5 disruptive new ways to use ChatGPT

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Welcome back, Superhuman

Telling you about brand-new AI products and features is cool. But showing you how to use them is cooler. A couple of weeks ago I showed you how to use ChatGPT’s web browsing and other new features. Today we’ll dive deeper into how to use the new vision features for work and beyond. Let’s get right to it.

TODAY’S MENU

• 5 ways to use ChatGPT’s Vision feature

• 5 AI tools to supercharge your productivity

• Research: AI helps detect floods and earthquakes

• Tutorial: How to use Adobe Firefly Image 2 Beta

• AI Generated Images: Famous TV Antiheroes

TODAY IN AI & TECH

• Up, Up, and Away: A flying car that anyone can use will go on sale soon.

• Evolving: Hit AI app Charachter AI is introducing group chats where AIs and people can talk.

• Revolutionary Scans: AI startup raises $32 million to scan eggs and humans.

• Fail: Startup that promised not to make deepfakes without consent does so anyway.

• Competition: Open-source alternatives to GPT-4 Vision are on their way.

AI AT WORK

5 new ways to use ChatGPT Vision at work — and beyond

If you have a ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise account, chances are that you got access to ChatGPT’s new Vision feature this week. Vision lets you upload pictures and do all sorts of cool things like generate recipes for foods and get instructions on how to fix things.

But the feature isn’t just good for small household chores. Users have been experimenting with the feature for the past week and many have figured out valuable new ways to use Vision at work and beyond. Here are 5 new ways you can use the ChatGPT Vision feature:

Virtual Teacher: Simplify complex images and topic

• Got a document, chart or dataset you don’t understand?

• Not sure how to fix a punctured tire?

• Your Excel formula isn't working the way you want it to?

Upload a photo or screenshot to ChatGPT and ask for explanations and instructions on how to fix it.

If you’re not sure how to use the feature, click the image icon at the bottom left of your screen in the prompt field. See image below:

Design Assistant: Combine it with Dall E 3 to produce new images, ads, prototypes and more

Upload a screenshot of a product or a picture of a sketch you’ve made, and combine it with Dall-E 3 image generation mode to create all kinds of visual assets like:

• Ads

• Website mockups

• Illustrations

• Product photos

• And more

Above is an image I created for use in an ad. It’s not quite perfect yet when it comes to text but more often than not it gets it right. This will likely improve significantly in the coming weeks.

Pocket Doctor: Translate X-rays and medical reports

ChatGPT can understand pictures of X-rays and prescriptions and answer a range of medical questions about them.

Although results are mixed at the moment, it could serve as a doctor in a pocket for people who have limited access to healthcare.

Note: Please do not use this as a substitute for real medical advice. This is not an intended use case, and while promising for future use cases, has not been tested and verified yet.

Excel Intern: Turn data into insights, visualizations, presentations and more

Give ChatGPT a screenshot of a file or a dataset. Then ask it to analyze the numbers and export the output as a new excel sheet, data visualization, pdf, presentation slides, and more.

Understand complex signs, symbols, writing and foreign languages

• Not sure what the label on a food container, delivery box, or traffic sign means?

• Having a hard time reading your doctor’s prescription?

• Traveling and not sure how to read menus and signs in foreign languages?

Upload a picture to ChatGPT and ask it to simplify or translate the image for you.

TOGETHER WITH MINDSTUDIO

MindStudio - Book AI is Here

Written communication has evolved over thousands of years, from etchings on clay tablets to scrolls on papyrus. Gutenberg's press made books widely available, and today Kindle boasts over 30 million users. Now, the next evolution is here.

With book AIs, readers can:

• Have conversations with books & characters

• Apply strategies to current situations (WWJD? Ask the Bible)

• Request summaries or clarification of key concepts

Explore these books:

• The Art of War 

• The War of the Worlds HG Wells 

• Autobiography of Charles Darwin 

Build your own book AI 

5 AI Tools to Supercharge Your Productivity

Superdash: Automate extraction and data entry using AI.

CallZen: Leverage AI driven insights & actionables from your customer conversations across all channels.

Zupyak (sponsored): The easiest AI writer you will ever use just got 5x faster, with 30% longer article output compared to Chat GPT. Try at no cost here

Vimcal: Your AI scheduling assistant to organize and schedule your events efficiently.

Talknotes: Turn messy thoughts into actionable notes in seconds.

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

AI helps detect natural disasters

Google's expanded "Flood Hub" uses AI to help us adapt to extreme weather

Flood Hub, a Google AI tool, is spreading to the US and Canada. It assists over 800 riverbank towns with better flood predictions. This program employs AI models, data, and satellite images to combat climate change-induced severe weather. Read more →

This AI algorithm could save lives in quake zones

The University of Texas developed an AI application that predicts earthquake time, location, and severity. In Chinese experiments, it correctly predicted 70% of earthquakes a week in advance. This breakthrough might improve worldwide earthquake preparedness, lowering human and economic costs. Read more →

AI TUTORIAL

How to use Adobe Firefly Image 2 Beta

If you’re looking to use Adobe’s new Firefly image generator, we’ve got you covered. First, go to Adobe Firefly’s website and sign up.

You’ll then see different options to generate or edit images, such as:

1. Text to Image: Generate images from a detailed text description.

2. Generative Fill: Use a brush to remove objects, or paint in new ones from text descriptions.

3. Text effects: Apply styles or textures to text with a text prompt.

4. Generative Recolor: Generate color variations of your vector artwork from a detailed text description.

You can choose any option according to your need. For this tutorial, I used ‘Text to image‘ and gave the following prompt:

A happy old age lady with a golden retriever in park, extreme detailed and realistic

Once you’ve got the desired image — you can tweak the results, change the aspect ratio, content type, style, and much more.

AI-GENERATED IMAGES

Famous TV Antiheroes

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