8 AI Tools I Wish I Tried Sooner

these are all AI tools that have been out for a while like a few months or longer they each sounded cool but I put off trying for whatever reason then when I eventually did I was blown away and regretted not trying them sooner this list goes all over the place from research to music to open source databases to content creation but they're all super useful and most of them are [Music] free napkin AI turns text into visuals that are perfect to use in video content newsletter letters blogs presentations tweets it's currently completely free while it's

in beta so that will change at some point but it's really easy to jump in and use just click new napkin then either draft with AI or first I'll start from a blank napkin and I can input my own information here's a post about the most used AI tools I'll copy that then paste it in here and I'll see what it can do with that just click on the little lightning icon and it will come back with that data incorporated into diagrams flowcharts and infographics which are all fully editable this one looks pretty cool and

each of these have additional Styles within them I like this one so I'll select that then I can change any of the text I can switch out colors however I want to it's easy as that then you can download it I'll do another one really quick new napkin this time I'll draft with AI how about all the steps involved in training an llm it's all written out that looks good I'll select all the text to create a visual from there's a ton of good options in here and I want to show an example of how

I use this tool for videos I could take this spiral one and blur out the future steps and as I go through I'd be zoomed in then unblur as I move on to explaining each step or this one I'd zoom in on each area as I'm talking about it same with the timeline one that's pretty straightforward Graphics like this are really timeconsuming to create from scratch I'll do one more example to get some more varied results things most likely to cause the AI Apocalypse in order of likelihood all right that looks like a solid list

this time I'll use just the first one to generate from I like this fishbone one a lot that seems very fitting now I can select all of these and try again I'll just do the top five instead of all 10 and there's a bunch of good ones in here I like this chain with all the links so I'll check out the other styles I prefer the ones with the icons in here and all the colors this one is perfect for a video I could just add some zooms between these and have a nice visual to

make it more engaging as you generate a few of these you'll notice it repeats the templates but it does have a lot of them especially when you factor in the different styles for each so I've found this to be a really useful tool that I'll be incorporating into videos and there's tons of other use cases like visuals for a newsletter or blog or a presentation or just a quick social media post Google's notebook LM is another free one there's been a ton of talk about it and I tested it a while back but it took

me a while to actually start incorporating it I'll show a couple of my favorite use cases I'll create new here's the options you can upload slides PDFs websites or I'll do a YouTube video this is Andre Kathy's presentation about how llms are trained it's really good but I don't want to watch the whole thing again I just want to revisit the information and he also posted the slides so I'll upload those as well now it generates a summary then there's these options to choose from I'll go with study guide using the information in that YouTube

video and the slides it created a short quiz with an answer key some essay questions and a glossery of key terms that's really useful and I can chat and ask questions directly expl expl the fine tuning Stage IT Recaps that for me then for all the sources when you hover you can read the text it came from or if you click it will pull it up in the document so you can read the context and double check the accuracy then click notebook guide to get back and I'll generate a podcast this is the feature that's

gone the most viral because of how authentic these sound it takes a little bit so I'll come back when it's done let's give it a listen this one's actually a bit longer they're usually only 5 to 10 minutes all right everyone get ready because today we're diving deep into large language models lm's yeah I'll skip forward they usually take a little bit to get into the substance so pretty accurate for a podcast it's like llama 270b are basically just two files that's it really that seems I don't know almost too easy it's true one file

is just uh it packed with numbers we call them parameters think of it as the model's brain and this brain can be huge like 140 gbt for llama 2 wow then the second file it's just a short program basically it tells a computer how how to use those parameters so hold on you're saying I could like run this Advanced model offline like on my laptop that's that's kind of crazy these always come back amazing I'm still blown away every time that this is possible another thing you can do is you can upload a bunch of

studies on a topic and ask about them that's super useful all right there's been a lot of talk about this one recently and you can check and uncheck sources to speak with each individually or together however you want I can ask about all these studies as a whole which included a few meta analyses then I could click through the sources and go back and forth I'm sure you get the idea it's the best UI I've seen for doing this and these can take in a lot of information for example I can upload a full book

