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Automate office tasks with ChatGPT and Python : web scraping, interactive charts from Excel, etc.
ManyExcel will generate Excel formulas and VB Scripts based on plain English input. Get 5 formulas / month for free, or pay $5/month for unlimited
Looria is a bot that’s trained on zillions of reviews: for example What’s the best dishwasher
Better than other search engines because it just gives the final answer and explanation rather than force you to dig through everything.
Offline Apps
Opus Noma sells a $2 iPhone app Offline Chat: Private AI that runs a complete, local implementation of Mistral 7B 0.2.
or try the free version MLC Chat
(via HN)
Chatbots
Hugging Face Chat is an open-source competitor to ChatGPT. It’s not as good, obviously, but it correctly analyzed some R code and it gave the same unbiased caveats “As a large language model…” on questions about Donald Trump and Joe Biden)
Delphi lets you build your own chatbot, trained on your own data. Free for up to 100K words of training data, $30/mo for 4M words.
Snap’s My AI chatbot is the most widely used AI tool by 7-to 17-year-olds in the UK. (according to Ofcom.org Online Nation 2023 Report published
character.ai chatbots with historical figures, including Ray Kurzweil
Pi is a (free) AI “Personal AI” that you talk to through its interactive text chat, funded by Reid Hoffman and co-founded with Karén Simonyan, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Inflection AI. ( see his podcast interview https://www.possible.fm/podcast/majamataric/)
In March 2024, both co-founders moved to Microsoft to start the new Microsoft AI division.
Meeno is Better Relationships Through AI by the co-founder of Tindr. Helps people improve the way they interact with others.
Image Generation
Content Generation
Jasper.ai will generate text and more for marketing campaigns. (Examples)
AI-generated books
Listenly.io turns any Gutenberg Library book into a “high quality” audiobook using the latest OpenAI text-to-speech model. Prices depend on the length of the book. Pride and Prejudice $6, Moby Dick $\9, etc.
The sound is quite good and natural. Try one of their free books, including the 10-hour Winston Churchill The Second World War.
A Stanford project, Storm, will generate a Wikipedia-style entry on any subject. For example, “please explain the core principles of Heidegger’s philosophy that might relate to the concept of intelligence?”
ChartGenAI will generate a chart based on data you upload. From Einblick
Turn raw notes into finished content with Strut
Poster Studio will generate creatives and ad content automatically:
- https://app.gomoonbeam.com/
- Playground.ai see tweet
Web Development
Pickaxe “Create and embed GPT-4 apps in your website, no code, in minutes.”
Smarty Names use AI to find a domain name for your company
AI Score My Site from SiteSpeak: Find out if your website can be discovered and ranked by AI powered search engines and what you can do to improve it.
Add a ChatGPT-powered bot to your site quickly with Algomo
softr.io: make a full-blown web app from a single prompt: free for 100 users and a custom domain, $50/month for 1000 users.
Build a website with Lindo
Describe your business and get everything you need, from landing pages to automated organic lead generation, with AI.
Fillout.com : Import an existing form or generate a new one with the first AI form builder
LayoutNUWA: treats layout generation as a code generation task and effectively utilizes the inherent layout expertise of large language models to enhance the performance of layout generation
Marketing
PriceGPT analyze a competitor’s pricing page.
Best Ever: Create brilliant marketing visuals in minutes
Pebbley lets you generate “Instagram-worthy” snapshots of any product with the click of a button.
Here’s what I did with a Club Crackers™ image and a cafe background:
Content Analysis
Wikipedia Citation Needed is a free Chrome extension from Wikimedia Foundation that will :
- While browsing the web, select a short passage of text as a statement to verify
- With the help of the ChatGPT API, the Citation Needed extension searches Wikipedia for relevant articles and quotes from them
- You will get back: information about whether the claim is supported or not by Wikipedia, and article quality signals like date of last edit and number of references – all to help you get more context on the information you’re receiving (even from Wikipedia!)
(But note: Wikipedia is extremely biased on political topics, with “reliable sources” almost exclusively far-left publications like Mother Jones)
Bookpecker https://www.bookpecker.com/ 14509 books summarized in 5 bullet points.
Here’s what it says about James Nestor’s Breath:
Nasal Breathing: Nestor highlights the health benefits of nasal breathing, including air filtration and nitric oxide production.
