How AI Girlfriends, Avatars, and Voice are Transforming Engagement and Brand Communication

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Vincent Sider
May 23, 2023

Hello, hello, me! It's been a spell, hasn't it?

It seems the passage of time has accelerated since our last encounter. I've recently returned from a well-deserved keynote journey to Greece, after which I took the unorthodox decision of retreating from the incessant AI discourse that has filled every nook and cranny of our lives since December 2022.

A peculiar move, you might say, considering the constant tug-of-war between sound and substance in this field. But, in a surprising turn of events, I found a deeper sense of purpose in the silence, working diligently on my latest AI endeavor set to be unveiled in the upcoming week.

A curious thing happened during my quietude, a trickle of messages came pouring in, asking for the revival of my writing. It appears some of you missed my humble newsletter, leading me back to the conundrum of being a writer - how does one cram two weeks of happenings into a single newsletter?

Here's my valiant attempt:

It's apparent that AI has snuck its tendrils into entertainment and is subtly changing the landscape. The scramble to create AI assistants is akin to a high-stakes game of musical chairs, with each player eager to shape the blueprint for future AI interactions.

In a surprising twist, imagine the coupling of replicas and influencers birthing an intriguing phenomenon: AI girlfriends.

This trend underscores the transformation of AI engagement, indicating the rise of avatars in brand communications. This signal is important because it alludes to one of the primary ways we will engage with AI in the future, which is through avatars and voice, and not just for girlfriends. I think brands will also communicate their values, personality, purpose and drive engagement through these avatars. So META was largely wrong, but right about one thing: the future will be all about avatars: The fact that everyone and their mother is incorporating chat into their products will lead to a new wave of analysis

This will be incremental, from engagement that won't be possible with AI (i.e., "Just me" tasks), to delegated tasks, to centaur tasks, to automated tasks. I think within 2-5 years, the bulk of engagement with AI will be around relationships (b2c) and Centaur tasks (B2B).

Now we have to hope that these agents won't all be programmed like the Copilot agents ... A perspective on how future AGI co-workers, friends, and lovers will be "programmed". Learn More

In another corner of our AI universe, an old friend is making a triumphant return - voice. The range of applications is staggering, from building symbiotic relationships with influencers to turning our verbal ramblings into coherent transcriptions. But this homecoming isn't as smooth as one might think. The road to implementation is laden with thorny concepts such as web sockets, threading, parallel API calls, and gunicorn workers.

The stuff of nightmares for the uninitiated, but fear not, I've survived the ordeal and eagerly await sharing my creation soon.

Finally, the spectacle of Sam Altman's performance at the US congress mustn't be overlooked. An underwhelming three-hour showcase filled with softball questioning left everyone in a state of unease and uncertainty about the future of AI. It felt like a déjà vu, with tech magnates begging for regulation. With little to no attention given to AI's impact on jobs, one wonders, is it even possible to regulate AI? Drawing the curtains on these updates, you might wonder, how does this tie into the grand theme of this newsletter, "AI for Marketing"? To be honest, the connection may be tenuous at best, which is why a title change to "The AI Silent Practitioner" might be in order, maybe.

But let not your hearts be troubled, marketers. A fresh marketing section dedicated to you is coming right up.

The Magnificent World of Marketing and AI

This week, we have a trio of fascinating content to illuminate your understanding of the transformative power of AI in marketing:

  1. "AI: The Game-Changer in the Realm of Marketing". This enlightening article from media.monks.com is just the intel you need to stay ahead in the game.

  2. "New ChatGPT Code Interpreter: A Revolution in the Making!". A riveting watch that underscores why this interpreter isn't just a game-changer, but a whole new game. Get ready to be wowed here.

  3. Three is the magic number. Here are three dynamite ways to wield ChatGPT plugins for your marketing:

    • Video Insights: From Videos to Texts: The Video Insights plugin turns videos into text. This real-world example illustrates how I asked ChatGPT to draft a 600-word article based on insights from three AI and marketing-focused YouTube videos. While it wasn't a magnum opus, it was a more-than-serviceable first draft.

    • Zapier: The Ultimate Connector: The ChatGPT Zapier plugin brings the power of Zapier into the ChatGPT interface, allowing for seamless inter-app communication. Craft emails or Slack messages, send data straight to Google Sheets or Notion, or create article outlines that land directly in a Google Doc. It's a symphony of seamless integration.

    • Webpilot: Your SEO Co-Pilot: Webpilot's ChatGPT plugin offers a simplified approach to SEO-optimizing your content. Jesse Cunningham (YouTube channel link here) is the sage behind this enlightenment.

A Showcase of AI Wonders

Allow us to present this week's curation of nine AI marvels that will send you into raptures of "Wow!" and "Incredible!":

  1. AI-Crafted Cover Letters - Breeze through cover letter creation with this AI's assistance here.

  2. DailyBot - This AI-powered chatbot seamlessly enhances productivity and collaboration within organizations. Get acquainted here.

  3. Blend Studio - Create professional product photos and designs effortlessly without hiring an agency or a freelancer here.

  4. Trellus - Real-time sales analytics at your fingertips here.

  5. Perplexity - Elevate your search with AI and follow-ups here.

  6. MyShell - Unleash your creativity by creating robots with unique personalities here.

  7. MakeForms’ AI Form Builder - Watch as the AI Form Builder effortlessly crafts responsive and customizable forms here.

  8. Prompt.Cafe - Your comprehensive hub for creative AI-powered solutions here.

  9. SuperAGI - Infrastructure for your next app featuring autonomous agents [here](https://airadar.getinference.com

Agents, LLMs & Embeddings: AI Startups in Action

A myriad of innovative startups are sprouting in the autonomous agent landscape. Here are a few cutting-edge ventures that have caught our eye:

  • Embra: Create autonomous agents for your organization, with personal AIs for each employee. They can coordinate and achieve deep work together. Learn more here and here.

