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💰A Solution For Customer Support

Nick Charanjiva
October 27, 2023

A newsletter by LoopGenius
Break out of the 9 to 5. Go beyond.

Good morning, side hustlers, and happy Halloweekend!

Here’s the TLDR: Amazon launches conversational AI with Alexa, hallucination problems might finally be curbed, and Shutterstock introduces an AI editor for its massive photo library.

In today’s edition, we have:

🛠️ 5 tools to get your side hustle off the ground
⭐ 1 featured tool
🚀 3 top tips to get your entrepreneurship juices flowing
🗞 AI news this week

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🛠️ Tools for Side Hustlers 🛠️
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⚡ ChatZap - Chatbot for your website in under 5 minutes
🧠 Insight7 - Unlock product insights from customer conversations
💁‍♂️ TaskAde - A second brain for you and your teams.
❓ Askpot - Make competitive analysis 5x faster
🔁 LoopGenius - Automate your marketing process to land the first 100 customers for your personal brand, side hustle, or business

⚡ Featured tool: ChatZap ⚡

It seems like every website these days has a little chatbot in the corner ready to answer any questions you have about the product/website. It’s an effective tool that streamlines the customer journey without having to pay for an entire customer support team.

With ChatZap, you can have your own chatbot up and running in no time. The chatbot provides answers based on what it is trained on, and you can easily train one by giving the chatbot a link to your website or simply typing out what you want it to know.

💡Top Tips💡

💰 How a self-publishing side hustle made 10x more than offering online courses.
Author Anna David offers 5 critical lessons she learned turning her side hustle into a multi-million dollar business. The main takeaway: she learned to do every job before delegating to others. Read more here.

💭 Eat the frog
This productivity, accredited to Bill Gates, is a surefire way of getting yourself organized and improving task/time management. The idea is simple: if it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. Read more here.

🤝 After Product Hunt, founders are trying to game Github
Developers are trying to game Github by finding new ways to get more stars for their project. The goal: to get more recognition/VC money, etc. - the question is, does it work? Should you be doing the same? Read more here.

🗞 AI News Roundup 🗞

Amazon brings conversational AI to kids with launch of 'Explore with Alexa' | TechCrunch

Amazon's Echo devices will now allow kids to have interactive conversations with an AI-powered Alexa via a new feature called "Explore with Alexa." First

techcrunch.com/2023/10/25/amazon-brings-conversational-ai-to-kids-with-launch-of-explore-with-alexa

GM driverless car subsidiary Cruise suspended by California DMV

Cruise withheld a portion of video evidence from authorities of one of its driverless vehicles colliding with and dragging a pedestrian.

venturebeat.com/automation/gm-driverless-car-subsidiary-cruise-suspended-by-california-dmv

Brilliant Labs raises $3M for generative AI-based AR glasses

Brilliant Labs has raised $3 million in funding for its AI-powered augmented reality glasses.

venturebeat.com/metaverse/brilliant-labs-raises-3m-for-generative-ai-based-ar-glasses

Amazon’s new generative AI tool lets advertisers enhance product images | TechCrunch

Amazon is rolling out a new AI image generation tool for advertisers to generate backgrounds based on product descriptions and themes. Amazon is currently Amazon's new AI image generation tool lets advertisers generate backgrounds for product images.

techcrunch.com/2023/10/25/amazons-new-generative-ai-tool-lets-advertisers-enhance-product-images

Researchers develop ‘Woodpecker’: A groundbreaking solution to AI’s hallucination problem

The system can detect and correct hallucinated text generated by multimodal language models (MLLM) when describing images.

venturebeat.com/ai/researchers-develop-woodpecker-a-groundbreaking-solution-to-ais-hallucination-problem

Exclusive: Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI

“It’s going to be monumental, earth-shattering. There will be a before and an after.”

www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/26/1082398/exclusive-ilya-sutskever-openais-chief-scientist-on-his-hopes-and-fears-for-the-future-of-ai

Meta loses $3.7B in Q3 in metaverse-focused Reality Labs division

Meta reported that it lost $3.7 billion in the third quarter in its metaverse-focused Reality Labs division.

venturebeat.com/games/meta-loses-3-7b-in-q3-in-metaverse-focused-reality-labs-division

Shutterstock debuts an AI image editor for its 750-million picture library

The goal is to make it easier for users — from publications to brands — to find images that suit on Shutterstock and manipulate them.

venturebeat.com/ai/shutterstock-debuts-an-ai-image-editor-for-its-750-million-picture-library

Cisco zooms in on new AI power for Webex teams

Providing automated support such as tone modification when writing messages, suggested responses to received messages, and meeting summaries

venturebeat.com/virtual/cisco-zooms-in-on-new-ai-power-for-webex-teams

SurveyMonkey launches ‘Build with AI’, ushers in a new era for survey creation

SurveyMonkey is unveiling new AI capabilities that it hopes will set its online survey tools apart in an increasingly crowded market.

venturebeat.com/ai/surveymonkey-launches-build-with-ai-ushers-in-a-new-era-for-survey-creation

US security remains paramount in the continued rise of AI, according to Treasury Department secretary | TechCrunch

As investments grow globally, there’s still a concern stateside for security and making sure the U.S. protects its businesses.

techcrunch.com/2023/10/25/ai-security-paul-rosen

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