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OCTOBER 23, 2024

🤖 Innovation Dispatch: Your Daily Dose of AI

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Today: ​Claude Gets 'Computer Use' Feature, Significant Upgrades​; ​More Than 10,500 Artists Sign Letter Protesting Unlicensed AI Training​; Ideogram Launches New 'Infinite Canvas' Feature; Zoom, Asana, Amazon One Medical launch new AI tools

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🎯 Today's Innovations

• Claude Gets 'Computer Use' Feature, Significant Upgrades​
• AI Tool Spotlight: Ideogram Launches New 'Infinite Canvas' Feature (POLL)​
• TOP HEADLINES FOR OCTOBER 23, 2024
• ​More Than 10,500 Artists Sign Letter Protesting Unlicensed AI Training​

FEATURE

Claude Gets 'Computer Use' Feature, Significant Upgrades​

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The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model marks a notable improvement, particularly in coding and agentic tool use tasks. It scores significantly higher on industry benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, increasing from 33.4% to 49.0%, outperforming models like OpenAI's o1-preview.

This makes it a top choice for AI-powered software development processes, delivering stronger reasoning and faster, more reliable multi-step task completion without added latency.

Feedback from companies like GitLab and The Browser Company emphasizes how Claude 3.5 Sonnet excels in complex coding tasks, planning, and problem-solving, making it ideal for real-world applications like DevSecOps and web-based workflows.

Meanwhile, Claude 3.5 Haiku is the fastest next-generation model, excelling in coding tasks like SWE-bench Verified, where it outperforms other state-of-the-art models, including the previous Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o.

Designed for low-latency, user-facing products, Haiku is well-suited for specialized tasks and data-driven personalized experiences, such as leveraging large datasets for decision-making or automation.

One of the most exciting features of this release is the introduction of computer use in public beta, where developers can direct Claude to navigate computers similarly to humans—looking at screens, moving cursors, clicking buttons, and typing text.

This new ability allows AI to automate workflows that involve standard software programs, making it useful for tasks like research, form-filling, and UI navigation. Companies like Replit are leveraging this feature to develop tools that evaluate apps in real-time as they’re being built.

However, since this capability is still experimental, developers are encouraged to start with low-risk tasks due to its current limitations in actions such as scrolling, dragging, and zooming.

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AI Tool Spotlight: Ideogram Launches New 'Infinite Canvas' Feature

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Ideogram's new Canvas feature offers a highly flexible workspace for users to spread, resize, and combine multiple AI-generated images. This allows for a smoother creative workflow, especially when working on larger projects requiring frequent comparison and visual adjustment.

The infinite Canvas lets users view and manipulate generated images alongside their uploads, enabling a step-by-step refinement of creative tasks.

Beyond the Canvas, Magic Fill and Extend add powerful editing capabilities. Magic Fill allows users to focus on specific parts of an image to make edits like replacing objects, changing backgrounds, or fixing imperfections using simple text prompts.

This feature ensures that fine-tuned edits can maintain high resolution. On the other hand, Extend enables users to expand the borders of images, keeping the style consistent while resizing or adjusting compositions—ideal for adapting images to different formats or screens without losing their integrity.

Ideogram's subscription plans cater to different user needs. The Free Plan allows up to 40 images per day, with limited access to canvases and basic text-to-image generation, while the Pro Plan offers up to 12,000 images per month, bulk generation with CSV integration, and advanced tools like Magic Fill and Extend.

Paid plans also offer unlimited canvases, faster rendering, and more customization options. Developers can access Ideogram’s API for integrating features like Magic Fill and Extend into third-party apps, though the Canvas feature remains exclusive to the platform itself.

Ideogram attributes part of its success to feedback from the beta testing community and the Ideogram Creators Club, which helped fine-tune its functionalities before the official launch.

As the platform grows, Ideogram is expanding its teams in Toronto and New York, actively hiring in areas such as AI research, engineering, marketing, and finance, to continue innovating its suite of tools and enhancing user experiences.

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📰 Top Headlines

• ​Zoom will now use an AI-powered medical notetaker for telehealth visits​
• ​'Blade Runner 2049' Producers Sue Elon Musk over AI Image​
• ​Amazon One Medical launches AI tools to help doctors get back to focusing on patient care​​
• ​Google, Microsoft seem OK with Colorado’s controversial AI law. Local tech not so much.​​
• ​Meta AI Tackles Maths Problems That Stumped Humans for Over a Century​
• ​Expert Discusses Advances in AI Video Generation​
• ​OSTP's Arati Prabhakar Calls for More Federal AI R&D Funding​
• ​Chipotle Rolls Out AI-Based Hiring System​
• ​Air Force Names Susan Davenport New Chief Data and AI Officer​
• ​Asana Launches AI Studio, a No-Code Tool for Building AI Agents​

​More Than 10,500 Artists Sign Letter Protesting Unlicensed AI Training​

The open letter signed by over 10,500 artists represents a significant pushback from the creative industry against the unauthorized use of their work for training AI models. High-profile artists from various sectors, including actors, musicians, and authors, have expressed concern over the lack of consent and compensation for using their copyrighted material.

Notable figures such as Rosario Dawson, Kate McKinnon, and James Patterson have added their voices to this protest, indicating the widespread dissatisfaction among creators.

This issue has been a central focus for groups like SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America, both of which held industry-wide strikes demanding stronger protections and clear guidelines on the use of AI in entertainment.

The strikes reflect broader fears that generative AI could undermine traditional creative professions by utilizing their content without permission.

In parallel to these protests, the legal landscape is also becoming more contentious. Several lawsuits are pending against AI developers, with media organizations and music labels claiming copyright infringements.

For instance, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post have sued Perplexity AI, and major music labels like Universal, Warner, and Sony have taken legal action against developers of AI music generators, accusing them of infringing on intellectual property at a massive scale.

These legal battles underscore the urgency of the issue and the growing tension between the creative industries and AI developers.

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