AI Tools I've Been Digging

AI Twitter and WhatsApp groups mostly cover two things: frontier labs battling for AGI supremacy and startups building AI infrastructure. Essentially, there’s a large buffet of AI capabilities and tools to serve them up, but the world needs founders to build real apps that give people tangible value.

I really admire programs like AI Grant that incentivized this early on. I'm always on the hunt for people who are finding new ways to apply generative AI and build something useful. Here are 3 AI-powered tools that I’ve been using and really enjoying.

One tool that I’m enjoying is Consensus. It's essentially a LLM that's been tuned across a bunch of research papers. You can ask it any sort of question, like "Is creatine good for recovery?" and it will look across all the scientific literature and summarize the papers.

It has a brilliant way of pulling out the relevant metadata about each paper, e.g. the type of study, the number of participants, whether it was double-blind, and how much it's cited. It uses that information to give you the strength of each paper and creates a nice summary. If you ask a yes/no question, it even goes as far as to give you a direct answer they call the "Consensus Meter." It tries to take a stand in a way that a lot of AI products do not.

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