Revealing How I Find The Coolest AI Tools (LIVE)

The same thing I did last time. I started a live stream where I thought I was live. I was talking for a good minute and a half and then I looked over at OBS and realized that it wasn't actually broadcasting live yet. I think I figured it out quicker this time than I did last time. But I do believe I'm live now, so let me know if you can hear me in the comments. I feel like a tech noob whenever I try to do one of these live streams because I do them so infrequently. But the last time I did a live stream, I deep dived into how I make my YouTube thumbnails. I showed off all the various AI tools and the step by step process to get to a completed thumbnail. This one, I thought it would be kind of fun to show off my process of how I find AI news and how I stay in the loop with AI tools. And I know yes, I have the Future Tools website where I share all the latest AI tools there, but that's not how I stay in the loop. I actually do still add all the tools. I still vet every single tool that goes on the site there. So I am hunting down tools in other ways. So I thought I'd share some of that. I actually haven't reviewed the AI news yet for today. I haven't reviewed the AI tools that people have shared with me yet today. So I thought it'd be fun to just kind of share them live, review them live, talk about them live, you know, see which ones I think are cool, share what news that came out today that I think is interesting and just show you the process that I go through every morning live to stay in the loop and keep my finger on the pulse. But to be honest, the real reason I want to do this live stream was just to like hang out and chat with you guys. I love last time we did one of these live streams, I think I shared my YouTube thumbnail process for the first, you know, maybe 15 or 20 minutes. And then I went for another hour and 40 minutes just answering questions from the chat and checking out tools that you guys suggested. And, you know, going into my backstory about how I got started in AI and how I got started on YouTube. So that was the most fun part for me. But I do want to have a little bit of an agenda coming into this. So that's why I figured I would share some of my processes for news and tools. Anybody who watches my recordings is going to find out how long winded I actually am in real Life. When I make YouTube videos, I actually spend an hour to two hours recording those videos and then try to cut them down to 20 minutes or so. So I do tend to ramble a lot. And if you're watching my live streams, well, you're probably going to learn that as well. But let me peek over to the comments real quick before we get started, now that I know I actually am live and see what you guys are saying. What's up guys? Let's go warriors. We got Dylan, Does, Robert, Corey, TT Red Eye Laser. How's it going? Chris, Joe. Very cool. Carson, Dale, Josh. Very cool. Good to see all you guys here. Ooh, San Diego in the house. Yep, I'm in San Diego as well. Cool. So, you know you guys can put questions inside of the chat. I got my right hand man hanging out with me today in the chat. His name is John. You know him as Craze. You'll see him as the moderator here inside the chat. So if you do ask questions and I'm in the middle of a rant or sharing something else, Craze over there is going to kind of keep track of them for me a little bit and pop them into Discord. So if I miss them, anything that's important that I need to answer or he thinks would be relevant for me to answer, he's going to share with me on Discord and I will try to do my best to answer them. But let's just go ahead and start getting into the initial topic that I wanted to talk about before. We just kind of go freestyle and let this thing go off the rails here. So I'm going to go ahead and share my desktop here. I'm going to hide my bookmarks just to keep it a little bit cleaner. So my process every single morning, this is what I do over coffee first thing in the morning is I try to get myself up to date with all of the latest AI news that's happened in the last 24 hours. I look through any tools that people have submitted. I I just kind of keep my finger on the pulse and by the time I'm done with my coffee, I've usually finished going through this process. But again, I have not actually gone through this process yet today. So my process is I always start in Feedly and the way Feedly works is it's an RSS feed reader. So you can add in blogs into Feedly and you can add in various websites that share news. And every day it will show you the most up to date information from the sites that you plug into it. But it's also got this thing called Feedly. Leo and I created this little feed called AI Web Alerts and this goes and hunts down AI news from around the web from blogs and websites that maybe I'm not subscribed to the RSS feed for. Right. So it, it goes and finds websites that I would never normally read. Like I would never actually read Retail Insider most likely. Or you know, AWS News Blog. I'd probably read that one from time to time. Clinical trial news. I don't think I would read these normally. But this AI Web Alerts goes and scours the Internet and finds all the news from all the random sites that I wouldn't read normally and shares AI news from those. But most of the news that I get comes from my big tech feeds. My big tech feed over here is the Windows blog. The stories is Google. I've got Apple Newsroom, I've got Meta's blog, the GitHub blog, Nvidia blog, Stability AI's blog. So the big tech ones is where it seems like the majority of the important news comes out. So I always kind of review this first. I have this habit of scrolling all the way down to the bottom and then working my way up. It is possible to actually sort by the oldest and have it show the oldest towards the top, but for some reason I always like to scroll down to the bottom and work my way up because I like to see how big this little, this, this little bar on the right hand side of my screen is to know how much news I'm about to review. But again, I haven't reviewed the news yet today, so I'm actually gonna review it in real time. The stuff from the Windows blog isn't that important to me. It's just kind of. They've rolled out some basic beta updates to Windows, so I ignore that. People tell us that once they use Copilot they can't imagine work without it. That's not really news. So I'll kind of skip past that. New, more affordable Apple pencil. Not really AI related. So this is really my process. I skimmed through all this news, see if there's anything interesting worth talking about. AI supercomputer revs UK's economic engine so open that in a new tab, see if that's interesting. New features to help merchants stand out. Stability, AI previews, enhanced image offerings, APIs for business and new product features. Take a peek at that one. Unlocking the power of language. Eight new games for Apple News. And so those are really the Only two news articles from the big tech sites that really grab my attention. So I'm just gonna go ahead and clear this feed here. And now you can see my big tech feed is cleared out. Then I go to my all new sites tab here. And with my all news sites tab, most of it is just The Verge and TechCrunch. But the Verge posts so often that if I look at this feed, it's almost like all the Verge, but once again scroll down to the bottom. It's supposed to only find stuff relevant to AI, but it finds a whole bunch of other stuff randomly as well, like Mario Kart Deluxe and random stuff. Let's see here. Anything, anything interesting worth talking about. Also, if anybody's come across any interesting AI news, feel free to share it. We can take a peek at it as well. I think I do a pretty good job of hunting down all the signal versus the noise. All the AI news that's actually worth talking about. A lot of companies like to say, hey, we just added a customer support chatbot to the bottom corner of our website, therefore we're AI now and you should share us on future tools. And I'm just kind of like, eh, because you have an AI chatbot in the corner of your website