Hello - it’s me again!

Nope - you haven't missed us yesterday! The Glitch is undergoing some big changes, and you can expect it to be ready in a few weeks. That's why the newsletter is a bit late this time.

Anyway, I have a big stack of snacks waiting to satisfy your tech hunger, so let's dig in and explore all the exciting stuff!

Today, I will be sharing with you game-changing prompts to improve your business and brand marketing strategy, a bunch of resources, and more!

Here’s what I’ve got for you today!

• ⚡ 4 AI-Powered Tools to Boost Your Efficiency

• 🤖 3 Powerful Prompts to Elevate Your Marketing Strategies

• 📰 2 Must-Read AI Stories: Instagram’s New AI feature and Open AI’s Future Plans

• 🦉 1 Insight from Ash on Sam Altman's ambitious plans for OpenAI

• 🍿 ++More Things You Don’t Want to Miss (BONUS)

Discover a suite of powerful tools designed to enhance your creative endeavors.

1. 💫For logos: Generate stunning logos for free in SVG format within seconds, offering the first 10 generations at no cost. (link)

2. 📸For imagery: A camera that uses location data and AI to create unique visual representations of places and moments, with adjustable settings for customization. (link)

3. 📹For videos: Generates new videos using text prompts, images, and various modes, revolutionizing the process of video creation and empowering users with creative possibilities. (link)

4. 👀For images: Edit image aspect ratios, extend backgrounds, and enhance your photos by expanding bodies, artwork, textures, and landscapes for stunning compositions and immersive viewing experiences. (link)

Remember, prompts are how you speak to AI. 

Good output requires good input.

Simply copy and paste and update the info in [brackets].

1. #️⃣ Social Media Marketing Strategy for Your Shopify Store

Imagine you are a social media marketing expert with a deep understanding of crafting and implementing effective strategies for Shopify stores. You have been asked to outline a plan for launching a successful social media marketing campaign for a store called [Store Name], specifically targeting platforms like [Platform 1] and [Platform 2]. 

Please provide a detailed guide on the most effective steps to take, including the following aspects:
 1. Goal Setting: Define the specific goals and objectives of the social media marketing strategy for [Store Name], considering factors such as brand awareness, customer engagement, and sales generation

 2. Target Audience: Identify and describe the target audience for [Store Name] on [Platform 1] and [Platform 2], including demographics, interests, and behaviors

 3. Platform-Specific Strategies: Outline the key strategies and tactics to implement on [Platform 1] and [Platform 2], considering platform-specific features, user behaviors, and content formats

 4. Content Creation: Describe the types of content that should be created and shared on [Platform 1] and [Platform 2] to engage the target audience and achieve the campaign goals

 5. Posting Schedule: Develop a consistent posting schedule for [Platform 1] and [Platform 2], including the recommended frequency and optimal times for posting content

 6. Community Engagement: Offer suggestions for engaging with the audience on [Platform 1] and [Platform 2], including responding to comments, messages, and utilizing platform-specific features

 7. Performance Measurement: Explain the key metrics and tools to use for measuring the success of the social media marketing campaign on [Platform 1] and [Platform 2]

 8. Best Practices: Discuss any relevant best practices or considerations for implementing a successful social media marketing strategy for a Shopify store, particularly focusing on [Platform 1] and [Platform 2]

Please provide a comprehensive guide and actionable insights for implementing a successful social media marketing strategy for [Store Name] on [Platform 1] and [Platform 2].

2. 📅 Create an Instagram Content Calendar

Help me create a simple Instagram content calendar for the next week. Please consider my target audience, main content theme: [Your Content Theme], and a posting frequency of [Number of posts per day]. Provide the results in a table format.

3. ✍️ Write a promotional email for a new product or service

As a [Insert Role] at [Insert Business Name], we're about to launch a new [product/service]. I want to create an engaging promotional email to announce this new offering to our customers and encourage them to try it.

Instagram AI Chatbot is in the Works: Your Next Social Buddy

Social media keeps changing and getting better all the time. It's like a big playground where new things are always happening.

Recently, Instagram has been making waves with its rumored testing of an intriguing AI chatbot feature. This development resonates with a broader trend in the tech industry, where companies are increasingly exploring the social potential of AI chatbots.

This chatbot is capable of:

• sending warm welcome messages

• providing answers to inquiries

• replying to Instagram direct messages

• engaging with comments by scrolling and responding in a friendly and human-like manner

• tirelessly operating 24/7 and can engage in multiple one-on-one conversations simultaneously

Takeaway: With the introduction of AI chatbots, social media platforms like Instagram are constantly evolving and becoming more exciting. The chatbot feature allows users to have interactive and engaging conversations with a virtual friend who can help with questions, respond to messages, and even interact with comments. This showcases the growing trend in the tech industry, where companies are exploring the social potential of AI chatbots to enhance the overall user experience on social media platforms.

