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Create Stunning Midjourney Images in Minutes 🧑🎨️
Learning how to use Midjourney, Nvidia's new AI chip, the Pope blesses AI, and more!
Everyday AI
August 09, 2023
Outsmart The Future
Today in Everyday AI
7 minute read
🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Wondering how to access and use Midjourney so you can generate amazing AI images? You’ve seen the awe-inspiring images, but are confused how it all works. We got you. Give today’s show a watch or listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: Turn your want-to-read articles into audio summaries, Google thinks AI should be able to mine people’s content, and how AI can guess your password by the sound of your keyboard. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Nvidia’s new AI chip, OpenAI shows how it crawls the internet and Google & Universal Music’s partnership for AI-generated songs. Read on for Byte Sized News.
🚀 AI In 5: Too much buzz in Midjourney’s public ‘newbie’ servers? Find out how to create a private server in Midjourney so you can learn faster. See how here
🏆 Digital Drops Giveaway: New giveaway coming soon…
More below
🧠 Leveraging AI 101: So Midjourney is amazing? Got it. But how do you actually put it to work for you? Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss yesterday’s newsletter? We talked about how to make ChatGPT write like you, Bing AI coming to other browsers and how to create and export documents inside ChatGPT! Check it here!
A Beginner’s Guide to Midjourney 🧑🎨️
Have you seen those crazy AI-generated images, like a pink unicorn driving a Honda?
Or maybe you’ve seen a photo so real, you were stunned to learn that AI made it?
(Or this cool one from Leonard in the comment’s of today’s show?)
Where do they come from and how can you generate your own AI images? The answer is Midjourney.
Today we're breaking down how to access and use Midjourney.
Join the conversation and ask Jordan any questions about Midjourney here!
Also on the pod today:
• Breakdown of Midjourney channels 💬
• Accessing Midjourney in Discord 🔍
• Creating hyper realistic AI images 👀
It’ll be worth your 28 minutes:
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
New AI Tool Spotlight – Threado gives you instant automated answers to queries on Slack, Discord & web, recast turns your want-to-read articles into audio summaries and Spinach is your AI-powered VA for meeting summaries, action items, and ticket creation.
Big Tech – Google thinks AI should be able to mine content unless companies opt out.
AI in Society - A recent study showed that Americans prefer the government to regulate AI vs. individual tech companies.
Business in AI – GoodNotes is coming out with an AI-powered update, featuring AI handwriting recognition and a marketplace for digital stationary.
Read This – Sooooo apparently, AI can identify passwords just by the sound of keys being pressed? Yikes.
1. Nvidia's New AI Chip is Here 🚀
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang just dropped a bombshell, announcing the new GH200 chip designed to run artificial intelligence models like a boss. The GH200 is designed for inference, allowing larger AI models to fit on a single system, and guess what? The inference cost of large language models will "drop significantly."
2. OpenAI's GPTBot Shows How ChatGPT Crawls the Internet 🌐
OpenAI has introduced GPTBot, a web crawler to improve AI models. The GPTBot also filters out data sources that violate privacy and other policies. The interesting part is that OpenAI explains how website owners can choose to restrict or limit GPTBot access.
3. Google & Universal Music: A Symphony of AI-Generated Songs 🎵
Google and Universal Music are teaming up to create AI-generated songs, and it's about to be a hit parade! They're working on licensing voices for AI-generated music, and it's not just any voices; we're talking about the voices of Universal Music's artists.
4. Pope Francis Blesses AI
Pope Francis is stepping into the tech world, and he's got a blessing for AI! In a recent meeting with tech leaders, the Pope emphasized the importance of ethics in AI and encouraged the development of "human-centric" technology. His Holiness wants AI to serve humanity, not the other way around.
5. Microsoft & Aptos Labs Create a New AI Blockchain 🤖
Microsoft and Aptos Labs are joining forces, and it's all about AI and blockchain solutions. They're working on a project to create decentralized applications and aim to "democratize AI.”
How To Create a Private Server
in Midjourney 🔐
Midjourney looks cool and all, but what's this Discord thing? And how can I learn to create AI art when there's hundreds of messages popping up in the Discord server?
Don't worry, ya'll.
If you caught our Midjourney episode today and are a little lost on how to keep up in Discord, then today's AI in 5 is for you.
We show you how to set up a private server to make Midjourney and Discord more manageable.
New giveaway coming soon….
🤷♂️ What’s Going On and Why It Matters:
Making images in seconds?
Yup.
All it takes is a keyboard and a Midjourney account.
While ChatGPT grabs the headlines and our attention, we can’t look past Midjourney. Even though Midjourney is going head-to-head with the likes of Open AI’s DALL·E 2 and other behemoths, the small private company has quickly become a favorite of AI fans, artists and photographers alike.
Our take: Midjourney is heads and shoulders above most other AI image generators such as DALL·E 2. (Although Stable Diffusion’s new XL 1.0 model is giving Midjourney a run for the money.)
We know what you’re thinking — are AI image generators even any good? And are they actually usable?
Yes and yes. As you saw on today's livestream.
Also, the quality of the AI output has shot through the roof. When the text-to-image craze started about 18 months ago, the output was …. Meh.
We generated a few images live on the show this AM.
Let’s look at how far the tech has come.
Here’s what the prompt: "Darth Vader eating cake on a pegasus” generated in Version 1:
And here’s what the same prompt generated in V5.2 live on our show:
Midjourney’s got your attention now?
Good, let’s get creative with it 👇
🦾How You Can Leverage:
Maybe you’re a Midjourney master or it might be the first time you’ve heard of Midjourney.
Either way, it can actually be overwhelming. (In a good way)
In our beginner’s guide to Midjourney, we unpacked a lot.
If you’re not sure how or where to start, we got you. Here’s the easiest 1-2-3 to get you using Midjourney in no time.
1 – Splurge, even just for a month 💸
Here’s the thing — there’s no shortage of ways you can leverage Midjourney.
Original art. Modifying and blending our current photos. Swapping your face on AI images. Creating logos, backgrounds or textures. Mood boards and website mockups. Better stock images for your company blog post or Powerpoint presentation. Midjourney can take care of all of that, for a very small price of $10/mo.
Try this:
Don’t let the fact that Midjourney is a paid software deter you from using it. For just $10 a month, you can get your hands on what we think is easily one of the most powerful AI platforms out there. Try it for one month, and see how it can grow your career/company/department.
2 – Use newbie and private servers 🕵️♂️
We hear ya. Discord servers?! Whhhhhhhhaaaaaa?
Don’t worry, if you’ve used Slack or Microsoft Teams Chat, you’ll be able to find your way around Discord. In short, Midjourney is run through Discord servers.
So, you’ll need a free Discord account in addition to your paid Midjourney plan. And once inside, you’ll see Midjourney uses public servers by default. (Think of these as channels or rooms). The newbie channels are great to see what prompts people are using and see the results they generate. But, you’ll want to go private as well.
Try this:
Find good examples that you like in the group/newbie chats, and then create your own private server and tweak the prompts to get your best results.
3 – Ask questions & join Friday for Pt. 2
Go get your hands dirty. If you haven’t already, it’s worth trying. Midjourney, like ChatGPT, only gets better the more you use it and find new applications for you.
Try this:
Go ask us questions in today’s comments, and carve out time on Friday to join us for Pt. 2.
Now This …
Do you have any crazy or cool images that you’ve created with Midjourney?
Hit reply and share any images with us! We’ll feature one in a future newsletter!
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