The 5 Coolest AI Tools From This Week

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So thank you thank you thank you! It's exciting times we're living in and I'm hoping to be a bit of a "tour guide" of what's happening right now and what the future holds. I'm really excited that you're here for the tour!

Now, let's get into all the cool stuff I've come across this week!

🛠️ 5 Amazing Future Tools

2. Synthesizer V: This is one of those tools that, when I came across it, I said "holy sh*t, AI can do that?" It's an AI singing voice generator. You can plug in the lyrics you want it to sing and it will create realistic sounding vocals using AI. Real voices were trained into the system and the results will blow your mind. I know that a lot of people reading this don't have a strong use-case for this in their life or business but, it's a "can't believe we've come this far" kind of tool that everyone needs to see.

4. Listnr: This is one of the best text-to-speech generators I've come across. The voices sound realistic and natural. On their homepage, you can play around with it for free and have it generate text-to-speech of up to 100 words at a time and download it. When you want to do bigger text-to-speech jobs, their pricing is some of the most reasonable I've seen in this genre. $9/month for most people. Check it out and play with the free version without even needing to login. There are plenty of voices to play around with.

🗞️ 3 Fascinating News Articles

1. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on GPT-4: ‘people are begging to be disappointed’ - There's been an image circulating claiming to show the difference in data trained between GPT-3 and GPT-4 and it's completely inaccurate. Sam Altman said so in a recent interview. GPT-4 will likely still be a huge leap from what people are used to with GPT-3 but Sam wants to lower expectations a bit. Sam didn't give any expected release date for GPT-4 but did comment on how schools should handle the plagiarism threat and whether or not he believes it will kill Google. An interesting interview to tune into for sure.

2. Getty Images Takes Stable Diffusion AI Creators To Court - It seems like more lawsuits are popping up by the day over Stable Diffusion and its use of artist's images without their consent. Personally, I do feel for the artists. However, this genie is out of the bottle and there's no putting it back. People can train images themselves using their own computers and the end result will be the same. Stable Diffusion uses existing images for inspiration for new images, not unlike real human artists drawing inspiration from other human artists. Lawsuits will ensue, some artists will likely get some sort of compensation, and AI art will continue to push forward and draw inspiration from existing artists. I'm not saying it's fair to artists or that I don't empathize with them. But I have no doubt that it's how it will all play out.

3. Google Brings Back Founders Page, Brin to Fend Off ChatGPT Threat - There's been a lot of talk about OpenAI killing Google's business model. To some degree, I think there's truth to it that people will use AI to have questions answered instead of turning to Google. However, Google has AI of their own (look into LaMDA) and it's just around the corner. How that AI will be implemented into their current business model is yet to be seen. Google relies heavily on ad revenue and, if they pivot to an AI model, it will negatively impact ads. However, I'm not going to bet against Google. I believe they'll figure out some smart way to continue to incorporate ads or pivot their revenue source to something that makes more sense with the AI. I've got no dog in this fight so I've got my popcorn ready to watch how this plays out.

📺 Must-Watch Videos

💰 A Money Idea To Try

Sell Your Best AI Prompts:

The concept of "Prompt Engineering" is quickly entering the mainstream. I never thought I'd see it, but people are actually selling access to their best prompts, and making really good money doing it as well.

Tools like PromptBase are popping up where you can list your best image generation prompts for sale for a few bucks... And people are buying them like crazy. Some prompts are even selling in the hundreds of dollars... Check out this tweet from @Barsee:

Find more AI income ideas at the AI-Income Database here.

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