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It’s hard to avoid the AI noise these days. But I’m pretty intrigued by the power and usefulness of some of the tooling out there.
So intrigued that I’m going to start highlighting some of the things I find most interesting here.
This will be in addition to the regular Wednesday publication.
So, yes, I’m doubling down on the amount of awesome content that I’m giving you.
You’re welcome 😉😉
TRIVIA
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Google has a project that’s free to try out called NotebookLM. Among a zillion other things, it can produce a short conversation between two AI generated actors on a topic of your choosing.
For my use case, I had it read the transcript of one of my other newsletters about recovery and with some simple instructions produce a back-and-forth discussion of the topic I wrote about.
The results kind of blew my mind. This is a tool that is at least very interesting and at best could produce some useful, accompanying content for my writings.
Check out NotebookLM here.
In a similar vein, I came across ElevenLabs which creates realistic speech using AI. The simplest version is giving it a transcript of something and picking a voice which dictates that in an audio file.
It’s incredibly well done and offers me a potential time-saving element in that same project. Right now, I’ve been narrating a podcast version of that newsletter. With this, I can focus my efforts entirely on the writing and still generate a (better) narration.
See ElevenLabs in action here.
OpenAI, the company responsible for ChatGPT, has been announcing new things each day for the past week. And there are some really interesting things happening over there.
I’m still using the free version of ChatGPT which has been more than adequate as a helper for my content, but this winter has marked the first time I’ve actually considered upgrading it or one of the other AI tools on the market today.
Find out more here.
Right in the middle of ChatGPT’s announcements, Google dropped their latest AI model “for the agentic era”.
Unlike ChatGPT’s most powerful offerings, Google’s is free to use…and it’s quite good.
I’ve been using the Google AI Studio the past few days to code a Google Chrome extension for the first time (prompting it to basically teach me along the way).
Try out Google’s AI Studio here.
Meanwhile, the other big player (and maybe my favorite) has been quieter. One of their most recent announcements is a few weeks old, but still pretty exciting.
Claude’s responses can be tailor fit to your writing style and needs.
I personally reach for Claude when I am in need of a helpful muse for creative writing and synthesizing a lot of my thoughts and notes
Find out about personal styles here.
If you’re like me, you have handwritten notes in a handful of notebooks that sometimes never get looked at after you’ve written them.
It dawned on me that this might be an incredibly useful opportunity for AI to help me out with stuff I’ve already written.
Sure enough, the image processing is good enough now to be able to snap a photo of a page from my notebook on my phone and have ChatGPT read it, organize it, thematically group it, and even sort it in order of perceived importance.
Color me impressed. Here’s the 30 sec video I made when I figured this out:
ElevenLabs is an innovative tool that produces incredibly realistic AI voices.
Check it out here.
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