to answer questions without a human involved, I don't really feel that's newsworthy because everybody does that now. Nothing really that exciting in any of these either. And then I would just kind of read this article and skim it, see if there's anything interesting. A lot of times Nvidia likes to share stories of companies that are using their AI, but it's not actually super newsworthy. It's just like, hey look, here's another company that uses Nvidia and hey look, here's another company that uses Nvidia and they try to sort of angle it as news when it's really not super newsworthy. So that's pretty much my AI news process. I don't think there's really anything really interesting about this article. I will probably come back and review it again just to make sure. Stability, AI image offerings, APIs for business, and new product features. I will go ahead and share this on the Future Tools website. So I actually have this automation set up. This is really sick. So if I press this little button here. Oh, I gotta log into Zapier first. I don't have to log in every time, but for some reason while I'm streaming, it wants me to log in. So let me log in real quick off screen. All right, cool. I'm logged into Zapier. Now if I press this button up here, I can press this one little send button, just like that. Gives me a little check mark. Now if I go over to Future Tools and I go to my AI News tab. Boom. Stability AI Previews, enhanced image offerings, API for business and new product features. That's how I add news to my website. I literally come across the news, press my little Zapier button, and I have a little automation in the back end that pops it up onto the Future Tools website for me. So that's how that AI News page is kept so up to date. So that's the Stability AI news. The next thing I tend to do is I've got this list over on Twitter called AI is awesome. It's a public list. Anybody can follow it. You can see the URL up here, but here I'll actually paste the URL to this list inside of the messages. If anybody wants to go and follow this list here, it's got 1200 people that actually pay attention to this list. But this is 519 people on Twitter who share pretty frequently AI information. So anything that I don't find on my feedly page, I typically will find in this Twitter feed. You know, somebody from OpenAI or somebody from Google or Adobe or Microsoft or one of those companies is going to share the news on Twitter and I will come across it. You know, somehow on this list. I for the most part, never really scroll my home feed on Twitter. I find that on Twitter. It just gives me a lot of people that I don't actually follow in my home feed a lot. So I pretty much predominantly use my lists. I've got my AI is awesome list. XR is awesome and YouTube is awesome. You know, very unique naming convention there. But my AI is Awesome list is one that I browse every single day. I scroll it and I just see if there's anything worth talking about. I also scroll my notifications every day. And those are really the only two things that I scroll on Twitter, quite honestly, is my various lists and my notifications page. And that keeps me pretty in the loop with all the latest AI news. The third thing I do is I am subscribed to some other AI newsletters. I'll actually show you the ones that I'm subscribed to. So this is my email inbox. I am subscribed to Superhuman by Zain Khan, AI Vibes, AI Breakfast, Ben's Bites, the Rundown, Unwind, AI Body, Brain, the Neuron. One useful thing. Let's see Are there any that I missed? And that seems to be all of them. You can see that every day. I get all of these newsletters from all of these different. All these different people that are keeping their finger on the pulse. I really, really love the Rundown. This is probably one of my favorite AI newsletters outside of the Future Tools newsletter. This one is Rowan Chung, who puts this out. That's one of my favorites. I also really, really like Ben's Bytes. He does a great job with his newsletter. And this is also how I come across a lot of tools. A lot of these newsletters share tools. So if I look at the Rundown newsletter, he shares the latest developments. If I'm honest, most of these newsletters, I don't find actual news from most of them. You know, I usually come across the news from my RSS feed reader over on Feedly, but every once in a while, one of these newsletters will pop up some news that I haven't come across yet. Most of the time, I'm looking at these newsletters just to see what tools they're coming across. So the Rundown, he's got his trending tools down here, and I usually skim what tools he's sharing to see if there's any tools that I haven't come across or haven't played with yet. Same with Ben Bytes. You know, he's got this news, but most of this news is stuff that I've come across already on Feedly. But then he's got his top tool section here, where I'll click through these tools and see if there's anything that I haven't played with yet. I'm gonna go ahead and pause because I've been talking for 16 minutes here. So let me see what you guys are saying. Things are about to get silly. Yeah, probably true. Let's see. What do you think about AI art? Will it stay? Is it ethical? I tried selling images, but what do you think? We could talk about that in a little bit. How to make a news website. I actually made my website on webflow and have a bunch of zapier automations going on behind the scenes. Have I messed with Nvidia's Canvas a little bit? Not a whole lot. Yeah. So some good questions here. I'm going to. I'll review them after I kind of stop talking about some of this other stuff that I wanted to talk about. So Praise slash John, if you see any questions that you think we. We got to answer, make sure you toss them in the discord to me. And we'll we'll round some of those up. Sweet. Your favorite newsletter, what's your favorite image generator? Currently. Let's see. Do you pull your newsletter into Feedly too? I don't actually pull my newsletter into Feedly right now. Sixteen minutes. That was the quickest of my life. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not totally done yet. I was just kind of taking a break to see what people are saying in the comments, making sure nobody's going, hey, you're muted, I can't hear you, or anything like that. So, yeah, I shared what newsletters I read. There's a few others that are less than weekly or daily. These are all the pretty much daily newsletters. There are a few others that I'm on that are a little less frequent, that are only like once or twice a week. But I don't know what they are off the top of my head. These are just the ones that I see every single day. That's how I come across a lot of the tools. The AI is Awesome Twitter list. I keep up to date with that. We've got my AI web alerts and all of my AI news feeds that I follow here. I actually plugged Ben's Bytes website. So Ben's Bytes, if you're not familiar, he's actually got a news site here at News Bensbytes Co and this is a community driven news site that he has. So if you follow this website here, you can actually submit news as you come across it. And so this is curated by the community, where my future tools news site is all curated by me. Every piece of news that ends up on the site is something that I personally came across and went, oh, this is interesting. I'm going to share it with the community. Ben's Bytes is the community sharing stuff. And so a lot of times you get a lot of duplicate stuff in here. You get a lot of stuff that's not newsworthy. You get a lot of people that went and, you know, built a quick AI app and then shared it on this website, trying to claim that it's news and stuff like that. So it's not. You know, there's a lot of stuff that pops up in here and a lot of it is pretty decent news. But there's a lot of the signal to noise ratio. There's a lot of noise as well. So I actually have Ben's Bytes set up with my RSS feed reader. They actually have a feature here in Feedly where you can go and create a new RSS feed on a site that doesn't even have one. So if I go and plug in News Bensbytes Co here and I plug