Soon you'll be dancing to Spotify's AI DJ

Welcome to The Alignment, where we help you understand what’s happening in the world of AI without any of the jargon or bs. 

Generative models are literally touching every imaginable creative industry. Here’s what we have lined up for you today - 

1. Spotify launches its AI DJ 

2. Amazon Kindle Store is becoming a hotspot for AI generated books

3. Powerpoint competitor Tome raises $43million from the who's who of tech

Spotify launches its AI DJ 

Surprise, surprise. Spotify has entered the Generative AI landscape with the launch of DJ. Your personalised music DJ that not only creates a mix of music that you’ll enjoy but also has a dynamic commentary powered by an AI voice model. DJ sessions will be augmented by facts about the artist, music and genre that you are listening to. 

And yes, Spotify is using OpenAI’s models to power their DJ, who would have guessed.

First mover’s advantage and having public facing leadership is really helping OpenAI build relationships with industry giants. To use an analogy, just like how TSMC is the default chip foundry for the worlds’ largest chip makers (they have ~55% market share)OpenAI wants to become the default infrastructure layer for any company wanting to deploy Generative AI models, at least that’s what it seems like for now.

ChatGPT is emerging as the next ghostwriter 

While everyone feared blue collar jobs would be the most threatened by AI, creative work is where generative AI is making its mark. As of mid-february over 200 e-books on Amazon’s kindle store have listed ChatGPT as the author or co-author. Books span a wide category including titles like "How to Write and Create Content Using ChatGPT," "The Power of Homework" and poetry collection "Echoes of the Universe."

The reactions have been a mixed bag. Many are hopeful that ChatGPT will give rise to a new age of writers and creators who can spin up their ideas into books in a matter of days (check out this tutorial!). On the flip side those who write for a living feel threatened, specifically how creative writing could become commoditised. 

Given that ChatGPT spits out information based on the corpus of text data that it has been trained on, there is a very real chance for unoriginal works and plagiarism. We can expect to see lawsuits from authors and publishers very soon. 

The book above, available on Amazon with a 5 start rating was created by ChatGPT.

Product Watch Tome - 

Tome is generative storytelling for presentations. It’s still pre-revenue but has raised north of $75 Million and scaled to over a million users. It directly competes with Powerpoint, which is going to integrate language models in its product suite very soon.

Around the industry - 

1. AI powered new media platform Artifact from the Instagram founders is now publicly available

2. Midjourney generated images cannot be copyrighted according to US Copyright Office

3. OpenAI’s foundry in final stages to let customers buy dedicated compute to run its AI models

4. YC’s Gen AI landscape from their latest batch 

5. Meta releases paper that verifies AI Generated Code, LEVER : Learning to Verify Language-to-Code Generation with Execution

6. Notion AI (Powered by OpenAI of course) is now publicly available.

More creative pursuits with GenAI

The folks over at Buildspace run through how you can make a game using ChatGPT and simple HTML/CSS. This is fun stuff !