had 192.4M visits this year.
10. Civitai
CivitAI is a powerful art generation tool that uses Stable Diffusion to create art and images. It reached 177.2M visits this year
With so many exciting new tools that have come out this year, it's intriguing to think about what this list will look like at the end of the next year.💥
AI Tutorial
Create AI videos for free with Pika 1.0
One of the best AI video generators is now freely available to everyone since last Wednesday! Pika 1.0 has opened up access to its AI video generator on Discord and the web, allowing users to generate videos from images, video, and text.
Source: PikaLabs
Here's how to use it:
Go to: pika.art
Sign up via Google or Discord.
Source: Pikalabs
Add a prompt
Add a text prompt that describes the idea that you want the video to represent. Additionally, you can attach an image or video. This helps in customizing the content.
Source: Pikalabs
Select video options
Aspect Ratio: Choose from various aspect ratios depending on where you intend to use or display your video.
Frames Per Second: Select the frame rate for your video. A higher frame rate generally results in smoother video playback.
Source: Pikalabs
Adjust motion control
You have options to adjust how the camera moves in your video.
Source: Pikalabs
Fine-Tuning Parameters
Seed Value: Influences the randomness in video generation. Different seed values can produce different results with the same prompt.
Negative Prompt: Specify what you do not want to include in your video.
Source: Pikalabs
Generate Video
Once you have adjusted all the settings to your liking, click the 'Generate' button and wait a few seconds. Your video should be ready for download or sharing
Example: "Starry night sky over a peaceful snowy village with Christmas lights in every window"
Further edit your generated video
All videos will be stored in the ‘My Library‘ section, to further modify them, choose any of these options:
Retry: Generate again
Reprompt: Alter prompt
Edit: Change brightness, contrast, etc
Add duration
Upscaling: Enhance resolution
Source: Pikalabs
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The latest in AI and Tech
Microsoft Bing Image Creator can generate extemely violent images despite safety guards
Microsoft's new AI image generator Bing has a lot of promise, but also risks. Case in point: an artist discovered he could create violent, gory images that bypass Bing's safety guards. Microsoft ignored his reports for weeks. The company admits it should have acted faster, but argues the technology is still new and some will inevitably misuse it.
Microsoft prepares to releases its first true ‘AI PCs’
Source: Windows central
Microsoft's upcoming Surface laptop and tablet models will pack built-in AI capabilities unmatched by previous devices, reports say. New neural processing units designed specifically for AI workloads are expected to debut in the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 next year. Both Arm and Intel-powered options will be available. The move signals Microsoft's push into making AI ubiquitous across its hardware lineup.
Meet ElliQ: The AI Companion Reducing Senior Loneliness
Source: Elliq.com
ElliQ, an AI-powered tabletop robot, engages seniors in daily conversations tailored to their interests to provide personalized companionship. With its moving head and voice capabilities, but intentionally no humanlike appearance, ElliQ tells jokes, plays music, and assists elderly users while protecting privacy. Studies show reduced isolation, with some users perceiving ElliQ almost like a friend. However, experts caution that over-reliance on AI risks minimizing human contact. Ultimately, ElliQ aims to enhance wellbeing for older adults lacking social connections.
That’s a wrap!