RIP Photoshop 💀

Hey folks,

Welcome to Brain Salad, the freshest tools and memes to keep you ahead in the new world of AI.

This one’s shorter than normal as I am at The Podcast Show today (and yes, everyone is worried that AI is going to take over).

Grab your poke bowl, and let’s tuck in 🥣

 In this week’s edition:

• Photoshop PMs furiously taking notes 📋

• Plus tools, trending news, and memes…

The Death of Photoshop 🪦 

Ak dropped this tweet recently, showcasing Hugging Face’s image manipulation capabilities, and the internet promptly blew up!

Whilst Twitter was lapping this up Photoshop PMs were sat furiously taking notes and worrying about their market position 😬 

The paper explaining it is here. TLDR; you can click and drag any GAN-generated image to a target you select.

Here’s the code if you want to download it and have a play around.

Fresh stuff 🥗

If you’re like me and you read a lot of articles have a huge backlog of articles you haven’t read, then have a look at Recast. Send it your articles and get a summarised audio version back.

Stability released their animation text to animation SDK recently. The results are wonky (for now) and funny as hell.

If you are just getting started in AI then this course by Decrypt is worth a look. The part on Langchain and the crossover between crypto and AI is particularly interesting.

Always the pioneer, Grimes has open-sourced her music. Here’s what she thinks of the results.

Fans of Lego and robots, these Boston Dynamic kits put together by @bheater will be right up your street. Spot, cute in Lego form, terrifying IRL.

If you enjoy wasting time on the internet check out Draw and Play. It’s a collection of fun, silly tools by @whichlight, the creator of Genuary and Synthruary.

“Digital abundance will create physical scarcity.” Everything Dror writes is brilliant but his piece on AI and offline moats is particularly interesting. Plumbers will be fine.

Can AI perform better than an intern? Former Editor of The Next Web, Martin Bryant takes an in-depth look at Self in his newsletter Pre-Seed. You can subscribe here.

If you liked playing on Sims and Habbo Hotel when you were younger then check out Rooms. Create any room you can imagine directly in the browser (you can even use natural language prompts).

I have no idea what this is. But I like it. The more you click, the weirder it gets.

Is AI going to consume everything?

Who knows, but it’s pretty good at internet pranks.

That’s it for this week, say hello on Twitter @mrcunsolo