AI Tools You’ll Use Everyday (And How To Use Them)

not a day goes by that I don't get ask the question what AI tools do you actually use well first of all I'm probably the worst person to ask that question because I literally test them all when somebody tells me about a new AI tool I go and play around with it and test it so I literally use all of them but there's just a handful that I find myself using pretty much every single day and that's what this video is going to be I'm going to show you the tools that I use that leverage AI that I'm pretty much using every single day number one for for me is Claude I'm in Claude constantly literally this is always open I always have a Claude tab open on my dashboard if I come over to my sidebar here and click on view all under recents you can see that I'm pretty much constantly having conversations with Claude all the time every single day last message 1 hour ago previous to that 17 hours ago 2 days ago 2 days ago 2 days ago 3 days ago 3 days ago 3 days ago 3 days ago 3 days ago and so on I'm using it constantly most of what I'm doing these days is leveraging the projects feature if you're familiar with chat GPT they have a functionality called gpts where you can give it custom instructions and add additional information to it and then each custom GPT will sort of be more focused on that single task you're trying to do that's kind of what projects do so I have 10 different projects in here and I pretty much use all of these projects and I'm going to make a separate video that goes through each of these projects how they're set up how I use them and give you some other ideas for projects in your own business but here's a quick overview so I've got an article cleanup project here and this is whenever I make my Friday news videos I give it a long list of all of the websites I'm going to share and then it sort of organizes and cleans up all of those articles for me it cleans up the URL it cleans up the title so that way I can copy and paste into the description in fact here let me just show you this is my most recent Friday news video I posted in a giant list of URLs that I was going to be talking about you can see how messy and ugly that looks and what it did was it spit out a clean version open AI strawberry Ai and then the URL Nvidia open AI funding and then the URL so it just cleans up all of the URLs and then I can copy and paste what this outputs into my YouTube description so all the links of everything I talked about are there and clean and easy to read I also have a YouTube title generator I feed it a video concept and get ideas for potential titles literally what I'll typically do is I'll record a video get that video transcribed throw the transcription into the YouTube title generator and it will come up with a bunch of titles for me I was making a video about Runway gen 3 I uploaded my transcript you can see some of the titles it suggested this AI makes insane videos in seconds Runway gen 3 the future of video is here Etc I have an ad integration writer so when I do sponsorships on my YouTube videos a lot of times the script that I'm reading to explain the sponsorship was written by this ad integration writer I get a brief basically a summary of what the sponsor wants me to talk about I plug the brief into the integration writer Claude writes the integration for me now pretty much all of this stuff I kind of clean it up sometimes it's not perfectly to my voice so I will reword it a little bit when I'm actually reciting it on video but for the most part it gives me a really clean almost ready to use rough draft this second brain project is actually a coding project that I've been working on that'll be a future video where I'll dive into it I have a YouTube consultant where I uploaded a whole bunch of blog posts and transcripts from videos and things like that that talk about how to be better at growing a YouTube channel I fed that all into the project and now I sit around from time to time and have conversations about how to grow on YouTube I have my flux image prompt Optimizer this is actually a project I made on camera in one of my previous Flux Videos I plug in a real basic prompt it gives me a much better more optimized prompt for flux an audio journal app once again this is a coding project I'm working on which will be in a future video I've got my new summarizer you can I input a PDF article or transcript and get what I need to know out of it so for example I uploaded an article about an AI powered solar energy breakthrough it gave me a summary it gave me a breakdown of what makes it novel and interesting and then it gave me some analogies that I can use to better explain on video what that news article is about a lot of times when I'm explaining things on videos I'll run through a CLA first to try to find some good analogies so that I can share it and teach it in a way that hopefully will be easy to understand and then I've got two shorts writers one is for tutorial video so if I'm going to write a short like 60 seconds or less that explains how to do something I can plug in the longer form tutorial or type up my explanation of how to do something and it will rewrite it into a short that is 60 seconds or less here's one where I uploaded a tutorial on how to turn screenshots into functioning apps with Claud