Five Artificial Intelligence (AI) Apps and What They Do

AI apps are proliferating right now along with the popularity of AI in general. You have probably heard of the three biggest AI apps, Chat GPT, Claude, and CoPilot.

How does a person go about learning to use AI? Experts at the 2024 National Small Business Week Summit, opens a new window weighed in this past summer saying, “just start”. In that spirit, consider five popular AI-based content creation apps to assist in your promotional workflows.

  1. Gamma - make a PowerPoint from text or a document - such as a business plan (free and paid).
  2. Otter.AI can generate meeting transcripts, notes, summaries, etc. from teams/zoom and other calls (free and paid).
  3. Photoroom makes your photos better when you can't travel to the tropics to take a beach photo (free and paid).
  4. Lumen5 can create a video from a blog post (paid only).
  5. Opus Clip analyzes long form video to tell you what the most viral parts are and then create clips of these parts that you can post on TikTok (paid only).

Each of these apps uses a combination of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing tools that are trained by web crawlers perusing public content and private content purchased via subscriptions to the companies that power each AI app.

Use your GPL card to read an in-depth overview, opens a new window of what AI is and some background on it from the library’s general research database for adults, Explora by EBSCO, opens a new window. Use your GPL card to login.