Generative AI for Talking with Animals, Create 4K Images for Free, and Free LLM Learning Apps
The world of AI is giving us new superpowers; let's get to it.
Hey y’all!
Yesterday’s post was one of the more silly (and sad) that I’ve published but it serves as a powerful and important reminder that we need to confront the obvious biases that can be built within each of these platforms head-on.
Can Google and Gemini recover? Most certainly because the internet has a very short memory and if they can reduce — if not remove entirely — the biases then the tool will be not only useful but also trustworthy. Personally I plan on using other services that have, at least on the surface, less obvious bias but none of them are going to be perfect (except the one that you build for your own private universe).
Today we’ll keep it much more light with a selection of generative AI tools that I found not only fascinating but useful.
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— Summer
I love simple tools that do away with a lot of the “fluff” of SaaS products! AI Colors does precisely what you think it does: Generate color palettes via text prompts.
Galileo AI does similar but for interface designs:
Are you a marketer? Neiro might be useful if you need to build marketing videos using AI Avatars, in more than 140 languages with over 20 different types of presenters (for diversity, of course). Here’s their overview video:
They have a bunch of additional services that might be useful like text-to-speech, voice conversion, and a simple workflow for building advertisements.
Also, in the theme of marketing, you might want to look at this SEO-specific tool called SEO AI which has a simple toolset that’s fast and many of them are free, like content detectors (for human vs AI-generated), outline generators, meta description builders, topics, paragraph tools and rewriters (and those are just the free ones). Not terrible if this is a task that you have to do on the daily.
Lexica is an image generator that blew me away when I first encountered it but their new and improved version does 4k resolution outputs with very good results. As you can see above my prompt was:
a korean woman sitting in a coffee shop in downtown austin with a notebook computer and slightly purple hair with headphones staring out a window.
And I was very happy with the first pass. I changed it to a “mountain” and “beach” setting and got some good results too adding “NSFW” as a negative prompt, just in case:
They aren’t perfect as you can tell via the hands and some of the peripherals but the quality of images are really impressive. 4k. Wow. And it’s free. Double wow.
What about a Chrome extension that automatically transforms any image in your browser to an anime version? Check this demo out:
Michael is calling it BrowserDiffusion and has open sourced the code here. They don’t have an easy-to-install version for most folks but if you’re a little technical it’s not too hard to boot up. Perhaps I’ll put together a small article on something like this later.
Stable Diffusion — one of my favorites — has updated to version 3 and the biggest breakthrough in my opinion is spelling abilities, which has been a constant problem for these types of generative tools.
Being able to create quality images with readable text is next-level and it’s a problem that will eventually be solved to near-perfection. Stable Diffusion is headed in the right direction and I can’t wait to see them continue to progress.
Need to build a presentation quickly? Why not try out Decktopus! That’s it. That’s the product. Give it a whirl and let me know what you think.
Still learning all that you can about AI and LLMs? Then you might want to try this free app that can help you get ahead, called ai LaMo.
They have easy to understand modules with practical examples and exercises for you to try. It might be worth it to even send to friends and family (or coworkers too). In regards to coworkers and potentially new ones, maybe what you need is practice with your interviewing skills! Talently AI has a solution that might be worth trying:
Here’s their overview:
Prepare for your next interview for any role in the world with AI and get instant feedback to improve your performance and become a top candidate.
What it effectively does is have an AI interviewer guide you through preparation and provides real-time feedback. Not a terrible use of time if this is something you’re doing anyways.
Finally, a neat development is the idea of being able to communicate with animals? Check this concept out:
Even the notion of this as a real opportunity has my head spinning but it doesn’t seem impossible as our technology becomes even better. I mean, who hasn’t thought about having a full conversation with their doggo?
Have a great one folks!
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— Summer