it over into like this, like I want to follow. Doesn't actually have an RSS feed reader, but you can see right here it has an RSS builder. So if I click on this, it actually says click on a link to see the matched feed here. And if I click on this link, you can see it's now creating a feed off of every news item here. If I clicked build RSS feed here, then I now have this Benzbyte feed of anybody that submits anything to Benzbytes. It actually feeds straight to my AI News feedly account here. I imagine if somebody really, really wanted an RSS feed of my Future tools website, you could do the same thing, right? I mean, my preference is you go to my site because I like seeing the traffic go to my site. But if you wanted to do this, you could, you could go to this RSS builder here, plug in this URL FutureTools IE News, click on RSS Builder, select the link, and you can see now it created a feed of every single new piece of news that gets added to the AI News page. And now instead of feedly, you can keep up with it there if you wanted to do that. Alternatively, if you want to do that with the actual tools that get added to future tools, I imagine you can do that as well. If I just took FutureTools IO, created a new RSS feed reader, paste this here and RSS builder and then just select this first link here and you can see it would actually create a feed every single time a new tool is added, and you can actually follow along to every single new tool. It looks like the title will just say Future Tools, so I don't know how helpful that'll be. But you could create an RSS feed of your own off of my site if you wanted to keep up with it that closely. So there's, there's one idea for you if you want to. People ask me all the time, why don't you have an RSS feed for your news page or your Tools page? And I mean, I could build one, but at the end of the day, my business is built on traffic. I need to get traffic to the site, and then the more traffic I get to the site, the more eyeballs are on these featured listings. And these featured listings are essentially sponsored posts. So, you know, I need traffic and eyeballs to the site, which is the main reason I don't have an RSS feed reader. But if you really, really want to do it, that's your workaround. Another place that I do really like checking into is this Daily Papers over on Hugging Face. This is a really good resource as well. Huggingface co papers every single day during the weekday, Monday through Friday. Any new research papers that go on archive.org that look interesting. This is curated by AK who's got a really, really good, A really good Twitter. If you don't follow him, I thought that link was gonna send me over to his Twitter, but it didn't. But AK on Twitter has a really, really good Twitter following where he shares all of the latest cool research papers that come out of archive.org so he also curates this over on Hugging Face where whenever he comes across a really cool like AI tool or research paper, he shares it right here on this page. I like to open it up. You know, we've got this short to long video diffusion model for generative transition and prediction, I think. Okay, that looks interesting. I can open this up here, visit the archive.org page and all right, here's the URL for the project page. And now I could learn a little bit more about this specific project and how it works. So when I do those videos on my YouTube channel about like this AI is mind blowing or this is the AI that's coming that we don't have access to yet. But it's really cool whenever I do that style of video, most of that information actually comes from this Daily Papers page over on Hugging Face. I just kind of keep up to date on this site whenever I come across some information that I think looks really interesting, like this, this one here, I'll save it to my mind, which is another tool that I use to kind of just organize cool resources that I come across on the web. You can see here's that one that I just took a screenshot of popping up into my mind right here. So whenever I come across anything interesting that I think is really worth sharing on a future video, I make sure to save it to my mind here. But those are really the daily check in resources that I use. So yeah, any questions about that? I'll go ahead and take a break. I'm going to take a sip of water. Let me see what's John saying over here. How much do all your automation tools cost specifically for the YouTube workflow? Oh, Luma AI just made a new announcement. Cool, I have to check that out. How many hours a week do you work on AI news gathering and video making? So AI news gathering, I do pretty much Every day. I definitely do it less on the weekends. So Saturday and Sunday, I'm not so much jumping on and scrolling through the news, but if I have some downtime on a Saturday or Sunday, I might pop open my phone and skim my. My feedly feed. But the interesting thing about the AI world is not much news really comes out over the weekends. Right. Like OpenAI and Google and Microsoft and Apple and all the big companies. None of them ever really put out big news headlines over the weekend. They usually wait till midweek. It seems like Tuesday seems to be like the hottest day of the week to make announcements. So there's really. It's really a lot slower during the weekends. So I don't really pay attention on the weekends. But during the week, it's usually the first, you know, 90 minutes of my day. Kind of skimming the news, skimming the latest tools, skimming the Twitter accounts, doing all that stuff. Yeah. So I'd say about 90 minutes a day on research. The actual process of recording YouTube videos varies wildly. Right. You know, John, aka Craze here, he helps me with the YouTube videos. He helps me with titles and thumbnails and ideas for videos. And, you know, he can attest to the fact that it's kind of all over the place. Some of the videos we knock out in 45 minutes, and from the time I hit record to the time it's live is pretty quick. And then other videos will spend three days producing the video. It really depends on the topic and how in depth we go and. And all that kind of stuff. The AI news videos, if you're asking specifically about those, the ones I do on Friday, those videos, since I'm kind of doing the research throughout the week, I'm not actually doing a lot of the research right before hitting record on the video I've kind of already got. Here's all the news that came out throughout the week that I want to talk about. I open them all up in tabs so I know exactly what stuff I'm going to talk about. And then I just kind of hit record and start rambling about each news piece. I then go back through myself and cut out any stuff that I think is fluff. Or I often cut out news articles where when I watch my video back, in retrospect, I go, that's not that important of news. I don't feel like I need to actually share that. So I'll actually go out and cut out whole news articles that I don't think are relevant to share. I cut out any Sort of areas where I repeat myself or they're redundant. And then after that I typically send it over to my editor. And then my editor goes and he tends to add transitions and puts text on screen. And if you do hear any sound effects, he adds those. Although the feedback we've been getting is back off on the sound effects. So you know, he's gotten that feedback as well. Let's, let's slow down on the sound effects. But he goes and add some of that final polish onto the videos. So I usually spend, I'd say two hours on, on Thursday making the news video before passing it off to my editor. That's about typical for that, I would say. Let's see, what else do we got here? John is posting a bunch of questions to me here. So how much do all the automation tools cost? Let me think here. So I have Zapier, which I think is about 50 bucks a month. I use that quite a bit, but I don't know the pricing off the top of my head. Hopefully I'm not showing anything I shouldn't show. That's just my email address. I'm not too worried about that spilling. Okay, So I pay $73.50 a month for Zapier here. Feedly Leo. What does that