Every single week, I try to test out just about every single AI tool that gets released, and this week I wanted to share with you seven that I recently found that I think you're going to find very valuable. Now, the first one on the list is from Google; it's called Google Illuminate. Now, this is very similar to another function that you'll find inside of another app called Notebook LM.
This is from Google, and it's one of their most popular tools in the world of AI, so if you haven't used Notebook LM, I'll just briefly show you what that is. Now, with Notebook LM at notebooklm. google.
com, you can add all kinds of sources—your own information, your own research, your own knowledge base—and then you can have an AI-based chat conversation with all your sources. One of the most interesting features inside of Notebook LM is this thing called Audio Overview, where it takes all that information and documentation and creates a podcast. This was an 8-minute podcast that it created for me, and I made a different video all about Notebook LM and this Audio Overview, so I'll link that below because this is not a Notebook LM video.
However, this Audio Overview function—well, Google decided to roll that out in a whole different app. I'll show you that now. By the way, if you go to labs.
google. com, this is where Google is testing out all kinds of new AI apps. I checked this website, and Google LM was first released here.
They have all kinds of different tools that they're testing out, but this one is called Illuminate. Let me go ahead and show you this. Google Illuminate transforms your content into engaging AI-generated audio discussions between two different people.
It uses the same voices that are found inside of Notebook LM. Now, down here, they also have a library. I'll just press play on one just so you see what it sounds like.
Ready? "To break down some research, this paper, 'Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024,' explores the rapid advancements and growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in our world. " I'm ready!
It's absolutely incredible how fast AI is evolving to create those audio overviews. On this page, you have to search for a topic or paste a PDF URL. Well, a huge limitation right now is that you can't upload your own PDFs, so I'm hoping they roll that out.
Again, this is a very beta version—actually, an experimental version of this. This is kind of before beta, but it says those PDFs have to come from this link right here. If I go to this website, they have it on all kinds of different topics, or you could type in a topic and press enter here, and it's going to show you all kinds of topics from which you could pull in these PDFs.
So, let me just look up this one, and this one right here. I'll select these two, I'll add those as my sources, and then over here, it says "Created discussion tailored for you. " You could change your audience.
So, the general audience is what you picked by default, but you could change that and type in your own audiences with a longer duration. It says you could do medium, longer, and quick, which is less than 5 minutes. The tone should be friendly, so let me change this to medium, and then you can go ahead and press generate from here.
Now, this took about a minute to create. It's a 6-minute medium-length piece. Let me go ahead and press play.
"Welcome to our discussion today. We'll be delving into two fascinating papers that explore the philosophical underpinnings of physics and the nature of physical laws. " Then, you could press this hand signal right here, and it opens up this Q&A where you could ask any questions about those papers.
So, a fantastic tool, except I really hope they add the option to upload your own documents, like you could do inside of Notebook LM, but it's already a pretty cool tool if you find the right research papers to create these audio discussions. Now, the next one is called Napkin AI. The website is napkin.
ai, and this will help you turn any type of text prompt into very interesting visuals that you could use inside of PowerPoint presentations—AI-powered presentations. It's really easy to use, and they have a completely free plan available as well. With Napkin AI, you just have to paste any type of content that you want to turn into a diagram or visual element, or you could create by using a text prompt.
The AI actually does two things: it writes you an entire blog post if you want to use this blog post, but I want to create this visual element right here, so I'm going to go ahead and click this. It's going to create visual elements, and look how nice this looks! This kind of graphic would take quite a while to create, and these are other alternatives to it too.
So, you just hover over each one, right? If you like any of these, go ahead and click it, and it will save it like this. If you want to download it, let's say I don't want to use this post at all.
I'm going to go ahead and download it as a PNG, and if I want to turn any other parts of this into a visual, I could just select that portion of it. Here's some other options that we have; these are really nice. Let me see what other styles we get out of this one.
Oh, very. . .
Very cool! Select that again, download this too, and this brings me to the third tool here, which is called Gamma. Gamma has been covered multiple times; it's the best AI tool right now for creating presentations, an alternative to things like PowerPoint.
You can just paste text, generate just using a single line of text, or import any type of file. I'll show you this one for now. I'm going to create a presentation for hiring the right people with similar content.
This is the number of cards: if you have the paid version, you can get more cards, but with the free version, you're going to be limited on how many cards you can have. Cards are kind of like slides. Here's the outline.
I'm going to press Continue, and I'm going to choose a theme. Let me just choose this theme right here, and this is what it's going to look like. I'm going to press Generate just to show you the power of Gamma; it's one of the most mind-blowing AI tools.
Look at this! It's creating the entire presentation here in real time. I'm not editing this right now; it’s writing all the copy that was from one line of text here, and it's going to even create these images for us.
These are AI-generated; you could switch these with your own. This looks kind of funny. If you want to change any of these with any of the things you made inside of Napkin AI, you'll just have to select that image here.
I'm going to remove this one. I'll go ahead and click over here to upload, and then we can upload our own like this. I'm going to replace that image over here.
Let me close this up, and I could click this; this will fit the image. So, combining Napkin and Gamma, you could get some crazy powerful presentations. I use this all the time!
I'm using it right now to create a presentation on the impact of AI in marketing. Then you could go ahead to Present Mode right here, and it will present it just like this. You could go through the entire presentation slide by slide.
Some of these have different graphics to them; really easy to create these, editable just like any PowerPoint document. Now, before I jump into the next one, let me also introduce you to Flow. This is from a company called Speechmatics; they're the sponsor for today's video.
