3 New Generative AI Tools You'll Enjoy
Lots of new stuff comes out daily within generative AI! Here are a few nifty tools for text, image, and music generation to get you through the holiday season.
The generative AI scene shows no signs of slowing down.
Quite the opposite. Every day, there’s a new tool or app out that pushes AI deeper into the mainstream.
So today I’m introducing a few recent tools for working with AI within the realms of images, music, and text.
Buckle up!
1. Prompter: All-in-one prompt builder for Midjourney
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Midjourney and happily share prompts for it.
But I’ve got nothing on Shane McGeehan and his Prompter.
Shane McGeehan is a huge Midjourney geek and all-round cool dude who went through a truly impressive effort to put together a beginner-friendly visual guide to Midjourney. (I read the whole thing. It’s excellent.)
As if that wasn’t enough, Shane threw in a robust, all-in-one prompt builder tool for free (though you’re always welcome to buy Shane a coffee or two).
The tool itself is basically a Google Sheet that lets you select from a wide range of modifiers and parameters to enrich your initial text idea. Prompter then arranges your selections together into a complete prompt that you can simply copy-paste into Midjourney.
Not only does this save you time, you might learn a bunch of new art styles, camera angle modifiers, and other tags from Prompter’s dropdown menus.
You can grab the tool for free below:
Have at it!
More WhyTryAI posts about AI prompting:
2. Riffusion: Diffusion model for AI-generated music
While I talked about other AI music generators before, this one’s a bit of a different beast.
Riffusion works like the Stable Diffusion text-to-art model…but for music creation instead of images.
Riffusion uses your text prompt to generate an “image” in the form of a spectrogram. The neat part is what comes next: You can then “play” the spectrogram to actually hear the resulting music.
Wonder what Eminem rapping over Johnny Cash playing guitar sounds like?
You don’t?! I did! Here:
(I can only share a 5-second clip directly but you can continue here.)
You won’t get any recognizable lyrics, of course. Eminem here sounds exactly like my wife when she mockingly mimics how every rap song sounds to her.
Riffusion tracks stitch themselves together somewhat randomly and the output quality doesn’t lend itself to any practical use.
But it’s a really fun glimpse at what the future holds.
You can go as crazy as you’d like here. Try asking for Frank Sinatra singing a duet with Rihanna. You know you want to!
3. HyperWrite: AI copywriting at your fingertips
With the explosive popularity of Chat GPT, large language models aren’t as likely to surprise people anymore.
Seen in that light, HyperWrite is just one of many GPT3-based tools like Lex (currently my recommended AI writing assistant for beginners). It has the usual preset templates that have become par for course for AI copywriting tools, helping you draft emails, social media copy, or sales letters.
What’s cool about HyperWrite is the Chrome Extension that automatically interfaces with any app, site, or other space where you perform writing tasks, from Gmail to Google Docs.
The extension can do two things:
1) Automatically suggest alternative ways to continue any sentence you’re typing based on the context. You might recognize this from how Gmail’s predictive text works.
HyperWrite calls this “TypeAhead.” Here are a few examples:
2) Shorten, expand, or rewrite a selected chunk of text using a context menu:
The last “pencil” option actually lets you tell HyperWrite what you want to do with the selected text (such as "summarize key takeaways”).
Here’s how it looks when HyperWrite is asked to change the tone from casual to formal:
HyperWrite also claims to learn your personal style as you use it, letting you get more relevant AI text suggestions. I haven’t used it long enough to put this claim to the test.
In short, HyperWrite brings the convenience of AI copywriting directly to where you already work instead of having you visit a separate site or tool.
See if that helps your workflow. It’s free to check out for a limited number of generations.
Over to you…
Have you discovered any emerging tools recently that do new things, do old things better, or use existing AI algorithms in novel ways?
I’d love to hear about anything to do with generative AI, so write me an email or leave a comment below.
Merry Xmas - enjoy holidays with your loved ones!
(I’ll try to drop one more post next week before 2023 is here, but I make no promises. ‘Tis the season to be chilling.)