and then we can see here it wrote a 60-second script on how to do that process and then I have my shorts WR which is probably the one I use the most I uploaded a ton of different shorts transcripts that I really really liked and then in the custom instructions I told it to create video scripts that will be 1 minute or less in the style of the scripts in the project knowledge so basically these are all scripts that I really really like I give it some information about a video that I want to produce and then it writes me a script in the style of all of my favorite videos over here so that I can then turn around and make a short and I use this one a lot so Claude my number one most used AI to in fact like I mentioned I'm going to do a full breakdown on all the ways I use Claud it's pretty much fully replaced chat GPT for me I have nothing against chat GPT I just like the interface and the results I get from Claude a little bit better right now now I'm not super loyal to Claude if chat GPT improves at some point I might switch back I have no loyalty to Claude or chat GPT or any of these platforms whatever one gives me the best result is the one I'm going to use right now it's clad clad does have one major downfall and and that is that it's not able to search the internet for me so when I have a question that I want answered that requires more upto-date data where it needs to search the internet well in those scenarios I use perplexity I do have a perplexity PR membership I probably should have also mentioned that my cloud membership is also a pro membership but I use perplexity constantly in fact I even changed my Google Chrome bar up here so that if I search something it searches perplexity by default so if I was to come up to Chrome up here you can see it's got the perplexity logo when the URL bar is blank and I can literally ask you know how far is Mars from the Earth right now and when I type into the search bar it actually opens perplexity by default instead of chrome I get a quick answer here and it gives me everything I need to know now if you want to add this to your own Chrome pretty simple go up to the three dots up here come down to your settings over on the left side barar you've got search engine and then under search engine you you can click this little change button and select perplexity now if perplexity isn't on this list you might need to click this little button to manage search engines and site search down under inactive shortcuts down here open this up and search until you find perplexity I've already added it but when you find perplexity go ahead and click activate and then up here you just click the three dots and then you would set perplexity as your default that will change it so it automatically searches perplexity whenever you type something into your Chrome bar now one thing that perplexity has really enabled me to do is whenever I have any random thought I open up perplexity and I actually use the mobile app for perplexity quite a bit as well but anytime I have any sort of random thought I type it into perplexity it's actually gotten to a point where it's pretty ridiculous how often I just have a random thought and then go ask perplexity so if I look at some of my search history I was asking questions about the otter app I randomly thought I remember when magnets used to scrw up computers does it still do that do magnets have any impact on Modern laptops or solid state drives I heard rumors that Stan Kony is building a new stadium in San Diego so I asked we were watching a Padre game and my wife asked does Min Machado have kids I was like I don't know let me ask perplexity so I asked perplexity I started taking Elderberry for immunity I asked what of the side effects and then I started going down this like side effects Rabbit Hole I ran into an issue with YouTube shorts so I asked perplexity I ran into an issue with my mouse so I asked perplexity and as you can see whenever I have a random question I pop it into perplexity and get an answer I use it constantly so when I need AI to sort of do the work for me and help me write a rough draft for a script or clean up articles or things like that CLA is my go-to when I have random questions that I just want that question answered perplexity is my go-to next up for me is this tool feedle now feedle for the most part is a pretty simple RSS feed reader if you have blogs or news websites that you read constantly you can come to this site add the RSS feed to the site basically you just plug in the URL here and it will find the RSS feed for that website whenever a new post gets published to that website it updates it in feedle but feedle recently added a new feature called Leo and if I look on my left sidebar here you can see a little AI box that says create AI feed and in here it's basically like a advanced version of Google Alerts so instead of plugging in websites or blogs that you want to make sure you see every post from you put in to ipcs so I can put in artificial intelligence machine learning diffusion models things like that that I pay a lot of attention to and anytime that stuff pops up it shows it in my little AI web alerts tab here now I've already reviewed my AI web alerts tab for the day and I'm all caught up let me uncheck this so it'll show you everything that's popped up now not