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  • How to use Playground, the free AI art tool

    Getting Started Creating Images Click on the “create” button to start creating images You will be presented with the user interface, which includes several settings On the left side of the interface, enter a descriptive text for the image you want to create. This text is known as a “prompt”. It should include the type…

  • Playground AI: How To Make Precise Edits

    Playground has upgraded their edit feature, allowing for “highly targeted edits” to generated images, with your finger or mouse. Check out the full walkthrough below: Related: How To Use Playground AI Beyond ChatGPT and Midjourney: a list of generative A.I. tools to explore right now Follow The Dept of Next on Instagram

  • Microsoft Teams Can Now Take Notes For You, Thanks to AI

    Microsoft Teams Can Now Take Notes For You, Thanks to AI

    Fresh off a $10 BILLION dollar investment in OpenAI, Microsoft is wasting no time in integrating the company’s ChatGPT technology into their products. First up: adding ChatGPT to Teams. Microsoft posted the update in a blog yesterday, announcing that Microsoft Teams has over 400 new features and improvements, with the company working to incorporate AI-powered…

  • Fiverr Introduces AI Categories to Meet Growing Demand

    Fiverr Introduces AI Categories to Meet Growing Demand

    Fiverr has added new AI categories to its online catalog to meet the increasing demand for AI-related services. In the past six months, searches for AI services on Fiverr have risen by a staggering 1400%. Business leaders are eager to integrate AI into their operations, sales, and marketing strategies, and are searching for professionals with…

  • ChatGPT wrote and directed this film

    ChatGPT wrote and directed this film

    Richard Juan’s The Safe Zone is a short film that he says was written and directed within a week by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, with some help from the company’s text-to-image tool, Dall-E 2. From the filmmaker’s YouTube page: “With the help of ChatGPT of OpenAI, we were able to not only get it to write us…

  • Doom and Gloom… or Employment Boom? How the rise of A.I. will create new jobs

    Doom and Gloom… or Employment Boom? How the rise of A.I. will create new jobs

    How the rise of A.I. will create new jobs

  • Level up your Discord with this complete list of commands

    Level up your Discord with this complete list of commands

    WHAT IS DISCORD?   Discord is a communication platform that can be used in your browser, or downloaded as a mobile or desktop app. It’s used to chat and share content and offers features such as voice and text chat channels, file sharing, and live streaming. HOW IT WORKS Once you’ve created an account (you can…

  • MusicLM: Google’s new generative A.I. bot can create original music from text prompts

    MusicLM: Google’s new generative A.I. bot can create original music from text prompts

    Researchers at Google have developed and released the details of an AI system that can turn text descriptions into music. The algorithm, called MusicLM, was trained using the MuLan algorithm, which generates text descriptions of music, and a public dataset called MusicCap created by professional musicians. The researchers evaluated the music generated by MusicLM based…

  • New to AI art? Here’s your start-up guide to making images on DALL-E 2 and Midjourney

    New to AI art? Here’s your start-up guide to making images on DALL-E 2 and Midjourney

    So, you’ve heard of DALL-E 2, or seen some amazing Midjourney art out there and though: I can do that. The good news is….yeah you can! These AI models that can whip up images based on text descriptions, so the barrier for entry is low to start creating all kinds of images. In this very…

  • How can you use AI to level up your Shopify store?

    How can you use AI to level up your Shopify store?

    If you’re not using ChatGPT to improve your shop, you’re missinig out on some free help. Here are just a few of the ways that OpenAI’s ChatGPT can help you level up your ecomm business. Product descriptionsChatGPT can be used to generate high-quality, engaging product descriptions for your Shopify store. This can save you time…