AI Assistants Everywhere!
Zoom's AI can compose a chat for me?
Everybody Wants To Summarize Your Meetings
Were you not paying attention in that meeting? Were you running late and need to get caught up with a transcription of what’s happened so far? Do you need Zoom to compose a chat for you because you have nothing to say? Do you actually hate meetings and just surf the web and hope you don’t get caught? Don’t worry, everyone now has an AI tool for you. There are a ton of independent tools as well.
Slack can do it | Zoom can do it | Google can do it
Long Read of the Week: Maggie Appleton
I’ve spent the entire summer trying to get a better understanding of how Large language Models really work so I can bring this information to my students. If you’re still curious and think this might be relevant, you should read Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Large Language Models by Maggie Appleton. I’ve been a big fan of her writing for the last year and the is the best article I’ve read all summer.
Time: The 100 Most influential People in AI
Are you still using this newsletter to look like the smartest person at your work? Are you looking for new names to drop? If you’re a regular reader you’ll recognize some of the names on this list, but I was struck by how many people I had never heard of. I haven’t made it through all of them, but I found it really helpful in understanding the AI landscape as well as very inspiring. Time Magazine: AI 100.
AI Video Tool Roundup
I’ve also spent the entire summer trying to get a better understanding of which tools are being used for what I’ll loosely call “AI Generated Video”. If you’re curios about the current sate of the art and have 4 minutes. You should really watch this video.
UPDATE: That video is so “three weeks ago”. Both RunwayML and Pika have new features as of today: Read more
RunwayML’s Gen-2 now includes camera control features that allow selective zooming and control over camera movement. Pika Labs introduces image animation and a frame rate increase to 24 frames per second for smoother videos.
The Growth of AI is Probably Not Sustainable
Well, probably everything we’re doing in late stage capitalism is not sustainable, but I’ll save that for another time. Today I learned about the massive water usage that’s required to keep all these supercomputers cool when they’re building these large language models. Read about Microsoft’s Water Usage in Iowa
Free Webinar: Future Proof Your Career for the Age of AI
This is probably too late if you’re reading this in the afternoon, but if it’s still morning and you’re sitting around with nothing to do, you can check out this free webinar from Rob Howard. I get a lot of value out of his newsletter. Starts at 10 AM PST.
https://hdc.dev/webinar-future-proof/
All The Cool Kids Are Now Using Claude
Well, at least my 15 year old son is. I showed it to him after the second day of school, not for cheating on papers, but for providing context. I showed him how to use Claude as a tutor and to provide context or additional explanations for his homework assignments and was completely blown away. “Dad, this is amazing! This is so much faster than digging through the book to find the answer!”. He’s now using it every day. Read more about Claude here
The Really Cool Kids are Using Perplexity
If Claude and ChatGPT are not enough for you and you need more power or just like to be on the cutting edge, why not start using perplexity.ai as well?
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/how-to-use-perplexity-ai/
https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/perplexity-vs-bard-vs-chatgpt/
Hubspot Releases New Suite of AI Tools
If you work in Marketing you are probably already familiar with Hubspot. And if you you hire people like Graphic Designers and Copywriters, you’ll probably be doing it less often.
Our Generative AI tools will supercharge marketing, sales, and service teams. AI Assistants will work across the entire HubSpot platform to help teams draft content, create images, generate blog ideas, build websites, and develop reports—instantly.
For The Concerned Artists
Learn How to Protect Your Artistic Style from AI Mimicry!
Wednesday, Sept. 20th at 2:00pm ET
1:00pm CT // 12:00pm MT // 11:00am PT
Are you afraid your artistic style is being imitated by AI-art models like MidJourney or DALL-E? Tired of seeing it happen to others? Do you want to safeguard your creativity and maintain your individuality as an artist? Join us for an exciting webinar on Glaze, the revolutionary anti-AI learning tool developed by Professor Ben Zhao of The University of Chicago. Glaze is the ultimate solution
That’s it for this week. I had a ton more content I wanted to put in so be prepared for another MidWeek Midjourney roundup. Hope you’re enjoying these final days of summer and you’re sharing this newsletter with your friends. As always, if you’d like more info on a certain subject, send me a message.