Plus: how AI is already putting interior designers out of business — Welcome to The Cusp: cutting-edge AI news (and its implications) explained in simple English. In this week’s issue: The results are in: Google officially destroys AI generated content. But by how much — and is it still profitable to use? New AI developments set to decimate the interior design industry…

The paradox at the heart of why machines are growing exponentially more intelligent. — When I first began 1SecondPainting, I knew AI had crossed a line we’d never be able to go back from. Machines have always grown more capable with time. Yet I (and most others) had always thought their abilities would be relegated to simple, monotonous tasks. Operating an assembly line, or…

Plus: how to use AI to mock up website landing pages in seconds — Welcome to The Cusp: cutting-edge AI news (and its implications) explained in simple English. In this week’s issue: AI generates incredible quality landing page designs in seconds. GPT3.5 released: longform (+500 word!) content is now just a few clicks away. Stable Diffusion API now available to developers. Let’s dive in. AI can now generate incredible-quality landing page designs in seconds

Plus: a neat prompt hack that improves language model performance dramatically. — Welcome to The Cusp: cutting-edge AI news (and its implications) explained in simple English. In this week’s issue: AI-generated stock photography ripe to dethrone Shutterstock & alternatives Effortless question-answering on PDFs & images could save millions A clever prompt hack to improve language model performance

Plus: how to turn an idea into a 2D animation in less than one minute. — Welcome to The Cusp: cutting-edge AI news (and its implications) explained in simple English. In this week’s issue: Using AI to generate stylized 3d metaverse environments in seconds. How to turn an idea into a character, and then animate that character, for free, in less than a minute. A glimpse…

Plus: how to beat GPT-3 performance at 1% of the cost. — Welcome to The Cusp: cutting-edge AI news (and its implications) explained in simple English. In this week’s issue: New: AI-generated piano covers indistinguishable from human-created ones Instantly upsample any video from the ’60s, ’70s, or ’80s by more than 10x. How fine-tuning crushes parameter size in language model performance Let’s…

Plus — understand AI in minutes with this simple mental model. — Welcome to The Cusp: cutting-edge AI news (and its implications) explained in simple English. In this week’s issue: Tech layoffs are forcing programmers out of work. And with AI coding assistants now writing > 30% of code, humans won’t be hired back. A useful mental model for you to understand…

If you’re looking to get into animation as a career, you have less than 5 years. — Thinking of animation as a career? You have less than half a decade to do something meaningful. Why? DALL-E 2 and other AI art models can now produce a near-infinite variety of illustrations using a simple text prompt. By 2025, they’ll outperform human artists on every metric. AI animation models…