Google transforms Search with image generation

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Another week, another potential game-changing product announcement from OpenAI on the horizon. This time it’s rumored to be autonomous agents — a huge step forward if true.

And Google announces what could potentially be the biggest upgrade to Search in a decade.

TODAY’S MENU

• News: OpenAI rumored to launch autonomous agents next month

• 5 AI tools to supercharge your productivity

• AI at Work: Google announces image generation in Search

• AI In Business: 81% of big companies have AI teams, study finds

• Tutorial: Generate icons for your websites

• AI Generated Images: Hogwarts in different countries

TODAY IN AI & TECH

• Sharing No Longer Caring: Reuters estimates Netflix added 6 million new subscribers with crackdown on password sharing.

• Disinformation: The NYTimes reports that videos with fake AI-generated voices of politicians are swarming TikTok. (link may require NYTimes subscription)

• Green Light: Google's stoplight program is calming traffic in a dozen cities worldwide with AI.

• Bargain Offer: OpenAI plans to lure developers with lower costs.

• Catch That: A match at the Cricket World Cup set the global streaming record with 35 million live viewers.

NEWS

OpenAI rumored to launch autonomous agents at Nov 6 event

According to a number of tweets on X, OpenAI is expected to unveil what could be the next big thing in AI: autonomous agents.

If you haven’t heard the term before, autonomous agents are AI-powered software that can talk and work with other software to accomplish tasks on their own.

For example, let’s say you instruct an autonomous agent to organize a party for your office. The autonomous agent could theoretically proceed on its own to interact with other apps to do the following:

• Connect with your office email account and calendar app to create an invite list

• Generate an invite card and email it to everyone in the office

• Order some snacks from a food delivery app

• Create a playlist on YouTube and connect with your office speakers

While the definition and use cases can vary (this is a new field after all), the example above should give you some idea of what’s possible here.

A productized release from OpenAI would be a big leap for the tech, but there are some previous examples of autonomous agents in action:

• MetaGPT tries to simulate a company with a single prompt. It has 30,000 stars on Github.

• Google and Stanford researchers created an interactive town with 25 AI agents to simulate human behavior.

While rumors and predictions in AI can be hit or miss, previous predictions around GPT-4 multimodal, Dall-E 3, and audio and image processing in recent months have been fairly accurate. As with all rumors and predictions, we recommend you take this news with a grain of salt.

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NEWS

Google releases image generation capabilities in search

Can’t find that image you’re looking for? Google’s new AI feature could be the fix. Announced late last week, Google is bringing image generation capabilities to Search Generative Experience (SGE), Google’s version of AI in search.

According to the official blog post, you’ll now be able to generate up to 4 images in searches with a simple text prompt. Search results will also occasionally have a “create something new” button when you’re looking for an image.

To protect users against harmful or misleading content, Google will also include watermarks to indicate whether an image was created with AI.

To use the feature, follow these steps:

• Go to labs.google

• Find the Google Search category and click Get Started

• Enable the SGE generative AI in Search option

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AI IN BUSINESS

81% of big companies have generative AI teams, Wharton professor finds

According to a recent survey by Wharton, 81% of businesses with revenues of $50 million or more have built generative AI teams. Smaller businesses ($50m - $200m) are leading the way in using the tech, while larger ones show skepticism, particularly over accuracy.

Some of the key findings are:

• 75% of executives feel positive about the future of generative AI

• 58% of executives use generative AI regularly

• 55% say it will increase work quality

• 36% expect generative AI to replace employee skills for some tasks

Applications across a range of industries are anticipated, with data analysis and marketing content creation at the top of the list. Despite concerns about human obsolescence, Wharton Professor Puntoni sees a future where people are empowered and more productive rather than being replaced by AI.

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Other key news from AI in business:

• Lakera launches to protect large language models from malicious prompts

• Nucleus AI emerges with 22B LLM model to transform agriculture

• IBM’s AI consulting business expected to grow by $1 billion in 2024

AI TUTORIAL

How to generate icons for your websites using Midjourney

Open Midjourney in Discord and try the prompt below:

blue minimal icon set for a [insert type of product or website]

You can use similar prompts describing your website and the list of items you want to get icons for.

AI-GENERATED IMAGES

Hogwarts in different countries

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