Over and Under-breathing: The book warns about the dangers of hyperventilation and hypoventilation, both of which can harm the body.
Breathing and Stress: Nestor links breathing patterns to stress levels, explaining how slow, deep breaths can reduce stress.
Breathing Techniques: The book presents various breathing methods, like the Buteyko and Wim Hof techniques, which can boost health and performance.
Evolution and Breathing: Nestor discusses how evolution has impacted our breathing, suggesting that lifestyle changes have made breathing more difficult. He advocates for healthier breathing habits.
Summarize does the same thing for videos: just paste the YouTube link and get a bullet-point summary. Free for 30 minute videos, but requires a login for videos longer than 30 minutes. Costs $8/month for up to 100 summaries of 120-minute videos per day
Here’s how it summarizes Michael Lustgarten’s “Is Low LDL Bad For The Epigenetic Pace of Aging?” from his Conquer Aging or Die Trying YouTube channel.
The speaker analyzes correlations between his diet, biomarkers, and epigenetic pace of aging over 12 tests. No foods or nutrients significantly correlate with pace of aging, but DHEA sulfate and LDL cholesterol do, suggesting higher levels correlate with slower aging. The speaker plans to increase LDL levels slightly through more coconut butter to test if it further slows his aging pace, while aiming to remain in the safe range for heart disease risk.
It even generates this mind map
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Dexa is an AI-powered podcast search and summarizer.
You can ask it any question and it finds related podcasts and gives a summary.
For example, What does Heidegger think of LLMs?” led me to very good related podcasts, plus at least one I hadn’t heard of previously that turned out to be spot on.
Consider Podsnacks, which appears to let you organize all podcasts. You pay $1/hour for summarizations, though stuff that’s already summarized is free.
Nanonets is a comprehensive tool and API for data extraction. Do OCR and table extraction from unstructured data. Free for first 500 pages, then $0.30 / page.
Dataku Seamlessly extract valuable insights from documents and texts. Free for 1,000 processing.
Columns.ai helps find datasets. “Effective data storytelling” with integrations with Notion, Airtable and more. Free for 10 visual stories, $15/month for unlimited.
Sumitup: free and open-source AI summarizer for any text, article, or song.
Shortwave: free 90 days email search, $9/month for unlimited
SlideSpeak: Upload a PowerPoint file today and let our AI generate summaries, answer questions or get actions items out of any presentation.
Julius.ai Connect your data to Excel, Sheets, Postgres, etc and ask anything. They also have a partnership with Wolfram Alpha for free math with your LLM.
Capsule is an app that curates zillions of sources to help find mega-trends blog post
Khoj : an open-source private content search system that can index Obsidian, Emacs, Github, and web data to let you search and chat offline. uses Llama 7B, 4bit quantized, GGML by TheBloke.
see HN
ChatPDF.com: Chat with Any PDF. with an example: ChatPDF_ PS Guide to the Microbiome
MyReader.ai lets you upload full-size books. Free for a 800-page book, $5/month for more.
ChatCSV: Talk to a spreadsheet
Alexandria Index: an LLM optimized for religious belief
Trickle transforms your screenshots using GPT-4. Beyond summarization, we decode the essence of your captures.
Financial
OpenBB is a leading open-source investment research software platform that gives you access to high-quality financial market data and analytical tools. Our mission is to make investment research effective, powerful and accessible to everyone.
Market analysis from Market Mind
Otto Grid “lets you use AI agents to help enrich lists, research companies, or read hundreds of documents in minutes, all through a native table interface.”
Speech Synthesis
Several companies offer online generation of voices. Most have free-to-try plans that let you experiment before buying.
ElevenLabs includes a voice translation tool can convert spoken content to another language in minutes, while preserving the voice of the original speaker.
murf.ai includes a nice web app studio to create projects and share with others.
Air AI. This new tool can have 10-40 minute-long phone calls and remembers everything. Listen to a demo on their web page. You have to call to ask about pricing.
Slang AI. This AI assistant manages your phone line and can respond to any inquiry about your business.
recast Turn your want-to-read articles into rich audio summaries.
Transcription
Notetaking app Granola will transcribe your meetings and then “enhance” using the notes you’ve been taking.
AI-coustics will remove noise from a sound sample. Free for 60 min/month. 5 Euros for more.
OneAudio transcribe audio from their home page without logging in. Create an account and keep 15 min/month; $6/month for 1200 minutes.
