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10X AI (Issue #5): DragGAN, Microsoft Build, AI Personal Development, and Surrealist FIFA

Plus Meta's multilingual model, Adobe's Generative Fill, Google's AI releases, and a tip for making tables with Bing Chat or ChatGPT.

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Daniel Nest
May 28, 2023
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Happy Sunday, friends.

Welcome to 10X AI: a weekly look at top 10 beginner-focused AI news, tools, and tips.

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🗞️AI news

Here are the past week’s AI developments.

1. DragGAN takes image manipulation to new heights

If you thought InstructPix2Pix and ControlNet were cool, this one should be right up your alley!

DragGAN is a new and highly interactive way to manipulate images, which involves—you guessed it—dragging specific points of an image around. While pretty straightforward, this concept gives you impressive control over the picture: rotating objects, tweaking facial expressions, changing poses, and so on.

But why listen to me?!

Just watch this GIF (there are many more visual examples in the linked paper):

DragGAN demo GIF where a dog is manipulated in different ways

If you want to try an unofficial demo, check out this DragGAN Colab. (Click “Runtime” > “Run all” to initiate.)

2. Microsoft unleashes a whole lot of AI

Not to be outshined by Google’s I/O 2023, Microsoft just had their Build conference where AI unsurprisingly took center stage.

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