cost? Wait, I just saw pricing page. Where's that pricing? So I'm on the $12 a month plan for Feedly Leo. Because if you look at, if you look at Pro, they have a $6 month plan and a $12 month plan. But the AI features that you really want I think are only on this plan. So yeah, between Zapier, I also use make.com a little bit for my other automations. I've made a video about that in the past. Make.com I pay. I think I'm on this plan, the $16 a month plan. So roughly a hundred ish dollars on all the AI automation tools to keep the news and stuff up to date. That's really all I pay for. I do have a bunch of AI tools like I do pay for. You know, Leonardo, I do pay for Runway, I do pay for Mid Journey. I pay for a lot of those tools that I use pretty frequently as well. But that's not really necessarily stuff that goes into the production process. Let's see here. I do want to check out what the new Luma AI news is. So the other thing that I was going to share too is so many people ask me, how do you find all the tools? Right? So I do find them by just browsing my AI Is awesome list. People will share new tools on here. I do find them from the newsletter, I do find them from news articles directly on feedly. I do find them from all of those places. But the majority of the stuff that gets added to the website is actually submitted by people on the website. So if you go to the future tools website here, I do have this submit a tool page here. I ask people to follow certain directions when submitting the tools. I think pretty much everybody ignores my instructions and just submits whatever they want. But people do submit them to me. I do ask for their name and email too. So I'm trying to kind of hide that those details here. But I do ask for that and you can see here's what's added since I updated tools yesterday. These ones came in sort of overnight and these are the ones that have been submitted so far today. So you can see every single day there's a handful of tools that people submit for me to review. I would say that about 90% of the tools that people submit I don't actually end up putting on the site because they look very low effort. Right. If my, my sort of rule of thumb for these AI tools is if your website looks low effort, I'm assuming your tool is also low effort. So if I land on your website and it looks like the website was built in 30 seconds, I'm going to also assume you kind of half assed building your tool as well. So that's kind of one of my criteria. But here's these are all the tools that I've been submitted. One of the things I ask people not to do is don't submit tools that are already on the website because I will, you know, I'm just gonna ignore those submissions. There's no point. So please search the website for a tool first. And just looking through this already, I can already see that this trickle. So somebody submitted that. But I know for a fact that I already list trickle on my website. It's right there. So like, yeah, that's one of the annoying things is I do have to sort of filter and go through all of this stuff and there's just a lot of, a lot of junk on here. I don't want to click on any of these tools and you know, call anybody out and pull up something and be like, see this is my example of a junk tool because I'd feel bad about that for the person that actually created the tool. So I'm not going to actually do that. But this is what it looks like. I actually just Get a spreadsheet every day of. Here's all the tools that were submitted. My typical process is I will select all of these URLs here, right click and open links. And it will literally just open all of these links and new tabs and then I will just start to click through all of these tools to see what was submitted. But I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna do any negative commentary on any of these right now. I'm gonna review them offline. If a site takes a long time to load, it's probably not gonna make the cut. Also, there are tools that are resubmitted that are already on the site. But again, I don't want to. I don't want to poop on anybody's parade here. So I'm not going to. I'm not going to review tools in real time right now unless there's specific tools that people want to plug into the comments and think that we should take a look at. But there we go. I think, I think I covered everything. 32 minutes in and I think I covered my entire process of what I do for the first hour and a half to two hours of my day. That's. That's what that looks like. See Shadow Slayer. Have you tried Moon Valley? I have, yes. It seems, it seems to work pretty good. I'm pretty sure I tried it in one of my past videos as well. Yeah, it's not a good idea to just open links. You don't know. I agree. That's why I closed out of them really quick. Wanted to just sort of show you the process, but didn't want to dive deep into any of them because a lot of times people submit AI generated image sites with not the safest for work content, which also means not safe for YouTube streaming content. All right, let me see. John's posted a bunch of questions over here for me to take a look at, So I haven't so somebody asked, are you aware of any local image models or local LLMs that work on Auto gen? Honestly, I have not played with Auto Gen yet. If you want to learn more about Auto gin, the best YouTube channel to follow about that right now is Matthew Berman if you follow him. This guy right here. Definitely a good AI follow if you're not following him already. But you can see Auto Gen plus GPT Auto Gen Advanced Tutorial how to use Auto Gen with any open source Large Language Model Use Auto Gen with any open source model. Looks like that was kind of a two parter or something. So make sure you're following Matthew Berman as well. He shares a lot of good stuff. Autogen and MEM GPT. He you know, on my channel I used to dive into the really, really technical stuff a little more often. I'd like to do it again in the, in the future, but lately I've been kind of focused more on sharing the news and making tutorials about tools that you don't need to know. GitHub and how to use terminal commands and stuff like that to actually set up. I am planning on doing more of those in the future and kind of deep diving on some of that stuff. But right now, Matthew Berman is a really, really good channel to follow for that kind of stuff. Let's see what else we got. Is there a free tool that will generate AI images? Often uploaded image? Kind of how like a mid Journey works? I mean, free tool. Hey John, it would be helpful too if you can plug in like the name of the person that asked the question too. So I can, I can address them. That would be, that would be helpful as well. But it says, is there a free tool that will generate AI images off an uploaded image? Kind of like how Midjourney works? There are if you're willing to, you know, install install tools on your local hard drive. Right. With stable diffusion. If you're using stable diffusion, you can upload any image you want and have it generate images. On top of that, you can do in painting out painting, so you can add other stuff inside of the images. You can have it model the style of the images, things like that, you know. Also, I was going to talk a little bit about Leonardo because they just rolled out some new features. I had a call with one of the co founders on Monday and he was, he was telling me all about this new Alchemy V2. So I thought maybe I would play around with that a little bit. So this one has the ability to upload images. I just need a little bit more context into that question. The local image models though, definitely stable diffusion. I would use that. You can see some of the most recent weird randomness I've made inside of Leonardo here. Can you please make more videos on automation with AI? Yeah, I, I mean automation was like my first love. That's what actually got me into AI in the first place. So I would absolutely love to make more videos on automation. Sometimes it's not always the easiest to come up with the ideas. So if you have ideas for videos that you'd love to see me publish, totally down. Just, you