AI is here to stay. And it's also advancing rapidly, so here's a roundup of select highlights from various outlets including Fry.ai, Superhuman.ai, The Neurondaily.com, and Neonpulse.beehiiv.com so that you can find the nuggets that may be interesting and relevant to you as a leader.
Quote we are pondering:
“AI is as big a change as the internet, perhaps more so. And in just a few years, people will wonder why we weren’t wondering better.” Seth Godin
BIGGEST NEWS OF THE MONTH
Anthropic’s Claude Opus (supposedly) dethrones OpenAI’s GPT-4 but I guess you can try it for yourself. Here’s how:
Go to the Claude website and sign up.
- You can enter your prompt in the text box and press enter to get a response.
- Claude 3 is multimodal, which means it can understand text, images, PDFs, and other formats.
THINGS TO TRY WITH CLAUDE.AI
- Summarize Files like PDFs, research papers, essays, and more.
- Understand Images: Upload an image, like a complicated diagram, and ask Claude to explain it to you.
- Understand Complex Calculations: You can upload images of a calculation and ask it to explain what the equations are for and how to use them.
- Suggest Design Improvements: Upload an image of a website — or even your living room — and ask how you can improve the design.
- Transcribe Handwritten Notes: Upload pictures of handwritten notes and ask Claude to transcribe them for you.
You can access the mid-range Claude 3 Sonnet model for free but the top-end Opus model requires you to subscribe to Claude Pro.
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IN OTHER NEWS
Note the use of “co-pilot” in the latest iteration of AI apps. AI can be a great aid or co-pilot…but probably not…at this point in time…the pilot.
Would you want to have an avatar of a departed loved one or would that be TOO creepy? It’s an interesting question and there is an industry springing up about that very topic. These bots are called “thanabots” and you can read about them HERE.
In healthcare. Nvidia has joined forces with AI healthcare pioneer Hippocratic AI to develop generative AI “agents” capable of surpassing human nurses in video call interactions while significantly reducing costs. These AI agents come at a fraction of the cost (they only cost $9/hr to operate compared to an average of $39.05/hr for human nurses). SOURCE
AI Brings Toys To Life: Innocent Little Toys OR Creepy Chucky-like Minions? Read pros and cons of Curio’s toy AI-infused stuffy’s HERE
Have you or the young women ever dreamed of being Barbie…Come on. Well… go HERE and upload your favorite photo and see what happens.
Voice cloning is here and just getting better. Speechify just asks for 30 seconds of your voice and they’ll take it from there. Lot of mischief to come. Imagine the creativity to come next April first. SOURCE
Taking pictures of your meals may now be HELPFUL! (Come on…I cant be the only one who does this.) CalorieAI allows you to track your calories by simply taking photos of your meals! SOURCE
The share of Americans who have used ChatGPT for work has more than doubled from 8% to 20% since last March. We should wonder what it will be like a year from now and wish what we did today in view of what is surely coming. SOURCE
Midjourney has introduced a new feature called “Character Reference,” aimed at solving the common issue of generating consistent characters across different images. I have a buddy who is writing a children’s book about his life as a child and uses this for his art work. SOURCE
Ever wonder if you could aggregate TikTok data to create your next great travel experience. Time to explore Letstrip.ai. I used it to explore a couple upcoming trips and it was so good I printed it out and plan to follow it. SOURCE
How to summarize meetings using AI. One of the most glaringly obvious use cases in AI: meeting summaries. For Zoom power users, use Companion AI (here’s a how-to).
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Got a blurry old family photo that you want to enhance? Or maybe you’ve got a tiny pixelated image you’d like to upscale for work? Here’s how to do it in just a few clicks:
- Go to the Krea AI website and log in with your email account
- Click on the Upscale and Enhance option. SOURCE
Chat GPT has a slide creator! I gave it a try and it was OK but of course it will get better. Find the Slide Creator GPT directly here. SOURCETimely thoughts: Rather than jumping on the AI bandwagon cause it's a hot trend, organizations should take a more level-headed approach.Start by clearly identifying the business problems / inefficiencies you want to solve. Isolate small parts that you can solve with easy-to-setup tools like ChatGPT.Even better, consider whether you even need AI. Sometimes you just need a project tracker, not fancy AI!Start with small pilot projects to prove value before making big bets.Provide training and education for employees on how to use AI effectively, starting with our Intro to ChatGPT course! SOURCE
NEW AI TOOLS YOU MIGHT LIKE
Eightify—summarizes YouTube videos.
Gamma—helps make presentations.
Photoroom—AI editor for stuff like removing backgrounds.
Pixelcut—AI that creates product photos.
Phind—coding assistant and search engine.
Speechify—text-to-audio tool w/ celebrities voices.
The entire report is worth a read!
HELPFUL GRAPHS AND CHARTS
Each month going forward I’ll attach graphs and charts that seem to tell a story and give us a bigger grasp of the impact AI is having on our lives and the world around us.
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Top AI tools (It might be helpful to investigate each one)
That’s it for this month. Keep on learning. Keep on experimenting!
