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Welcome to the fourth edition of Aioli, the newsletter that demystifies AI, making it accessible for your daily life. This edition not only celebrates your journey with us through the burgeoning world of AI but also prepares you for the next leap in innovation.

By engaging with Aioli, you're part of the vanguard in AI adoption. With user growth reaching new plateaus (see Chart below), we're on the cusp of the second wave of AI – a phase that promises even more profound changes.

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TODAY’S SPREAD

• 👩🏻‍🏫 5 Steps to Deepen Your Understanding of AI

• 🗞️ The Week in AI: What You Need to Know

• 👀 The Evolution of ChatGPT: Navigating the 'Second Wave'

• 🛠️ Clone Your Own Voice with ElevenLabs: The Future is Now

• 💼 This Week's Top ChatGPT Use Case

• 🖼️ AI-Generated Visual Wonder: Photos of the Week

👩🏻‍🏫 AI LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Deepen Your AI Understanding in Five Simple Steps:

1. Recognize the Nuances: Understand "ChatGPT" as a specific service, contrasting with the broad, transformative field of "AI". This distinction is crucial for appreciating AI's vast potential.

2. Reserve Quick Judgements: The capabilities of AI are vast and varied; a superficial glance might not reveal its full potential. Mistakes can be learning opportunities, not just limitations.

3. Embrace Change: The concern over AI replacing jobs is real, but inevitability means adaptation, not despair. Explore how AI might enhance your career, not end it.

4. Humanity and AI: As AI grows, so does our opportunity to nurture our human qualities. The choice to enhance or diminish our humanity alongside AI is ours to make.

5. Learn Before You Leap: Mastering free AI tools offers a solid foundation before committing to a paid tool. Luckily, the vast majority of AI tools offer generous free demos or plans.

🗞️ NEWS

What’s Happened in the Past Week in AI

AI announcements are happening faster than the speed of light as far as I’m concerned, so here’s a roundup of news that stood out in the past week:

• Apple's Bold Move: Rumors suggest iOS 18 could be groundbreaking. With WWDC on the horizon, imagine Siri's capabilities turbocharged by generative AI.

• Amazon Ups the Ante: A fresh $2.75 billion investment in Anthropic, on top of an initial $1.25 billion, marks its most significant venture into AI yet.

• OpenAI's Creative Frontier: A select group of artists were given have access to Sora, OpenAI's text-to-video model, unleashing a new realm of digital storytelling.

• Neuralink Breakthrough: A patient can now play Mario Kart using just his thoughts – a monumental step in brain-computer interfacing.

• Altman's Teaser: A new OpenAI model is on the horizon, as confirmed by Sam Altman.

And More: NVIDIA's controversial aim to replace nurses highlights the need for ethical considerations in AI's march forward.

👀 RESEARCH

ChatGPT’s Growth Has Flattened: The Coming "Second Wave" of AI Solutions

As consumer engagement with platforms like ChatGPT levels off, the AI landscape is ripe for revolution. The incoming wave focuses on reliability and tangible returns, with startups at the forefront of this transformation.

So what might these next-gen AI solutions look like? Here's a glimpse at some key areas to watch:

📘 AI-Native Search: Move over Google, AI search engines like Perplexity.ai aim to provide drastically more useful results.

👓 AI Wearables and Hardware: Companies like Rabbit and 01 Light are working on devices that give you perfect context and recall for every interaction.

🤖 AI Workflow/Automation: Platforms like Zapier's AI or Make.com will help you encode expertise and delegate processes to AI assistants.

💻 Functional AI Tools: Companies like Devin are creating AI software engineers that can write code, handle customer support, generate leads, and more.

While the initial generative AI wave opened our eyes to the potential, these bleeding-edge startups could finally start delivering on the transformative productivity promises. Those dismissing AI as overhyped may soon be playing catch-up.

🛠️ TOOLS

You Can Now Listen to Your Own Voice Speak 29 Languages, Thanks to Eleven Labs

TLDR: Generate high-quality audio transcripts in your own voice with Eleven Labs

Eleven Labs has developed voice cloning technology that is both highly impressive and vaguely unsettling. With just a 1-minute audio sample, their AI can generate synthetic speech in anyone's voice that is remarkably natural-sounding.

The potential applications are exciting - audiobook narrations by an AI clone of your favorite voice actor, video game dialogue that sounds distinctly human, or even personalized AI assistants that speak in your own voice. Eleven Labs' text-to-speech also supports a staggering 29 languages.

Of course, we must be cognizant of the risks such powerful voice synthesis poses. In the wrong hands, this technology could be leveraged for fraudulent or nefarious purposes like impersonating individuals, spreading misinformation, or penetrating voice authentication systems.

To their credit, Eleven Labs claims to prioritize data privacy and security protocols. But the societal and ethical ramifications of widely available, high-fidelity voice cloning cannot be overstated. Guardrails and responsible development practices must be put in place.

With that being said, I will be testing this tool out with my own voice, so stay tuned for the results.

Want to test it out for yourself? Here’s a link to their website.

💼 CHATGPT USE CASE OF THE WEEK

ChatGPT can now create Charts from Spreadsheets

Bid farewell to wasting hours in Excel and learning formulas to visualize complex data

Here’s how to do it (all tools are free):

• Navigate to ChatGPT and upload your Excel file (ensure it doesn't contain sensitive information).

• Request an analysis of the spreadsheet's data, asking it to be transformed into a structured mind map.
  
  Prompt: 

Analyze this spreadsheet and create a mind map of [Insert Your Topic]. Show all topics as central ideas, and add main branches, and sub-branches to it.

• Next, have ChatGPT convert the analysis into Markdown language.

• Copy this Markdown text and proceed to MarkMap.

• Input the copied text into MarkMap to obtain a graphical mind map.

• The mind map can then be saved either as HTML for web use or as an SVG file for image purposes.

🧄 AIOLI UPDATES

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I’m almost ready to formally launch it into the world with a website for prospective clients to view service offerings and case studies. I’ve been teasing some content on my LinkedIn page for Aioli, if you want to follow along.

Just dropping breadcrumbs here, but message me directly if you want to hear more 🙂 

🖼️ AI-Generated Photos of the Week

Sushi Tree

Thinking about planting one of these in my backyard, but I don’t think it will get enough sun to to thrive.

Thanks for reading. Your curiosity fuels this journey.

Until next time!

Meg 👩🏻‍💻

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