Groundbreaking AI Uses You Can’t Miss

artificial intelligence keeps moving at the speed of light and therefore also the applications of this technology keep changing and evolving and that's why today I will be giving you a grand overview of everything that came out throughout the last week that you can start using today now I want to be very clear we're not going to be covering all the most recent AI news here we're going to be talking about tools that came out that you can put to work today or new ways to use existing applications moving forward you can expect this update once a week and with that being said let's dive right into it because the last week was very generous in terms of what we can use AI for today and we're going to

start out by talking about probably the craziest use of AI that I've seen recently and that is this new GitHub repository and before I lose you no code required I'm going to show you app how to do it in your browser okay but basically what this repo does is it takes images of humans and it animates them and look this is a little scary but I think you should know about it okay so these are fully motion controllable de fakes and as you can see in this little demo you can take any character and make it do all these Tik Tok dances and so much more the thing about this is that it caught people off guard and everybody's stunned by how good this actually is look at that now this has actually been released by China's Alibaba group and look at that this is seriously impressive but in the spirit of this new weekly show let's get into using this because I wouldn't be showing you if we couldn't right so if you head on over to this hugging face space you can find a link in the description so what I'll be doing here is I'll drag and drop this image of James Bond and in my testing I found Dragon dropping to work actually better just wait for this orange outline here then you can let it go and then you can use one of these motion sequences down here so I'll pair it with the Running Oh I'll have to drag and drop again no problem and now you can just hit animate and here's the thing this thing is so overloaded that four or five times I tried this it didn't work but with a little bit of patience and just keeping this tab open in the background I could make it work so you could see the result in this video here's a little hint avoid the US waking times and here you go that's the result again just remember this is the worstest tool will ever be and some of these others especially these Tik Tok dances are looking really solid especially considering that this just came out and it's a first version of it right I think iPhone 1 versus 15 Pro Max next up I want to show

you a brand new cat GPT plugin that released and this is only for cat GPT plus users also I should note this is absolutely not sponsored but I've been a user of whimsicle since a while I really like them for various diagrams they have a free plan that just works for everything I do and now they also introduced a cat GPT plugin so all you need to do is you go over to cat GPT plugins and in the plugin store you can search for whimsicle and look this is just my personal opinion but this is the best way to generate various diagrams and visualizations in including flowcharts mind maps and so much more inside of chat GPT so as I have this installed I'll make sure it's checked here perfect and I'll just give it some random prompt like visualize an orc chat of me eigor as the CEO and 15 cats as my employees and Whimsical is going to go in and without you having to log in or anything it's just going to get this done and I know there's other plugins that do this it's just my personal preference always was Whimsical that's why I didn't use the other plugins and now it's here so just say give it a try isn't this perfect cat employee 1 to 15 again it can do many different things you can explore the website to see what's possible and as you can see right here all of this is editable very nice and as I mentioned my favorite thing here is that this is completely free at the time of this recording perfect so moving on into the world of AI art this

came out recently and anybody who has not given this a try yet needs to go in and test this because it's so much fun up until now when you created AI art it took a while right you wrote your prompt you hit enter and then 15 to 60 seconds later you got a result well with stable diffusion excel's new model the turbo model this changed in a big way because if you head on over to their tool clip drop. co/ stable diffusion turbo you're going to find that once you log in I usually just use Google for all of these cuz it's so simple you're going to be able to start typing and as you type it develops check this out now let me tell you this completely changes the user experience cuz I can iterate in almost real time and if something doesn't work you can just play with it and it updates instantly so if I just add something like a anime cat it should change it right away there you go so I think you get the point but before we move on to the next to I want to talk about this briefly because this really changes the implications of a iite as we're able to do this instantly it will open up a whole new set of applications where you need the result instantly first thing that comes to mind for me is the retail experience in clothing stores right very soon they might just have their own custom models and as they're kind of sitting there describing what you would like to try out the speech recognition could transcribe it and a model like this could visualize it right away on their very own model plus a million other use cases where instant feedback is important because think about this little example that I just outlined this wouldn't work if there's a 45C delay between you speaking something out and then an image actually appearing that would ruin the retail experience so this is actually a massive step for society even though you might not be using this on a daily basis just something to think about all right moving on in the theme

