Futurist: Talking about AI, Again

Oh, to live in interesting times. From the best sense of full disclosure, I was an employee at Microsoft. I still use Microsoft Office, and I use Microsoft Office 365. I have also utilized the Copilot tool kit and Copilot for GitHub. This post is certainly about some of the capabilities that MICROSOFT has announced. It's also about the capabilities in the "AI market. " AI is the hype or marketing name that people use. Because it is the hype Name, however, it's important to know that it is a marketing term; the capabilities we will discuss today are truly deliveries within machine intelligence. We are not to the point where machines in intelligence operate fully independently. You can barely call a machine, intelligence, or artificial intelligence at that point.

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For many years, I have been using the Microsoft Paint program. Like seatbelts, it has been included for free with Microsoft Windows for many years. Recently, Microsoft released a new tool, Designer, with advanced capabilities, leaving Microsoft Paint the same as it has been in the last two Windows releases. It's the same application as in Windows 10 and 11. Except now, It's going to include AI capabilities. Again, AI as the hype. The machine intelligence capability that will release this is Microsoft, and the paint application is the generative AI capability of using paint to generate images. That gives you a non-web application that you can use to generate machine intelligence images on your computer. I can see a lot of reasons why you would do that, and I found that to be an incredibly interesting announcement.

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MICROSOFT had previously integrated the solution known as Copilot into the other office applications. You can call up Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. That capability is incredibly good. It's new. It's been available for about a year at this point. What is interesting is the upcoming integration within Copilot of the advanced voice capability within OpenAI ChatGPT. OpenAI released advanced voice to their subscribers about a month ago. Playing with it extensively allows a conversational band to utilize and interact with machine intelligence. These are incredibly interesting announcements, and having used some of the components already, they are worthwhile and even exceptionally interesting additions to the solution.

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The other interesting tool released in the last few weeks is the Google Notebook LM Pro. I spoke a little bit about it last week. It is an incredibly interesting tool, and I continued to play with it. I have found several interesting ways to use it internally where I work. One of the things our coworker and I are doing in a presentation is taking some of the information and creating a podcast based on the notebook LMM solution. I won't share those publicly as they are only internal, but I have created a few notebooks by a notebook LM and shared them on my Patreon. I found them incredibly well done, and I was very impressed with the quality of this tool. I have not been pro-Google for those who read my articles for years, including my blog post. I am one of the hardest critics of what Google doesn't do. Most of the time, at least in machine intelligence, their solutions always seem to come out after everyone else's announcements. They almost always appear, appeal, or seem to be on me to Exclamation.

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However, the reason for this is to continue my long-held belief that machine intelligence, when used properly, will augment the capabilities of humans. I have been using Text-to-video and picture-to-video generation tools for the last month to see what art is possible today. I've used the Text-to-song creation tools as well. Overall, my impression of what machine intelligence can do today is it's already better than what I could do myself. Based on that, I am not a professional videographer nor an MIA professional songwriter; I am simply having fun taking content and creating new variations. I will share them on my YouTube channel and link to them at the article's bottom.

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Augmentation is the process of taking skills and making them better. One of my favorite quotes about basketball and football players, both kinds of football at the professional level, is they make the players around them better. By playing with that person, you can achieve your maximum potential. That is what these new tools bring to us as humans. The ability to do What we are good at and at the same time build out math and do things that we're not as good at.; the Chinese adage to live in interesting times is both a a curse and a blessing—at this point, looking around at the tools that are becoming available. I'm beginning to think it might be a blessing in this case!