A Robot Made Your Burrito. Who Cares?

Today on 🥯 Bagel Bots, we’re discussing:

• 🤯 Robots are making burritos now

• ⚡️ Fresh tech of the day - Adobe Project Stardust

• 📰 The latest AI and tech news

• 🤖 Cool new apps for you to check out

• 📸 Photography tips for AI art

• 💰 Help people make money, and you’ll make money

(Read time: five minutes) - Fun fact: I never change this.

You’re eating a burrito bowl. You enjoy it. You find out a robot made it instead of a human. Do you spit it out? Or do you eat it and enjoy it? Do you really care if a robot or a human constructs your food?

A lot of people care about this. I do not understand why.

Chipotle Mexican Grill is testing a robot made with Hyphen technology that can assemble burrito bowls and salads. I don’t eat at Chipotle (because I am surrounded by authentic Mexican food), but this seems really cool.

 🔗 You can read more about this here.

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💰 If you’re looking for investors or advisors for your AI product. I’m interested.

Want to chat with weird AI bot versions of celebrities? You can now, and it’s super strange. Even more bizarre—Meta is paying the celebrity faces behind its AI chatbots as much as $5 million for 6 hours of work.

🔗 Spotify spotted prepping a $19.99/mo ‘Superpremium’ service with lossless audio, AI playlists and more

My take: Would you pay $20/month for Super Spotify with AI built in? These prices are getting crazy, but I love this awesome app's additional tools.

🔗 Dropbox redesigns its web interface and releases AI-powered Dash in open beta

My take: I left Dropbox years ago because it felt clunky and cumbersome. I’m glad they have decided to join 2023 and make some significant changes, plus AI integration.

🔗 Disney’s Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI

My take: Does anyone actually care if a TV show or movie or anything is using AI-generated art?

🔗 Google Cloud and healthcare leaders share how generative AI is transforming the industry

My take: I have long said that AI + healthcare is what I am most excited about. I imagine a world where a drop of my blood can give me an insane amount of instant results. Plus, imagine being able to detect scary diagnoses early!

🔗 10 investors talk about the future of AI and what lies beyond the ChatGPT hype

My take: The future is going to be wild. Are you ready for it?

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

• 🔗 Wanda - Turn your webinars into long-form social posts

• 🔗 Writecream - Create marketing content & sales emails in seconds at a fraction of the cost

• 🔗 Exemplary AI - All-in-One Content Creation Tool for Video & Audio

• 🔗 Storyd - Create business storytelling presentations in seconds

• 🔗 Synthetic Users - Test your idea or product with AI participants and make decisions with confidence

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

📸 Photography tips for AI art

You can create amazing images of “real” people with generative AI, but it always depends on the prompt you use. Below are some fantastic tips to help you craft the perfect prompt for the image you want to create. For example, using “high angle” in your prompt can lead to a picture like this:

Test out all of the below prompt tricks and make some fantastic art.

💰 Help people make money, and you’ll make money

It’s a pretty simple message, but it’s very true. You'll do very well if you can charge money to help others make multiples of their investment in your product or services.

My company did great because we truly cared about our customers growing their business to record profits.

You should try it.