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A random cyclone hit San Francisco yesterday and knocked out our power. We're writing this by literal candlelight. Oh, the effort we go to make sure you get your daily dose of AI...

Here’s what’s going on in the world of AI today:

• Adobe's flashy splash onto the AI scene 🔥

• Google Bard fails to impress for now 😥

• Bill Gates weighs in on AI 📜

• Chatbot-ify your Notion/Confluence? 🤖

Adobe Arrives At The Party 🎉

Let's start with the best news of the day.

Adobe's launching waitlist signups for Firefly, an impressive suite of AI tools:

• Create images from a prompt

• Replace sections of an image

• Generate effects/designs to layer on top of text

• Generate custom vectors, brushes and textures

• Edit video and 3D models

...all created without slurping up art/images from the Internet en masse. That should stave off the kind of legal troubles coming to Stable Diffusion.

What the community is saying:

• Designers are impressed that it's not just image generation but also all the other tools needed in the design workflow. This launch makes tools like Canva's AI feel incredibly limited.

• Artists, on the other hand, are still cautious, especally since the "ethics" branding comes from a company infamous for tricking its users into paying more.

For the rest of us: This is a reminder of just how dominant Adobe is in creative work. Only someone like Adobe, who makes the industry's go-to photo/video editing software, would have all the data needed to create these capabilities.

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Google Bard Mostly Disappoints 👎

Ever since Google tried and failed to drum up hype, we had middling expectations for the ChatGPT competitor from Mountain View.

Well, Google Bard is out (sign up here), but it doesn't appear to be showing up Bing Chat any time soon.

To Google's credit, they're already taking people off the waitlist, which they haven't done for other products.

But early reports say Bard isn't as good: 1, 2, 3, 4. It even thought it was shut down.

It's not all bad. Google has a ton of unexplored potential through data from Google Maps (traffic! reviews!) and YouTube, along with integrations with Google Workspace and Gmail.

Around the Horn 🦄

• Nvidia CEO's developer conference keynote launches AI Foundations, a models-as-a-service for enterprises wanting to deploy AI models. Competes with OpenAI and Microsoft.

• Bill Gates publishes a long essay on AI and its use in global health and education.

• Gaming studio Ubisoft releases a tool to make in-game characters sound more real.

• Prominent investor Sarah Guo: "Every Company Needs an AI Strategy"

Treats To Try 🍿

• Microsoft Image Creator is now available directly through Bing Chat.

• Chatshape: Make a chatbot out of a Notion, Confluence, Quip or anything else. (LAUNCH40 for a 40% discount)

• Trellis: Turn ChatGPT into your personal tutor and textbook companion.

• nat.dev: Try language models like ChatGPT-4, Anthropic Claude and Alpaca under one roof.

• Glaze: A new tool that shields artist creations from being used to train AI models.

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Today's Top Pick 🥇

• That's all we have for today. See you cool cats on Twitter if you're there: @nonmayorpete & @noahedelman02.

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Disclaimer: we did not use AI to write today’s piece.