know, give me some feedback on what what things you want to see automated and I'll figure out how to automate those. Let's see here. Would you mind moving your circle to the other side of the screen as it's overlapping with the comments list? I can move my camera there or there. I've got those two options. Where's the comments list? I thought the comments was off the video. Let's see. As an ADHD person, I struggle with sticking to one subject at a time. I'm doing like 50 things at once. How do you decide which rabbit hole you are getting in? That's a really good question. I don't know if I really decide which rabbit holes I'm getting in. I think the rabbit holes find me. You know, I just start scrolling down the news like I mentioned and every once in a while I will click into a tool and I'll go, oh, this looks interesting. And then I'll click into a link from that article. And then I'll click into a link from that article. I, you know, I don't think I have adhd, but at times I also, you know, I, I have, I, I, I, I don't know, maybe I'm like the opposite of ADHD where I'll just get like hyper focused into like one topic. But I guess ADHD people do that too. I don't know, I don't know what I'm talking about. Ignore the last 30 seconds of what I just said. I just kind of go down rabbit holes and I don't really know why I decided to go down the rabbit holes. I do, I just, that just kind of happens. Let's see. Hey Matt, thanks for teaching. Do you have an AI tool for building a site for WordPress where you go to find an editor? Yes. So there's two questions there. So do I have an AI tool for building a site for WordPress? I have not actually used an AI tool myself for building a WordPress site, but I know there is a couple. So if I do a quick search for WordPress here, there's 22 tools on the website. 10 web, I believe has built in AI for WordPress. There's this code wp which is a co generator for WordPress. I would check out those two. I don't use WordPress. This site is actually built on Webflow. So I used to build a lot with WordPress but got kind of sick of needing to run updates every single time I ever logged into WordPress. So now I don't use WordPress as much. I use Webflow. And then as far as where I find an editor, I actually found. I've got two people helping edit now. I've got my main editor, Mark, who actually lives in the Philippines. I found him on online jobs ph Igor from the AI Advantage. He told me about this site. He has an editor based in the Philippines as well. So the way I found my editor on online jobs ph was I went and I posted a job listing on here saying that, you know, I'm looking for an editor for my YouTube channel. I linked off to my YouTube channel so they can kind of see the style of the video. And I said. I said some somewhere in my description. I said, when you reply, say this keyword back to me so that I know you read my job description. Right? I always like to do that. So, you know, maybe halfway through my. My paragraph job description, I might say, you know, put the word squirrel somewhere in your response to me so that I know you actually read my job listing. And then when I start going through all the replies to the job listings, I see who actually put squirrel somewhere in their response. If they didn't do that, I automatically go, okay, this person doesn't follow directions. And I rule them out. Once I narrowed it down to about 10 people that I thought would be good editors, you know, I looked at some of their portfolios, looked at some of the videos they created, and thought, okay, these are people that edit in the style that I like. I sent all 10 of those people an unedited video and said, I'd like to pay you to edit this video. I think I offered them 50 bucks to edit the video. I said, here, I'll give you 50 bucks to edit this video. I did that for, like 10 different people. I had them all edit the same video. And then from those 10 videos they sent back, I went and decided who I thought did the best edit. I did pay all of them. So it's not, you know, the cheapest approach, but I wanted to make sure that I wasn't, you know, getting them to spend a bunch of time on me for free without. Without anything in return or without any potential of. Of making any money off of it. So I did offer to pay them all, and then I ended up picking the editor that I thought did the best job with that one video. And then the other editor I have is actually John. He helps me do some of the edits as well. He's. He's kind of more of a polisher edit. So if I or Mark do an edit, I might send it over to John afterwards and he'll do some extra polish. He's got a, you know, he's got a graphics design background and very, very good with the visual. So I like to always pass the videos through him to get some last minute feedback and some last minute edits on the videos. But you know John, since he's sort of a jack of all trades, he doesn't, there isn't like a specific rate that he gets paid per video or anything like that. So Mark on the other hand, in the Philippines he started I think at 800 bucks a month for. He was editing eight videos for me. So I think I was paying about 100 bucks a video. The amount I pay him has actually gone up since then, but when I first started that's, that's how much he requested. But I have paid him more as time has gone on and the channel's grown. So he is actually making more than that now. Let's see here. And thanks for the donations by the way. That's, that's really awesome. I actually almost forgot that that feature existed in YouTube but I've been seeing them, seeing some of them pop in. So I just want to say thank you to Driver Sensei and the crucial druggie. And we got Pembroke Jones learning Labyrinth. Thank you so much guys. That is so awesome. Agnes Love Heals Brenworth. Thank you so much. You guys are amazing. That's so cool. Let's see here. So Ram said, please tell me about newsletter automation. The funny thing is my newsletter is the least automated part of the business. There's actually no real automation in my newsletter. It's really just the tools that I came across the week that I found the most interesting and typing out a description of them. The only automation that goes into that newsletter is I will double check the grammar, the spelling and the readability with Claude. So I will copy and paste the whole newsletter in after it's written and say double check this, this text for spelling, grammar and readability. You know, obviously you could do spelling and grammar with other tools like Grammarly and things like that. But if you do and readability, it will actually suggest some better ways to word some of the paragraphs. It will suggest, you know, maybe use this word instead of this word because this is, you know, easier reading level for people, things like that. So I always like to have it check it for readability and sort of help me reword things to make it a little bit easier to read. But that's really the only automation that goes in the newsletter. Everything else is still done very, very manually. See Joe Are there any tools to generate 3D models from text? Looking to 3D print an AI generated item, that's actually something I want to do as well. I want to start doing some 3D models and then doing some 3D prints on them. There have been some text to 3D models that came out. Let me see if I can figure them out through this web. As you can see, by the way, I actually do use this website quite a bit myself. So it's not. I actually made this for myself to whenever I came across. Cool tools to find the stuff again that I've come across already. But yeah, this Masterpiece X is the one that I played with recently. So if we visit this one, this one does a pretty decent job of text to 3D. It does take a minute to use. But if I go generate 3D now. Here, let me just log in real quick. Pull it off my screen here. Give it a second while it logs in. This one's not super fast, but you can see I did a wolf one here in the past where my prompt was a wolf that's hyper realistic. But the funny thing is the wolf looks pretty okay straight on right like that. But as soon as I turn