Open AI's Future Plan: Inside the Mind of Sam Altman

During a recent discussion, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman provided valuable insights into the company's plans and the future of AI (dates not specified). Despite facing GPU shortages, OpenAI has ambitious goals for the near future:

1. GPT-4: OpenAI aims to develop a faster and more cost-effective GPT-4 model.

2. Context Window: They plan to increase the context window size to 1 million tokens.

3. Finetuning API: Improvements in finetuning methods will make the API more efficient.

4. Stateful API: OpenAI is working on an API that remembers conversation history.

5. Multimodality: While demonstrated with GPT-4, wider availability is dependent on GPU availability.

OpenAI also emphasized that they won't compete with their customers, except in the case of ChatGPT. They support regulation for future AI models and value the importance of open source. Furthermore, the continuation of scaling laws suggests shorter timelines for achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

These insights raise thought-provoking questions about the future of AI. How do you envision these advancements shaping our interactions with AI in the coming years?

AI Wars Update ⚔️

• NVIDIA and Hexagon Deliver Suite of Solutions for Accelerating Industrial Digitalization. Link

• Microsoft outlines framework for building AI apps and copilots; expands AI plugin ecosystem. Link

• Amazon's cloud unit is considering AMD's new AI chips. Link

• IBM watsonx.ai: Open source, pre-trained foundation models make AI and automation easier than ever before. Link

• Google launches AI-powered advertiser features in push for automation. Link

Are we riding the wave of the AI revolution or is it riding us? With Sam Altman's ambitious plans for OpenAI and the increasing prevalence of AI in our culture, it's clear that AI is more than just a trend - it's a revolution. But as we harness the power of AI to boost productivity and transform our lives, let's not forget what makes us human.

Outsourcing tasks to AI is becoming a pragmatic strategy, offering access to expert data scientists, cost and time efficiency, and reliable AI algorithms. But as we delegate tasks to AI, let's remember to nurture our uniquely human traits - critical thinking, empathy, and creativity. AI can handle analytics and even creative tasks, but it's our call when to step in as humans. As we outsource to AI, let's ensure we're not outsourcing our humanity.

So, as we wrap up this week's newsletter, here's a challenge for you: How will you use AI to enhance your human traits and make your life better this weekend?

As usual, I'm super eager to hear what you think, any curious questions you have, or even some brilliant ideas you'd like to share. Just hit that 'Reply' button and let your insights flow!

If you happened to miss our fantastic #10 issue last week, no worries! You can catch up right here and dive into all the fun stuff you missed...

Wishing you the most amazing week ever!

Your buddy,

Ash

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Released on June 2): The first “Spider-Verse” has, in the five years since its release, exerted a noticeable influence on mainstream animation. "Across the Spider-verse" is expected to push the envelope even further.

2. The Boogeyman (Released on June 2): A vulnerable family is infiltrated by a malicious supernatural entity in Rob Savage’s adaptation of the 1973 Stephen King short story. "Yellowjackets" star Sophie Thatcher headlines, and Chris Messina plays her father. "The Boogeyman" is written by "A Quiet Place" scribes Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.

3. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (Released on June 9): The newest installment in the "Transformers" franchise features two actors on the verge of superstardom – Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback – and looks to continue the course-correction started by 2018’s "Bumblebee," which posted a series-high Rotten Tomatoes score.

• TensorFlow: An open-source platform that supports several programming languages, including Swift, Python, and JavaScript. It is one of the most robust AI platforms and offers training videos to help jumpstart your success.

• PyTorch: Like TensorFlow, PyTorch is a one-stop shop for transforming ideas into functional applications. It’s an entire framework created to support various aspects of open source AI project development, including vast libraries and datasets to pull from.

• Keras: An application programming interface (API) that allows you to quickly and easily share the front end of your deep learning models. You can export your models from Keras and run them in browsers, iOS, and Android.

• OpenAI: OpenAI is changing the game of natural language processing (NLP) AI programs. They offer a model called Codex that changes natural language into code in the programming language you specify.

• OpenCV: OpenCV is well-known for its open source AI platform for computer vision. It works pretty much everywhere because its library was written in C, which it claims can be ported to everything from “PowerPC Macs to robotic dogs.”

• H2O.ai: An AI Cloud Platform copy claims that it is “the fastest, most accurate AI platform on the planet” and appears to be aware of ethical issues in AI.

• Rasa: Rasa is great for building conversational AI (chatbots) and deploying it via the cloud for free. It’s flexible and touted as “future proof” because it’s been designed so you can plug any NLP or ML model into Rasa to give you increasingly accurate results as technology improves with time.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS): If you have code to run or want a familiar place to start building, you can do it for free on AWS. The platform also stores the results/output of your programs.

• GitHub: GitHub is the biggest name in programming cooperation. The platform helps organize projects when many hands touch the same code, keeping track of version histories, notes, and Wikis.

🤖 Midjourney Prompt Tutorial: How to generate ultra detailed macro shots

Chase Lean shared a cool idea on Twitter - you can tweak the prompt to get the results you want! For example, you can change the subject or even switch up the camera and lens to see different and exciting outcomes. Let your creativity shine!

Prompt:

macro shot of [SUBJECT], shot with Nikon Z7 II and Nikon NIKKOR Z 105mm f/2.8 VR S lens, intricate details

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