The 5 Coolest AI Tools From This Week

Cool AI tech is booming right now! Literally everyone is talking about it.

I was over at a family dinner the other night and some of my (very non-techy) family members were raving about the cool AI tools they were playing with.

I can’t turn on the TV without some sort of reference to ChatGPT or AI Art popping up.

Just last week, I was commenting about how this newsletter had exploded to 5,000 subscribers. As I write this today, we just crossed 11,000 subscribers! It’s more than doubled in just one week.

Hopefully that means that you’re enjoying my little weekly nerd-out sessions… But who knows… Everyone could be bots too… Would it really surprise you these days?

You are all amazing and I’m so appreciative that you’re enjoying what I’m putting out! Anyway, enough gushing over how much I appreciate you… Let’s get to what you clicked open for… This week’s kickass list of killer AI tools…

🛠️ 5 Amazing Future Tools

1. Heyday: Heyday is like a second brain for things that you’ve looked at on the web. It’s a Chrome extension and, when you install it, it starts keeping track of the articles and searches that you do. When you search something, it will remind you of similar searches and articles that you came across earlier. It remembers what you find so that you don’t have to. I’m personally on the free trial right now but I’m really enjoying how it’s resurfacing a lot of the AI articles that I’ve come across.

2. Easy-Peasy AI: Easy-Peasy is like your all-in-one AI tool. It’s a copywriting tools, an AI art generation tool, a content summarization tool, and a transcription tool all wrapped into a single package. My marketer friends are going to love this one because you don’t need multiple apps to create ads, write sales messages, transcribe videos, and do everything else that marketers find themselves doing constantly. This is a single AI tool that just kind of does it all… And they’ve got a free plan.

3. Extrapolate: I’m gonna be honest… This one is a little bit creepy. LOL. It lets you plug in an image of what you currently look like and then it extrapolates that image out over several years to guess what you’ll look like as you get older. It’s fun to play with and totally free but I was a little scared of what old me looks like.

4. Lexii.ai: This is a chat system that leverages GPT-3. If you’ve used ChatGPT, you’ll be familiar with how a chat like this works. However, this chat is trained on much more recent data and context so, if you ask it questions, it will give you much more relevant results to today’s world (as opposed to ChatGPT, which is trained through 2021). I asked the chat to describe itself and here’s what it said; “Lexii is an AI search assistant that provides realtime information and the ability to cite sources, making it a more comprehensive alternative to ChatGPT.”

5. InstantArt: I recently made a video about this one. It’s one of my favorite art tools right now because it’s totally free to use with unlimited art generations (for now). It’s trained on tons of Stable Diffusion models, including one the mimics MidJourney, and a really awesome realistic generator called Protogen, which is much better at accurately producing hands and faces. For a free art generator, I haven’t found one that’s better yet. Definitely worth checking out!

🗞️ 3 Fascinating News Articles

1. After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts - In last week’s newsletter, I wrote about the necessity for stock photo sites to adapt or die. With the rise of AI-art, the concept of buying stock photos is quickly dying and the stock photo services are either going to lean-in and figure out how to leverage AI art as part of their service or disappear as more and more businesses turn to generative art for their images. Shutterstock seems to be on the correct side with this one, officially rolling out their own generative art toolkit inside of Shutterstock.

2. OpenAI and Microsoft Extend Partnership - There’s been articles about Google squirming over OpenAI’s rise to dominance in the AI space. This news has seemingly fed Microsoft’s drive to tighten the screws and go even deeper with AI tech. Microsoft has invested even more money into OpenAI, making it look more and more likely that we’re going to see Chat functionality within tools like Bing as an effort to knock Google off it’s peg of search engine dominance.

3. ChatGPT is 'not particularly innovative,' and 'nothing revolutionary', says Meta's chief AI scientist - It’s interesting how, as OpenAI and ChatGPT gain traction, the companies that are building similar tech are trying to knock them down a peg. While, it’s true that these large language models and the tech behind ChatGPT has been around for a while, no company has yet to integrate it in a way that’s easy for consumers to onboard and play around with. ChatGPT did just that. Their innovation was in finding a way to make it appeal to the most amount of people as quickly as it did. Everyone’s entitled to their opinions though. :)

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💰️ A Money Idea To Try

Create Niche AI-generated Art T-Shirts:

Sites like Printful and Printify make it really easy to sell “print-on-demand” t-shirts. If you can pick out a niche of rabid buyers, you can easily generate a ton of designs using tools like MidJourney or InstantArt.

For example, my wife’s aunt is obsessed with the dog breed shih tzu. She wears the t-shirts, has mugs, pictures on the wall, the whole nine… If you were to generate loads of images of shih tzus, you could easily create a niche store and crank out shirt after shirt with the dog breed in different poses and different situations. Fans of the breed would eat them up, share them on Instagram, and keep coming back for more!

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