đź‘‹ Intro to AI

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Jordan Wade
April 04, 2023

Hey there! Welcome to The Breakdown, where we bring you the latest in tech and AI news, in a way that's easy to understand and navigate. No more complicated jargon, just the information you need to stay in the loop. Join our community of tech enthusiasts today!

🤝 Meet the Players.

Let’s kick things off with a few of the current big players in AI applications.

You will hear the term "Large Language Model" (LLM) used to describe ChatGPT. Put simply, it is a chat bot that you can ask pretty much anything and get an answer. If I were to explain it to my mom, I would just say it's like Alexa on steroids without any ads. Try it out, it has a free version! Oh, and a piece of advice: be super descriptive in your question to get better results.

This is currently my favorite AI application! MidJourney is what is called a Generative Model or "text-to-image" tool. You describe or "prompt" what you want to see, like "a woman riveter standing next to a plane illustration from World War II," and the AI generates it. You can also mess around with it yourself with a free trial.

Note: This image is 2 months old, and MidJourney has since gotten WAY better!

Audio AI is here, for better or worse. ElevenLabs has developed an application that can clone a person’s voice. It has already been used to scam people out of money. Eight senior citizens in Canada lost a combined $200,000 from a scammer impersonating a relative. It can also emulate famous music artists to create AI-generated music. A couple of videos of Jay-Z and Kayne West AI-generated songs have gone viral.

🌎 Around the Web.

IndieHackers, bootstrappers, and one-person side hustles are going crazy developing new products and apps in the AI space. Here are a few over the last couple of months that caught my eye.

HeadshotPro: Professional corporate headshots for remote teams.

Professional corporate headshots made easy! Upload photos, pick style & receive 120+ generated headshots. Perfect for you or your team.

www.headshotpro.com

TypingMind — A better UI for ChatGPT

Use ChatGPT with enhanced features like chat history search, folders, integrations, prompt library, etc.

www.typingmind.com

Synthetic Photo Studio by AI - Photo AI

The first Synthetic Photo Studio by AI, generate photorealistic images of yourself or models with different outfits, lighting, in any setting anywhere in the world. Imitate photos you like with the copycat feature. Stop paying for expensive photo shoots and do it yourself at home.

photoai.com

🛠️ The Best Open Source Tools.

If you are a little technically inclined, you can run something similar to ChatGPT on your computer using this repository on GitHub.

GitHub - nomic-ai/gpt4all: gpt4all: a chatbot trained on a massive collection of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue

gpt4all: a chatbot trained on a massive collection of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue - GitHub - nomic-ai/gpt4all: gpt4all: a chatbot trained on a massive collection of cl...

github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all

🎧 Listen up!

Interested in deep technical discussions about AI? "Last Week in AI" is a great resource.

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