These days, a lot of tools come out and claim
to be AI-powered. And I do my best to test as many as possible. But what I find a lot
of the time is that these are tools that are not that useful; just remarketed with the
AI buzzword on top now. So in today's video, I'll be showing you AI-powered tools that
are actually useful. How would I know? Because I use all of these regularly. None of these
are sponsored. I'm simply showing you what I actually find useful. But your time is valuable,
so let's get right into it. And I'll actually demo them too because that's
simply the best way to show these off. Let's go! Tool number one: Uberduck. So, as per
usual, I'll link all of these in the description. But what this does is generate text-to-speech.
Meaning, you can input text, and one of the voices is going to read it. Why this one is
particularly interesting is because it has been trained on a lot of relevant voices.
So, we could, for example, simulate Geralt of Rivia from Witcher here. Let's try it out.
"That is the last time you steal my voice." Alright, let's do someone else. How about
Morty here? "Oh geez. Come on, girl, let's show off some of these cases for this." Alright,
Morty, so one thing you can do is use it for your content creation. Just like I'm doing
now. And I do plan on using this more and more in the future. I think it's such a cool
feature to have some of these popular characters pop up in your videos, especially for short-form
videos. This is pure gold because you can hook people with a popular voice, right? How
does the copyright around the shakeout? Honestly, I don't know and I haven't been able to find
any good resources around this on the internet. So if you have an idea, leave a comment below.
But for now, I'll be using Morty as my co-pilot for this video and that is that. But before
we move on, let's talk about more use cases for this. Because you could take rapper's
voices and generate fake songs. Now, if you go over to YouTube and take a copyright-free
beat and that artist's style. You have a brand new song that you just wrote. And if you stack
ChatGPT on top of that, you all of a sudden have a recipe for how to create custom songs
by popular artists. Again, not sure how this is gonna play out on the copyright front.
Just something to be aware of. And honestly, up until now, personally, I have been coming
back to this as a form of entertainment. Trust me when you're with some people and you whip
out a sentence by Morty here and let him repeat a signature statement that maybe comes up
a lot. "Hit the like button...like now." This is guaranteed to make everyone's day better.
Moving on: Upscale.media. This super simple app does one thing. But it does it really
well: upscaling images. Now, why is this useful? Let me show you an example of where I actually
use this. So, if you go to my website, the home page has this Matrix-style character
in the front and he looks something like this. But this was the original output from Midjourney.
Alright, so this is what I got and all I did is retouch a few details with Photoshop. But
this picture doesn't have enough of a resolution, to put it as the background of your homepage.
It looked terrible. Because if I scale it up, it looked somewhat like this.
And after simply uploading it to the tool, this is what I got. Jesus Christ! Can we get
that again? Look, before-after, before-after. And this thing is free, isn't that amazing?
So, essentially, every time you finish a picture on Midjourney, you can go in here, upload
it, and it 4x's the quality of the image. Now, you can go ahead and print it, use it
as a background for your website. And it's going to hold up for a lot of use cases where
previously the output was simply not large enough. Simple yet extremely powerful. This
is another one that is fantastic to try with your friends. Because this app allows you
to talk to famous characters. So let's just pick Socrates: a legendary greek philosopher.
And now you can talk to him because this language model has been trained in his writing. So
let's just say: hey there! "Why, hello! Would you like to help us find out how much truth
is in a statement that beauty and goodness are in the same thing?" Oh man, that's deep.
Okay, Socrates, does not like small talk. Do you think beauty and goodness are in the
same thing? Well, there's only one answer to that: "When I look into your eyes, I'm
certain they are." Are we having a Tinder conversation with a greek philosopher right
now? "If my eyes are beautiful, are they beautiful because they are good, or are they good because
they are beautiful?" Well, as you can see, this can keep going. In my experience, I can
tell you he's really good at answering hard questions in his very own tone. And when you're
weighing what to do on a big decision, actually consulting Socrates might not be the worst
idea. And again, this might seem nothing but fun on the surface. But when you start using
it with people or for content creation, you could turn this into a real gold mine when
you cleverly plan out a series of shorts around this. "Show me something useful to almost
everybody." Alright, Morty, if you say so. It's time to explore one of my favorites here.
So, there are many alternatives to this, but the one I use is called Glasp. And what it
does is summarize YouTube videos. Let me show you. So, you simply install the extension,
and once you go to YouTube, you can go to any video, and at the top, a new box appears.
And here, you can see a written transcript of the video. Okay? And once we have ChatGPT
open, all you need to do is click this button: "view AI summary". And it's going to write
the prompt and copy the entire transcript for you. And in like 15 seconds, I have a
written summary of this entire 8-minute YouTube video. And look at me, just going to a one-and-a-half-hour-long
podcast, packed with information, hitting this one button, and getting a comprehensive
summary of everything? Are you serious? But here's what I learned from experience: the
longer the video, the less valuable the summary. After listening to this whole thing, this
absolutely does not do it justice. It's packed with information and it feels like every sentence
is valuable in there. So for that type of content, a summary is not the best approach.
But for a lot of casual conversations where you might care about one topic in there. This
tool is your friend, and again, it's completely free. And the best part about these tools
is there are so many of them, and new ones keep popping up every day. But how do you
keep up to date with that? Well, luckily, I have a weekly newsletter, where every week,
I feature one of these tools. Matter of fact, some of the apps in this video have been featured
in previous newsletters. So go sign up for free and get amazing apps like this into your
inbox once a week for free. And if you want to really level up your knowledge of AI, you'll
want to check out this video, because it shows you how to get more out of ChatGPT than most
people.