The omnivores dilemma is a good one I have a physical copy and notes I took on it but I can't ask questions or stay as organized that way but now I can chat with the book create a study guide and listen to a podcast about it to help retain the information and you can customize what they talk about with these two so I'll narrow it down to a more specific section of the book yeah so we're about regenerative farming okay and uh to really dig into this we're going to be focusing on a pretty legendary

Place hit me with it polyface Farm heard of it yeah it's pretty amazing and so this is amazing for Learning and studying you can reinforce the information while doing the dishes or driving to work and another more unique way to use this is if you create videos like I do or need to give a you know presentation or write about a topic you can upload the information you're working from and generate a podcast about it and then get ideas for how you could present it yourself these have good storytelling and unique angles so it's just

a good way to brainstorm there's actually a new feature they rolled out since I recorded this called interactive mode you can basically call into the podcast and ask questions so you can help steer the conversation as it's happening something that's happened to me quite a few times is when I open up cloud or chat PT and I know it could help me with something I'm working on but I can't think of the right question to ask well if you're a marketer entrepreneur or Creator HubSpot has taken all of that uncertainty out with a list of

1,000 prompts that you can download for free 1,000 prompts sounds like a lot because it is but it's broken down into different categories to make it more efficient to find the right prompt there's marketing strategy copywriting social media strategy competitor analysis productivity and a bunch more there's 18 different categories you can copy and paste each prompt then there's usually a couple fields to customize to your specific industry or goals it's a great way to craft strategies generate ideas and save time and it's tailored to give actionable responses it's like a personal productivity assistant again if

you want to grab that it is a completely free download from the link in the description and thank you to HubSpot for sponsoring this video Pinocchio is a tool that completely simplifies the process of downloading open source AI tools it's like Steam for AI apps usually setting up an open source model involves cloning a GitHub repository installing dependencies downloading models configuring everything it's a multiple step process that's pretty involved but with Pinocchio it's a one-click install if you have a capable computer that's able to run these types of models Pinocchio is a massive timesaver and

every aspect of this is free so to get it go to Pinocchio doomu then it's just like installing any application mine's already installed this is what it looks like once it's open the Discover tab has all the apps to look through I stick to verified scripts the community scripts aren't verified to be working they just show up when a developer tags Pinocchio on GitHub and either type in the tool you want or scroll through until you find one then click on it to open it up then click download and let it download for a while

some of these are pretty large files depending on the tool once it's done you can find it on your Home tab you can open it up then they'll each look slightly different but there should be a button that says launch or something similar I've got live portrait up and running and here's an example I used for a previous video I filmed myself singing the words to a song I got from sunno then I transferred my facial movements onto a video I generated in [Music] cling there's a bunch of other really fun tools like that that

you can download with just a click so I'm sure you'll find something useful in here it is weird to trust something like this but it's been out for a long time with a lot of people using it the Creator cocktail peanut has a great reputation he's on X and you can join the Discord to get updates and chat so it is safe but I'll still throw out the caveat to do your own research anytime you use something like this and there's some tools that won't be on Pinocchio especially the smaller one-off tools my favorite Cloud

solution is replicate it's also the solution if you don't have a computer capable of running models on it or maybe you just want to test something before going through the process of downloading it locally the replicate is a a pay by usage model you just put a card on file then get build based on what you use there's a huge database of tools in here for upscaling text to 3D text to video text to speech image restoration music generation the list goes on and on I like replicate a lot cuz sometimes you just need to

use a tool a couple times but most AI tools only offer a monthly subscription and a lot of the open source stuff is just awesome the best ones usually get integrated into platforms with a nicer UI but you can use them all more cost effectively here like the new flux image editing tool for imp painting retexturing and restyling or they have miniacs on here maybe you just want to use it a little bit instead of paying the monthly subscription on their site you can just use what you need here there's tons and tons of other

tools to experiment with one of those that I just demoed recently using replicate but deserves its own spot on this list is training a flux Laura for consistent characters I trained it on my own face and it's insane how good it is and now that I have it trained I can use it at any time for thumbnails or to turn into random b-roll it costs a few dollars to run the original training but after that it's only a couple stents to generate images with your face whenever you want just a quick run through of the

process search for ostras then click this one that says flux Dev Laura trainer first write a name for where the model will be stored then click create new model and I'll keep mine as private for the training you need 10 or more photos I mostly used my thumbnails compress the images into a zip file then drag that into the box to upload next create a trigger word which you'll refer refer to in your prompts to trigger it to use this character now increase the Laura rank to 32 which will help to train on complex features