it, you can see the nose somehow ended up on the neck. So it looks more like a cat. But you know, it's. This is the best tool I've found so far that actually does text to 3D. I didn't add anything else other than this prompt right here. And it generated this. I did another one that was a human that's supposed to be a pirate 4K cartoon art station. If you do humans, it will actually try to animate the humans too. So this is what that pirate looked like. It looks more like a. Some sort of mutant from like the Last of Us or something. But that's. That's what it made for me. So check out Masterpiece X. You do get a certain amount of free credits to generate some stuff for free. And then if you like it and you want to generate more, you know, I'm assuming you can. Yeah, you can pay to upgrade and get more credits, but they do let you generate, you know, four or five things for free to test it out. I haven't paid anything for this yet. Here, let me move my camera around. I think it's better over there for this screen. All right, what else do we got? What else? Is there any AI tool that can help create photos with our own clothes? Like e commerce type. So like changing the clothes but keeping the same head on the body, I guess each Time. Yeah, I mean you can do that directly with stable diffusion. You can do that with any sort of inpainting, you know, any tools specifically designed to do that? I'm not actually sure. Let's see, there are like virtual try on Virtual try on tools. So like on model AI here, this is like a virtual try on tool. So it's the same, close but different model. I almost got the impression from the question from AI creativity. I almost got the impression that you wanted to use the same model but different clothes. I'm not sure, maybe this does that as well. But that's something you can look into. Just look up. Virtual try on. There are a handful of virtual try on tools. Even if I just Google virtual try on Virtual try on. There's like a Google thing. So there's, there's, there's a handful of tools that exist out there. It's not something I've personally had a use case for, but when I do come across them, I try to share them on the Future Tools website. See here. Vicki o', Neill, are there any video editing AI tools for raw video footage for long form videos? My apologies if it was already asked. Nope, you're good. Hasn't been asked yet. Let's see. So the only tool that I use to edit videos actually doesn't use AI, but it might as well. It almost feels like AI. So I'm exposing my desktop a little bit here, but it's this tool called Time Bolt. And if I open up Time Bolt here, I'll actually show you what this does if I select a video that I recently recorded. Let's see, I don't even remember what I recorded on October 26, but this is a 3 gigabyte file here. If I open it here, you can see what Time Bolt does for me real quick. Just give it a second, it'll do something eventually. You can see here that output is now shorter by 53 minutes and 41 seconds. Output duration 29 minutes and 43 seconds. So this is a video that's about an hour and 20 minutes long and all I did was open it up and you can see it edited out any sort of dead air in the video. And so when people watch my videos and they go, oh, you edit too fast, you're editing, the pacing is too fast, you need to slow down the pacing. This is the reason why. It's because I record for an hour and a half, two hours. But there's a lot of dead in the air in there. As I'm thinking about what to Say next. And so I just need to go back and close all these gaps. And this tool goes back and closes all those gaps for me and gets rid of all the dead air. And that's why the editing feels so fast. I mean, look, here's like a good, like several minutes where I'm not speaking. I'm either thinking about what I'm saying next or I'm reading the article so I can make sure I'm explaining the article correctly. But there's a lot, a lot, a lot of dead air as I'm recording. And this time, Bolt tool automatically, with one click, goes and cuts out all that dead air. And so once I do that, I'll export it from this tool down here. I can add it to my render queue, export it out. Once I've exported it out, then I pull it into DaVinci Resolve and do any sort of additional editing. But I save so much time from just like clipping out all that dead air. That's the only thing that I use as part of my editing workflow or that really uses AI. Everything else is just sort of manual. There is a tool for Adobe Premiere, but because I don't use Adobe Premiere, I can't really leverage it very well. But there's a tool called autopod. You can see this autopod tool is really cool. This is a tool for if you're doing like a podcast interview, and let's say you have three different cameras, this will automatically cut between cameras. So it will automatically figure out who's speaking and make sure that the camera switches to the person that's actively speaking. And if you have a wide shot where you can see, say you have three cameras, one speaker, the other speaker, and then a wide shot of both speakers, this will automatically switch between whoever's speaking in the moment, and then you can set it so 10% of the time it'll go to your wide shot and automatically cut to the wide shot regardless of who's speaking. And it's a really, really cool tool for people who use Premiere. I'm really, really hoping that at some point soon they also roll out a version for DaVinci Resolve, because I'm not ready to go learn a new editing tool yet. I like using DaVinci still. What else do we got? Have you heard from Mr. Beast after creating the Mr. Beast bot? I have not. I would love to hear from Mr. Beast. I've met a handful of people on the Mr. Beast team. Some, a lot of those people were over at VidSummit, but have not personally heard from Mr. Beast after that video. What was the name of the Twitter account that reviewed AI research papers from arXiv? That was AK. So you go to Twitter. I search AK. That's not his actual Twitter handle. This is his actual Twitter handle. It's underscore a K H A L I Q. Follow him. A lot of other people do, but he's. He shares a lot of really cool research that comes out of archive.org let's see. Carlos says, are there better alternatives for free Dall E rather than being image creator with its silly censorship? Not for Dall E. I mean, Dall E, you really have three options, right? Dall E, you can either use it directly inside of Chat GPT, which censors it quite a bit. You can use it in Bing Image Creator, or you can use it directly in Bing Chat. All of them are going to censor it. If you want to use Dall E, they're going to censor it. It's interesting because I haven't really found the limits of the sensor. Some stuff that you think would be censored isn't, and some stuff that you know thinks that. That you wouldn't think would be censored is. But yeah, if you want to specifically use Dall E, which is the most prompt adherent AI image generator there is, hands down, most prompt adherent, but also one of the most censored. So it's kind of unfortunate. But mid journey version 6 claims are should be this month, maybe next month at the latest. And supposedly the new version of Midjourney is going to get much more prompt adherent as well. Let's see. JoJo. I remember there was an AI bot to warn people about their language when they watch your YouTube live stream. Can you share what tool you use for that? I actually don't know what that is. It's not something that I use. Yeah, I think. I think you might be thinking of a different YouTuber, because if I knew about it, I'd probably use it. But it's not something I've come across yet. Phillips9179. Is anyone aware where I can create avatars, where I can control their movements as well as their voice? I mean, so what you're looking for is like the. The vtuber kind of concept. There's Adobe Animator that does that. There's a new version in Adobe Express that does something similar, but it doesn't do it in real time. Another. It's one of those rabbit holes I haven't gone down myself yet. But if you look at Adobe Express, they do have. Oops, the wrong thing. If you go