How to find the best AI tools for you
Discover more from Visually AI by Heather Cooper
How to find the best AI tools for you
Plus Midjourney's new inpainting feature
Total reading time is around 4 minutes.
Welcome to Visually AI!
This week’s edition is sponsored by Gamma.
Everyone wants to be more creative.
The ultimate dream is to unlock the latent creativity in each of us. This week, we released Gamma 1.0. Generative text, visuals, and now images.
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🔎 AI Use Case: How to find AI tools
There are so many AI tools available and new tools released every day it’s difficult to find what tool you need for a specific situation.
Enter AlternativeTo, a crowdsourced recommendation platform for more than 100,000 AI tools and services.
You can search by product category, type of tool, or the most popular apps:
This platform is useful because you can see the top 3 tools by category with the total number of ranked apps and the total number of users polled:
AlternativeTo is helpful for finding free and paid substitutes for apps, with comments, reviews, and recommendations from your peers. Why spend money or waste time if you can read user experiences with these tools?
Other sites I use to find AI tools:
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🔮AI News This Week
Midjourney Inpainting
Midjourney launched the highly-anticipated inpainting feature called Vary (Region).
You’ll see the option under each upscaled image:
Vary Region lets you make changes to specific parts or regions of your images.
You mask the area you want to change and type a short description of how you want it to look. Then, hit the arrow beside the text box to generate a grid of 4 images with versions of the changed image.
I wanted to make the owl’s nose red in the first set and a red baseball hat in the second group of images below:
This tool could be helpful for several reasons:
Remove objects from images
Add or replace an element in pictures.
Creating multiple characters from a single image
Meta’s Code Llama
Meta introduced a tool named Code Llama. It helps create and fix code.
Code Llama is free for everyone to use. It can make code from simple instructions or fix existing code.
Different types of Code Llama exist for different tasks, including one for Python coding. Meta says this tool helps programmers work better and focus on important parts of their job.
Code Llama’s training recipes are available on GitHub.
Partnered with ChatGP-Me
ChatGP-Me allows you to turn your headshot into a chatbot powered by ChatGPT with a human face and voice:
With ChatGP-Me, you can upload a headshot and turn it into a chatbot powered by ChatGPT with a human face and voice. You can personalise the chatbot's voice, mannerisms, background, and more.
With this product, Yepic ushers in a new era of advanced virtual assistants we can interact with face-to-face.
You could have your AI service, tool, or event seen by Visually AI’s community of over 5,500 subscribers:
🚀 This Week’s AI Tools
Looking Glass: Launched Blocks - Image to Hologram converter lets you create 3D holograms from your 2D images. (link for 10% discount code for Visually AI subscribers)
NAI: AI-powered image generation bot to use in Discord and Telegram. (link for early access)
Unriddle: Note-taking app powered by GPT-4 links notes automatically based on context and meaning. (link)
Consensus: The ChatGPT plug-in provides scientific research related to your topic and adds it to your prompt. (link)
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Thanks for reading and have a creative week!