everything it shows is AI related sometimes it'll just be like the article mentioned AI somewhere in it but the majority of the news isn't related to AI but we can see like ant International and Doc are improving Financial inclusion in Brazil with Aid Drven Credit Tech before mid Journey there was night Cafe and it's still kicking sign or veto what's next for California's AI disaster Bill sb147 and these are all websites that I wouldn't normally just be subscribed to like I'm not subscribed to the fintech times I'm not subscribed to coin Spectre but because I have the keywords related to AI in there it surfaces those posts even though I'm not specific speically subscribe to that blog now how is that different than a Google alert well over time I can actually train this feed to show me more or less of what I want to see for example Oasis ticketing chaos prompts probes into Dynamic pricing not super relevant to what I'm looking for so I can actually click this button that says less like this and over time it will train your feed to show you less of what you don't want and more of what you do want so you can constantly train this Feedly AI bot to just show you more and more of the news articles that you actually want to see anybody who asks me how do you stay so on top of the AI news how do you have your finger on the poll of the latest tools and products and news and launches and stuff this is it between fely that uncovers a whole bunch of news for me and having a really good Twitter list of people on Twitter that talk about AI those are the two places I pretty much find all of my AI news they also have a little AI button up here synthesize articles or extract data with AI actions I can click this and get executive summaries and things like that actually haven't played with that feature too much to be honest I mostly just kind of scroll my feed every morning to see what news that's come out that I might have missed I update the Future tools News website and I pretty much move on with my day after sort of reading the articles that I think are relevant next up we have my mind so I used to use Evernote a lot I would come across articles online and I would throw them in Evernote I'd come across YouTube videos and I would like make a new document in Evernote and save the URL there cuz Evernote didn't save videos and I just tried to throw everything into evernote but over time it got to a point where I would throw so much stuff in there it was really hard to surface old things that I've thrown in Evernote then I came across my mind it's like if you took Evernote and Pinterest and the two had a baby and then you sprinkled some AI on top that's my mind so basically I've got this little plus button up in my Chrome dashboard I've also got my mind installed on my phone so when I come across a YouTube video or a news article or a really cool tool that I want to revisit or anything like that I click the my mind button either in my Chrome browser or on the actual app on my phone and it saves it into my mind and it does it in this like Pinterest looking fashion where it's a whole bunch of like squares with the thing that you saved now what's cool about this is it's really easy to find what you're looking for you've got this giant search my mind at the top so let's say I'm doing a video about stable diffusion well what's all the stuff I've saved recently related to stable diffusion I can type stable diffusion and it will pull up any of the stuff I've recently saved related to stable diffusion let's say I'm doing a video about clad promps I can type in clad and it will pull up all of the stuff I've saved recently related to clad it's pretty handy to resurface stuff like that quickly but other than that it's also got AI tagging and an AI tldr so if I click on this one that I saved earlier you can see the title of it is California Bill set to ban civit AI hugging face etc etc and then we've got a little TLD r that AI wrote up for us it says proposed California Bill seeks to ban AI image generation systems that fail to implement extensive water marking requirements critics argue the bill is technically infeasible and represents an overreach etc etc and then also it used AI to add these mind tags here so it added the tag webpage open source policy technology image generation California AI regulation Etc and if I want to dig into more legislation let's say I'm going to make a video about this California bill and maybe I want to mention other legislation that's happening I can click on this legislation tag and it will show me other things that I've saved related to legislation or let's say I'm making a video about image generators I can click on this image generation tag and it will show me other recent stuff that I tagged with image generation so it's just a really great tool to resurface stuff that you've come across online again what it can be tweets it can be YouTube videos it can be blog posts it could be GitHub repositories I save a lot of those here it can be products a lot of times I'll see an ad on Instagram and I'm like that actually looks like an interesting product I'm not going to buy it right now but I'm going to revisit it I'll save it to my mind so it pops up to the top of my feed later super helpful for people that just want to like digitally hoard information but don't