Opportunities in Next-Level Video Gen

In this edition:

1. Your Ultimate AI Phone Receptionist

2. Next Level Video Generation

3. Turn Your Ideas into Successful Products

4. Compare AI Platform Responses

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1. Your Ultimate AI Phone Receptionist

I’ve written about these before but they are really getting good now. In the past, you would feed in a bunch of web pages or documents to the AI and it would know your business. It could then answer customer questions. But Synthflow is taking it to a new level. It allows you to quickly and easily set up an AI phone system. That’s nice. Of course you’ll now never miss calls, which is nice too. But it will also convert leads. It also can set appointments and transfer calls to a human. Pretty awesome.

So in short, you have a sales person answering the phone. 24/7. And it’s reportedly indistinguishable from a human. The cheapest plan is only $29.5 per month and can handle 10 concurrent calls. Receptionists are going to find it hard to compete.

2. Next Level Video Generation

Pika Labs revealed Pika 1.5 - an awesome video generator. Words won’t do it justice. So take a look and then consider the impact this will have.

As you may know, anyone can publish a book and sell it on Amazon. Anyone also can make a movie and put it on YouTube or Rumble. The problem is that creating a movie has, until now, taken a great deal of time, effort, and expertise. That is changing quickly.

No matter how easy making a movie becomes, there will still be people who won’t do it themselves. So using these tools to make movies/video for others is one opportunity. Initially, you’d be able to charge quite a bit although that price will come down as more competitors enter the market.

Instead of movies, video marketing (TV and online commercials) is another obvious opportunity. Of course, this will require a good knowledge of marketing unless you want to rely on the client to provide the script/story line. Tools like this mean production costs will be much less.

Regardless, becoming an early expert in these tools will pay great dividends.

3. Turn Your Ideas into Successful Products

Turning ideas into successful products includes validation, planning the launch, marketing, etc.

Buildpad is a tool to help you through the process.

4. Compare AI Platform Responses

I’ve been having a lot of problems with ChatGPT-4o lately. I decided to check out a tool that allows you to type in a prompt and see the response from 4 different AI platforms (OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic, Google’s Gemini, and Lllam 3.1).

I’m working on a project and using Wordpress to put the site up. I ran into a problem and have been asking ChatGPT for help. The issue is I have to cut and paste screenshots into it repeatedly. Tedious.

So I asked OverallGPT if it would be possible to create a Chrome plugin that provides my screen access to ChatGPT to reduce the cutting and pasting. Below is the result. In summary, 3 of the 4 said yes and Gemini said No (and provided no explanation).

If anyone develops that too, I’ll use it!

A quick comparison of AI responses is a good way to make sure your AI isn’t drinking coolaid, like Gemini is in this case. Certainly worth experimenting with when starting a new project.

In the News…

1.  Zuckerberg predicts smart glasses will replace phones by 2030.

AI Meme of the week…

credit: https://markmcneilly.substack.com/p/the-best-memes-about-ai

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