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 …
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 …
AI for Squishy Humans 