Decades can be defined by buzzwords. If you're of a certain age, you've probably grown up hearing the phrase “information superhighway” countless times. But the 90s were over and the internet was old news. It's all AI now.
Things are moving fast because multiple companies are competing in multiple areas. Yesterday, Google announced Gemini 1.5 and claimed to have finally defeated OpenAI's ChatGPT. Meanwhile, OpenAI announced Sora, a terrifyingly good text-to-video generation system. Nvidia also overtook Alphabet (Google's parent company) and Amazon in market valuation.
You've probably heard of AI. You've probably seen AI-generated content before. But have you used AI yourself? How often and what did you do?
Image generation is one of the first popular areas of modern AI. The Galaxy S24 and Pixel 8 series use AI to edit images. A common example is removing objects or people from a scene that only move. You can also generate images from scratch using things like S24's generated wallpapers.
Image generation has another use case, typified by Nvidia's DLSS upscaling, but also used in mobile, such as Qualcomm's Game Super Resolution, which was introduced last year. In 2023, Apple launched Metal FX (based on AMD's FidelityFX).
what else? AI is good at translation. In fact, transformers (no, not that kind; the transformer equivalent of the “T” in “GPT”) were popularized by a machine-translated paper written by researchers at Google. Unsurprisingly, Google launched Pixel Buds Pro with real-time translation capabilities. Samsung is also working on live translation and interpretation features for the Galaxy Buds series.
The AI's language skills are used to transcribe spoken words. This is a sufficient replacement for the keyboard. Not only that, once the transcription is complete, the AI ​​can also summarize the whole thing. Conversely, you can also convert text to audio. Some browsers let you read long articles aloud or use them to create your own audio books.
And then there's the good old chat bot. Although better than Cleverbot, he's still not HAL 9000. However, some people use it in place of Internet searches, while others use it to help with work or homework. Others just use it for fun.
So how often do you use AI?
If you answered affirmatively above, what would you do with AI? Note: You can select multiple answers.