of AI art there is actually this incredibly entertaining app by Leonardo AI so you can just sign up and start using this for free then they have paid plans but I just went in logged in with my Google account and went to app. leonard. a/ Canvas and what this allows you to do is you can just start drawing and it updates as you go through this check it out so what I'll do here is I'll maybe draw a tree and before I proceeded I'm going to change this to environment and as I draw my little tree over here I'll switch on over to Blue increase the brush size paint a little Lake here how about this let's do like a mountain in the background maybe add some Snowy Peaks to that and then also in Gray I'll add a kind of background here and let's see if we can put a sun up in this guy there you go and as you can see this is interpreting it completely differently from what I'm intending but let's see if we can get it there okay this is getting closer and closer maybe another tree is what we need right so this is our tree over here don't judge me on my drawing skills that's not why you're here right are you sure about that and I just realized that the tree actually looks more like this it's not all green right so how about that maybe a little more gray to delineate this okay not bad so it got the water right it didn't pick up on the trees but that might be due to my drawing and it went crazy on the Hills I actually kind of like that and then I could just switch this out to a painting all right that was weird then what about photography so it seems like environment works the best but maybe I could just make it a little less creative and there you go here we really get closer to what we imagined right and if we go fully creative wow that's wild very nice so isn't this incredible this took me a minute to create and you could do that yourself this is one of the funnest tools to show your friends when they ask you so eer what's up with all thei stuff you're dealing with is there anything that is actually interesting if you whip out this one on them you might just win them over and convince them that playing with these tools is not just a smart move for your very own future but also a lot of fun and again this is fre available right now so go ahead and try

it out okay so next up we have meta's brand new AI language translation models and if you've been following this closely you'll know they're releasing a lot on this front and this one they made actually available so you can use it today just like everything else in this video so there's various links down here to try these out but I found that the hugging pH one works particularly well so once this loads you can drop any audio in here or I'll just use my microphone to record this it's just German for have a nice day and I hope you're enjoying this video and we're going to go Source language German and target language English hit translate voila 5 seconds later let's check this out good morning how are you today I hope you like this video not bad right so you can just do this with any file and again this is free isn't this just insane I mean what kind of age do we live in that this is freely available again this is just a preview but you can use it so go ahead and do that as you can see there's a variety of languages in here and if you care about the technical details of how it works you can find that in this article that they published well meta

has two more announcements that just came out and I need you to know about both of these because these are not just fun tools for Content creators these might actually change the world so look at that the first one is a translation that follows your speech St that is surprisingly good now I've seen others but meta's execution in the AI space has been excellent one could say a lot about the company but what they're doing on the AI research front is incredible let have a look at some examples here so glad you are here I am so happy to see you fantastic results and what this is doing is similar to what 11 Labs launched a few weeks ago where the eye would then mimic your intonation this is really interesting I absolutely love it this was a real unlock because this allowed you to fix some of the mistakes that the voice synthesizer made by default you could just override that with your very own tone and effectively let it respe the word in a way that might sound more natural here it does it automatically no two steps required so they have a little demo of this so you can just click demo and let's just say this let me start in German and output it in English gives me some examples here but I'll just freestyle this let's explore the beautiful language that is German here and in this gra we'll do like a grumpy German tone off the H oh God that language is just the best isn't it so that should have said what is this ambulance full of butterflies doing on the Main Street what's that highway so that's a non-expressive that's not great right but this expressive translation what's that ambulance full of butterflies doing on the highway so I don't think it captured the anger quite well right so let's give it one more shot and this time let's for a cur ball with a bit of a ven accent I don't think it's going to be able to do this but let's try okay so I wouldn't even know how to translate that so let's see what it does here Egyptian ism is typical again Egyptian ISM nah no so that didn't work at all so it can't do accents as expected not going to hate on it for that one more shot here okay have a nice day lady what can I get you today not bad and not expressive translation have can I stay what can I get you today didn't work too well so that was not fantastic right so it's a bit Hit or Miss but I really enjoy this tool I think this buil into smartphones could be game-changing if it just works live as you speak interesting and one