HeyGen: Upload a 5-min (500MB) video and it translates it into multiple languages.
It records your meetings from Teams, Google Meet, and Zoom and spits out transcripts. WIth one quick click, you get:
- summaries.
- action items.
- & defined tasks.
Plus, you can search for specific topics within meetings and rewatch them in case you overslept (don’t worry, we’ve all been there).
It automatically generated a scary-good transcript with timestamps and summaries. “I accidentally missed a meeting once and after reading the transcript later realized I didn’t need to attend anyway”, he said.
and https://www.notta.ai/: a similar transcription service which is cheaper ($8.25 per month) and offers 1,800 minutes (30 hours) of transcription per month. Notta’s free plan provides 120 minutes.
Music
see A16Z The Future of Music: How Generative AI Is Transforming the Music Industry.
For thoughts on implications: [podcast] Ian Leslie on Being Human in the Age of
Suno AI is backed by Antonio Rodriguez from VC firm Matrix.
a startup named Suno. All it took to summon it from the void was a simple text prompt: “solo acoustic Mississippi Delta blues about a sad AI.” To be maximally precise, the song is the work of two AI models in collaboration: Suno’s model creates all the music itself, while calling on OpenAI’s ChatGPT
The goal is a music service that will create music just for you.
Co-founders Shulman, Freyberg, Georg Kucsko, and Martin Camacho, all machine-learning experts, worked together until 2022 at another Cambridge company, Kensho Technologies, which focused on finding AI solutions to complex business problems
Suno’s biggest potential competitor so far seems to be Google’s Dream Track, which has obtained licenses that allow users to make their own songs using famous voices like Charlie Puth’s via a similar prompt-based interface.
Udio is a music creation app by ex-Deepmind researchers.
newmusic.ai : discover new AI-generated music
Streaming music generation usually has to wait for all the music to be completed. However, this means real time or long generation applications struggle. With this code, you can now stream the chunks of music as they arrive
Grammy Awards expect that AI-generated songs will be submitted this year, so they’ve adopted rules that “ensure human creators are in the drivers seat”.
Education
LlamaTutor is a free app that will teach you any subject. Enter any topic and education level (elementary, middle, high school, undergrad or grad) and it will generate a custom curriculum for you, with readings and quizzes.
I asked it to create an elementary school course on Black-Scholes investing:
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Flashcasts is AI-generated “podcast” episodes that quiz you on a variety of topics, from GRE exam questions to music ear training
Glossarie is a free iPhone/Android app that lets you learn a language by reading your favorite books. You open the book (e.g. Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes) in the target language and select sentences or paragraphs as you ask it to explain unfamiliar vocabulary and grammar. So far it’s only available in French, Spanish, and Italian.
LangAI lets you chat in any of 20 languages (Spanish, Italian, French, German, Portuguese, English, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Turkish, Russian, Hindi, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Arabic, Greek, Korean, Ukrainian, and Czech). It will correct your grammar. Free for a limited number of messages per day. (See their list of DuoLingo alternatives)
Other
Swifty lets you book business travel using a smart chat assistant.
Cal.AI lets AI schedule a meeting with Richard Sprague
Bulk Corrector splits your ChatGPT query into smaller pieces to get around the upfront token limit.
Correct the grammar of an entire book in 5 minutes
Tired of splitting your large text in the ChatGPT UI? I’ll segment the text for you, enabling bulk corrections.
Free for the first 32K characters
Gretel.ai is an LLM trained on tabular CSV data
Better Search
Metaphor systems and an API with 1000 calls/month for free
the neural search engine we’ve been building is well-suited for LLMs to use! Metaphor handles natural language extremely well, and the model promotes search results that can more closely match your query.
See this example: “Richard Sprague and his interest in health and science”
(pretty good, and certainly better than Google)
Recommending Books and Movies
A zero-shot recommendation system is an academic study that evaluates using ChatGPT as a recommendation engine. Di Palma et al. (2023) (Github source code)
our findings revealed that ChatGPT exhibited characteristics of a hybrid recommender system, leveraging collaborative and content-based information. Additionally, ChatGPT showcased domain-specific knowledge, particularly in books and movies domains. Moreover, it tended to recommend popular items and exhibited a remarkable proficiency in handling the cold start problem.
Generate a knowledge graph from text or URL
For more miscellaneous demos see also AI Tinkerers Events