PCWorld reports that Canva's new Magic Layers AI feature converts images into editable templates, allowing users to modify text, remove objects, and edit individual elements within photos. The tool poses significant disinformation risks by enabling easy manipulation of news content while preserving credible visual elements like logos and matching original fonts seamlessly. Magic Layers requires a Canva Pro subscription and can make AI-generated fake content appear more polished than originals, complicating detection efforts. I know that there is indeed something good and useful about Canva's Magic Layers tool, which uses AI to transform an image into an editable template. But all I can think of it is how people can and will use it for nefarious purposes. Canva's Magic Layers tool was launched last week .

The growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into human cognition raises a fundamental question: does AI merely improve efficiency, or does it alter how we think? This study experimentally tested whether short-term exposure to narrow AI tools enhances core cognitive abilities or simply optimizes task performance. Thirty young adults completed standardized neuropsychological assessments embedded in a seven-week protocol with a four-week online intervention involving problem-solving and verbal comprehension tasks, either with or without AI support (ChatGPT). While AI-assisted participants completed several tasks faster and more accurately, no significant pre-post differences emerged in standardized measures of problem solving or verbal comprehension. These results demonstrate efficiency gains without cognitive change, suggesting that current narrow AI systems serve as cognitive scaffolds extending performance without transforming underlying mental capacities. The findings highlight the need for ethical and educational frameworks that promote critical and autonomous thinking in an increasingly AI-augmented cognitive ecology.

A proper résumé builder can help you stand out from the crowd. All products featured on WIRED are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. Landing a new job starts with a slam-dunk CV, but Word or Google Docs will only take you so far. In an era of AI-assisted Application Tracking Systems (ATS) where applicants are rejected before a human ever lays eyes on their work experience, the best résumé builders could help you stand out from the crowd. Yes, they'll give your résumé a pretty face with unique templates and attention-grabbing fonts, but résumé builders shouldn't just give you a PDF and send you on your way. A good online résumé builder will give tips and insights into how you can bolster your CV, as well as tools for managing your documents when applying to multiple jobs.

A majority of small businesses are using artificial intelligence and finding out it can save time and money. So, you want to start making money using AI but you're not trying to build Skynet or learn 15 coding languages first? Good, because neither am I. You don't need to become the next Sam Altman or have a Ph.D. in machine learning to turn artificial intelligence into real income. What you do need is curiosity, a dash of creativity, and the right prompts.

Canva, which began life as a platform for visual design, has tossed the rules aside. In addition to Visual Suite 2.0, the company has added coding, spreadsheets, and graphs to its AI capabilities. It's a rather sharp change for Canva--although if a social media company like Facebook can toss its brand identity aside for a failed run at the metaverse, then why can't Canva try its own hand at its own pivot? Canva's shift toward the spreadsheet actually makes sense, according to the company. "While data is a critical part of visual communication, whether it's creating charts, forms, reports, dashboards, or infographics, it's also complex and disconnected from the creative process," Melanie Perkins, the chief executive of Canva, said in a blog post. The snippet of video that shows off what's being called "Canva Sheets" is impressive: not only are Canva's Sheets visually bright and dynamic, but Canva has included so-called "Magic Insights" and "Magic Formulas."

Canva is taking aim at Microsoft's Office Copilot initiatives with several new AI-powered Visual Worksuite features that can touch up images, design new visual templates, and even create whole presentations for you with minimal input required. Although Microsoft has far many more users than Canva -- Canva's monthly user base now tops 110 million, which was about half of where Microsoft was in late 2019 -- Canva has grown its user base by 30 million since last September in part by quickly launching new features. One example: Canva launched Magic Write last December, an AI-powered content tool that can write copy or suggest ideas. Microsoft launched Edge Copilot, which offers similar features, earlier this month. Microsoft 365 Copilot promises to be a game-changer, with features that will allow users to create PowerPoint presentations via a user prompt: type in "a marketing deck for RuffRuffFunStuff's new spring line of dog chews," for example, and PowerPoint will attempt to generate a deck based on what it knows of the hypothetical brand and its products.

The company, run by a meta product veteran, has released a suite of new "generative storytelling" capabilities powered by GPT-3. They're designed for what one press release calls "intuitive collaboration with AI." This includes rewriting text, adjusting length and tone, and customizing generated prompts he bars. By combining "Beautiful AI" and "DesignerBot", you can generate highly complete presentations with simple text input. This means you can create 10 to 20 PowerPoint slides with layouts, text, pictures, and icons from that one prompt, ask them to best understand the results, and label each part with bullet points, charts, and images.

Today, Canva announces Magic Write, a text-generation tool that can generate everything from ideas for blog posts to a cover letter. But AI text is quietly -- and probably inevitably -- moving into more products you'll use on a regular basis. AI art is already there. Microsoft Designer, a visual design tool that seamlessly integrates text-to-image AI art is in preview and should eventually be part of Microsoft 365. But rival Canva, which staked out its own text-to-image AI art space before Designer launched, is moving further into Microsoft's territory with the new Magic Write feature for Canva Docs.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a big trend right now, but not all of us have access to the data scientists or large budgets needed to use AI technology. Thankfully, there are many free tools out there that you can use without any coding experience at all -- and they're more useful than ever before thanks to the rise of machine learning. Here are seven awesome AI tools that are 100% free to try! Copy.ai is a free online content creation tool that lets you create blog posts, articles, and more. It's easy to use, and it can be used for all kinds of content like blog posts, Instagram captions, YouTube video ideas, and article titles. I am totally obsessed with Copy.ai.

In this article, I would like to start with a recent announcement that Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) made and then show how, even though it may be of little relevance, it offers once again the opportunity to understand how Microsoft runs its business and, most important, defends its wide moat. I really enjoy carrying out this kind of research, especially when I have to deal with a very large company such as Microsoft. In fact, I think that very often, understanding well how one particular choice works, enables me to get a grasp of the whole company better than if I were to analyze only its financials without diving into some of its operations. Let's get to the announcement: Microsoft is launching Microsoft Designer, a graphic design app in Microsoft 365 that helps users create social media posts, invitations, digital postcards, graphics, and more, all in a flash. The most important feature is that Microsoft Designer is powered by AI technology, including DALL E 2 by OpenAI, which enables to instantly generate a variety of designs with minimal effort.