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🤯 A restaurant without any chefs, thanks to AI

Picture a restaurant with no chefs.

CloudChef is a Silicon Valley startup that does exactly that. Instead of chefs, they staff their kitchens with workers who don't know anything about food.

We hear you. That's a departure from the last...6000+ years. So, how does it work?

First, they record a real chef preparing a dish. They use video cameras, as well as infrared cameras and scales.

After that, they translate all that info into a set of machine-readable instructions.

So let's say it's Friday night and we've got an order for that meal.

The software walks them through weighing ingredients, sauteing vegetables, and searing steaks. One worker covers prep, the next covers the actual cook. Neither of them know anything about cooking. The AI guides them through it all.

Sound dystopian?

It is. They call themselves the Spotify of food, partly because chefs get a royalty of any dish made using their recipe.

Sounds nice for everyone, except...the workers they're replacing.

Such is AI.

😬 Midjourney bans photos of Xi Jinping

It seems not all political satire is created equal.

Midjourney’s latest update banned any images that involve the president of China.

Lame.

Sure, this is in the wake of fake Trump and fake Pope images sprouting up. But this goes a step further. By singling out the leader of China, many argue this amounts to censorship.

The CEO disagrees.

His defense is that he’s actually protecting the (fair amount of) Chinese users on their platform. Political satire isn’t looked upon as kindly in China.

They call it “minimizing drama”.

Others call it caving in.

👀 Meta AI finally has something neat for us

Round of applause.

Their new tool called Segment Anything is scary good at one thing and one thing only.

Taking any image and cutting out portions of it.

They have a demo here. Upload a busy picture - like a packed Times Square - and watch as it selects individual people with ease.

The best part? It’s open source. Actually open source. Not fake open source like their large-language model.

Meta has a long way to go to catch up to Google and Microsoft. Projects like this might help.

😎 AI tools, tips, links

1. ChatGPT for every website. Learn more

2. Voice samples generated by AI. Spooky stuff. Learn more

3. Google AI team member says he built Meta’s SAM first… Learn more

4. Testing Midjourney’s permutation feature. Learn more

5. Another AI travel planner! Learn more

Close enough, ChatGPT.

Source: Reddit

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