want to spend the time to organize it because it does all the organization for me all right next up let's talk about some of the AI image generation that I do if you look at my YouTube channel you'll notice that pretty much all of my popular videos use AI generated images of my face or just you know AI generated images in general it sort of become one of my YouTube thumbnail calling cards I guess and at the moment my favorite AI image generation tool is actually still Leonardo now I did a whole video a couple weeks ago where I broke down the comparison of all the different AI image generation tools and when I put them all side by side I kind of mentioned that aesthetically for me I just really like the color palettes and the contrast and the quality that I tend to get out of Leonardo the most now it may not be the absolute most realistic that's available on the market right now but it really fits the style that I'm going for when I'm trying to create my thumbnails and things like that full disclosure I am an adviser for Leonardo but I do use all of the image generation platforms and at the moment the Leonardo Phoenix model is my current favorite model to use I still use flux sometimes I still use mid Journey sometimes I still use Dolly 3 sometimes but the Phoenix models my main go-to in fact if I look at my image creation tab here you can see a lot of the thumbnails that I've released lately you'll see the initial concept here they don't have my face in them yet but they have the concept before I swapped my face out and you might even recognize some of these as some of the thumbnails that I've used in the past you know with just my face swapped in instead of some of these initial images specifically when I'm using Leonardo and I go to image creation over here I always make sure it's preset to Leonardo Phoenix this is the model that I think is just like perfect they have some really cool presets over here as well my favorite presets to use I really like the Moody preset it creates some really cool contrasts I also really like the ray traced one it gives these images like this sort of computer generated look I also really like to use the Cinematic preset a lot so those are kind of the presets that I'll go between a lot of times you'll see me you of a prompt like you know a man standing in a garden holding a microphone with strawberries behind them and then I'll go and generate it with Moody you can see right here these ones are the Moody preset and then down here you can see I'll generate the same prompt but with Ray traced and then I'll try it with creative and then 3D render and so a lot of times I'll just use the exact same prompt and I'll just flip through different presets to get a whole bunch of different variations and then I'll pick a couple of those to split test my thumbnails on YouTube I'll give an example here let's do a white man on stage with a short brown beard pulling open a curtain to reveal a treasure chest I always put some of this extra stuff in there so that the face comes out as close to mine as possible if I'm going to do a face swap on it I've noticed if I just put a and well I might get a skin color that isn't you know matching my skin color so let's go ahead and generate this I have it preset at Moody here and here's a pretty decent image that I can use it's a little grainy it's not perfect but I'll show you another tool that I used to fix some of that in a minute so let's go ahead and download this image and the reason I wanted to download this image is because I wanted to talk about the next tool that I still really love to use now if you go all the way back like 2 and a half years ago on this YouTube channel some of the earliest AI videos that that I were making was around using stable diffusion and automatic 1111 to this day I still use this tool constantly now I mostly use this tool just to do a face swap I created a fine-tuned stable diffusion model that actually has my face trained into it so I can generate images with my face that's a little bit more complex of a topic that I'm going to get into in this video but I did make a full tutorial breakdown of actually how I trained my face into the AI to do that but essentially the way I do that is I use automatic installed locally on my computer this isn't actually a website I downloaded it installed on my computer I do have tutorials on how to do that as well and I go to the image to image tab here and under these secondary tabs here I'll select in paint and let's just pull over that image that we just generated inside of Leonardo here what I like to do when I bring one of these images in is I like to see what stable diffusion thinks this image is first so I click interrogate clip and I let stable diffusion actually decide what this clip looks like so it came up with a standing behind a chest of gold in front of a curtain stage with a spotlight on it and a bunch of extra stuff here and then also have a bunch of negative prompts that I like to put in too ugly disfigured cut off cropped etc etc and then what I'll do is I'll use this little masking feature here and then just mask the face so let's just mask off the face right here I'm going to have it replace it with my face so my little code to do that is actually Dominic Cooper person weird I know I explain why it's like that in the tutorial about training your face then under resize mode I like to use just resize lat and upscale and then under in paint area I like to select only mask because we only want it to change out the area that I masked sampling steps I like to set it at 40 but this is something that you can experiment with batch size I always like to have it generate four variations for me Den noising strength I usually bring down to about7 but it's something I experiment with CFG scale I usually bring it up to about 7. 