AI’s New Psychedelic Discovery 🧬

Welcome back, my AI-obsessed friends.

Good morning, and Happy Thursday! This is the latest edition of /Imagine, your go-to source for the freshest news and developments in AI. Let’s dive in…

High Level: AI’s New Psychedelic Discovery 🧬

The Bytes:

✣ AI’s Chemical Breakthrough: In a huge leap forward, the wizards over at DeepMind’s utilized AlphaFold, an AI protein-structure-prediction tool, to identify hundreds of thousands of potential new psychedelic molecules.

✣ Antidepressant Potential: These molecules could pave the way for developing novel antidepressants, expanding the horizons of mental health treatment.

✣ AlphaFold’s Validation: This achievement underscores the utility of AlphaFold’s work, which can be as valuable for drug discovery as experimentally derived protein structures.

✣ Drug Design Revolution: The findings illustrate that AI-generated structures can jump-start drug discovery projects, potentially saving years of R&D.

Why You Should Care: The intersection of AI and pharmacology could lead to a path of rapid innovation and faster development of effective treatments for mental health conditions. It’s just the start of the transformative power of AI in medicine.

High Level: Google Drops LUMIERE 🎨

The Bytes:

✣ Revolutionary Technique: Google’s LUMIERE model introduces a significant advancement in video editing.

✣ Seamless Editing: LUMIERE excels at removing or replacing specific elements in a video, delivering a final product that is realistic and consistent.

✣ Advanced Algorithms: Leveraging advanced algorithms, LUMIERE can fill in masked regions or remove unwanted objects from a scene seamlessly.

✣ New Architecture: Built on a unique architecture, LUMIERE generates the entire length of the video at once, ensuring global temporal consistency.

Why You Should Care: Video inpainting is crucial for content creators who need to edit or enhance footage without compromising quality. Even though it’s just a research project at the moment, I hope they elect to release it soon. The capabilities of Google’s LUMIERE mark a notable progression in video generation and editing technologies.

High Level: Learn Dolly Zoom Effect with Runway’s Multi Motion Brush 🎓

The Bytes:

✣ Step #1 → Use your first brush and highlight the background of your image, and utilize the proximity slider all the way to 10.0

✣ Step #2 → Use your second brush and highlight the subject of your image, and utilize the proximity slider to 2.0 & hit save.

✣ Step #3 → Click into camera motion and use the zoom slider -1.0 and generate.

High Level: Chrome Reimagines Their Browser with AI 🌐

The Bytes:

Thanks to Paul for the share on this one → he is great, give him a follow! 

✣ Tab Management Transformed: Chrome’s latest update introduces the Tab Organizer, an AI feature that automatically suggests and creates tab groups based on your open tabs, streamlining your multitasking experience.

✣ Personalized Themes: Leveraging generative AI, Chrome now allows you to create custom themes for your browser. Simply select a subject, mood, visual style, and color, and watch as Chrome generates a unique theme tailored to your preferences.

✣ Writing Assistant: Need help crafting the perfect blog post of social copy? Chrome’s new writing helper uses AI to assist with drafting content directly in browser, offering suggestions to refine your writing in real-time.

Why You Should Care: It rolls out next month. Google Chrome’s AI features are set to make your browsing experience more efficient, personalized, and creative. Whether you’re organizing research, expressing your style, or articulating your thoughts, Chrome is getting better.

/Imagination of The Day: Let’s end the day on a creative note. Today, I’m sharing one of my favorite AI creator’s work. Hugo is wicked talented and didn’t dissapoint with his latest share. Check it out and give him a follow. To all the social media marketers, CMOs, and creators reading → Midjourney is becoming incredibly good and capable of delivering your brand’s creative needs with ease.

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