Copilot for Designers, AI Flying US Air Force Jet, Text-to-Tshirt, AI User Research and more!!

AI is like a mad scientist on the loose - determined to never stop innovating! This week I had an opportunity to present the latest innovations in AI to a few hundred fellow AI enthusiasts at Microsoft and many of them have followed us here. Thank you for joining us and welcome! Hope you’ll continue to enjoy this wild AI ride with me!

This week marked another first for millions of love-struck people who generated Valentine's messages, cards, songs, etc.. using AI. With no signs of slowing down soon: beware Cupid's robot revolution!

Let’s get into it!

ThisWeek in AI - Five

1) Visily.AI: Wireframes made easy! Visily AI takes your drawing and turns it into a work of art. Have an idea for a design? Put your pencil to paper, snap the picture - and voila! Your sketch is now ready-made editable wireframe in a few clicks. Don't have something in mind yet? No problem either; simply take inspiration from another pre-existing design by quickly taking its screenshot, then let Visily turn that image into an amazing wireframe before you can say 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!'

2) Inktee ai: You’ve heard about text-to-image, text-to-music, text-to-speech, it’s now time for text-to-tee. Use prompts to generate any image and print it on a t-shirt! It’s that simple! I haven’t ordered any t-shirts from this site so I can’t speak to its quality. Buy at your own risk.

3) Timemaster.AI: Want to optimize your productivity and see what you are spending most of your time on? Timemaster uses AI to track and categorize your activity automatically. It then generates reports to help you optimize your time and strike a better work-life balance. I know what you are thinking! Does it track all that time I spend on TikTok?! Lucky for you, it excludes distractions and non-work activities 🤣 

Oh and this app is available for Mac only.

4) SyntheticUsers: I’ve done my fair share of user research at Starbucks paying people for a quick chat about a product or a feature. Now you can get the same information by interacting with AI users/personas.

How do you know AI responses are reliable piece of feedback? Company compares AI generated responses with real human responses from time to time.

5) Genius.design: Copilot for designers. Enough said! 😀 

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ThisWeek in AI - Art

This week’s art includes all the art I generated for several projects, presentations, articles, etc.. in the last few weeks.

ThisWeek in AI - Interesting Reads

• An AI flew United States Air Force's tactical plane for over 17 hours - The US Air Force has successfully completed 17 hours of flight testing of an autonomous jet fighter at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The X-62A VISTA was put through 12 different flight tests of the Air Force Research Lab's Autonomous Air Combat Operations and DARPA's Air Combat Evolution AI agents, demonstrating complex AI test missions that accelerate the development and testing of autonomy capabilities for the Department of Defense. The X-62A began life as a two-seat Block 30 F-16D in 1992 and has been modified over the years to simulate the flight characteristics of other fixed-wing aircraft. The Air Force describes the X-62A as "a flight test accelerator", with a human pilot on board able to take over should it be necessary.

• MarioGPT hints at a glorious AI-generated future where we will all play Nintendo forever - Researchers at the IT University of Copenhagen have developed a new way to encode and generate Super Mario Bros levels using a generative language model called MarioGPT, based on GPT-2. After encoding the levels as a series of characters, the model uses pattern recognition and replication to reproduce them. The output includes a "path" that shows the level is technically playable, while novel and "interesting" paths ensure doable levels that don't resemble existing ones. The researchers found that of 250 levels, 9 out of 10 were able to be completed by the game-playing software agent A*. While this isn't the first Mario generator, others tend to rely on assembling levels from pre-created tilesets and sequences.

• US court uses ChatGPT to deliver ruling - An AI text generator, ChatGPT, has been used by a judge in Colombia, US to issue a court decision, marking the first known use of an AI tool in a legal judgement. The case featured a disagreement with a health insurance provider over whether a child with autism should be covered for medical care. Judge Juan Manuel Padilla Garcia claimed to have used the AI tool to pose legal questions concerning the case and included its responses in his judgment. The use of AI in court rulings is not prohibited by Colombian law, but there are concerns that language models such as ChatGPT could be biased or provide incorrect responses, as they do not fully understand the text but only synthesize words based on probability.

• I'm Hating It: McDonald's AI-Powered Drive-Thru Sucks - Videos posted on social media platform TikTok suggest that McDonald's AI-powered drive-thru ordering system is struggling to accurately take fast food orders, with some customers left exasperated. McDonald's began testing the technology in 10 Chicago locations in 2021 after acquiring AI conversational agents firm Apprente in 2019. CEO Chris Kempczinski said the system had 85% accuracy, however, in June 2022, accuracy levels reportedly remained in the low-80s, below the 95% target. Other fast food chains including Panera, Popeyes, Checkers and Wendy's have also trialled voice recognition AI for the drive-thru experience. The AI revolution has faced other challenges, with critics pointing to underwhelming exam results from language models and instances of AI art generators ripping off existing work

• Unlocking the Power of AI with a Real-Time Data Strategy - Investments in artificial intelligence (AI) are helping businesses to reduce costs, better serve customers, and gain competitive advantage in rapidly evolving markets. Real-time data ecosystems that excel at handling fast-moving streams of events, operational data, and machine learning models are fundamental building blocks that support real-time AI. To succeed with real-time AI, organizations must provide valuable insights during the moment of urgency and make instantaneous business-driven decisions. Real-time AI decisions are necessary in various areas such as fraud detection, product recommendations, and supply chain. Kubernetes is a container orchestration system that automates the management, scaling, and deployment of microservices and is a key tool to help do away with the siloed mindset. A modern real-time operational data store, like Apache Cassandra, excels at integrating data from multiple sources for operational reporting, real-time data processing, and support for machine learning model development and inference from event streams.

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