5 or 8 CF G scale is kind of how closely it's going to follow your prompt instructions up here the noising strength is essentially how close to the original image it's going to try to keep it so you're constantly trying to balance those two to get the ideal image so you can just kind of play with those until you get what you're looking for these are the settings that typically work the best for me and then if I generate an image here you can see it made some variations where it is actually me in the image for one of the reasons it made me look like that in one of them and this one it made me bald for some reason but this one's not too bad and that one's not too bad either usually I'll do a few rolls until I get it right so now we have this variation this variation this variation and this variation I think this one looks pretty decent so I'll go ahead and save this image and this is the beginning of like how I would make a thumbnail but like I mentioned it's a little Pixy a little grainy it's not great quality so the next tool that I use constantly is this tool topaz Labs their topaz photo AI this is an upscaler that denoises it sharpens s it upscales it recovers faces removes objects does all sorts of cool stuff it is a paid product you pay $200 one time and then you pretty much have it for life you don't have to pay any monthly fees or anything like that but it's pretty cool I will simply grab the image that I just created with my face on it and drag it in here you can see here's the original here's the new one it zooms in so we can kind of see how it cleans it up a little bit and if you look at the face here's what the face looked like in the original when it zoomed in very Pixy here's what the upscaled version looks like a little bit better it kind of screwed with the fingers a little bit but other than that it pretty much improved the quality pretty dramatically especially when you start zooming in and looking closely I'll go ahead and save this image and there's another upscaler I do like to use from time to time called ca. a this one does a pretty decent job but it often makes my face look like a completely different person if I go to ca.

aome and click on enhancer this one actually will hallucinate a little extra into the image so it will actually change the look of the image a little bit so if I pull in my original sort of pixelated image here and upload it and then come over to the right and click enhance we can see here's what the original image looked like and when I pull this over here's what the enhanced image looks like you can see it just makes me look like a different person most of the time which is why I often don't use this one cuz I kind of want my face to still look like me but it does an okay job you can see some of the other images I've previously done in here where here's what the original looked like here's where the upgraded one looks like eh you you can see it put some like more gaps in my teeth here's another one that you might have seen the thumbnail of there's the original there's the enhanced version I actually thought the enhanced version was good enough so I used it and I have all sorts of examples of where I've used Kaaya to sort of slightly improve the image here's another one that this was the original here's the upgraded one I actually thought the upgraded one was good enough so I used this upgraded version as well but it always makes my face look slightly different than reality now another tool that I want to talk about that has legitimately changed a lot of my process with YouTube isso I no longer have to go and find stock music to use behind my videos I can just generate music with sunno and another thing I like to do as well is if I'm doing some sort of Montage in my video and maybe I'm not speaking throughout that Montage I like to make a song that explains what's happening during that Montage because I think it's just sort of a funny touch to have a song going that's like a poppy song that you want to Bob your head to but the song is also explaining what you're seeing in the Montage I always thought that was pretty fun like so for for example I was making a video with Gen 3 and I was waiting for Gen 3 to process it and I'm like I'm going to put some music over this while it's actually processing it and so it made this song [Applause] Here No Light the second fight so much you get the idea I was able to put this like heavy metal song over the Montage of me waiting for Gen 3 to process it just adds this little like fun more entertaining touch to some of the videos also sunno is just fun I've had days where like my wife and kids are hanging out in my office with me and we're just throwing ideas atso for silly songs you can see up here I have 10 pages of songs that I've generated in here just because I'll get in here and play around