to Adobe Express, they have. Where is it? Am I missing something? They do have, like an animator tool that was in here when I made a video about it last week, but now I'm not seeing it. Here. There we go. Animate from audio. This one, you can actually upload an audio file or record an audio file and it will make the mouth and hands move to the audio. Or you record the audio file right here. Maybe you can't upload it. Oh, yeah, yeah. You can upload an audio file or record an audio file right here and it'll make the mouths move. The only problem with this is you can't create your own character. You're stuck using one of the characters that they have already. If you're gonna use something like Adobe Animator or Character Animator, I think you can use your own characters in that, but, you know, you gotta go create the characters first. Game on says, have you made your life easier with all these AI tools? Well, it's made my business life a lot easier, right? So I use AI to keep up to date with the news. I use AI to automate my website. I've made a video about how AI is actually helping run future tools in the back end. I'm using AI to help check my grammar and readability on all of my newsletters. I'm using AI to help me make every single thumbnail I make. Almost all the thumbnails are made using either midjourney, Dall E, Leonardo Stable Diffusion, Adobe's Generative Fill, or in most cases, a combination of most of those tools. So my daily life, I don't know. Not a lot in the personal life outside of what I'm doing for work, but my work life is a lot easier. I got these new AI sunglasses from Meta here that, you know, I could put these on and actually talk to Meta's AI, but their Meta's AI isn't super great yet. Let me see. I wonder if you can actually hear if I was to talk to them. Like, let me see here. Right now, just a battery. Battery 100%. But I don't know if I can make you guys hear what these headphones hear. Let's see, what's a good. What's a question I can ask it. Hey, Meta, what makes llama better than Chat GPT? I have no idea if you guys could hear that or not. Does that actually come through? But these are. Yeah, these are the Meta. Meta Ray Bans. I just asked it and it Basically it said, when I asked it, it said llama has no benefits over chat. GPT is essentially what it said. So I've been, I got those like a week ago. I've been playing with those, but I mostly use them as like the first person view camera. Like I've went out and rode my bike and turn those on and recorded video, which has nothing to do with AI, it's just cool thing that's built into them. Let me see, what other questions do we got over here? Vincent asks any preferred AI program for logo or brand design logos. I would say mid journey is probably still the best for logos or I would use the new Adobe Illustrator text to vector model for logos. That's probably your best bet honestly. Is the AI Illustrators or the Adobe Illustrators text to vector? I showed that off in the one of the videos around Adobe's live event. See what else do we got? Nope, still no AI for filing your taxes yet? Nope. I still have a CPA that I send all that stuff to. Matt, are you AI? Not that I know of. Not that I know of. If I was an AI, I. I'm sure I'd be programmed to say that though. Where can I add more characters? Because when I add my Instagram followers list to compare on GPT, it's always an error. I'm guessing because it's too much. I'm not following along to that question. That's from Driver Sensei here. Where can I add more characters? Because when I add my IG followers list to compare on GPT, it's always an error. Yeah, if you're talking about context windows, I would be looking at something like Claude as opposed to Chat GPT, but I'm not totally following along to that question. Isabella says any a free AI tool that can cut out a character from an image or make the background transparent, leaving the character in the image. Yeah, there's quite a bit of tools out there now that can do that. You can actually do that directly in Photoshop with Photoshop's AI now as well. But there are definitely a handful of tools out there that will remove the background. If I go to future tools and I just type remove, let's see, remove background. I can type. I can't type and go live at the same time. What do we got? So clip drop, they've got. They've got these features in there. I'm pretty sure Runway has those features as well. But let's see Clip drop here. So in their tools they've got remove background so you can Upload an image and have it remove the background from the image. They've got Cleanup tool where you can upload an image and you know, select a certain part of the image and it will remove that piece of the image. So I would just check out Clip Drop from Stability. They've got all those tools built into it. I think you can use it a certain amount for free before it makes you log in and start paying. Let's see, run through the zapier Automations best face swap you've tried so far. So the best face. So the zapier Automations, those are probably a little bit harder for me to run through. Let me see here. I do have a couple zaps running. Which ones do I have? So here's the news find that updates webflow. This is the one that I showed you earlier where when I found a news article, I can just press this button and it sends it right over to webflow for me. So what it does, it starts by creating a spreadsheet row in Google Sheets whenever a new push in zapier from the Zapier Chrome extension. It then updates the date and time so that it's in a, you know, a more readable time that webflow would understand. It adds a road to Google Spreadsheet which you can actually see right here. I call it News Machine. This is every piece of news that's ever gone on the site. I have an archive of it. So this is all the news I've ever shared on the Future Tools website right here. And all of this is being fed into this Google Sheet. Here you can see the title of the article, the URL to the article, the source website of the article, and the cleaned up date that it saved the article. So that's what the Zapier is doing right here where it's updating the time and then adding it to a Google Sheet. And then it creates a live item in webflow. And the action inside of webflow is it adds the article URL, adds a reference, equals future tools to the end of the URL, adds the source, adds the date, adds the title, and then automatically publishes it to webflow. So that's that whole workflow right there. You know, if you know what you're doing with zapier, you can always screenshot this and build something similar. Oh shoot, I'm not sharing my screen. Dang it. Okay, sorry about that. Yeah, so this is my zapier account here. Yeah, I feel like an idiot now. So this is my, this is my zapier workflow. Here. So remember when I looked at a news article, I pressed this little Zapier button here. That's my Chrome extension Zapier button. And then when you press this button, it then formats the date into a date that's readable, and then it adds it to a Google sheet. And then I was showing off that I literally have a Google sheet of every single news article I've ever shared on the website here, because these were all added via zapier here. So going all the way back to January of 2023, I literally have a timeline of all of the news that came out for 2023 in the AI world right here. So maybe at the end of December, I'll probably make a video that's like, you know, I'm not going to recap 955 articles, but, you know, here's the 20 biggest things to happen in the AI world in 2023. And I can reference this spreadsheet, but then once it adds it to a Google sheet, then it adds it to webflow based on the information inside of this Google sheet here. So that's. That's the Zapier flow. Once again, I mentioned it when my face was on camera. But if you want to screenshot this, you know, screenshot this, don't screenshot my face. But that is the flow. Sorry about that screw up, guys. I need to look at my second monitor more often when I'm getting into a rant here. All right, Luma AI can now do text to 3D on Discord. Ooh, let's check that out