The year 2023 is a significant year for AI tools, though some of the tools have been released in 2022. Generative AI demonstrates its ability to perform certain tasks which were once thought to be impossible for computer algorithms to carry out — say engaging in conversations to creating mind-blowing images.
OpenAI has become a light bearer of AI. ChatGPT and Dall E 2 are being replicated by others. In April 22, the company released DALL E-2, its image generating tool. Later in November 2022, it released its chatbot ChatGPT powered by GPT-3 a large language model. Within five days of it release, it acquired one million users. It became the fastest app by garnering 100 million users by January 2023.
Let us acquaint ourselves with most popular AI tools.
ChatGPT: It stands for Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer. It is a chatbot which converses with us and generates natural language text in response to a user’s prompt.
It is a tool for content creation, is an alternative search engine, and is used for coding. There is an OpenAI API which businesses can use for various tasks.
Midjourney: It generates images from natural language descriptions called prompts. It has been created by a research lab called Midjourney Inc of the USA. The ‘Imagine’ command is used by the users to generate images based on their imagination. It is of great help to graphic and visual artists.
Bing: Bing is AI-powered search engine of Microsoft. It has been launched along with Edge browser in February 2023. The integration has enhanced its functionality. It uses key features of ChatGPT and GPT-3.5. Bing search engine rankings are also made more relevant.
Notion AI: It is a writing assistant. It is useful in editing, summarizing and brainstorming. It performs grammar check too. It helps marketers to write brand new pages extracting insights from databases and pages.
Runway Gen 2: It is a leading tool for video generation. It generates videos based on text prompts. It has incorporated other features — motion brush feature for animation in specifc parts of image, camera movement etc. It is useful for short films, music videos, animation ad design etc.
Co-pilot — GitHub: It is a tool from GitHub developed in collaboration with OpenAI. It is based on the OpenAI Codex model. There are code editors (Visual Studio Code) which are integrated. Developers get entire lines or blocks of code as they type. It speeds up development, streamlines repetitive tasks and provide assistance with syntax.
MusicLM: It is a Google product. Here the musical idea comes to life with AI. This algorithm creates two versions of song based on inputs.
ElevenLabs: It is a text-to-speech AI tool. It is handy for video creators, podcasters and businesses.
Framer: It is used for web site creation and publication.