MJ Opening New Possibilities For AI Image Generation — You read that right! The latest update finally brings outpainting to Midjourney and boy what a great improvement it is! And there’s more. 👀 In addition to existing features, Midnourney is really catching up with the latest developments in AI image generation and opening the door to some amazing possibilities…

Insights from a Discussion with OpenAI’s CEO — On May 29th Raza Habib posted a short article with key takeaways from a meeting with “Sam Altman and 20 other developers to discuss OpenAI’s […] product plan”. 48 hours later the article was deleted with the comment: “Too much alpha in there. Taken down. So, what was the “alpha”…

Learn how to setup, configure & run Auto-GPT — What Is Auto-GPT? Auto-GPT is an experimental open-source project that allows you to define a specific role (e.g., “book market analyst”) and a bunch of goals (e.g., “research the most successful sci-fi novels of 2022”, “summarize them”, “save the summary to a file," etc.) and let GPT-4 automatically create and perform all the…

Effective prompts & strategies to use ChatGPT in story development — In the past, I’ve shown examples of how to use ChatGPT to create scripts and demonstrated basic prompt techniques as well as advanced strategies for using AI-powered text generation in the context of story development. In this article, I want to highlight what I think are the most common mistakes…

How a new book release amplifies misconceptions about AI — Alright, I have to admit, it’s probably almost as genius a promotional move as what OpenAI pulled off with their GPT-4 hype train. You heard of “I Am Code”? Not only is the title pretty catchy, but they’ve also gotten Werner Herzog — yes, that Werner Herzog — to voice…

The platform’s new set of rules could be incentivizing bot content — Here’s a German proverb for you: “Das Gegenteil von gut ist gut gemeint.” The sad irony of an unintentional mistake made with the best of intentions is actually hard to translate:“The opposite of good is well-intentioned.” However, the essence is perfectly illustrated by Medium’s recent move to take a stand…

Insights from the supposed upcoming version of DALL-E — Let’s be honest, was DALL-E still on your radar of go-to AI tools? Somehow it felt that OpenAI’s image generator lost out to the amazing new features of Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. So I was quite surprised when I came across leaks of an upcoming DALL-E version that not only…

How to step up your self-promotion game — I can still remember the day I was nervously awaiting an email response from an industry leader I had admired for years. To my surprise, not only did I receive a response within 24 hours, but that one email led to a mentorship that changed the course of my career. …

The cat-and-mouse game of AI alignment — No doubt, AI is a Wild West playground: conflicting regulations, opaque corporate agendas, a rebellious open-source community… …and beyond the enthusiastic “giddy up!” of developers and AI enthusiasts, there is this transformative and seemingly untamable technology that has a very dark side. If you needed another impressive and disturbing illustration…