OpenAI's Sora, Fashion and Shopping, Instant Answers, and Learning Smarter
An assortment of tools for the weekend AI warrior.
Hey y’all!
One of the beautiful things about writing for oneself is that the only real pressure that you have to contend with is the pressure from within. Meaning, I don’t have to get upset if I miss any public goals that I might have and I’m not driven by external perspectives or opinions.
There’s real freedom in a pure form of art and it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to do it. I hope you all have your own personal outlets for creative work because it’s pretty life-giving when you find it.
Now if I could only get this newsletter to be break-even; that would be nice!
😉
— Summer
It’s a federal holiday here in the US — the 3rd Monday of February — and it’s also called Washington’s Birthday, the first President of the United States. It effectively creates a 3-day weekend which is nice if you have a typical 9-5 job!
I took Friday off (if you noticed) and instead hung out with family and friends — a much needed break from the hustle and bustle of the week. But, I also encountered a few tools that I thought I’d share as well. So, here we go!
I wanted to share this site because the UI and UX was perfect. I mean, absolutely perfect. Stupid-simple to use and no frills to get in your way. And the results weren’t terrible! I think there’s a lot of opportunity for clothes, fashion, and the like to use AI and machine learning for practical purposes.
The results link out directly to the articles of clothing and you can be on your way. Color me impressed. Bookmarked!
Visme uses AI to help you create a number of different designs for many different types of projects. Walking through the workflow and editor is very simple and they try to guide you quickly to some sample results, whether it’s for a small business, personal, education project, or non-profit:
You can then chat with their tool to get more specifics:
I gave it a few attempts like a simple business card for this newsletter:
Not terrible!
Next up is another meeting notes tool called Broadcast which has free and paid plans:
Capture meeting notes, track decisions, and automate action items. It's simple for you and perfect for your team. Redefine meeting notes and enhance them tenfold by bringing AI into your internal meetings, just like your sales team does for their external conversations. Avoid being perpetually stuck as the note-taker.
Again, I have my own personal workflow for meeting notes but if you don’t and want something a bit more automated then this might be the tool to try.
Want to test-drive a really fast Answers Engine? Try Groq! Matt Shumer shares a live demo of what is possible with Groq, which is serving Mixtral at nearly 500 tokens per second and the answers or outputs are “nearly” instantaneous.
As he notes, it writes factual, cited answers with hundreds of words in less than a second. More than 3/4th of the time is spent searching, not generating and the LLM runs on a fraction of a second. Performance is going to be a huge part of the future of generative AI and the faster users can get results the happier they will be.
There’s definitely something here with Groq (not the Twitter version).
DOMO is set to release even better video-to-video transformations with their most recent announcement featuring Ghibli-style art!
Enhanced Algorithm: Experience smoother, more stable videos.
Clearer Backgrounds: Enjoy crisp and vivid scenery in your creations.
Improved Character Sync: Witness better character alignment and interaction.
Future Upgrades: Stay tuned for updates to all our models.
I’m watching the video space pretty closely, especially as the technology starts bleeding into the Hollywood-level results.
Of course, the biggest news is about OpenAI’s Sora, a text-to-video tool that’s blowing people’s minds. I don’t seem to have access to it but the results that I’ve seen online are impressive. I mean, look at these results:
Which one is making you think twice about the power of text-to-video? This stuff is getting way too good. If you’d like a more in-depth overview of how Sora works, give this article a read as it also posits some thoughts about how this will challenge and change the film industry as well and I like this closing thought:
It’s clear that Sora fits into this paradigm: The better you know how to manage it as a tool to create incredible things, the better you’ll be positioned in the new economy. But the most exciting part is that it broadens the sphere of people who are allowed to make things in the world.
I’m not a filmmaker by any stretch of the imagination but these tools and technologies can make me one, especially beyond a traditionally-understood “novice” — that’s a pretty wild thought to be sure.
Repeto has a simple premise: Upload a document and chat with it to understand it better, with the best use cases being for research and learning. Here’s a quick visual of what this is all about:
I can easily see this being used by students of all types with some basic summarization features as well as opportunities to better understand the content at large. You can even create short quizzes for yourself as well.
Finally, if you’d like a thoughtful piece on raising kids in the age of AI then Julia Wise’ piece is a good one to consume. That’s a wrap. Have a great day folks!
※\(^o^)/※
— Summer
