A Special Edition

This is the 15th issue of The Multidisciplined! Thanks for sticking with us.

For the past ~4 months, we’ve had a ton of fun while testing out and reviewing the most innovative AI tools on the market. As we close out the summer, we're excited to share our AI Tools Library, a (free) directory that the community can use to find tools for their workflow. Going forward, we’ll update the library weekly, providing you with a dependable list of AI tools.

 🔨 The AI Tools Library

As of August 29th, 2023, we have 38 tools in the AI Tools Library. The tools listed on this spreadsheet:

• Have been screened by us for high-utility

• Have potential for a lot of future development

• Were featured in a newsletter issue of The Multidisciplined

In the sheet, you’ll find product/feature descriptions, pricing information, and our thoughts on who the products would be most helpful for.

We don’t use 38 tools every single day, of course. We just want to be knowledgeable about which tools are appropriate for different projects and workflows. We do have a handful of tools that we use very regularly - sharing our top 5 below.

😀 Our Top 5 AI Tools:

• ChatGPT - General use

  • We needed to include the obvious because it’s still the best LLM with the most expansive set of training data.

  • If you only have $20/month to spend on AI, ChatGPT Premium is unquestionably where that money should go.

  • We treat ChatGPT as a co-worker, chatting with it several times a day to brainstorm, write, plan, and optimize our work.

  • This is the only tool where our skill level, not the quality of the model, is the limiting reagent, and improving your prompting consistently produces improved results.

• Gamma - Slidedeck Generator

  • Gamma was the winner of our AI Slidedecks Issue because of its sleek designs and high-quality text generation.

  • We’ve all spent countless hours trying to optimize our slide decks. Gamma streamlines this process so you can focus on the content rather than fixing every pixel.

  • If you work in a more traditional industry, you might want to look at some of the other generators, but we love the style of Gamma.

• AdCreative - Creative Asset Generator

  • Having worked on creative and paid media teams, watching AdCreative use a little bit of context to generate sleek creative assets was astonishing. Like - “This would revolutionize an entire business’s workflow.” astonishing.

  • It’s never going to be as editorially beautiful as the product from a creative director, but we believe that paid media has gotten pretty formulaic and doesn’t always need to be focused on aesthetics. This would be a big multiplier for any business.

• Fireflies - Meeting Documentation

  • Fireflies records and transcribes your meetings and then uses AI to create high-utility meeting summaries.

  • We’ve found that it saves a lot of time and allows us to retain more value from our meetings.

  • This could be a lifesaver, especially if you work with a large/asynchronous team and want to ensure you keep a database of institutional knowledge to keep everyone synced.

• Magical - Automation Assistant

  • We’re still discovering what Magical has to offer and are skilling up, but it’s already offering big improvements in repetitive tasks.

  • The integrations with your general workflow make it feel more like a handy sidekick rather than a separate set of tasks to deal with.

That’s all for this week. See you next Tuesday for our regular programming!

Lorel & Reily