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 …
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 …
This is another big one - I'm covering video generators. There are quite a few that people are talking about, and most of them aren't as easily accessible as the LLMs and image generators. Some have free usage tiers, but the generation speed is slow (as in hours to days), while others will give you …
The image generators are improving rapidly, and more are appearing all the time. Much like the LLMs, there are some tools that are built from scratch, and others which sit on top of others, with some fine tuning applied. The ones listed below are all 'from scratch' versions. All the image generations tool other than …
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 …
Quick caveat before diving in. This area of tech is moving insanely fast and while I'm aiming to stick to the foundations here, if you're reading this post more than a month after it was published, check the details, things could be out of date. So, first up. LLM stands for Large Language Model, and …
AI for Squishy Humans 