last tool here yet again from meta and yes this is another image generator and I would love to show it to you but as I'm in Europe right now it's not available so I'll have to get a little tricky here so what I'll do is I'll use my VPN to just get around these limitations and honestly this just has been the goto way to use some of these tools and yep as I changed my location to New York this just became available it would be great if somebody in the comments could clarify if this is legal I'm honestly not sure this is just a freely available research preview right so this shouldn't be a problem and absolutely everybody is doing this I don't know though leave a comment below if you do so yes this is another image generator but one thing is exceptional about this one and that's the fact that this is actually built into or soon will be available to billions of users between Facebook Instagram and WhatsApp this is the image generator that most of humanity will experience first so let's see what happens when we use the legendary prompt cat with a hat yep I can live with this should make for a good experience for most humans on planet Earth oh look at this one I approve please better roll this out to everybody as soon as possible all right

next up we're going to talk about something very exciting cuz this could bring some of your old photos or childhood memories back to life so as you can see in some of these examples it's not just enhancing the image by adding sharpness or increasing the pixel density no no this is actually using a AI image generator to enhance the original so for example if you keep your eye on this little part of this futuristic motor trike whatever this is you will see that it adds brand new components but they perfectly fit the original but they're new right so if you're looking to maintain 100% of the detail in the original this is not going to be your tool of choice but in most cases you might want to add new features like this like let's take a hyperrealistic photo like this one and look at that I really don't mind this enhancements so I think one could debate the ethics of this just like using Photoshop on images but I personally am very happy about the fact that we have a powerful tool like this now look at this water waterfall image this is absolutely incredible okay but there's a downside to this because the two main services that offer this right now are both paid okay so both magnific and Korea AI ask for a payment so the free version you can get on the wait list and when they pick you can get free access and for $30 a month you'll be able to use this right away so in this case we'll just use magnific because this is actually a Creator made tool Javi Lopez on Twitter made this and there we go for $49 we have access to this so long-term fans of the channel can at this point have a guess at what I will upscale here little tip it's my all-time favorite game absolute Timeless gem Gothic 1 and if you didn't know which is very probable as this game was mostly popular in Germany and Poland 20 years ago this is the main character the nameless hero and as you can see the graphics of this games are not exactly at a 2023 level meanwhile everything else about the game including music and World building is better than anything I've seen ever since anyway enough nerding out over a 20-year-old game here let's drag and drop this image in there let's say two times upscaled we're going to optimize for video game assets perfect and I'll just use the default settings here and say upscale let's see what we get okay so initially we have a 15minute upstart time and then every image is going to take 60 to 90 seconds and that turned out to be a lie cuz in real time this took less than 15 seconds and here we go this is the upscaled image before after this is absolutely incredible so let's just have a quick look at these settings maybe make it a little less creative and turn down the HDR and yeah I really want the resemblance to be high so let's upscale this once more and see what we get but this is already really impressive I mean just look at his vest wow I wonder how long it will take until we'll be able to upscale 30 images per second and keep object and character consistency in video then we'll just be able to remaster all the old games Graphics while to think about that either way here's the second result yeah I actually like this a little more it resembles the original and look at that it just works okay wait this is too much fun I'll just drag and drop this other Del image that I generated into here and now let's go a little crazy with it okay let's say 3D render let's say hyper realistic Godlike entity mother nature and we'll make this very creative turn up HDR all the way and the resemblance to minus5 all right super curious to see what happens with this one there we go whoa look at that so it seems like the prompt didn't have too much of a effect but I absolutely Lov this it turned this D image into something that you could put on a billboard I guess I mean look at the level of detail before it looks like there's a layer of fog in front of it and that's the case with a lot of D images right but in many other aspects it really excels so with this workflow of magnific plus dally you could achieve hyper realistic high resolution pictures I mean look what it did to the lip and the chin this is absolutely insane kind of scary to be honest but I love how it maintained the line it actually made it even sharper wow I'm seriously impressed I'm saving this one let me run these settings on one more D image just to confirm yep same thing incredible this really brings it to the next level but in this case it makes the human a little too realistic right I like what it did with the cyborg on the left so yeah maybe I would Photoshop those two together either way extremely powerful tool again Kaa is the cheaper

