Tuesday, October 17th

Explore the intersection of AI and creativity in this article 🚀

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Seatd Team
October 17, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes

Hi + Hello!

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Here's the line-up for ya 🤠:

  • Learn how to grow your network more efficiently! 🚀 

  • Adobe announces insane new projects 🤩 

  • Check out our fav TikTok videos this week 😎

  • Attend this Creator Economy event in LA next week✨

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⭐️ Creative Spotlight: a TikTok roundup

We’ve featured some of our favorite TikTok videos that we saw this week talking about AI news and trends.

  • Janel walks us through using ChatGPT to research companies, conduct informational interviews, and prepare for job interviews to save time during your job search.

  • Hailey introduces us to Billie - Kendall Jenner's new AI alter ego purchased by Meta. Billie gives us a glimpse into what it might be like to chat with the model's virtual persona, this chatbot seems both futuristic and eerily hyper-personalized.

  • Seth made an inventory of their fridge, pantry, and canned goods by voice recording everything, fed the transcript into ChatGPT to generate recipe ideas based on what they had available.

👾 Late Night Labs 🧪

Eric finished his first Star Wars-inspired Instagram visual narrative using Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT. Check out the journey below 👇👇

Crafting Visual Narratives on Instagram: Harnessing the Power of AI in My Creative Process 🚀

I’ve wrapped my multi-month Star Wars-inspired Instagram narrative about a fictional religion practiced on the desert planet of Tatooine. I merged the realms of Star Wars inspiration with cutting-edge AI tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion to craft a unique Instagram narrative. I brought my craft of filmmaking, cinematography, storytelling, and visual design to the small screen, as my title character, Drax Daren, followed religious practitioners through the desert dunes, into the caves, and witnessed the “Solaris Blooms”, beautiful glowing alien flowers, and a sun solstice celebration event.

As a creator, my vision was clear: to craft narratives that resonate, captivate, and immerse. And the co-pilots on this digital voyage have been powerful AI tools like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and now Photoshop. Each has seamlessly blended into my creative process, acting as facilitators of rapid ideation and artistic expression.

Chapter 1: ChatGPT as The Digital Muse
I directed ChatGPT to wear many hats - from a meticulous researcher verifying facts about the Star Wars universe to an imaginative ideator conjuring names and concepts. It played the role of a creative partner, assisting in Instagram post captioning, ensuring each snippet of byte-sized story echoed the essence of the visual narrative. I used ChatGPT to breathe detail into these concepts, and ground them in a blend of real-world and fictional religious inspirations.

Chapter 2: Stable Diffusion as the Virtual Paintbrush
Stable Diffusion has been the canvas where the visual tales unfolded. Utilizing custom Stable Diffusion 1.5 checkpoints and more recently SDXL custom checkpoints, it allowed for the generation of content with visual coherence and creativity. My library of LoRAs, small datasets of unique images, became my go-to, enabling the creation of images with life-like detail and narrative depth. Innovative techniques were developed to create and upres images, adding a layer of intricate details that breathed life and realism into the visual narratives.

Chapter 3: Photoshop’s Generative Fill + Stable Diffusion = Powerhouse
Adobe’s new powerhouse suite of tools have proven themselves a valuable companion during photo creation and manipulation. Photoshop acted as the finishing touch, where the AI-generated content was refined, enhanced, and brought to its full visual potential. Any photo I make in Stable Diffusion ultimately finds its way into Photoshop for continued work, cleanup, detail refinement, and coloring.

Chapter 4: New Horizons with DALL·E 3 and ChatGPT Vision (GPT-4V)
As the narrative journey evolves, new tools like DALL·E 3 and ChatGPT Vision have entered the scene, promising fresh avenues of creative exploration and expression. I am thrilled at the prospect of integrating these tools, envisioning a future where my narratives resonate with even more depth and creativity. Their integration marks the next chapter, where the storytelling will unfold with enhanced vibrancy and imaginative flair.

TL;DR: In essence, this journey making Star Wars content has been about harmonizing creativity with technology. It’s about allowing AI to be a companion in the creative process, enabling a flow of ideas and expressions that culminate in narratives that resonate, engage, and captivate. This journey illustrates the adaptable nature of creativity, seamlessly evolving with technological advancements to craft resonant and captivating narratives.

Problem: I need to expand my network 💡 

Solution: Check out these new AI sales tools 📸 

  • Zaplify offers an AI-powered sales platform to automate and improve prospect outreach and conversion.

  • Key features include identifying/targeting decision makers, automated outreach, and actionable insights from customer interactions.

  • Zaplify aims to provide a personalized approach to building connections with potential customers.

  • Once you’ve grown your network, here is a quicker way to tell your new friends about the products and ideas that you’re working on.

  • Supademo is an interactive demo and guide creation platform that allows teams to quickly record and share product walkthroughs with voiceovers and annotations.

  • Key benefits are increased team productivity, faster customer onboarding, improved user engagement, and accelerated support response times.

  • Supademo is used by product, marketing, sales, support and customer success teams and offers a free version as well as paid plans with more features.

  • Last but not least, once you have new folks in your pipeline, track how these conversations are going using CallZen.

  • This AI platform analyzes customer conversations across calls, chats, and meetings to provide insights & improve sales, service quality, and compliance.

  • Features include transcription, key moment tracking, sentiment analysis, compliance audit, custom analytics & reporting.

  • Benefits include increased sales conversions, better customer experience, automated quality management, and reduced manual auditing.

Job Board 👀 

Here are some awesome open positions in the AI space that we would love to see one of our readers fill:

Industry Insights 🧠

11 Futuristic AI Prototypes Unveiled at Adobe Max

  • Adobe showcased 11 new AI-powered prototype tools and features at its Max conference under the "Sneak" program. These highlight exciting uses for new generative AI and 3D technology.

  • Project Stardust automatically identifies objects in photos so they can be easily edited - moved, changed, or deleted. The background is filled in automatically.

  • Project Primrose is an interactive dress (seen in the image above) with flexible displays that can show patterns and images programmed by the wearer.

  • Project Poseable allows Adobe's text-to-image generators to interact with posable 3D models and automatically pose characters based on 2D reference images.

  • Project Dub Dub Dub can translate voice recordings or video audio into other languages while retaining the original speaker's voice.

  • Project See Through easily removes reflections and obstructions from photos, like a window glare.

  • Other tools previewed include an impressive video upscaler and AI-powered editing features for Photoshop and Illustrator.

  • Sneak previews allow Adobe to showcase experimental technologies and gauge public interest to direct future development. Not all make it into final products.

Events 🫡

AI and the Creator Economy

Tuesday, Oct. 24th | 6pm

  • This event explores how AI is reshaping expression, content, and entrepreneurship in the Creator Economy with the goal of giving you actionable insights to upgrade your creativity and scale your business.

  • The first panel is going to go over Creator Tools and Scaling Your Business. Moderated Ben Relles with panelists: Shelby Ward, Spencer Sterling, Conrad Curtis, Faith 'Aya' Umoh

  • This an an opportunity to hear from creators, tech pioneers, and AI aficionados where they will unpack the transformative impact of merging creativity with advanced AI technology.

Database ⚙️

We launched our database of 80+ AI tools earlier this summer, make sure you’re watching this space- it’s updated weekly!

Definition: Text-to-speech (TTS)

Text-to-speech (TTS) is a technology that converts written text into spoken voice output. It allows users to hear written content being read aloud, typically using synthesized speech.

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