Aug 13, 2024 - Self actualizing with AI

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Deeper Learning

Hey there. If there was a theme to this week’s newsletter, it would be “self-reflection.” The products featured today use AI to augment your ability to recall information and give insights that can unlock a new level of self-awareness and productivity. Let’s go deeper.

ONE BIG READ

Skip the writing and hop on a call with your diary

Journaling is one of those habits humans have been practicing since time began. Whether it’s ancient paintings on a piece of rock or a hidden-away diary detailing your high school years, jotting your thoughts down is a profoundly human activity. 

Since tech, and especially the smartphone, journaling has gotten an upgrade. Look at how many different apps exist, each with a unique take on making it more enjoyable. One of them is Reverie

Reverie flips the script on its head a little. Instead of remembering to open the app every day, the app calls you. Once you pick up, you can chat with it like a friend, telling it about your day, any ups and downs, and things you’re dealing with—no need to type it out. Reverie will continue listening until you’re done, and from there, it will process your words and turn them into a structured journal entry. 

Once you’re done, you can review your entry and make any necessary edits. Reverie will automatically pull out themes, highlights, and even surface insights you might not have realized. 

If journaling is something you’ve wanted to do for a while but have struggled to get into, Noah Little, the founder of Reverie, is offering fifty percent off for one month to celebrate its launch

Introducing Airtable Cobuilder, an AI-powered builder that enables every person, on every team, to create apps that are intuitive, customizable, and impactful—in moments.

Imagine a team of developers working on your behalf. Just tell Cobuilder what you want to build, for who, and the AI will do it for you. The possibilities are endless – use Cobuilder to create your next product roadmap, content calendar or OKR tracker. No coding required. Just ideas.

Build an app in moments with Airtable Cobuilder. You imagine it. AI builds it. The magic is in making it yours.

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT

This AI app wants to become a second version of you

“Everyone deserves an AI that’s defined by them and not by Big Brother.” These are the words of Felix Tao, a Software Engineer, Research Assistant, and CEO of Mindverse, after he and his team launched Me bot — an AI assistant that learns from and develops alongside you.

At its most basic, Me bot can help you with all of your daily tasks. You can drop in things like your to-dos and meeting schedule, and it will provide context and reminders as deadlines loom. You can interact with the bot through voice, text, images, and links. It starts to get interesting the more you share about your life, your challenges, your success, the areas you need help with. The AI uses what the company calls a “Large Personal Model” to create a memory archive and power its personality. As you drop in notes, Me bot will be able to connect the dots by tapping into that archive. 

Say you had an idea for a podcast. Drop it into the app, and your AI companion will make the connection between that idea and maybe some topics you’ve leaned heavily into before while also advising you on how to get started, what equipment you might need, how to market it, etc. 

Naturally, if you’re going to be dropping in all of your notes, thoughts, and secrets, you’re going to want to make sure it’s private. Thankfully, the team insists the AI is one hundred percent private and accessible only to you. 

FROM THE BLOG

Comparing GPT-4o mini to Llama 3.1 for fine-tuning

Two weeks ago, two new major model families became available for fine-tuning: Llama 3.1, which comes in 8B, 70B and 405B(!) variants, and GPT-4o mini. Kyle Corbitt, the founder of OpenPipe, shared his experience comparing GPT-4o mini and Llama 3.1 for fine-tuning. The good news is, all three of the models are extremely high quality. The bad news is...

MORE TOOLS

For home

  • Rosebud partnered with therapists to build an AI-powered journal that would be highly effective at helping people meaningfully self-reflect. It also runs an AI analysis weekly to point out themes, patterns, and blind spots.

For productivity

  • Alterfy is an AI-powered meeting reduction platform. When you schedule a meeting, the AI analyzes whether it’s needed or if it could be a message and recommends canceling it or not. 

  • Docamine is an online tool to ease the pain of filling out PDFs and image-based documents without labeled fields using AI.

  • Recap generates an email roundup of your recent notes and bookmarks. Get your "read it later" content sent to your email when you'll actually read it.

  • Quuu's AI-driven platform automatically curates and schedules engaging and natural-sounding content for you to share daily in your brand voice.

For developers

  • CraftUI lets you craft ready-to-use UI components with natural language prompts. You can select from a number of themes and frameworks, and once it’s generated, you can export the code.

  • Langtrace AI is an open-source observability tool that helps monitor, evaluate, and improve your LLM apps.

  • For more developer tools, make sure to check out Product Hunt Dev!

AI IN THE HEADLINES

Thanks for going deeper with us!

Written by Aaron O’Leary.

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