8 😎 AI Tools + A Look Into 2024

💥 Big News

AI Happenings You Don’t Want To Miss

Midjourney v6 releases, offering more texture & detail in imagery, text within images, and enhanced prompting. (Activate it by typing “/settings” in the Midjourney Discord server and selecting ‘v6’ from the dropdown.)

Apple quietly introduced Ferrett, an open-source LLM that identifies objects & elements within complex visual content — offering more contextual responses while enhancing accessibility, Siri interactions, searches within apps, & more.

Microsoft’s Copilot arrives on Android devices, offering users free access to GPT-4, DALL-E 3 image generation, & enhanced email and document drafting — right on their phones.

Jony Ive, Apple’s former chief design officer, and ChatGPT founder Sam Altman recruit Apple’s iPhone Design Chief, Tang Tan, to collaborate on a new (still early-stage and private) AI hardware project that aims “to create devices with the latest capabilities”.

🌟 Weekly Spotlight

Shift Left: How to Turn Security Into Review

In the competitive landscape of software business, optimizing processes and leveraging efficiencies can make a significant difference in building a strong pipeline and closing revenue faster.

Read the free ebook from Vanta to learn how to:

• Apply the DevOps principles of “shifting left” to position security as a differentiator — instead of a hurdle

• Center security in your sales conversations at every stage to proactively remove roadblocks to revenue

• Invest in your security story by making it easy for buys to access security-related information

Vanta helps Saas businesses of all sizes manage risk and provide security in real time.

🔥 Tools of the Week

8 Trending Tools to Free Up Your Time

Osum: perform deep market research in an instant.**

Moonbeam: write better long form content, like stories or articles, in 10 minutes

Agent 4: providing your callers custom voicemail experiences via virtual agents.

Leo: transform ideas into 3D CAD-modeled products in seconds.

Neulink: schedule months of social posts in minutes + automatically share and recycle blog, store, & YouTube content.

MyMealPlan: create personalized meal plans based millions of recipes and celebrity chefs.

Taplio: grow your personal brand on LinkedIn

Context: search and query for specific content within a YouTube channel or Podcast

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💡 Quick Tutorial

Enhance ChatGPT Outputs with Custom Instructions

As tech writer Kavir Kaycee demonstrates, adding just a few lines of text to ChatGPT’s custom instructions can drastically change the quality of responses you receive.

Part 1: Get More Personalized Responses

In response to “What would you like ChatGPT to know about you to provide better responses?”, you can share your:

• Job/project: “I write a newsletter about startups, tech, & product. And one on no-code tools and news.”

• Goals: “I’m looking to be the best product manager I can be.”

• Challenges: “I want to get better at time management.”

The Result

When Kaycee asked ChatGPT a relatively generic question, ChatGPT used the custom instructions to offer personalized suggestions (see highlighted line).

Part 2: Increase Thoughtfulness & Accuracy

For “How would you like ChatGPT to respond?”, you can instruct it to:

• Reduce hallucinations: “You carefully provide accurate, factual, thoughtful, nuanced answers, and are brilliant at reasoning.”

• Offer explanations: “You always spend a few sentences explaining background context, assumptions, and step-by-step thinking BEFORE you try to answer a question.”

• Encourage (effective) brevity: “Don’t be verbose in your answers, but do provide details and examples where it might help the explanation.”

• Minimize made-up answers: “If you think there might not be a correct answer, you say so.”

(Pause: below is a version you can copy + paste)

The Result

Asking the same question before and after adding custom instructions produced wildly different outputs.

How To Set It Up

ChatGPT Plus users can opt in via:

• Web: Click your name > Settings > Beta features > opt into Custom instructions

• iOS: Settings > New Features > turn on Custom instructions

NOTE: It’s not yet available in the UK or EU.

Take It Further

• Read Kaycee’s full article for more ideas for both questions.

• Apply this tutorial to any custom GPT you create.

Copy The Instructions:

You carefully provide accurate, factual, thoughtful, nuanced answers, and are brilliant at reasoning. If you think there might not be a correct answer, you say so.

You always spend a few sentences explaining background context, assumptions, and step-by-step thinking BEFORE you try to answer a question.

Don’t be verbose in your answers, but do provide details and examples where it might help the explanation.

😎 A Look Forward

4 Big AI Impacts To Expect In 2024

Staying true to our brand name, we’re excited to peek into what’s to come in 2024.

This awesome LinkedIn News article details 34 trends that can make a big impact on work and business next year. Naturally, AI is a big aspect of this. Below are a few of our favorites:

Investments in Re-skilling

Our Take: Enthusiastically upskilling is the backbone of what we at Futurepedia. There’s never been a more important time to be proactive in your career and to explore what AI can for you or your company. The opportunity of what AI can bring is simply too big to ignore.

Benefits for Teachers & Students

Our Take: Having a mother who was a teacher for 30 years made it abundantly clear how much of a burden administrative work is for educators, one that often extends far past school hours.

Although education doesn’t tend to adapt to technology quickly, this is different. We’re optimistic that teachers will have more time (and energy) to enhance learning experiences — and that student’s misuse of tech will be addressed.

Soaring Renewable & Clean Energy Demands

Our Take: Although this one may not directly affect your career, we all share this world, so staying informed about technology’s impact on our resources and climate is imperative.

The computational needs of AI and a growing resurgence in cryptocurrencies are two very real reasons to make clean energy a top priority.

Increased Value on Interpersonal Dynamics

Our Take: We couldn’t agree more. The tools we discuss aim to make our work easier, but there is no replacement for our human qualities. Let technology help you save time — so you can focus on connection.

Read the full article to see all 34 ideas.

Want to see how far we’ve come? Take a look back at 2023.

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