with it next up is otter and I've been using otter more and more when I go to conferences otter itself actually has an iPhone app where you can open up the outer app press record set it in front of you and it will record the presentation that's going on it will record all the audio from the presentation and then when it's done you can just go and read a summary so you don't actually have to sit there while you're in one of these conferences or presentations anymore you can just open up otter set it next to you let it record the presentation and when you're done get bullet points of exactly what was talked about in that presentation right so I was at this Cisco live press session here called AI humanity and the future of work and you can see here it basically wrote me a summary of the entire presentation and gave me an outline of all of the various things that were talked about in the presentation so I was literally able to kind of check out I was just hanging out in there I was watching I was paying attention but I didn't have to sit and take notes because I had my otter assistant taking notes for me now I've actually improved this process a little bit I actually have an external recorder now that I use and I'll record with this external recorder that way I can still be doing stuff on my phone while the presentation's going and then otter has like this import feature where you can go and import the audio recording from your recorder and it will do the same thing it will summarize it and give you bullets and all that kind of stuff so now I can sit there and scroll Twitter or whatever while I'm watching a presentation at one of these conferences while my audio recorder records the whole thing at the end of the day I take the MP3 off my audio recorder import it into OT and I have a summary of notes from that presentation pretty gamechanging and finally this is a newer one that I started using it's called spotter labs this one's probably only going to be relevant if you have a YouTube channel yourself but it's pretty cool it's an AI tool that helps you spot Trends it helps you with ideas helps you with titles for your videos helps you with thumbnails all sorts of really really cool stuff so if I go to like Trend spotter it'll actually look at the videos that your audience also watched so that you can try to find Trends of what people in your Niche might already be watching right here's Peter diamandis did an interview with a mod MTO and it's got 34. 6 times the normal views of one of Peter diamand's normal videos here's one from a channel called cyber Jungle which I've not heard of that channel before but we can see they did one about flux plus luras and it's 13. 1 times bigger than the majority of the videos they post on their channel it's got 107,000 views on it here's one from Matthew Burman AI uncovered I can look through this to try to find ideas for videos to kind of make my own version of I really really like the thumbnail explo this one to me is really cool so it says describe a video concept or thumbnail so let's say I want to make a video about pulling back the curtain on my favorite AI tools then click generate and it's actually going to come up with some thumbnail Concepts now you're probably not going to want to use the exact image that it creates but it gives you a concept that then you can go generate with one of the other AI image generators and this actually looks at your YouTube thumbnails already to see what kind of thumbnails work and it will give you ideas four similar thumbnails like it just did here so it gave me four thumbnail ideas and notice how all of them are a dude with a dark beard well it knows what I look like right I can click refresh all thumbnails it's going to generate a handful more I actually really like this concept down here I'm probably going to roll with something pretty similar actually for my YouTube thumbnail but now that YouTube allows you to split test three I can keep on generating more and more and more until I have three good ideas make all three of those thumbnails put them on YouTube so those are the tools that have legitimately changed my life that use AI these are the tools that I'm using every single day now so when that question comes up of do you actually use AI yourself or did you just talk about it yeah I mean my business is really really run on AI I use a lot of AI it helps me come up with ideas for videos it helps me come up with scripts it helps me come up with thumbnails it helps me come up with the idea for the thumbnails it helps me transcribe presentations that I'm sitting in it helps me organize my links that I put in the description of my videos I am trying to automate as much of what I do with AI as possible the only thing I don't want to automate is sort of my voice my opinion the things that I find interesting to share with you that's never going to be automated but when it comes to helping me outline and find analogies when it comes to helping me with ideas for thumbnails helping with ideas for titles all of that I use AI to help me sort of hone in on what's going to work the best to get the most amount of views and the most amount of attention on my channel there you have it that is my AI marketing stack that I am constantly using if you like 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