Midjourney V5, LinkedIn Generative AI for Recruitment, No more writing emails and the extraordinary cost of Gen-AI.
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Midjourney V5
What a week it has been in the world of AI technology! Just a few days ago, GPT 4 was released, and this morning, Midjourney has upped their game with the release of their newest version, Midjourney Version 5.
What's new with the V5 base model? - Much wider stylistic range and more responsive to prompting - Much higher image quality (2x resolution increase) improved dynamic range - More detailed images. Details more likely to be correct. Less unwanted text. - Improved performance with image prompting - Supports --tile argument for seamless tiling (experimental) - Supports --ar aspect ratios greater than 2:1 (experimental) - Supports --iw for weighing image prompts versus text prompts
LinkedIn expands its generative AI assistant to recruitment ads and writing profiles.
LinkedIn is today introducing AI-powered writing suggestions, which will initially be offered to people to spruce up their LinkedIn profiles, and to recruiters writing job descriptions. Both are built on advanced GPT models, said Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn’s chief product officer. LinkedIn is using GPT-4 for personalized profiles, with GPT-3.5 for job descriptions. Alongside this, the company is also creating a bigger focus on AI in LinkedIn Learning, corralling 100 courses around the subject and adding 20 more focused just on generative AI.
Gmail will write your emails for you. Google announces generative AI tools across Workspace.
Google said in a blog post today that it will soon be bringing new generative AI tools into its Workspace productivity products. The company says the addition of AI features is the biggest thing to happen to its productivity suite since the addition of collaboration features.
“In the same way that we revolutionized real-time collaboration with coauthoring in Docs 17 years ago, we’re excited to transform creation and collaboration all over again in Workspace,” wrote Workspace product VP Johanna Voolich Wright.
The search giant, now neck-deep in an AI arms race with OpenAI, Microsoft, and others, says that in the coming weeks, it will provide a “limited set of trusted testers” with a new set of features that will make writing Gmails and Docs easier.
ChatGPT and generative AI are booming, but the costs can be extraordinary.
Before OpenAI’s ChatGPT emerged and captured the world’s attention for its ability to create compelling sentences, a small startup called Latitude was wowing consumers with its AI Dungeon game that let them use artificial intelligence to create fantastical tales based on their prompts.
But as AI Dungeon became more popular, Latitude CEO Nick Walton recalled that the cost to maintain the text-based role-playing game began to skyrocket. AI Dungeon’s text-generation software was powered by the GPT language technology offered by the Microsoft-backed AI research lab OpenAI. The more people played AI Dungeon, the bigger the bill Latitude had to pay OpenAI.
At its peak in 2021, Walton estimates Latitude was spending nearly $200,000 a month on OpenAI’s so-called generative AI software and Amazon Web Services in order to keep up with the millions of user queries it needed to process each day.
“We joked that we had human employees and we had AI employees, and we spent about as much on each of them,” Walton said. “We spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on AI, and we are not a big startup, so it was a very massive cost.”
By the end of 2021, Latitude switched from using OpenAI’s GPT software to a cheaper but still capable language software offered by startup AI21 Labs, Walton said, adding that the startup also incorporated open source and free language models into its service to lower the cost. Latitude’s generative AI bills have dropped to under $100,000 a month, Walton said, and the startup charges players a monthly subscription for more advanced AI features to help reduce the cost.
Latitude’s pricey AI bills underscore an unpleasant truth behind the recent boom in generative AI technologies: The cost to develop and maintain the software can be extraordinarily high, both for the firms that develop the underlying technologies, generally referred to as a large language or foundation models, and those that use the AI to power their own software.
AI Eats Media: Midjourney Launches a Magazine
Why someone would pay ($4 a month) for print copies of images freely available online remains a question for Midjourney magazine and the media business writ large.
https://gizmodo.com/ai-midjourney-free-ai-art-launches-magazine-1850229973