Cool AI Tools
AI has played an increasingly significant role in our lives, with many tedious tasks that would have taken hours otherwise simplified into minutes. Honestly, it has become such a big entity that our current time and age can be classified as the "AI Revolution." Thousands of AIs on the web help regular people like you and me complete tedious tasks, and allows us to focus on things that really matter. But, at the same time, some AI tools are just really fun to play with. Here are some of my favorite ones!
NVIDIA
NVIDIA has some really fun and useful tools such as Canvas and Broadcast! Canvas isn't something that you'd really get to use often(unless your job or interests really require you to) but it is really cool to play around with. NVIDIA Canvas is a tool that transforms basic sketches into really high-definition pictures as shown above. To use this program is pretty simple, as all you really need to do is to draw basic shapes and lines, choose a material & style you'd like to use, then BAM! You have a photo-realistic generation of your sketch.
Broadcast, on the other hand, is something that I find a lot more useful in my day to day. Personally, I kinda struggle to remember scripts, so I find myself using a teleprompter and reading off of it when recording videos, in Zoom interviews, and pretty much everything else I use a video camera in. A really cool tool on NVIDIA Broadcast is the fact that even if you're reading off of a script or teleprompter, the tool will automatically edit your eyes to make it seem like you're looking at the camera directly. The AI might make you look a little bit funny, but seriously, it is so useful when you're struggling to remember your lines.
ElevenLabs
Ever wonder how those Reddit Story Tiktokers generate the voices? They use generative voice AIs like ElevenLabs! ElevenLabs is really fun to play around with because you can generate anything that you want into a voice. The selection of voices is pretty big and it's fun to just listen to all of the different people talk. Plus, this isn't even exclusive to just English speaking generation, the tool can generate almost 10 other languages as well.
Runway
Gen-2 Runway is a text-to-video generative AI. Although it doesn't match anywhere close to the generative AI that Google has announced, for now, this is a top-notch AI. The way this program works is either, A) You type a description and then the AI will generate a correlated video, or B) You insert an image, and let the AI generate a video around your AI. To be honest, this is probably one of the things that really highlight the capabilities of AI. Scenes that otherwise would require physical shooting or extensive CGI can be done in a matter of minutes with this form of generation. Although we are still in the early stages, this can really allow people to generate movies, photography, documentaries, and almost any form of cinema. Obviously, as time goes by, the generation will get clearer, more precise, and more realistic.
Create a 5 second video of a handsome male in the 1700s helping a maiden get up the steps of a temple. Make sure they are both smiling and there is a romantic essence or vibe behind the video. In the last 2 seconds, the couple hug each other.