Google Docs and Sheets, NVIDIA's RTX, Product Photos, AI for Slack, and Video Game Assets
Google Docs and Sheets, NVIDIA's RTX, Product Photos, AI for Slack, and Video Game Assets
A bit of everything this Valentine's Day!
Hey y’all!
We’ll just jump into it since I’ve got a fairly busy day (don’t we all) and I want to make sure you get the goods! A few tools for you to take a look at and review — happy experimenting and have a fun Valentines Day for those celebrating (I am not, sad)!
Cheers! Roses and chocolates and all of those yummy and colorful things!
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— Summer
One of the biggest releases was NVIDIA’s personalized GPT that can give you localized superpowers! Here’s their high-level:
Chat With RTX is a demo app that lets you personalize a GPT large language model (LLM) connected to your own content—docs, notes, videos, or other data. Leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT-LLM, and RTX acceleration, you can query a custom chatbot to quickly get contextually relevant answers.
It runs only on Windows (sadly) but it’s super-fast. Give it a try and let me know what you think! Here’s an overview video as well:
Have fun with it!
I like to keep trying these services that can hopefully allow you to save time (and money) if done right. Mokker is another attempt at creating professional product photos from a single image. So I tried uploading an old “DED.ai” image that I used on this newsletter:
I wasn’t too thrilled with the first attempt but I tried with a more normal “product” and the results were as good as you might expect. I’ll keep trying these out and sharing my results as I encounter them
3Daily.ai is a resource for creating game-ready assets, whether it’s characters, clothing, and more! You can even monetize these assets as well through their marketplace and platform. They have an SDK as well for developers.
I’m pretty certain that video games are going to drive a lot of the innovation around generative AI and I’ve even done some work with a startup gaming studio for a small amount of time (I’ll have to share some of my research at some point). Teams like 3Daily are onto something, for sure.
Everyone’s been losing their mind over NotesGPT and I honestly gave it a quick shot and was a bit meh about it. But, this has more to do with the fact that I have a well-worn personal system that has worked for me for the last 20+ years and it is unlikely that I’m going to change that system up anytime soon.
What I am curious is to see how I find use for generative AI or transcription-type services inside my existing workflow(s) but I have yet to encounter a use case that’s exciting and super useful. My first attempt recording was “fun” to say the least:
We’ll try again, never.
PlusDocs is a plugin / add-on for Google Docs that looks very useful! You can have it easily craft custom documents based on a prompt, translate those documents, and more. It works precisely as advertised.
I do wonder about how this will impact the end results when everyone is using these things — will they all end up looking and feeling the same? We’re in the very early stages of adoption with these tools but the novelty will run out fast.
Are you using anything like this in your daily work?
EmoSpeaker is an open source project can generate 8 different types of emotional responses via talking heads.
You can also manage the “intensity” by fine-tuned controls via 15 different levels. I’ve been thinking about the practical applications of this and all I get to is deepfakes, at least at first blush. The example of Barack Obama at the end is telling.
Yes, Slack is getting more AI-features and one of them summarizes your very chatty coworkers, among other things, such as:
In search queries, Slack will use AI to offer answers to natural language queries, drawing on information through the messages and channels that each individual employee can access.
Channel recaps allow workers to catch up on unread messages by summarizing what's happened over the last seven days, or some other custom date range. Slack is pitching this as a good option for those who have been on vacation or parental leave, for example.
AI-generated thread summaries, similar to channel recaps, offer a way to quickly understand a long discussion without having to read all the back and forth.
I haven’t yet to try these but I can actually see some very practical applications in existing communication tools. I personally am not a super-fan of Slack but it is one of the preferred ways of “getting stuff done” in organizations and teams.
Speaking of enterprise and team-centric tools, what about this Wiki generator? It’s exactly what you think it is and I gave it a whirl and wasn’t too offended by the results.
Finally, one more for you before I go! Sheet Copilot uses AI to accomplish tasks in Google Sheets:
If you want a quick overview video then here you go:
A little bit of everything this morning! Have a great one!