What is interactive AI?

Welcome back to The Daily Update — Unfortunately, we’re kicking off another week in AI with disturbing news from a small town in Spain. Here’s the full menu:

🗞️ The Latest: AI-generated naked pictures of young girls spark fury in Spain

🤖 AI Training: Create social media content with Adobe Express

📸 Industry Spotlight: What is interactive AI?

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

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🗞️ The Latest: AI-generated naked pictures of young girls spark fury in Spain

AI-generated naked images of young girls are being distributed in several schools in Almendralejo.

What you need to know:

• The images alter photos taken from the girls’ social media accounts that show them fully clothed.

• More than 20 girls aged 11 to 17 have been identified as victims.

• Images were spread in at least four of Almendralejo’s five middle schools.

• The deepfakes were created by Clothoff, an AI-powered app that promises to “undress anybody with [its] free service.”

• Spain’s national police force, la Policía Naciónal, is investigating the case.

The bottom line: This case highlights the urgent need for AI regulation. Services like Clothoff should not be available to the public under any circumstances.

🤖 AI Training: Create social media content with Adobe Express

Adobe Express is an all-in-one platform for creating content with generative AI. Its user-friendly interface and wide selection of templates make it an easy AI tool to master. The example below shows how I used Adobe Express to create a YouTube thumbnail.

1. Choose a template.

2. Write your own text.

3. Design with Adobe Firefly.

Express offers a vast number of design assets, photos, videos and a free text-to-image tool. I used Firefly’s text-to-image and the brush element to create this thumbnail:

📸 Industry Spotlight: What is interactive AI?

Last week DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman said that generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry out tasks for you by interacting with other software and people to get them done.

The three phases of AI evolution:

1. Classification: Training computers to classify various types of data (images, video, audio and language).

2. Generative: We are here. Programs like ChatGPT take input data to generate new data.

3. Interactive: AI will be able to communicate and operate autonomously. Instead of clicking on buttons and typing, we will be able to talk to AI and give it general, high-level goals.

Examples of interactive AI:

• An AI that could build a complex and fully functional app on your behalf.

• AI that can attend meetings on your behalf, generate action items from the meeting, accomplish the items by itself, and then send you and other attendees an update.

The bottom line: Generative AI is just the start of the AI revolution. Autonomous, interactive AI is still years away, but it’s the next step for rapidly-evolving AI technology.

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• Trash Talk: Yahoo is using ChatGPT to generate brutally honest fantasy football team reviews.

• Smart Keyboard: Microsoft’s mobile keyboard app SwiftKey gains new AI-powered features.

• OpenAI Updates: Users can now prompt ChatGPT with pictures and voice commands.

• Breaking Tradition: Getty Images partners with Nvidia to launch AI generator trained on licensed images.

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Jack

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