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 …
The Stanford d-School is generally credited (along with IDEO) for creating Design Thinking as a discipline. This is where you think user-first, come up with ideas, try stuff, get feedback, learn as you go and iterate your way to a new solution. This is one of the best diagrams to illustrate design thinking, and is …
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 …
Taking a slight detour this week to dive into the recent MIT article with the very catchy name Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. Given this is a 200+ page academic article, I've enlisted some AI help, to find some quicker ways to absorb …
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 …
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm hopeless at actually digging into new tools and things if I don't have a purpose for them. So, in the interests of sparking some ideas on what you could use these tools for, here's something I find the LLMs hugely helpful for: planning projects. My preferred tool …
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 …
AI for Squishy Humans 