5 Cool AI Tools & The TLDR in AI This Week

I thought last week was a crazy week in AI. This week decided not to slow down!

We had big announcements from Adobe, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Google, Canva, GitHub, and more. It was just announcement after announcement after announcement.

If I’m being totally honest, there were a lot of announcements but a lot of them felt like a lot of big companies jumping on the bandwagon and less like exciting, novel, ideas. Adobe’s Firefly is a great UI but it is image generation tech that still feels like it’s lagging behind MidJourney a bit. Google’s Bard started opening to testers and we were all kind of underwhelmed by what it could do. Canva rolled a ton of AI into their platform but it wasn’t anything anyone hasn’t seen already in the AI space…

It was all somewhat “meh” news… Until OpenAI dropped a bomb yesterday that they are rolling out “plugins” into ChatGPT. This news will completely reshape how we’re using AI and make a lot of tools that we’re probably using obsolete. I made a video about it and linked it below but this news felt like the first big innovation in a long time… And by long time, I mean since last week’s releases of GPT-4 and MidJourney Version 5. 🙂 

Alright, I know you’re hear for the TLDR of tools and news on the week… So let’s just roll right in…

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🛠️ 5 Amazing Future Tools

1. Canva: Canva did a big live event yesterday that was broadcast to 1.5 million people. At this event, they announced that they are putting AI into everything. You can now drag a single image into Canva and it will create a whole design around it. They have text autocompletion in everything now, called Magic Write. They added automatic text translation for various languages. They added a magic eraser to edit out items in an image. They added beat sync to sync your videos to music, automatic slide creation, improved text-to-image, and more. Basically all of the cool AI tech you’ve heard of recently, Canva rolled it in…

2. MagicFlow: This is a really cool no-code builder. Imagine a tool like Make or Zapier but directly integrated with tools like Hugging Face, Stability AI, Replicate, and ChatGPT. You can build visual workflows that connect APIs. If you want to build a tool where you drag an image in, it removes a background using a Hugging Face tool, and then creates a similar image with Stable Diffusion, and then creates a story related to the image with ChatGPT, you can build a visual workflow to make all of that happen.

3. ModelScope Text-To-Video: This is another tool that, while simple (and free) is the beginning of something huge. I made a video about this one earlier this week as well. This is true text-to-video. You type what you’d like to see in a video and it will create that video. No need to upload a source video or source image. Just text straight to video. It currently only generates 2-second videos but, since it’s open source, we’re likely going to see a lot more video generation tools iterated off of it.

4. Bing Image Creator: Bing announced last week that they have a newer, more advanced version of DALLE that we can use to generate images with. It’s actually pretty impressive. DALLE fell behind the pack in image generation, getting beat by Stable Diffusion models and MidJourney. This newer, updated version of DALLE is actually capable of creating some pretty impressive images now. On par, I’d say, with tools like Stable Diffusion.

5. Catbird: This is a free image generation tool that generates a ton of images all at once. It leverages various Stable Diffusion models and runs your text input through all of them. Enter your prompt and, with one click, see what your prompt would look like in OpenJourney, Dreamlike Diffusion, Stable Diffusion 1.5, Stable Diffusion 2.1, Timeless Diffusion, and a bunch more. It’s really cool to see the comparison of various models on a single prompt.

🗞️ 4 Fascinating News Articles

1. ChatGPT plugins - This was, by far, the most groundbreaking news of the week. ChatGPT added plugins, allowing additional functionality to be bolted on to ChatGPT. Once this is fully rolled out, it will give internet connectivity to ChatGPT, the ability to upload files like images, spreadsheets, videos, and audio files, and even use specific sites as data sources. It also allows 3rd parties to build on top of ChatGPT and, right out of the gate, we’re getting integrations with tools like Zapier, Instacart, Kayak, Wolfram, and more, which literally makes the possibilities of what you’ll be able to do with ChatGPT virtually endless.

2. Try Bard and share your feedback - Google started rolling out access to Bard to people on the waiting list this week. Bard is Google’s answer to Bing Chat. It’s a web-connected ChatBot that’s designed to help complement and improve your search queries. I was an early tester and to be honest, it was really underwhelming. When I asked it what the benefits of Bard over Bing were, it literally replied that Bing has a better user experience and would likely give better results. It didn’t do a great job with it’s web searching and just made up a whole bunch of inaccurate information when asked to summarize certain content. Needless to say, it’s got a long way to go to even come close to what Bing Chat and ChatGPT are capable of.

3. NVIDIA to Bring AI to Every Industry - This week was NVIDIA’s virtual GTC conference where they made a lot of big announcements. The biggest announcement, with likely the largest impact, was the announcement of NVIDIA Foundations. This was NVIDIA announcing that they’re going to start offering their cloud GPUs to companies that want to build their own customized large language models like GPT-4 or like what we have with Stable Diffusion. Companies will soon be able to use NVIDIA’s compute resources to manage proprietary models that are specifically designed for their company’s needs.

4. Bringing Generative AI into Creative Cloud with Adobe Firefly - Adobe also entered the generative AI art game this week with their announcement of Adobe Firefly. Adobe Firefly is a diffusion-based model where you can generate images and apply cool textures to text. Adobe Firefly uses fully licensed images from the Adobe Stock database as well as public domain images so there is no question of the origin of the images that it was trained on. While the image generation capabilities aren’t really better than what we’re seeing from existing image generation models, they have one of the better user-interfaces for generating images as well as peace of mind that we know that all images used in the model were obtained in the most ethical way possible.

📺️ Must-Watch Videos

💰️ A Money Idea To Try

Faceless YouTube Videos:

YouTube can very lucrative when done right and, with the amount of AI tools available now, it’s actually pretty easy to nearly automate a YouTube channel.

For example, you could have ChatGPT help you pick a niche that will likely have some interest. Then you could use ChatGPT to write your video scripts for you. You can use tools like ElevenLabs to turn your text into spoken audio. Then you can use tools like Fliki or Lumen5 to add b-roll to the video you created. Alternatively, you can use a text-to-slide tool like Tome or the new Canva slide-builder to create a slide presentation and then sync it up with your audio.

If you do want a talking animation in your video, you can use D-ID, Movio, or Synthesia to generate a talking face that you can cut between or put in the corner of your video.

Making faceless YouTube videos has become so easy that I actually worry they could overtake YouTube at some point. However, there is a window of opportunity right now to create some niche channels before the rest of the world really catches on.

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