Happy Thursday!

I know I usually post these on Tuesdays, but I’m excited

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Today’s toolbox includes:

• 🛠️ 7 Fresh & Trending AI Tools Ready-To-Use For You

• 🔎 New Tool Can Tell If Something Is AI-Written With 99% Accuracy

• 📝 Instagram’s AI Bot is Coming

• 💀 Prompt Engineering is a Dying Skill

Read time: 4 minutes

🛠️ Top 7 Trending AI Tools in the Toolbox

• EmbedStore - create an AI bot for any YouTube channel

• LoveGenius - optimize your dating profile for Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge. Honestly some people need this

• Portaly - use AI to turn your website into a link-in-bio page with one click. You can test your own website on it for free btw I just tried mine (metatoolbox.io) but it just came with an error

• Fadr - Create music. remixes. and stems. Might be a good option if you need background music for a video. If you’re looking for background music or sound effects I recommend (epidemicsound.com)

• MemeSwift - have AI come up with funny, smart, or informational captions for your images. Just try to upload an image and got an “Internal Error” message. Maybe it’ll work for you

• ⭐️ Paragraphica - this one took me awhile to wrap my head around. It’s a virtual & physical camera that displays a description of your location. AI will then generate an image of that description. It’s like seeing your current location but AI generated

• neoSVG - turn prompts into vector drawings that could be used for logos or merch

⭐️ = my top pick out of the list

📝 3 Articles You Should Know About

🔎 New Tool Can Tell If Something Is AI-Written With 99% Accuracy

The days of using AI to do your homework is over. University of Kansas has created a tool that can detect AI-generated content in academic papers with an accuracy rate of 99%

Apparently 89% of college students have used ChatGPT for their homework. That’s actually a crazy statistic considering only 14% of US adults have used it. I know some people have made bank doing homework for other students, and this just put them out of business. This alone must be a multi-million dollar industry that was disrupted by AI (I tweeted that)

This article talks about the concerns about the reliability of AI writing. AI uses sources from the internet to assemble text without fact checking. Michio Kaku talked about this on Joe Rogan’s podcast here. AI is not coming up with this information from nowhere. It’s sourcing from pre-existing sources and who know if those pre-existing sources are trustworthy. But with quantum computing it can become possible to fact check AI’s outputs, according to Michio Kaku

📝 Instagram’s AI Bot is Coming

My first thought when seeing this was “why? who asked?”

And after doing some thinking, I’m left with the same questions

Instagram is working on an AI bot that will answer your questions and give advice. You can choose from 30 different personalities

I don’t have Snapchat but according to this article you can recommend birthday gift ideas to you bff, plan a hiking trip for a long weekend, suggest a recipe for dinner, or write haikus about cheese for your cheddar-obsessed pal.

Yes, that’s a direct quote from a Snapchat user

I don’t know. I‘ve just never scrolled through my timeline on Instagram and thought - “Wow, I would love write a haiku about cheese right now”

💀 Prompt Engineering is a Dying Skill

A big debate in the AI space questions the value of prompt engineering

What is prompt engineering?

It’s basically the input you give to the AI to make it do what you want. People have been getting really good at giving instructions or prompts to AI

But prompt engineering may not last long because a big goal for AI innovation is making AI understand us better without special instructions. Some AI programs can even make their own instructions

A skill that would be more useful to sharpen is “problem formulation”

Being able to clearly describe a problem that you want to solve accurately

For example, instead of saying “I’m thirsty”

You’d say “I’m thirsty and need a glass of water, but I’m too lazy to get up right now”

It’s about increasing your skill of creating an input for the AI

Instead of increasing the size of the soccer goal, you’re working on your accuracy of kicking the ball into the goal

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