Apple Instantly Revolutionizes AI

Today on 🥯 Bagel Bots, we’re discussing:

• 🍎 Apple has arrived in the AI world

• 🙋🏼‍♂️ An AI app to try—Microsoft Power Virtual Agents

• 📰 The latest AI news

• 🤖 Cool new AI apps for you to check out

• 🏠 Use Midjourney to build realistic buildings

• 🦾 Even in 1964, AI was coming

(Read time: five minutes)

The first computer I ever used was an Apple. I have been a lifelong Apple computer user and an iPhone loyalist other than a quick fling with the Google Pixel 1 (I still love that phone).

As the world has been frantically releasing AI updates hourly, Apple sat back and waited. And then, just like that, BOOM, they change everything. More below. 👀

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🙋🏼‍♂️ My new favorite AI app - Microsoft Power Virtual Agents

Human interaction is great (at least I’m supposed to say that), but bots are the future of scaling everything. While I don’t believe we should all talk to bots all day, I think that bots will allow us to focus on meaningful work and automate insignificant work.

Microsoft recently released Power Virtual Agents, and I wanted to play around with it. I am looking to build the perfect bot for my company, and we’re leaving no stone unturned.

What is it? Build intelligent bots in minutes using Generative AI and respond rapidly to customer and employee needs at scale with Power Virtual Agents.

You can try the free demo, give it any URL on Earth, and ask questions. The demo isn’t mind-blowing, but you could create enough on-site answers to the most common questions, which would be perfect.

🔗 You can access the live demo here.

🚨 Interesting AI and tech news from the last few days

AI news is flying faster and faster. These are the most significant things you need to know:

• 🔗 Apple changed our lives and never even mentioned the words AI. Introducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer. Read more here.

• 🔗 Apple didn’t really say “AI,” but they are using a lot of it in their new OS! The best AI features Apple announced at WWDC 2023. Read more here.

• 🔗 Reminder: people are really easy to fool. A design firm created with AI tools in one weekend fooled some people. Read more here.

• 🔗 If you use Google Drive products, you’ll love this! Google Docs, Slides, and Gmail are picking up more exciting generative AI features. Read more here.

• 🔗 Is it weird that teachers are upset about students using ChatGPT to do work but use it to teach the class? Harvard professor taps AI to help teach the world’s most popular online computer class. Read more here.

🤖 AI apps for you to check out this week

Every one of these apps can help you with your company, career, side hustle, or personal project. I recommend diving deep into them all.

• 🔗 Portaly - Turn your website into a ‘link in bio’ landing page with one click

• 🔗 Hallo - Learn languages with AI

• 🔗 ElkQR - Boost sales with personalized QR codes

• 🔗 captionit - Create funny image captions instantly with AI

• 🔗 Apiary - Apiary is a separate email inbox designed and built for consuming any newsletter (like Bagel Bots!)

Check these fantastic platforms out, and let me know what you think. Reply to this email or tweet me directly.

🚀 Midjourney 5.1 is so damn good.

I have recently been to New York City and London, and the flagship Apple stores were so incredible in both places. Much different than my regular Apple stores here in Orange County.

So I had an idea with Midjourney to create the most incredible Apple stores ever.

The prompts are simple, and you can change the store, location, and style in the prompt below:

A surreal Apple store, futuristic architecture, all glass, on a cliff over the ocean, 8k --ar 16:9  --s 750 --q 2

But you don’t have to stop at surreal Apple stores. You can create incredible architectural images with Midjourney, too.

My buddy created stunning images using Midjourney, and he included the prompts in the ALT text of his work. Amazing.

Go try it. Tag me in what you create!

🦾 My big thought of the day: AI has been “right around the corner” for a long time.

Even in 1964, we knew the AI revolution was coming. Look how far we’ve come in 59 years. Where do you think we’ll be 59 years from now?

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