I bounced into AI agent-land a little while ago with this image creator on Glif, but wanted to dig in a bit more and see how many ways I could pull together an automatic news update email. Preferably for free. News Agent 1 - ChatGPT (paid account $20 per month) So this is the most …
Returning to the experiments of Google Labs this week, I decided to use Whisk to create a few Christmas card options. The results are...variable... Whisk works by combining up to three images - one subject, one scene, and one style into a new, blended, concoction. You can choose to upload an image (you need to …
The company I work for closes down over Christmas/New Year and since I'm not going anywhere this year, I decided an at-home writing retreat might be fun You can find residential writing retreats in all sorts of amazing places, at any time of the year, covering time as short as a weekend, up to a …
I covered generative AI for music a while ago - looking at Suno, Udio, and Google Labs' MusicFX. As a quick memory refresher, MusicFX is the one that gave me two songs about a robot learning about AI, both in Japanese (there are links in the original post). Google Labs has another music tool, called …
Every few months, Ethan Mollick puts out a blog post on using AI - covering what's changed, what's useful, and what's confusing. If you haven't come across him, he's professor at Wharton, has a great blog called One Useful Thing, and wrote a book about living and working with AI, called Co-Intelligence. The latest of …
There's been a lot of chat and excitement about Gemini's new image generator - Nano Banana (where do they get these names from?). It's even available in Adobe Photoshop now. While it's a good image generator, its real strength is in editing. You can edit via text prompt and unlike previous models from various platforms, …
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 …
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 …
AI for Squishy Humans 