Discover 9 Remarkable AI Tools You Didn't Know Existed

Sky Glass is an Unreal Engine-powered app that allows you to create realistic 3D avatars and capture their motion in real-time. Here's how it works:

1. Choose an Environment: The app offers a variety of environments to choose from, including an apocalyptic city setting.

2. Select a Character: You can choose from a wide range of characters, including a Goblin, to represent yourself in the virtual environment.

3. Facial Motion Capture: The app captures your facial expressions and lip movements, providing a realistic representation of your appearance.

4. Body Movement: While the app doesn't capture full arm movement, it does detect and display some of your body's movements, such as crouching.

One drawback is that the app currently only supports iPhone users, and the motion capture feature is only available on the $18 per month Pro Plan. However, the app offers the ability to change the character's voice using the speech-to-speech feature in 11 Labs, which can help enhance the overall experience.

Overall, Sky Glass provides a unique and immersive way to create 3D avatars and capture your motion, which could be useful for various social media or creative applications.

This app is called 11 Labs, and it allows you to upload your audio and then select a voice from their library to convert your speech to. This retains the original inflection, motion, and timing, but changes the voice. They have a ton of different voice options to choose from.

One pro tip is that if you ever have mic issues, you can use this speech-to-speech feature to improve the audio quality. Just record your audio with the poor mic, then use 11 Labs to convert it to a voice clone of yourself with good audio quality.

This is a great way to fix audio problems and capture emotion in your speech, as regular text-to-speech often doesn't do a great job with that. The 11 Labs speech-to-speech feature is available on their $5 per month plan, which provides a lot of usage without needing to upgrade further.

BG.by uses 10 different AI models at once to remove backgrounds. You simply upload your image, and in a few seconds, you can click through each of the options to find the best result. This tool is particularly impressive at handling tricky subjects like hair, which can be difficult for many background removers.

For example, when testing it on an image with a complex background, most of the models struggled, but one of them produced a perfect result, allowing you to download the image with the background cleanly removed.

BG.by is completely free to use, with no sign-up or login required. It was created by a fan and shared on the Stable Diffusion subreddit, and it's one of the best background removal tools available. If you need to quickly and easily remove backgrounds from your images, BG.by is an excellent choice.

Google has released a ton of experimental AI tools at labs.google.com, and a couple of them are pretty cool. GenType is one that creates an entire alphabet from a prompt, allowing you to generate unique and out-there fonts.

They have some solid examples on the site, like "Toast with Grape Jelly" and "Jack-o-lanterns." To create your own, simply enter a prompt, and GenType will generate the full alphabet in around 30 seconds.

You can then test out the font in the provided box before downloading it. Try prompts like "Aerial View Crop Circles" or "Butter on Pancakes Aerial Shot" to get fonts that match the theme. If you're not happy with the results, you can regenerate until you get the look you want.

GenType is a fun and easy way to create custom fonts without any design skills. Dive in, get creative, and check the description for a link to try it out for yourself.

GEOS Spy is a tool that can identify the location where a photo was taken. Here's how it works:

You can upload an image to GEOS Spy, and it will analyze the contents of the photo to determine the location. The tool is surprisingly accurate, often pinpointing the exact location or at least the general area.

I tested GEOS Spy with several of my own photos, and it did a great job. For a photo I took in Oregon, it correctly identified the location as Tolovana Falls. For a shot I captured in Canyonlands National Park, it recognized the False Kiva rock formation. And for a photo from Denali National Park, it accurately named the famous mountain.

Even for less iconic locations, GEOS Spy was able to at least identify the general region, such as Alaska or China. The tool seems to use a combination of visual recognition and geographic data to make its determinations.

GEOS Spy is a fun and useful tool, especially for photographers who want to keep track of their photo locations or share that information with others. It's amazing how accurately it can pinpoint where a picture was taken, just from analyzing the image itself.

Blinkist is a platform that provides over 73,000 book summaries created by AI. The summaries are thorough, well-organized, and include key points, quotes, and takeaways. This is a great way to quickly get the main ideas from books you may never have time to read in full.

