OpenAI saw two of its products make the top four trends this week.
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Despite many non-AI stories and trends making headlines this week, ZDNET news Innovation Index the panel again voted for AI in the top spot – and again, three of the top four articles were also AI.
To recap, each week, ZDNET editorial managers select the top 10 trends of the week, then our panel votes to rank the top four. Just this week, there were three hardware stories and several non-AI stories in the top 10, but only one of them attracted enough votes to make the bottom four. Our panel of journalists and analysts is always looking for the most innovative developments that will have the greatest impact on the future. This has propelled AI to the top of the rankings for the past five weeks. Here is the link to last week’s report For example.
The main trends of the week were:
- OpenAI’s speech engine can now clone a voice from a 15-second clip
- Waymo self-driving cars begin delivering Uber Eats orders
- Apple launches ReALM AI model to surpass GPT-4
- DALL-E now uses prompts to edit AI-generated images
OpenAI revealing a tool that can clone your voice with just a 15-second clip was by far the number one trend of the week according to our panel, with nearly twice as many votes as the second choice. Number two was technically the only non-AI story of the week – Waymo’s self-driving vehicles dropping Uber Eats orders – but of course, self-driving cars themselves are one of the most complex implementations of AI. AI.
Apple’s research team then released its ReALM AI model, which the company claims can outperform OpenAI’s popular GPT-4. We are all following this development closely since Apple CEO Tim Cook has already telegraphy that the company will unveil its AI projects at WWDC in June.
The fourth trend of the week was an update: OpenAI DALL-E Image Builder can now let you select part of an image and use a voice prompt to edit and adjust the image.
That’s it for this week. Come back next week to see the latest trends.
