I found the best new AI tools of the year, like AI that generates as you draw, AI that makes any image come to life and even AI that turns your voice into a musical instrument.
It’s mind-blowing what you can do with all this new AI, so let me blow your mind.
So, straight off the bat, you can use all these AI tools on a phone, a computer, or even a tablet. So just pick one, and for the first AI tool, head on over to leonardo.ai.
Once inside the website, it’s super easy to start using just by tapping on the launch app, and on the left-hand side, they have this new real-time canvas tool. Basically, how it works is the box on the left is a canvas where you can draw what you’d like the AI to generate, and don’t worry, your artwork can be pretty bad. But here’s where it gets mind-blowing because now I can type in what I’d like to see, and as I type, the AI will generate the artwork straight away, which is crazy.
Then, you can even pick the exact art style you’d like it in, whether that’s cinematic, photographic, fantasy art, sketch, or dynamic art. There are so many different options to choose from.
Then there’s even this instant refine option, which, once you press it, makes your artwork look ten times better.
But what is even crazier about Leonardo is under image generation. If you go ahead and type in the prompt box, generate an image like a portrait of a metal robot in the Victorian era wearing a crown and trees in the background. Not only will it generate some incredible options, but once you hover over it, you’ll see this new option to generate motion video. You can adjust the strength of how much motion you’d like to see in the video, and once you’re happy, just click generate, and in a couple of seconds, it produces this incredible moving AI generation that looks so realistic and is pretty high quality. This is just so much fun, and you can get stuck in it for hours.
So, imagine you had a paintbrush that could magically make pictures come alive. Well, you can actually do that using this AI tool called RunwayML.com, which I have actually shown before, but it’s got some cool new features. So once you’ve logged in using your Google account, if you select this text to video option, you’ll find this brand-new tool called Motion Brush.
All you gotta do is drag and drop in any photo or picture you have like I got this picture of a bird. Then, what you do is paint over the areas you’d like to bring to life. So I wanted the entire bird to move, so I painted over the whole thing, but you could do the background instead if you wanted.
Now, all you do is actually adjust the motion by using these sliders. You can move them left or right, up and down, and even zoom in and out. But once you’re all done, just click Save, then click Generate, and in a few minutes, Your photo will literally come to life which is just so freaking cool, and this works on pretty much any picture. Just use the brush on whatever it is you’d like to animate and let the AI do its magic. I also noticed this works really well with elements like fire and water. It looks incredible with animals and really understands their movement. Plus, you can even use selfies, which is just crazy to me, and almost any landscape looks incredible. So basically, just go mad and see how far you can push it.
So, this next app is something totally new to the AI world. It’s called HeyGen, and it’s been blowing people’s minds. It’s actually totally free to try out, and all you gotta do is log in again using your Google account, then head over to the video translate section over here.
Now you just gotta take a video of yourself talking. It could be around 30 seconds, or if you want, you can make it even longer, but then it’s time to take that video and drag and drop it into this upload box. Then, from this list of languages, you can choose something like French, for example, and if you click on translate, it’ll take that video and automatically translate it for you. And because it has over 29 different languages, including all the popular ones, you can translate English into any other language, such as Mandarin. Or you can even speak in Spanish. I also like Hindi, which I think is pretty cool. I mean, this opens up so many possibilities for people all over the world to better understand each other. But also, just imagine that one day, this gets so good that people talking to you will instantly be translated through your glasses. That would be insane.
Okay, so this next AI tool is one of the coolest things I have ever seen, and it’s called music. lol And trust me, the lol must stand for laugh out loud because of what you do using this tool. Once you’ve loaded it up, click on Get Started and in the corner over here, just make sure you log in using your Google account. Don’t worry. It’s totally free to use. Then, once you’ve logged in, all you have to do is change to instrumentals and, over here, select the instrument you’d like to use, like an electric guitar. And then this is where things get really funny. You’ll have to press record, and please don’t laugh, but then you’ll need to literally make a sound like “doo” or “la” or “pa” or any other sound you can think of, and the AI will turn it into a song. It’s hilarious but also kind of amazing how good some of the songs actually sound. So, if you’re bored and want to have a good laugh or just want to create a song, then definitely check this out.
