AI is eating the world

If you’ve kept up with everything tech-related, you’d probably agree that 2022 is likely to be the year of Artificial Intelligence.

AI adoption across industries is rapidly increasing; 35% of companies are using AI and 42% are exploring it. OpenAI has made its presence known this past year—first with DALL-E 2 (which, as of this week, lets you edit people’s faces using AI), and now, it's open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper.

Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system “trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.” It’s the latest attempt of a company trying to make speech recognition and translation more accessible. Its focus on improving ASR is especially important—a 2020 Stanford study found that existing ASR systems have a much lower error rate with white users (19%) than Black users (35%).

OpenAI claims that about a third of Whisper’s audio dataset is non-English and that it processes accents, background noise, and technical language at a very robust level. Whisper can translate from non-English to English, which could make speech-to-text translation a much more accessible feature and eliminate the biases we see today.

While Whisper is geared towards enabling developers to add voice interfaces to a wider set of applications, AI-powered products are for everyone.

Here are some new AI-powered products that don’t require any dev experience. 👇

Charlie 2.0 not only has a cute mascot, but uses AI to help you generate HD, 2K, 4K, widescreen, vertical, and square images, and blog content.

Suggesty is an AI search tool that helps you get human-like answers to your Google search without scrolling through all the results pages.

Typed uses AI to help you collaborate with your team to write, research, and view tasks all on one page.

• Build your community with MeltingSpot, a community platform with a built-in video studio, discussion channels, content libraries, and more.

• VetrinaLive helps you set up a no-code e-commerce store to sell digital and physical goods without transaction fees.

• Discover different ways to make a side income with The Hustlers.

• No time to learn Photoshop? Bg Eraser helps you remove unwanted objects, people, text, defects, and watermarks from images.

Slack launched a new canvas feature to help teams curate, organize, and share mission-critical resources without leaving the platform.

Should Notion, Airtable, or Google Docs watch out? 👀 Share your thoughts in the comments.