Infographics in NotebookLM NotebookLM has added Nano Banana to its construction toolkit and in addition to much better slides and videos (narrated slides), it now does seriously good infographics. I uploaded an article on the Taxonomy of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) Use in Marketing (you can get the pre-print pdf here). Below is the taxonomy …
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 …
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 …
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 …
This is one of those random Google side projects that just takes off (best known one is Gmail), possibly because it's the best thing since sliced bread for academic researchers and other people who need to chomp through a large amount of very specific information. The way Notebook LM works is that it uses an …
I ran a survey (mostly on LinkedIn) over the past few weeks to get a feel for where people go to learn about AI tools, and also what they think are going to be the important skill areas to be able to get on top of. The skill areas I asked about were: Understanding and …
Welcome to one of my favourite tools! Perplexity is basically a cross between Chat GPT and a standard Google search. You ask it a question, it checks a bunch of different websites, then gives you a summary of its findings. WITH the source websites listed, so you can check. Where this is most useful is …
AI for Squishy Humans 