everything else is good then just click create training and these take about 20 minutes to finish once it's finished you can access this and any other models you train at any time from your dashboard then type in a prompt Kevin was my trigger word so Kevin is a viking charging into battle I'll use a 16x9 aspect ratio switch the number of outputs to four then scroll all the way down and switch to PNG then run it generates really fast and the face is basically perfect it's really nice to just have one of these trained up

to use at any time if you have a YouTube channel this is one of my favorite tools I've been using a lot lately for brainstorming title and thumbnail ideas and choosing video topics so it's called spotter Studio I'll open up a new project then type in a title so I've been thinking about making a video on all the recent advancements in Ai and Robotics I can have it rephrase that's helpful ask it to shorten it or explode is a rate one will take the idea in all different directions then you can find your favorite and

have all those options open up again then just reiterate until you find something you like and back over here I can brainstorm a thumbnail idea too I'll just have it generate based on that title and since I've uploaded my face it will use similar faces across these there's options for more realistic or more sketch based and a slider to have it match my own thumbnail style more closely or others across YouTube the outliers tab is another really helpful section if finds the best performing videos across YouTube what's even more helpful since I have my channel

linked there's a tab for channels my audience also watched so I'll switch up the settings a little bit to find the highest performing videos and it finds the outliers relative to that Channel's other videos so this video has done eight times better than this Channel's average that's how you know it's a topic that people are finding interesting or valuable I used to do outlier research manually just going to different channels one by one but spotter makes it super easy and you can click brainstorm to ideate from there directly and try to find unique perspective on

that topic right they didn't sponsor this video but full disclosure they are a sponsor of the channel and sponsored my last video but it's a super helpful tool that I actually use so because they sponsored that one they did give me a link that will give you your first 60 days free instead of 30 if you decide to sign up through that guide is such a useful tool if you ever need to show someone how to do something on a computer for any reason whether it's someone at work you need to show a process to

maybe a full onboarding system to train new people a Blog a course whatever it may be guide can save a lot of time I always want to read it as guid from the spelling but it's probably guide you have to download the extension and then ask it to start the process and then you just do the task so I'll walk through the steps of training a flux Laura again just really quick then I stop recording and it will create a full slideshow and video with a voiceover of the step-by-step process highlighting where to click and

everything you did with a written explanation alongside depending on the process it may not be perfect the first time but you can edit anything I'll take out a few of the steps then change the wording on some of them it's a really quick to do then you can click edit video to change the text on the screen and the arrows you can switch to a different voice if you want it's all really intuitive then once it's done you can share it and what the receiver will see looks like this so there's the step-by-step explanation and

images then the video up top this guide will walk you through training of flux Laura Begin by clicking on get started proceed by selecting a model choose a name for your destination this is really helpful and you can create 25 guides for free which may be all you need or it's at least a good trial to see if you like it enough to buy this next one isn't the tool itself but a feature in Ito is you know amazing for generating music and has been for a while but I recently tried their feature for uploading

audio and extending it the results were amazing and it's a whole different way to interact with AI music so here's a Baseline [Music] then I took that and uploaded it in sunno I had it generate some lyrics using the prompt a robot learns to play funk then asked it to extend and here's what it came back [Music] with learn the jam got it right yeah fingers made of steel now they Gro funky circuit boards make your move oh snap the and they also have the cover song feature where I can take that same Baseline and

ask it to create a cover song it uses my upload as inspiration so the Basse sounds similar but not as exact clean late at night o yeah a robot learned to jam got it right oh yeah fingers [Music] made I love that feature it has been out for a while but I just tried it recently using aii as a creative partner instead of just typing a prompt is a lot more fun I don't like having AI just do everything that was just a quick example there's just a lot of possibilities and I hope to see

them expand more in this direction towards creative control and collaborative output those are some tools that have been extremely useful for me and saved me a ton of time hopefully that's helpful if you want a video focused solely on AI video and animation tools check out this one right here and make sure to check out futur pedia.com best AI tool for any use case browse a curated list of AI tutorials stay up to dat with AI Innovations and sign up for the free newsletter thank you so much for watching I'll see you in the next

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