They've been leading the speech technology space for over a decade now, and Flow is a brand-new conversational AI API tool. This is completely different than other models; even the best models from OpenAI can't keep up with some of the things that Flow can do. Let me show you a quick demo, and then I'll show you a couple of videos they have on how this is really different than anything that's available right now.
"Hello there! How's it going? " "Hey, it's going good right now.
What are you up to? " "Oh, just here to chat with you! Anything exciting happening today?
" "Yeah, I'm making a YouTube video right now about some top AI tools. " "That sounds interesting! What kind of AI tools are you featuring?
" "Uh, you know, just things about creating real-time voice conversations right now. " "Ah, brilliant! Real-time voice tech is fascinating.
Are you focusing on any specific applications? " "Okay, well, I'm focusing on Flow right now. Now, there are three things that really set Flow apart, especially if you're using the API to build any type of app using voice.
One of them, they compared OpenAI—OpenAI obviously behind ChatGPT, one of the leading AI platforms out there—versus Flow, and this is really interesting. " So, it could actually recognize different speakers using their voice, and in this demo right here, I'll go ahead and link this below. OpenAI does not get this right, so the second time they come around, it doesn't get it right, but when they use Flow, it remembers everyone by name, and then when they talk again, it knows who's speaking.
OpenAI failed in this test. Now, they also built this to understand different accents and dialects, something the other models have tested out but completely struggled with. So, this is really going to make it accessible to a wider audience, and this one was one of my favorite options.
In this example, when two people were talking in the background with OpenAI, it just kept getting interrupted; it kept pausing itself. But then, when they used Flow to do the exact same thing, it ignored the background conversation, making it a whole lot more useful, especially in a busy environment. Now, they have tons of demos you could see on their website that I'll go ahead and link below, and you could get started with their API and try it for free until the end of November.
The next one on my list is from a company called Haen that makes AI avatars. I covered this one a bunch on my channel too. This one is not a free tool, though there is a new option inside Haen called Generate Looks, and it's really interesting.
You could generate an AI avatar using multiple photos, generate from a single text prompt, or you could add motion to a photo avatar. In this case, I'm going to generate from a text prompt. Now, this is kind of a big upgrade because right now with Haen, you could clone yourself, and you have a library of avatars that they created that you could build.
But now you could describe by generating from a text prompt right here. So, I could type in a name, pick an age, choose a gender, and select an ethnicity, and then I could go ahead. And describe my avatar.
Okay, doctor in blue scrubs, hospital setting, smiling, short black hair. I could do full body, upper body, or just a face. I could choose an orientation; portraits are fine.
Let's generate. I got four; let me choose one here just to show you what it looks like. Okay, this looks really great!
It followed my prompt exactly, and then I could go ahead and take this to the AI Studio. The Haen AI Studio creates a portrait video, and over here I could type in my script, and then this avatar is going to read exactly what that is. As soon as I go ahead and submit this for a job, it will then render out an entire video.
Over here, let's talk about a simple habit that can make a big difference: drinking enough water. Did you know staying hydrated helps your body function better, keeps your skin looking fresh, and even boosts your energy levels? Okay, that's not bad, but this doctor is smiling way too much.
I think maybe a subtle smile would be something I would do in a follow-up prompt. Generate another image and then recreate another video. I could turn on the captions here – a really powerful way to create exactly what you want out of your character instead of using ones from the Haen library.
Now, there's also a brand-new large language model that somehow I missed; it came out about four or five weeks ago. This is called PixStrol, and this is a multimodal model, meaning it could understand images on top of understanding and writing text. This is from a company called Mistol, so you could use it on this website; it's totally free.
This is an open-source model; it's called Chat. Mol. Their website, and their best model available is called Mistol Large 2.
I really like this for reasoning; I like this for coding – it's a really great free open-source model. But PixStrol is the new model; this one understands images, and I'll just show you a demo. I'll upload a file.
This image depicts a group of people sitting around a long table in a modern professional setting. More details about the colors and so on, so anytime you need something where you need to extract text, this comes in handy for any multimodal type of use case with a large language model. So I use ChatGPT for things like this, but now you have it inside of a free and open-source model from the company Mistol.
Now, I'll finish up with an app that I've had on my phone for four years, but I use it a little bit differently now. This is called Utter. AI, and they released a brand-new feature inside of there called Utter AI Chat.
Now, before I show you Utter AI Chat, which is the new option, Utter AI is one of the best tools for work because it integrates with Slack, and it also integrates with Zoom, for example, or Microsoft Teams. So when you're having video conference calls, it will be your AI assistant inside of those calls. I use it for that already, but what's really nice is this new Utter AI Chat, and I'm using the completely free version of this, by the way.
Now, all your conversations from Zoom, Google Meet, and those Microsoft Teams calls go into this platform, this website. Then you could have a conversation directly here using the AI chat. I'll show you with this demo account.
So in this conversation, it created this action items list from that Zoom call, he created an outline, and pulled in the entire transcript of who's talking and exactly what they said. On the left side, I could say, "What did Lisa say about Utter? " and according to the transcript, Lisa said, "I started using Utter a few months ago, and it saved me a ton of time by taking manual notes.
" You could see all the different times Lisa mentioned Utter in this transcript; again, this is a demo transcript. So imagine having an AI-powered chat with your own Zoom meetings. This will join the meeting as a little AI assistant; it will then take the transcript, give you the action items, and summarize everything.
So all that is really good, but the ability now to chat with your own Zoom conversation, with your own Teams conversation – really a fantastic update! Great! Now, all the links are included in the description, including the link to try out Flow.
Thanks again to Speech Mic for sponsoring this video. I'll catch you on the next one!