alternative and with that being said let's move on to improvements in one of my favorite current tools Runway ML and what they do really well is they turn images to short video clips as you can see in this launch trailer it adds a little bit of slight variation but up until now we didn't have control of this okay it was just a bit random and recently they added camera moves so let's just add the image we upscaled a few seconds ago and as mentioned before you only had this one slider here okay it was just en motion and you could pick if you wanted a lot or a little anything beyond five usually didn't work too well unless you had something very abstract or psychedelic that works but with realistic subjects you wanted to stick somewhere around 2 to three for best results but now we get more granular control and these are camera motion settings and I briefly want to give you an overview because there's really three categories here they don't say this so the first two sliders here horizontal or vertical are when you move the camera horizontally or vertically which is very different from pan and tilt because pan and tilt assumes that the camera is fixed on a tripod and then panning is this horizontal axis and tilting is the vertical axis again but you're not moving the camera it's static okay and then the third category here roll and zoom are all about specialty effects so roll would be a movement like this where you're kind of messing up the Horizon this is a specialty effect that they use in music videos or movies like Inception when they want to portray surreal effects in practice you won't be using this too much and last but not least the most intuitive one Zoom is simply when you zoom in on the image or zoom out I think everybody should get that one so we get to control all this now so let's say we add a little bit of Zoom onto this image and then I'm going to do a little bit of horizontal movement but here's a little trick whenever you're doing these movements with an actual camera and let's say you're doing a product shoot there's one technique that is kind of a best practice for doing these shots and that is when you're moving the camera around something you want to keep the object in the same place not to make the movement too dramatic otherwise the background and the subject is moving and it just becomes a little confusing so with product shots and humans too it just works really well when the camera is moving around something but you keep the subject in one spot and that's why the actually added this little Crosshair here on the right see that so when I'll be panning around the scene like so I'll make sure not to go too crazy on the horizontal otherwise the background and the subject will be shifting all over the place and we will get wonky movements plus the same thing as with the motion slider before goes here anything beyond a three maybe a four is really pushing it so I'll make sure to make these movements rather subtle in order to get quality results so I actually experimented a bunch with this anything beyond four really messes it up regularly with the exception of the zoom on the zoom you can actually go a little harder because all that is a slight scale up and then it has to move the proportions of the objects a little bit that it can handle surprisingly well so let's just say Zoom to 10 and let's line up these crosshairs a little bit and one last little tip is when you double click these sliders they res set to zero plus you could be using this to go incrementally and then double click to reset nice so I'll just say save and you could add the motion brush here too and in the runway Academy and this is where I stop exploring this otherwise it's going to turn into a dedicated Runway tutorial but here I actually have an article about motion brush and camera control and so much more so if you want to dive deeper this is the best place to do it and here they recommend you start with the motion brush not with the camera motion so we're just going to leave the motion brush alone in this case and say generate while it does that I should note that a few Generations are free here and afterwards you're going to be paying $15 per month as of now but again at the time of this recording they do have a free plan so you can try it out and there we go the result look at that I don't even think it's that bad but as you can clearly see we went overboard on the zoom here so actually what I said didn't hold up with this example so let's tone it back let's go back to a Zumo 4 say save and generate one more time and see what we get but honestly the first two seconds are kind of cool here okay so this is the second generation with L zoom and I actually kind of like the first one more I think the first two seconds here are actually usable in some music video or something like that maybe either way it's really great to have these more granal controls as you now have six sliders instead of one all right so very briefly you might

have seen this already I covered this in another video this is stability AI staed video diffusion you drop an image in here and it generates a video from it this is very limited it's only 2 seconds long but completely free so same thing here you just drag and drop by image into here and here you get it to move now you might be already picking up on the fact that we could combo some of these tools right so we could generate something with stable diffusion turbo in milliseconds and then we upscale it with magnific and use something like oneway or stable diffusion video to make it move guys this is getting insane you can just stack some of these tools on top of each other and Achieve things that weren't impossible a few weeks ago and with all that being said these were all

the tools that were released recently there was a lot to cover here and you can look forward to another video just like this in 7 Days subscribe and hit the notification Bell not to miss that and if some of the video tools sparked your interest here I created a video dedicated to AI video beginners covering the entire landscape and how to get started with some of the most powerful tools that are available now I'll see you there