here. You're gonna see a little behind the scenes. This is. This is John here feeding me the questions to read on screen. But I think I'm in Luma's. I'm in way too many discords, by the way, guys. Way too many. Let me see if I can find the Luma Discord. I feel like I'm in it. Runway kyber leonardo run to fusion, mid journey, adobe firefly to forum. Maybe I'm not in the luma AI discord. I definitely want to test out some text to 3D here with Luma. All right, I'm gonna move this off the screen for now. I did want to actually play around with some of these new Leonardo features as well. So The Leonardo Alchemy V2 just came out, and I did have a call with the guys over at Leonardo. Well, one of the guys over at Leonardo on Monday, and I thought it would be fun to test out some of these new models that they just added In. But I thought it'd be cool to test it out based on prompts that you guys suggest. So if you have any ideas of things you want me to test out in Leonardo, I'd love to play around with them. Let me actually pull up my notes here from our call. So the Alchemy version two, the photorealism, he told me that's like really, really up leveled. The photorealism has gotten a lot better. They have this new random prompt feature. So if I just don't put any prompt here, I can just click new random prompt. It'll just think of something random that we can generate AI around like this, an electrifying concoction of colors, blah blah blah. Let me turn off photo real. But if we go ahead and actually start it with a prompt like let's say I type in like race car and then I click this button, I could click improve prompt. And based off just this race car, it's going to write this much more in depth prompt here for me. Let's see. Got the Alchemy refiner now. Image guidance. Yeah. So if you guys have anything you want me to prompt in Leonardo, I'd want to try their new Alchemy V2 that's out and see how much better it is than the older version. Let's see. WDW Mainline. Are there any text to speech applications you can run locally that do something similar to 11 labs? Yeah. So if you watch my video, I actually put out a video yesterday. I don't know, they all blur together. I actually put out a video yesterday called like the AI Swiss Army Knife, all about Pinocchio. This Pinocchio tool here, check that out. Because there are some text to speech models in it. I couldn't get them to work in the video, but after I recorded the video they, we got them, they got them working. I was actually, while I was recording the video, I was going back and forth with the company that made that Pinocchio tool on Discord. And after the video was finalized, they had actually fixed the issue that I was running into playing around with the text to speech model. So yeah, I would look into bark. And if you want the easiest way to set up bark, you can do it straight inside of Pinocchio. I believe there's a hugging face space where you can play around with bark as well. So let me just search out bark here. You got koki bark. Is that pronounced koki or kokui? I don't even know but you've got a handful of bark. Voice cloning Tools here on Hugging Face that you can use. You've got Koki Kokui, so play around with some of those. But they also have them built into Pinocchio. You could use them in that as well. What else, what else, what else? Canva AI features. Your thoughts, please? I haven't actually tried a lot of the Canva AI features. Let's see. Ducky is also asking, where can we ask you questions or suggest you some video ideas or video ideas for automations with make or zapier? So come over to the future tools, Discord. John and I are. Me and John and Zeno. We're trying to get this Discord really cranking again. I'm popping in there every day and responding to people as questions pop up. But we are cleaning it up. There's a lot of rooms in here now. We're actually going to narrow it down to only like eight rooms, so it's a lot cleaner and a lot easier to know where to post. But we are in the process of overhauling this Discord and you can see right here, there is a room called Suggest a Video. So if you do have ideas for things that you want to see me make videos around, pop in here. Because we are checking into this Discord a lot more frequently than we were. We've got. We're 30 members away from cracking, 12,000 members. So if you're not in the Discord, this is. This is the best way. People are constantly asking me, you know, hey, I've emailed you, I haven't heard back. I've DMed you, I haven't heard back. Those places are a mess. But I do, I do check into Discord every day and I am responding inside of the community. So if somebody wants to reach me directly, the Discord's the best way. And hands down. All right, let me see here. What else we got? Yeah, Canva AI feature. Sorry, I skipped over that. I actually haven't played with them a whole lot yet, but I do use Canva a lot. You can see a lot of my thumbnails. I finalize them in Canva here. So I am using Canva, but I haven't actually played with the AI features a whole lot yet. So I don't really have a lot of feedback on it. But most of their AI features are existing AI features from other tools. Right. So like when you generate images, I can't remember if they're using Dall E or Firefly or Stable Diffusion, but they're using one of the existing ones. When you do go Generate text to video. They're using Runway Gen 2's model. The only AI feature I ever really use inside of Canva is the background remover. I use that quite a bit actually, where I'll, you know, if I show you like one of my uploads here, I might take a random AI generated image like this, go to Edit image and use the background remover. And that supposedly is using AI to remove the background. And that's really the only AI feature I ever really play with. But I use that one like almost daily. Let's see, Yono is asking, is there an AI tool like ChatGPT for Excel yet? I've played around with the plugins but not much success. I haven't found any that work really well with Excel, but Microsoft is rolling out their own, right? So The Microsoft Office Copilot365 or whatever does have AI built into Excel. I don't know if that's rolled out to everybody yet or if it's just like, you know, select trusted members or whatever they call it, but they do, they are rolling it out so it will just be built into Excel in the near future. Michael. Hey Matt, is YouTube your full time job or do you actually have a normal job? Yes, well, I YouTube slash future tools, slash my newsletter, slash my full time job is a work from home job, right? Like I'm, I'm self employed, I do, I do YouTube, I run a newsletter, I run the Future Tools website. And then I also do have some investments and I do some investing as well but I don't, I don't have another job. I don't work for somebody else. I don't go into an office every day or anything like that. My job is pretty much to keep my finger on the pulse of AI news, keep my finger on the pulse of AI tools, create content around it, keep the Future Tools website updated around it and then, you know, I also make some strategic investments based on what I'm learning in the process. All right, jumping back over to Leo here. Here's the car when I entered Race Car. Here's the prompt that it filled out for me, and here's the race car images that it generated. Curious if anybody else has any other prompts they want me to try here. Yeah, Alex said XTTS is probably the best. I do agree that XTTS is probably the best when it comes to voice cloning. That's also what that Koki or Kokui uses or cookie. Oops, somebody say it's pronounced cookie. Man. All of my potential pronunciations must have been wrong. Is it actually cookie? Yeah. So with that cookie tool, I believe that's actually using XTTS as well. XTTS seems to be the most realistic sounding, the closest to 11 labs, but it doesn't work. In that Pinocchio tool, there might be a hugging face space that you can use it with. I believe there actually is. Let me see. XTS. Spaces. Yeah. So there is a hugging face space where you can use this XTTS. And this one's pretty good. This is like 11 labs, similar to.