BB Digest: Writing with AI just got easier

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Hey folks, just going live with João, exploring how crewAI helps build practical multi-agent automation. The recording will be uploaded on the website.

Tomorrow, Maryrose and Claire will walk us through some AI powered workflows for marketers.

TLDR; inside today’s newsletter

• ChatGPT gets a Canvas, Meta creates AI movies.

• ICYMI: 3 new tutorials for you to learn

• snack n skill - a bite-sized lesson to learn creating ToS using AI

• 6 of the best new AI tools

• 8 interesting snippets on AI use from around the web

• to-do’s

Alright, let’s get to it!

 🔎 Trends & news

• ChatGPT has a new feature: Canvas. It’s a document editor inside ChatGPT available for the two most important use cases of LLMs—writing and coding. It is in beta but I took it for a spin. For writing, you can make manual changes to the AI’s output plus change its length, get suggestions and add emojis (way too many!). There’s a different suite of functions for coding too. 🍿 Our Summary.

• Prof. Ethan Mollick outlines two tactics to benefit from GenAI at the organisational level. The Crowd - every employee testing AI for their own tasks and The Lab - A centralized effort to make AI work for the company. And he’s right in noting that you can’t outsource this. But you can get help. How? Idk, by maybe looking at these 340+ tutorials we’ve created (100+ are free).

• Meta jumps into video generation with Meta Movie Gen. It can create custom videos from text, edit existing footage, and transform personal images into videos. Top it off with AI audio and sound effects too. Turns out Zuck isn’t just serving cute Llamas, he’s coming for OpenAI’s Sora too. This showcase comes with a (expected and appreciated) research paper—now fingers crossed for the model.

• Other developer tools can’t tell you how your codebase works and why. Unblocked can. We augment your source code with discussions from GitHub, Slack, Confluence, Jira, and more, so your team gets accurate answers without having to search for them. Save an hour or more a day with Unblocked.*
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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched

• Use LMSYS’s Chatbot Arena to compare LLM models and choose the best one your use.

• Find factors behind employee turnover and create targeted retention strategies.

• Analyze multi-channel marketing performance and optimize budget allocation.

🍽️ Snack ‘n’ skill

Learn how to draft Terms of Service for your product using AI

ToS are needed for a website or product to comply with the regulation but creating comprehensive Terms of Service is no joke. Drafting it might even demand a dedicated legal team. But AI can help you get to a first draft, work with a legal reviewer and streamline this process.

Step 1. Define your product and user base for Claude

Provide Claude with key information about your product, including its name, description, target audience, key features, and pricing model. This context helps generate more relevant and tailored content for your ToS.

Claude will suggest key sections to include based on this information, forming the outline of your document.

Step 2. Generate specific sections of your ToS

• Draft the "User Rights and Responsibilities" section, covering account creation, acceptable use, and prohibited activities.

• Create "Limitation of Liability" and "Warranty Disclaimer" sections to help limit your legal exposure.

• Develop a "Privacy and Data Handling" section addressing data collection, usage, and user rights.

• Compile all sections into a cohesive document, adding an introduction, dispute resolution clauses, and definitions.

• Review and refine the generated content to ensure it accurately reflects your product and policies.

Tip: While AI can generate a comprehensive first draft, it's crucial to have a legal professional review and refine the Terms of Service before publishing to ensure it's legally sound and provides optimal protection for your business.

This walkthrough is a condensed version of this tutorial. The full version is also free, so go check it out.

⚙️ Top new tools

• Datadog* - Track, assess, and optimize your usage of OpenAI and all major LLMs from a unified observability platform.

• Graphy - Create graphs and charts that explain your data without looking ugly.

• Blinkshot - Enter a prompt and generate images in milliseconds as you type.

• Buzzabout - Get AI-driven insights from billions of discussions on social media.

• CostGPT - Estimate software cost, time, features, and more to build faster.

• Social Studio by Captions - Let AI run your social media accounts.

• Redcar - Convert anonymous website visitors and outbounds to new customers.

More tools here →
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 📜 Interesting posts

• Speed is all you need - A live-streamed 90-minute AI-powered hackathon. Register here.

• Using OpenAI real-time API to run my browser with my voice.

• I hired ChatGPT as my career coach.

• Lex Fridman’s podcast with the Cursor team. Also, a quick note on tips for using Cursor.

• Google is testing Gemini-powered video search in India.

• Gen AI makes legal action cheap and companies need to prepare.

• 71% of Australian university staff are using AI.

📌 To-dos

1. Let us know if you have any tutorials or courses you want us to create—we’re always open to ideas.

2. Like a resource, tool or info here? Reply to let me know and I’ll include more like it.

That wraps things up for today! See you again on Thursday. 👋

Ben