AI versus Marshy #26: AI narration, remember what you read, and build your own AI product

Hello dear reader, let us embark towards the 26th edition of AI versus Marshy.

The name may be tongue-in-cheek (how could I possibly win?) but the content designed to be absorbed, noticed, and getting you thinking about what’s happening in this weird and wonderful technology world.

This week:

1. Narrating what you do day-to-day - David Attenborough edition 🗣️
2. Tool of the week - Reader/Readwise 📖
3. A complete stack for building your own AI product without code 👩‍💻

Let’s get it on 🫶🏻-Marshy

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1. Narrate your own life

Sourced from cbh123​

Charlie is creative.

This is what Charlie looks like:

A debonair technological interloper enters the fray.

If you squint, you can see a caption of David Attenborough-esque captioning.

That’s because it’s a clone of David Attenborough.

Watch the full video here.

Charlie has been messing around with what’s possilbe now and the sky is maybe the limit?

Previous tests include a posture checker and a productivity coach that scans screenshots of the laptop screen and yells encouragement.

What I love about this is the sense of play.

A common question in this space is “what tool can I use?”

But maybe a better question to ask is “what tools can I use to really mess with things?”

The latter has far more possible combinations and seems like fun.

Charlie breaks down his “stack”:

• A vision model that can “see” (through a camera)
• A language model for writing the script (for David to read)
• A text-to-speech model (for reading in David’s voice)

These sorts of capabilities used to be outright science fiction - yet the barrier to execution continues to drop.

My take - I think eventually software as we know it (an interface) will disappear, and become something that we interact with to get what we want.

​Read Charlie’s full write-up here.

2. Capture all of those things you read into one place with Reader

Find out more at Readwise.

I think I’ve plugged Reader before, and if this is true - it’s because it’s so good.

Readwise started as flashcard app for reading highlights of your books.

Love this tool.

It works on web and your phone and makes returning to and remembering ebook highlights far easier.

But not everyone reads books right though Marshy? (the horror)

If you fall into that category - Reader is their latest product and still in beta.

It collates all of your reading.

This is includes newsletters, saved online articles, YouTube videos, PDFs you mail or upload in etc.

The latest update (for subscribers) automatically summarises what you’ve got with AI.

As a writer it’s great for locating “that thing” you remember reading 6 years ago.

So get on board so we can nerd out on it together.

3. Build your own AI product guide

Sourced via Ben’s Bites.

Ben is where I get a lot of my AI knowledge from and I just signed up to the Pro edition of his newsletter.

He’s built a guide on how to build an AI company from scratch you can read here.

Worth a read.

What I like about this guide is that it removes the barrier to entry into this stuff in an easy to understand way.

You can’t design? Here have something that will mock things for you.

You can’t follow-up? Here’s an automated CRM tool so you will always know what the next action is.

We’re moving into a world where not knowing how to do things becomes less and less a meaningful excuse, and curiosity, a willingness to learn and experiment, and figure things out creatively becomes more and more valuable!

One fruit mince pie too many

Image prompt: I want you to generate a 16-bit office santa who is tired from the working year and has stuffed himself full of fruit mince pies.

It’s been a long year, G and I have brought twin boys into the world, interesting projects have ticked through the year at a growing rate, I started this newsletter, and outside of the other one that’s in the works (landing page almost ready), I’ve been recording a podcast called Electronic Music Nerd that’s almost ready for launch 🚀

So I feel a bit like Santa right now.

But it’s been an incredible year and there’s a little bit left to go.

Next week I’ll do a wrap email and see if I can record an additional video just for subscribers.

Thanks for the words of support on this project along the way - every skerrick of feedback is like word fuel that powers the word producing machine.

Enjoy and remember: we’ve got this!

-Marshy

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