The best AI tools we recommend + more

In today’s email:

• Top AI tools: What do we use? What works? What is worth your time?

• AI + Bing after half a year: What does Microsoft have in store for search?

• Zoom training their AI model on our data: good or bad?

Top AI Tools: Here are our picks

After working with AI tools for thousands of hours, we have some we love and some we hate. Here are the best from our experience, for specific use cases. Will this list change in time? Of course. But if we were building a startup or looking to increase productivity, here are the tools we would use!

• Chat:

  ChatGPT. Although Bard is getting up there, and Facebook has released LLaMA, ChatGPT is still the king. Especially with some of the add-on plugins you can use, as well as Chrome extensions to enhance your experience, it is great. Using OpenAI’s API, you can build great apps with AI. You can also connect to no-code tools to automate your workflow or business.

• Documents:

  Chatdocuments.ai. Instantly answer questions from any document. Although launched only recently, we love how you can chat with many different document types, not only PDFs. Even Excel.

• Image generation

  Midjourney. Although we’ve been working with Dreambooth as well, the output Midjourney generates is mind-blowing. More and more indistinguishable from reality, you can also use great resources online to find the right prompts for your needs.

• Video generation

  Video generation is going to change movie-making, very soon. But it is not there yet. We’ve been diving deep into Runway ML, but I estimate that good-quality short films are 6-12 months away.

• Writing

  Jasper. Although we’ve found that creating your own process in ChatGPT produces much better articles than any of the tools that are out there. We have an internal tool that we use to create AI content for our websites which is producing amazing results. If anyone is interested in testing it out, let me know!

• SEO

  Surfer SEO is the best product for SEO Optimization. With their Surfer AI, you can create articles that are ready to rank. This of course works with their keyword research tool seamlessly.

• Grammar assistant

  Grammarly. I feel like I’ve been using Grammarly for years and years and, well, I have. But having tested other tools, there is nothing that compares to Grammarly. They have a huge moat - the amount of people that have been using it for years and years. With that, their models are getting better and better. Plus, their seamless integration with browsers, MS Office, etc, makes it a no-brainer for improving your grammar.

• Development

  GitHub Copilot. If you are really into development, then Github Copilot is the best tool you can use to enhance your workflow. Based upon every GitHub repository, the knowledge Github Copilot has is immense. If you are looking to work on a side project, then Chat GPT with the right prompts is fine as well.

• Resume Builder

  Resume.ai. If you are looking to change jobs, then you know how difficult it can be, to write a relevant resume, in the right format, using the right keywords for each role. That is where Resume.ai excels. With it, you can use professional field-tested resume templates that follow the exact ‘resume rules’ employers look for.

• Product photography

  Magic Studio will help you create amazing product photos for your online store. It can remove the background and add other objects to make a professional photo of your product within seconds.

News:

Bing Chat is 6 months old:

Bing's AI feature has reached its six-month milestone, and Microsoft is gearing up to expand its horizons. Bing Chat will now be accessible across all browsers, not just confined to Edge, and this includes mobile browsers as well. However, Microsoft isn't neglecting Edge. When using Bing AI on browsers other than Edge, users will face stricter limitations, such as a cap of 5 messages compared to Edge's 30, and a maximum response length of 2000 characters, as opposed to 3000 in Edge.

Zoom can now train its AI using some customer data:

Zoom has introduced a new policy where it can utilize certain customer data to train its AI, but only with the customer's permission. The catch is that when customers activate Zoom's generative AI features, they must agree to a consent form that permits Zoom to use their individual data for "training purposes."

Zoom asserts that this is solely to enhance the efficiency and precision of their generative AI services, and assures that individual data will not be used to train any third-party models. However, the situation remains somewhat unclear due to the absence of a straightforward opt-out choice.

Watch this:

• Build GPT from Scratch

In this video, Andrej Karpathy builds GPT from Scratch, in code. Very fascinating, if you have 2hrs to spare. Andrej was the Sr. Director of AI at Tesla and has just joined OpenAI.

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