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Apple isn't one of the top players in the AI game today, but the company's new open source AI model for image editing shows what it's capable of contributing to the space. The model called MLLM-Guided Image Editing (MGIE), which uses multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to interpret text-based commands when manipulating images. In other words, the tool has the ability to edit photos based on the text the user types in. While it's not the first tool that can do so, "human instructions are sometimes too brief for…

Right now, there’s a war raging between Threads and the artist formerly known as Twitter. They’re battling for microblogging supremacy, but a new army has entered the battlefield. TikTok now allows its users to make text-based posts. This should come as no surprise. TikTok is NOT shy about stepping on the toes of other social media/video-sharing platforms. We’ve seen it rain on Instagram’s parade by bringing in photo posts, and the platform also lets you make stories. TikTok lets its users make text-based posts This…

After introducing mini-games and allowing access to younger teens, Meta is trying to make its VR-based Horizon Worlds more social. In its latest update, the company released a new feature called world chat that lets users send messages to anyone else in the same world session. At the same time, it's promising strict security controls for the new feature.  A voice chat feature is already available, but this works much like a regular text messaging app. A screen shot (below) shows a classic group texting interface, with…

Meta, the parent company of Instagram, is reportedly developing a text-based app that will directly rival Twitter. Reportedly, the company is currently conducting tests for this project with celebrities…

It was first rumored a few months ago that Meta-owned Instagram was working on a new text-based app. The reports also suggested that the new app was built on the back of Instagram and would compete with Twitter. And after a bit of a quiet time, we finally know more about this platform and it appears to be close to completion. A new report has revealed more information about the app, its functionality, design, and more.The information comes from Lia Haberman, who first revealed the details in her ICYMI Substack newsletter…

Meta Platforms' Instagram is planning to release a text-based app that will compete with Twitter and may debut as soon as June, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.The Facebook parent is testing the product with influencers and some creators, according to the report.The company did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.Meta has been contacting talent agencies and celebrities to gauge their interest in trying an early version of the app, which will be integrated with…

Ahead of NAB Show 2023, Adobe announced a handful of new features coming to its video editor software Premiere Pro. According to the company, new text-based editing brings “an entirely new way to edit that makes creating a rough cut as simple as copying and pasting text.” Powered by Adobe Sensei, Premiere Pro text-based editing uses AI to transcribe your source media automatically. Instead of watching hours of footage to find the right sound bites, now you can skim through transcripts, search for keywords, and…

David Gewirtz/ZDNETGIGO. It's an acronym dating back to 1957, when the U.S. Army's William Mellin explained to a newspaper reporter that computers were limited by their input. It means "Garbage In, Garbage Out" and it applies as much to today's incredible generative AI tools as it did back in 1957 to those clunky old tube-based computing devices. Also: AI could automate 25% of all jobs. Here's which are most (and least) at riskIn the case of an AI like ChatGPT, there's a lot of opportunity for both garbage in and…

Ever found yourself with a killer podcast idea, only for it to fizzle out once you realize all the hoops you have to jump through just to make it? Learning an audio editing tool is a skill of its own and, while getting your audio masterpiece online has never been easier, today’s listeners are savvy and won’t tolerate subpar sound and editing for long. These are all problems that Adobe’s browser-based new Podcast tool aims to solve. Adobe Podcast, formerly known as Project Shasta, is a cloud-based audio production tool. As…

If you thought Pokemon would be fun as a text adventure game, someone has used ChatGPT-4 to turn Pokemon Emerald into one.As spotted by Polygon, Twitter user Dan Dangond has recently been using the newest version of the AI language model to turn Pokemon Emerald into a text-based adventure game. Dangond shared the discovery on Twitter, noting how you can just ask the software to play the game, and in a thread, observed how well it worked--and sometimes, how well it didn't work.Starts up the game without a…