AI is revolutionizing the art world by providing innovative tools that enhance design, aesthetics, and exploration.
Microsoft Designer, a free AI-powered design tool, is now available to Edge users in the US, allowing them to create various designs without opening a separate tab or program. This integration aims to simplify the design process and compete with other free design tools, such as Canva, that have already incorporated AI-powered features.
Over half of participants using AI at work experienced a 30% increase in productivity, and there are beginner-friendly ways to integrate generative AI into existing tools such as GrammarlyGo, Slack apps like DailyBot and Felix, and Canva's AI-powered design tools.
The new Typeface app for Microsoft Teams uses generative AI to help enterprises scale their marketing efforts and produce personalized content at a faster rate.
Generative AI tools are revolutionizing the creator economy by speeding up work, automating routine tasks, enabling efficient research, facilitating language translation, and teaching creators new skills.
The Interactive Design Assistant for Fashion (AiDA) is an AI system that uses image-recognition technology to help designers refine and modify their original designs, presenting them with all possible combinations and speeding up the design process. However, the head of the project emphasizes that AI should not replace designers' original creativity. Other AI projects showcased ahead of London Fashion Week include the preservation of couture skills and increasing sustainability in the industry. The future of AI-generated fashion is uncertain due to potential legal issues regarding intellectual property rights.
Design software company Canva has unveiled several artificial intelligence-driven tools that allow office workers to create designs quickly, including generating videos from text prompts and transforming designs from one format to another, with the aim of consolidating AI features into one platform for users. Canva sees AI as the next era of visual communication and plans to create more tools for enterprise businesses. The company emphasizes that humans are still at the center of the creative process and that AI is a tool to assist and enhance their work.
Adobe showcased its plans for generative AI technology in Photoshop, Illustrator, and other design apps at its annual MAX conference, including improvements to its AI image generation model, the introduction of a generative AI model for creating vector graphics, and the launch of a new AI model for generating templates for social media posts and marketing assets.
Adobe has announced upgrades to its Firefly family of generative AI tools, including improvements to image generation in Photoshop, the introduction of generative AI to Adobe Illustrator designs, and the addition of text prompt abilities to Adobe Express layouts. The new AI model offers better image quality and detail through training on more images, and users can steer generation with photography parameters.
Companies are focusing on learning how to effectively deploy AI tools, realizing that poorly crafted prompts and unspecialized models can lead to inaccuracies and inefficiencies, with some firms creating prompt libraries and in-house models to improve AI output. Specialist fine-tuning and the use of libraries of embeddings are becoming crucial for companies to personalize AI models and achieve better outcomes. While some believe the importance of prompts will decrease as AI becomes more intelligent, others argue that engineered prompts will still be needed for irregular tasks.
Generative AI has the potential to inspire engineering design by expanding the range of design options and facilitating collaboration, though the outcomes are often unpredictable and difficult to control. However, co-creating with AI can lead to new directions and creative thinking in engineering design.
Generative AI, which allows users to experience cutting-edge technologies firsthand, is expected to play a centralized role in our lives, revolutionizing the fields of computational photography, robotics, and automation.