Replacing You AI, 1.2: Mom's spaghetti, Microsoft wildin' & more

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OK you guys. This has been a wild week in AI. Before we begin, though, let's give some love to one of our favorite affiliate partners, Notion.

Alright. Back to your regularly-scheduled programming. To begin, I’m not sure if robots’ knees can get weak, nor its arms heavy. I am also not entirely sure if it could wear a sweater, let alone if there would be vomit on it, already. And, I don’t think robots eat, so the last part of this [come on, you can’t even fake you don’t know what I’m talking about or aren’t bopping your head like B-Rabbit], is out of the question.

What I do know, however, is that David Guetta – somehow, some way – built an Eminem verse using AI.

To be honest, I’m not quite sure what that means or where to go from here, so let’s just move forward.

Elsewhere, Microsoft and Google got into some interesting AI-related business.

Google introduced “Bard,” its AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT. They had a big demo and everything. And, well, it didn’t go exceptionally well as it made an error in the first question asked, incorrectly pointing out that the JWST took the first pictures of an exoplanet. [Checks actual Google for validation; yup, it was wrong]

Whoops! It’s honestly not that big of a deal as pointed out by Rachel Woods (we’re big fans!), who notes that mistakes like these are bound to happen with early generative AI. But, man, that’s a bad look from our Google overlords.

Elsewhere, Microsoft slid all up in the AI. First, it added some damn good AI to its Teams collaboration tool, Next, it added ChatGPT to freaking Bing search! Hot damn, those Microsoft guys be wildin’ again!

Anyways, it sure was a wild week. I’m sure they’ll only get crazier from here. Here are the three tools you need to know about so that the new intern doesn’t steal your job.

Vidyo: I’ve got a bit of an admission to share. I’m a wannabe podcaster. I love to write – as you may have already surmised. And, I love the podcast format. In fact, in a former life, I did a lot of radio. I’ve even dabbled in the podcast space here and there. But, I want to make a big run at it. That said, one piece de resistance has been the nature of promotion. Like, who has all that time and desire to cut your show into clips and share it on the socials? Uggh.

Well, thanks to AI and Vidyo, that’s an easy task now and you might hear my voice in your inner ear canal much sooner than later. That said, don’t blame it on the fine folks at vidyo, blame it on AI like we all should. Anyways, vidyo.ai claims to automatically select, edit, and caption the top moments from your videos.

Use cases for this abound. Whether you’re a podcaster trying to promote your latest episode, a “creator” repurposing video for use across social platforms, or a marketing team looking to get the most bang for its buck from the big-ass webinar it just ran, vidyo can help you chunk it down at scale.

Podcastle: Speaking of wannabe podcasters, have you heard of Podcastle, the AI-powered audio content platform? The platform offers professional and amateur (that’s me!) podcasters alike studio-quality recording, AI-powered editing, and easy exporting straight from the browser.

While Podcastle hangs its hat on being a complete platform with AI doing a bit of the work, we’re most impressed with its “Magic Dust,” and “Revoice,” features – made possible by the same AI that brought you Skynet (presumably).

Magic Dust removes background noise and enhances speech quickly. Similar to Descript’s features, Revoice lets you edit text while offering text-to-speech with realistic robot voices. A disclaimer of sorts here: I didn’t try Podcastle’s “Revoice” feature. But, man, these AI voice thingies have quickly gone from “really bad,” to “hey, that sounds like an actor playing a robot that is supposed to have human-like qualities!” Good job, AI!

WriteSonic: With the number of AI-powered writing assistants and tools, it’s pretty clear that the robots have a burning desire to erase all writers from the planet. We’re hoping we’ll be spared thanks to all the wonderful things we’re writing about AI. Only time will tell…

Anyways, WriteSonic is among the more thorough AI-enabled writing tools. It has a bunch of great tools for writers in its “Library.” These tools include various versions of their AI Article Writer, Paragraph Writer, Instant Article Writer, Content Rephraser, Article Rewriter, and Idea Generator, among many others. There are also niche tools for advertisers and marketers, creative writers, and e-commerce professionals.

What separates WriteSonic from a few of its competitors, though, is a ChatGPT-style conversational AI chatbot called ChatSonic. We’ve used this tool for a while and can speak to the quality of the output and what it means as a writing assistant.

Pricing is reasonable with a number of tiers based on the word count and quality you’re looking for. They also do custom plans for agencies and larger businesses looking to send their overpaid writing staff to the unemployment line…Sorry, we didn’t mean that. But, you know what we mean.

Thanks for reading. We’ll see you next week when we highlight three more tools creatives just like you need to know about. Of course, you can always visit ReplacingYou.com to see the entire landscape. We add tools daily.

Until next time, don’t let the AI take your job! Or worse, don’t let Trevor from Accounting use AI to take your job!

Cheers,

-Ben