10X AI (Issue #1): StableLM, MiniGPT-4, AI Sketching Apps, and a Chupacabra
New Sunday segment on "Why Try AI," a bunch of AI-assisted sketching tools, recent AI announcements, Bing AI hacks, and a vintage text-to-image attempt gone wrong.
Happy Sunday!
After quite a bit of consideration, I decided to introduce a new weekly section to Why Try AI. (Don’t worry: You can easily turn off these Sunday updates if you want to continue only hearing from me once a week.)
Why the new segment?
Because there’s way too much AI stuff to cover. I wanted to make the newsletter more newsletter-y and make it even more useful to those looking for an extra dose of AI.
Your votes on my poll in the “Learn Prompting” post seem to bear this out:
The new “newsy” segment
The new weekly segment is called “10X AI” and will include 10 AI-related entries, split across the following topics:
New AI developments
Easy-to-use AI tools (ideally free)
Try-it-at-home AI tips
AI fails
All of the new entries will still be about consumer-level, beginner-friendly AI topics rather than broad industry perspectives and business-oriented platforms. Why Try AI very much remains focused on the average Joe and Jane.
The usual Thursday deep dives you all know and tolerate will con…


