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History of coding will tell us that it has evolved over the years. Whether it's from writing sentences, to mathematics or even playing a computer game, coding has always been around. Here's an in-depth look at the next-big programming languages you have never heard of.

At Analytics India Magazine, we have been experimenting with some of the latest AI tools and platforms. As you can see, this newsletter's banner and the intro have been generated using AI.

It has been designed using a text-to-image generation tool Midjourney (an alternative to OpenAI's DALL-E 2 ). The intro was generated using copy.ai – an AI copywriting tool powered by OpenAI's GPT-3.

That being said, a lot more is happening in the creative world. Social media platforms are being flooded with AI artworks made using Midjourney, DALL-E 2, and DALL-E Mini (now Craiyon ), and now Meta AI has also joined the wagon.

Last week, Midjourney officially moved its platform to open-beta , and made it available for all. Here's the link: https://discord.com/invite/midjourney

Here's what we tried using Midjourney. The result has been phenomenal!

AIM prompt: two crows sitting on an electric wire, blue cloud background with afternoon sun in a style of Gustavo Klimt --hd --ar 16:9

OpenAI's DALL-E, on the other hand, which is giving access in a phased manner. Currently, it has given access to 1 lakh users and plans to give access to 1 million users soon. Click here to join the waitlist.

Food for thought: There seems to be a new pattern emerging in the world of design and visualisation. So, what 'coding' is for developers, soon 'prompts' will become a thing for graphic designers, giving rise to a new breed of AI artists and graphic designers.

But, Meta seems to be doing things differently.

Mark Zukerberg recently announced the launch of Make-A-Scene, an AI platform that uses text and sketches to guide AI image generation. Currently, as part of the research and development work, the company is giving access to only well-known AI artists.

One of the AI artists, Scott Eaton , said that 'Make-A-Scene' provides a level of control that's been missing in other SOTA generative AI systems. "Text prompting alone is constrained, often like wandering in the dark. Being able to control the composition is a powerful extension for artists and designers," he added.

Scott Eaton @_ScottEaton_

So yes, text promting generative AI models is a thing. Over the last few months I've had the opportunity to test a number of the current state-of-the-art models from @OpenAI , @midjourney , and @MetaAI Each is amazing but remarkably different, I'll share thoughts & outputs.

However, there seem to be a few setbacks. Read: Where is 'I' in 'AI' anymore?

Research of the Week >>

We have released our first-ever State of Data Engineering in India report. Here are some key highlights:

1. The size of the Data Engineering market in India is USD 18.2 billion in 2022. This is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 36.7% in the next five years to reach USD 86.9 billion by 2027.
2. Banking/Insurance employed the highest share of data engineers at 37.7% among all non-IT sectors.
3. The median salary offered to data engineers is INR 17.0 lakhs per annum.
4. Data Engineers working in the Delhi NCR region get paid the highest median salary of INR 19.3 lakhs per annum, followed by Bengaluru at INR 19.0 lakhs per annum.
5. The total number of open jobs for data engineers as of the last week of May 2022 is 36,457.
6. More than two in five (44.9%) jobs are listed for data engineers with 5 to 10 years of experience.
7. The overall attrition rate for data engineers is 34.1%.
8. The highest attrition rate is recorded for data engineers with 0-2 years of experience, at 41.7%.

Top Stories of the Week >>

The Real Reason Robot Rights Is So Contentious

Raging debates on the current state of human rights surround us all. The selective application of universal tenets of humanity is a collective concern. What then is the relevance of debates about robot rights?

Read the complete story here.

The Misguided Perception of Big Tech Bulldozing SMBs

Many tech giants often claim that they give startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) what they essentially need, like instant access to vast markets, cheap and reliable infrastructure, efficient ads and more. Notwithstanding these benefits, they also get in the way of SMEs' success in many ways. The big firms sometimes acquire the small ones to root out the competition.

Does that mean small businesses can never realise their potential for success? Or that they are doomed to be perpetual losers in want of resources? This article has answers to all these questions and more.

The Mad Rush To Publish AI Research

The AI talent war between companies like Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, IBM and Microsoft has compelled them to become more open about ongoing work, increasing their investments in AI, specifically in machine learning.

Check out the complete story here.

People & Tech >>

The Data Science Journey Of Danny Butvinik

With nearly 15 years of research and development and management experience in data science and software development, NICE Actimize's Chief Data Scientist Danny Butvinik finds his niche in solving financial crime and says that it provides the potential for exploration for data scientists.

Check out his data science journey here.

CRED's Design Philosophy

In an exclusive interaction with AIM, Ketan Jogani, Lead–Mobile Tech at CRED, takes us through the journey of CRED's design philosophy, the ideology behind its recently open-source UI framework NeoPOP and more.

Read the complete story here.

AIM Videos >>

Meet Me At Cypher.

Startups, Apps & Tools >>

Ganit

Based in Chennai, Ganit is a management consulting firm that offers AI, machine learning to data management services. Last week, the company raised an undisclosed amount of funds from various angel investors.

Jukebox

A neural net developed by OpenAI generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in various genres and artistic styles. Click here to view the code.

Sonantic.io

AI-enabled voice platform that offers entertainment professionals the to create compelling, nuanced, and stunningly realistic voice performances – rapidly transforming scripts into audio.

Research & Papers >>

Bootstrapped Masked Autoencoders For Vision BERT Pretraining

Microsoft researchers, alongside researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, recently proposed bootstrapped masked autoencoders (BootMAE) – a new approach for vision BERT pretraining. Check out the research paper here.

Language Models Show Human-Like Content Effects On Reasoning

Deepmind and Stanford University researchers recently trained the large language models (with 7 or 70 billion parameters) across three logical reasoning tasks – natural language inference, judging the logical validity of syllogisms, and the Wason selection task, and found that it reflected many of the same patterns observed in humans across these tasks. Check out the research papers here.

Events in Focus >>

#AMA with Data Science Hiring Leaders from Intuit

In order to provide professionals with the necessary guidance to make a career in analytics and data science, we are organizing Deeper Insights Series: #AMA webinar session with Intuit Data Science Hiring leaders on July 21st from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM.

Top News of the Week >>

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*prompt: Origin of coding (Intro)

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