  • Agent Actors: Developers can now create trees of AI agents to tackle complex tasks together using the Plan-Do-Check-Adjust approach. Check out the announcement here.

  • FlowFlow.AI: This platform combines agents with conditional logic in flow diagrams to ensure that the agents remain within defined boundaries. See more about it here.

  • Fundraising Copilot: A project aimed at automating the fundraising process from start to finish. Get a glimpse here.

  • Granite: Enables easy, secure payments for autonomous agents using headless browsers. Discover more here.

  • Saving Agent: An agent that strives to save you money based on your transactions and additional input.

  • SuperAgent: A powerful tool simplifying the deployment of Large Language Model (LLM) agents to production. Learn more here.

  • First8Marketing: An automated platform to personalize and accelerate the customer journey in the sales & marketing funnel. Discover more here.

  • E2b: An open-source platform for building AI-powered virtual software developers. Get a closer look here.

  • Dataleap: A copilot for product teams, collecting and analyzing customer feedback from multiple sources and generating actionable insights. Find more here.

  • Fine-tuner.ai: A platform that allows you to build your own AI agents without any coding. Discover how here.

  • AiAgent: A platform for user-friendly AI agents in the browser that supercharges your workflows. Learn more here.

  • Log10: An LLM-powered Agents Platform to build, measure, deploy, and improve your agents all in one place. Find out more here.

  • Linkedin-Apply-Bot: A python bot that applies to all LinkedIn Easy Apply jobs based on your preferences. Check it out here.

There are also several projects in progress, aiming to build AI tools that focus on specific applications like real estate, project management, customer feedback, surveillance videos, and more. The common thread? AI is augmenting existing tools with agent functionality, leading to some truly cool use cases. Stay tuned for more!

Discussions, and Learning Resources

Innovations

  1. Zoo: An AI project comparing generative AI images with zoo. Learn More

  2. StableStudio: An open-source evolution of DreamStudioAI. Learn More

  3. GPTeam: A completely customizable group of AI agents, with independent personalities, memories, and directives. Learn More

  4. Wearable AI: A wearable that lets AI see the world. Learn More

  5. Course to Chatbot: Convert your video course into a Chatbot to provide a learning aid to students. Learn More

  6. CLARKGPT: A prompt to improve the accuracy of GPT-4. Learn More

  7. Stable Diffusion SDK: Installable SDK for Stability AI. Learn More

  8. Collaborative Agent: An agent that can collaborate with humans to accomplish a task. Learn More

Discussions

  1. 13B WizardLM: An uncensored LLM marking a new beginning for AI models. Learn More

  2. Lightspeed AI Review: An article on what Lightspeed is reading, listening to, and thinking about AI. Learn More

  3. Hallucinations in DQA: An event discussing hallucinations in Document Question-Answering. Learn More

  4. Programming AGI: A perspective on how future AGI co-workers, friends, and lovers will be "programmed". Learn More

  5. Gemrockets: Stay up to date with new jobs at top-tier AI companies. Learn More

  6. Stanford's LLM Tracker: Keep track of LLMs thanks to Stanford. Learn More

  7. Open LLM Leaderboard: Check the open LLM leaderboard. Learn More

Learning

  1. Top ML Papers of the Week: Curated list of top ML papers. Learn More

  2. Rapids LLM Plugin Tutorial: Learn how to build a LLM plugin based on one of Rapids 40K+ APIs. Learn More

  3. Streaming Output of an Agent: Learn how to stream only the final output of an agent. Learn More

  4. Building a Personal Chatbot: Get a step-by-step guide on how to create your own personal chatbot. Learn More

  5. Tree-of-Thought (ToT) Framework: Unleash complex & general problem solving with LLMs using ToT. Learn More

  1. MPT-7B LLM Tutorial: Learn how to use MosaicML's open-source MPT-7B LLM in LangChainAI and Huggingface transformers. Learn More

  2. Cohere LLM University: Join Cohere LLM University for a deeper understanding of LLMs. Learn More

  3. Hugging Face AGENTS Tutorial: Get a full tutorial on the new Hugging Face Agents. Learn More

  4. LLMs and Robotics Repository: Dive into the world's largest GitHub repository for LLMs and Robotics. Learn More

  5. Enterprise Knowledge Retrieval: A cookbook on Enterprise Knowledge Retrieval. Learn More

  6. Langchain Architecture Map: Understand the architecture of Langchain. Learn More

  7. ControlNet 1.1 Tutorial: Get a grip on the new ControlNet 1.1 with this tutorial. Learn More

BUILD

  1. Zep Memory AI: Introducing Zep, a platform for long-term memory storage and enrichment that simplifies managing asynchronous infrastructure. Learn More

  2. LangChainAI and Memory: Understand the importance of memory in LangChainAI. Learn More

  3. Langdock: Use Langdock to create LangChainAI and ChatGPT Plugins from any Rapid API. Learn More

  4. Statsig and LangChain Apps: Learn how Statsig enables online experimentation in LangChain Apps. Learn More

  5. Webpage to Markdown: Download any webpage directly into markdown for easier parsing and building. Learn More

  6. Vector DBs and Conversational Agents: Learn how to build conversational agents with Vector DBs. Learn More

  7. LangChains Security and Privacy: Understand the security and privacy of LangChain systems as more of them make their way into production.

  8. Create BETA AI Character: Learn how to create your ideal BETA AI character for free without NSFW restrictions. Learn More

  9. Animations with TemporalKit and Ebsynth: Learn how to create animations using TemporalKit and Ebsynth. Learn More

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