Thank you Scott Shane for pushing me!
For background: a few years back, I started the newsletter, premised on trying a new AI technology weekly and providing an honest walkthrough of my process and honest review, rated between 1 and 10 'Evil Robot Overlords.'
And, to be honest, I got so busy trying AI tech in my free time that I didn't have time to keep my AI newsletter going.
Since then, I've vibe-coded apps, created countless pictures and videos, written feature length scripts, and trialed at least 100 new technologies.
And three of them have stuck: Grammarly, Motion, and, of course, ChatGPT.
Many others dip in and out of my life, but none feel like a long-term solution.
Why?
Most are wildly inconsistent when it comes to quality, value to my customer/client, or ease of use.
I still haven't found great AI solutions to do what I really need AI to do: my taxes, clean up my e-mail inbox, clean up my phone, unsubscribe me from services I don't use, teach me things I need to learn when I need to learn them, or remind me of peoples' names at parties (I need that one SO BAD!)
AI is wonderful and awful and exciting and scary.
All we can do is make time to evaluate the buzziest stuff, see if it's a time-saver or time-waster, then implement quickly.
And I'm more than happy to be a guinea pig.
My AI test tonight: I spent $100 on Syllaby creating 30 one-minute faceless videos out of my last 30 editions of my 'Grow 1%' newsletter, posted all within the 1 hour that it took to make them all with metadata fully generated by AAI.
The results: the videos are fine, but got 1,000 views in the first hour and 2 new subscribers to 'Grow 1%'!
Here's one of the videos:
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