There are a lot of people getting a little antsy about other people (usually 'kids these days') using LLM and related tools to help them stop thinking. Frankly that doesn't sound like a great idea, and I don't think the issue is confined to 'the kids'. It's funny, since one of my favourite uses for …
Following on from the last post on Gemini Storybook, I took a look at RunwayML's Game World application. Think of it as a Choose Your Own Adventure Story, but with pictures. You need to be a RunwayML paid subscriber to be able to use the app, which is currently in beta. Note: if you're in …
Google's Gemini LLM has a new Gem, called Storybook. Before diving into that, Gems are custom versions of Gemini, designed to be particularly suited to one, small, given task or area. There's a career guide, a coding partner, a learning coach, and two experimental models; one for chess, and the other for stories. Jumping into …
With everyone going on about agentic AI and automation, I thought it might be good to take a look at a tool that creates these linked-together actions that isn't super-technical and complex. Glif is basically agentic AI for beginners and I really like it. You get 10 free credits per day, but they don't roll …
This is a tool I've yet to find any practical use for, but it's just so much fun!! Skybox is really for people making video games as its initial audience, and ripples out from there. This is a text to image generator, except the images are 360 degree views of worlds. You generally start by …
While most attention around AI video generation is on tools like Veo, Runway ML, and Sora, there's another tool you might find interesting to play with - InVideo ai. InVideo has two main product lines—InVideo AI (AI-powered video generation) and InVideo Studio (traditional template-based editing). Needless to say, it's the AI one I've been exploring, …
We've been through LLMs, Image Generators, looked at AI Video and explored AI voices, it's time to see what generative AI is doing with music. As you can imagine, this is a controversial area on the copyright and IP front, and one of the tools I'm showing you today did start out allowing you to …
This is one of the best uses of AI I've come across. To quote the creator, it's "a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult." It's free, it's simple, and it does what it says on the tin - for anyone who could …
This was the first tool I actually paid a subscription for. I had a PILE of classes and presentations and was very bored with PowerPoint. It took a bit of learning to work out how to adjust the level of control I had over the content (from pretty much none to control freak) but once …
Note: this is more of a useful-to-know-about tool than one you're likely to use every day. Of all the apps producing AI voices, including clones of existing voices, Eleven Labs is generally considered the best. To the point that Findaway Voices, Spotify's audio book platform, allows books narrated by ElevenLabs voices onto their system. Being …
AI for Squishy Humans 