The summaries can be read or listened to, making it easy to consume the content on-the-go. When searching for a book, if it's not already in Blinkist's library, the platform will generate a summary by purchasing a digital copy, skimming the text, and then producing a comprehensive summary. This ensures the summaries are accurate and insightful.

Blinkist is completely free to use, with an optional paid plan for additional features. It's an excellent resource for busy individuals who want to stay informed and learn key insights from a wide range of books across different genres and topics.

There is a new social media app that takes a unique approach - everyone on the platform besides you is an AI. After creating an account and following random AI-generated profiles, the feed is filled with AI-created content, comments, and interactions. Clicking on the posts reveals the typical AI-generated weirdness and deformities.

The app also allows you to directly message these AI accounts, and they respond quickly, leading to some strange and surreal conversations. While the purpose of this app is unclear, it does highlight the growing trend of AI-powered social experiences.

Another recent release in this realm is "Friend", a wearable device that is always listening and will randomly text you relevant or witty thoughts, claiming to combat loneliness. The concept of an AI companion constantly monitoring your conversations and interjecting its own commentary raises some privacy and social concerns.

These types of AI-driven social platforms, while unusual, demonstrate the rapid advancements in character AI and the increasing integration of artificial intelligence into our daily lives and interactions. As this technology continues to evolve, we can expect to see more experimentation and innovation in the realm of AI-powered social experiences, both positive and potentially concerning.

Faisal is a platform that allows you to access and utilize a wide range of powerful open-source AI models, even if you don't have the technical expertise or hardware requirements to run them locally. This platform provides a convenient and accessible way to leverage cutting-edge AI capabilities.

The Faisal model gallery offers a diverse selection of tools, including:

• Flux: The newest open-source text-to-image model, which produces high-quality images.
• Stable Diffusion 3 and XL: Powerful image generation models.
• Various upscalers and creative tools for image and video processing.
• Text-to-speech, video-to-video, and other specialized models.
• Fine-tuned Stable Diffusion-based image generators.
• Tools like Life Portrait, which can map facial expressions onto images.

Faisal is a paid platform, but it operates on a pay-as-you-go model, allowing you to upload a small amount (e.g., $10) and get a significant amount of usage, depending on the specific tool you're using. For example, you could run the SD-XL model 10,000 times for just $20.

This platform is an excellent way to access and experiment with these advanced AI tools, even if you don't have the necessary hardware or technical expertise to run them locally. It provides a convenient and accessible solution for leveraging the power of open-source AI models.

WebSim is a platform that allows you to imagine and create immersive websites on the fly, conversationally. It's almost like creating an alternate internet, where you can generate websites and interactive experiences with just a few lines of text.

Here's how it works:

• You can simply type in any random URL, and WebSim will generate a website for that URL. For example, typing in "pixel.adventure" will create a retro-style game.
• You can also write out a full prompt to generate more complex experiences, such as "audio reactive particle simulator where you can upload a song and the particles react to the music."
• Once the website is generated, you can further customize and improve it by providing additional instructions, such as "make it better" or "add more levels."
• WebSim allows you to build out entire websites, complete with subpages and parameters, without any coding knowledge. You can even access the underlying code to see how the website was built.
• The platform offers a wide range of pre-built templates and plugins, allowing you to create games, interactive visualizations, and other engaging web experiences.

The capabilities of WebSim are truly mind-blowing. With just a few lines of text, you can bring your ideas to life and create unique, interactive websites. It's a powerful tool that democratizes web development and allows anyone to explore the possibilities of the digital world.

In this video, I've showcased a diverse range of AI tools and applications that can be incredibly useful, yet often go unnoticed. From immersive 3D environments with facial motion capture, to powerful background removal tools, unique font generation, location identification, and even AI-powered social media and companion apps, the capabilities of these tools are truly remarkable.

While some of these tools may have niche use cases, they demonstrate the rapid advancements in AI technology and the potential for these tools to enhance various workflows, creative endeavors, and even social interactions. The free resources and pay-as-you-go platforms highlighted provide accessible ways for anyone to explore and leverage these AI-powered tools.

As the AI landscape continues to evolve, it's important to stay informed and open-minded about the potential applications and implications of these technologies. By exploring the tools and resources covered in this video, you can unlock new possibilities and stay ahead of the curve in leveraging AI to your advantage.