Tool Use - AI Conversations

Mike Bird
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Oct 29, 2024 • 33min

Save 10+ Hours Each Week With these FREE AI Tools

Install the free Tool Use CLI tool with pip install tool-use-ai This week is just Mike and Ty going over tools they use to save time. Get through your never-ending reading list with NotebookLM. You can use Claude Computer Use to allow AI to automate a computer. And the Tool Use pip package is going to allow you to quickly use the tools we cover in the show as well as build your tools faster than ever. NotebookLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/ Claude Computer Use: https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-mo... Connect with us: https://x.com/ToolUseAI https://x.com/FieroTy https://x.com/MikeBirdTech
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Oct 22, 2024 • 39min

Automate Your Desktop to Save Time With These FREE Tools

Use A.I. on your computer to revolutionize your workflow! This episode of Tool Use discusses how to leverage AI on your desktop, with a focus on AI-powered process automation. We feature three demos, including OpenAdapt, Plock, and ScreenPipe. Our guest, Richard Abrich, founder of OpenAdapt, shares his insights on the potential of AI to automate repetitive tasks and improve workflows. Ty gives us a bonus demo of Pinokio too! Keep up with OpenAdapt: https://openadapt.ai/ https://github.com/OpenAdaptAI https://x.com/OpenAdaptAI Links: Plock: https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/plock Pinokio: https://pinokio.computer/ Screenpipe: https://github.com/mediar-ai/screenpipe Connect with us: https://x.com/ToolUseAI https://x.com/MikeBirdTech https://x.com/FieroTy https://x.com/abrichr
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Oct 15, 2024 • 44min

Become a 10x Engineer With These AI Tools

Use A.I. Tools to maximize your development workflow! Jake Koenig joins Tool Use to teach us about Mentat and share his perspective on how software engineering will evolve in the AI age. Ty shows us Atuin, a much better CLI history tool, a helpful CLI command correcting script called WTF, and an unexpected appearance from one other tool. Mike shows how to use Aider and how it fully implemented a refactor on his AI Toolkit. Check out Mentat: https://mentat.ai/ Atuin: https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin wtf: https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/op... Aider: https://aider.chat/ AI Toolkit: https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/ai-to... Connect with us: https://x.com/ToolUseAIhttps://x.com/FieroTyhttps://x.com/MikeBirdTechhttps://x.com/ja3k_
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Oct 9, 2024 • 54min

Use AI to Make Beautiful User Interfaces

Discover the secret to creating stunning websites! Dillion Verma joins Tool Use to teach us how to use v0 and MagicUI. Building beautiful websites and apps has never been so easy and incredibly fast! Mike shows how easy it is to use Gradio to showcase and test your AI models and APIs. Ty builds a (very good attempt at) generative UI system to build full UIs using only MagicUI components. Check out MagicUI: https://pro.magicui.design/?ref=tooluse Links from Dillion: V0 Cheatsheet: https://dillionverma.notion.site/V0-d... Jordan Hughes: https://x.com/jordanphughes Untitled UI: https://www.untitledui.com/ MagicUI on X: https://x.com/magicuidesign Connect with us: https://x.com/ToolUseAIhttps://x.com/FieroTyhttps://x.com/MikeBirdTechhttps://x.com/dillionverma
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Oct 2, 2024 • 38min

How do AI Engineers Use AI Tools?

Start building your own AI tools today! Join us as we take a step back and explore the world of building AI tools. This week, we're joined by Jason Kneen, an app engineer turned AI engineer, who shares his expertise and insights. Subscribe to Jason's Twitter: https://x.com/jasonkneen Episode Highlights: Ty demonstrates the power of Cursor IDE and Claude, with a focus on Claude projects and Cursor rules Mike showcases his Alacritty terminal setup, including functions, aliases, Alacritty hints, and using Automator to turn scripts into programs Jason walks us through using Krea for AI art generation Stay tuned for our extended conversation episode where we'll dive into deeper discussions on AI tool development! Code: https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/dotfileshttps://github.com/tyfiero Connect with us: https://x.com/ToolUseAIhttps://x.com/FieroTyhttps://x.com/MikeBirdTechhttps://x.com/jasonkneen
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Sep 25, 2024 • 41min

What Are Techfren's Favourite AI Tools?

We're joined by AJ, also known as ‪@techfren‬ in the tech world. We discuss open source coding tools and demo some open source infrastructure projects with the goal of helping the open source AI tool ecosystem. GitHub Actions - 01:06‪@MikeBirdTech‬ builds AI powered Github Actions PR Writer - writes a PR title and description based on commit messages TODO Issue Creator - creates GitHub issues from TODO comments Code - https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/ai-to... Get a recommendation on which license is best for your project PIP package - https://pypi.org/project/license-sele... ‪@tyfiero‬ creates License Selector Say hello to Techfren https://techfren.net/ Make your own Stack repo https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/stack Connect with us: https://x.com/ToolUseAI https://x.com/MikeBirdTech https://x.com/FieroTy https://x.com/techfrenAJ
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Sep 18, 2024 • 50min

The Future of Voice Agents with Killian Lucas

Join us for this week's episode of Tool Use as we dive into the exciting world of voice intelligence. We're joined by special guest Killian Lucas, creator of Open Interpreter, as we explore the latest developments in AI tools. We discuss the latest advancements in voice intelligence, including voice-controlled agents and speech-to-speech systems. Killian shares his personal story of getting into the AI space and building Open Interpreter, an open-source project that allows users to run code on their computers using natural language. He also shows a demo of making a voice assistant patiently wait for its turn to talk. Shallowgram - open source and local version of Deepgram 01 Voices - give your 01 a custom voice and persona from a single prompt Check out Open Interpreter https://openinterpreter.com Code: Shallowgram: https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/ai-to... 01 Voices: https://github.com/tyfiero/tool-use Connect with us: https://x.com/ToolUseAI https://x.com/MikeBirdTech https://x.com/FieroTy https://x.com/hellokillian
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Sep 11, 2024 • 45min

Activity Tracker and Calendar Automator

Time is our most precious resource, let's use AI to optimize it! In this episode of Tool Use, Mike Bird and Ty Fiero discuss the importance of time management and explore AI-powered tools that can help optimize productivity. They share their personal experiences with using AI tools to manage their time and highlight the benefits of such tools. Watch as Mike demonstrates an activity tracker that uses Whisper to recognize spoken activities and categorize them using an LLM. The tracker can also provide statistics on time spent on different activities and offer insights on how to optimize time management. Ty introduces Calvin, a CLI app that integrates with Google Calendar and can create, edit, and delete events. Calvin uses cloud-based apps behind the scenes and can be used to automate workflows. Joining the conversation is Orlando, co-founder of Toolhouse, who discusses his company's mission to give superpowers to LLMs. He demonstrates a tool that uses Toolhouse to extract information from a database using natural language queries. The conversation turns to the future of AI, including the potential for mixture of experts models and the importance of decentralization. Check out Toolhouse: https://toolhouse.ai/ Code: Activity Tracker: https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/ai-to... Calendar Automator: https://github.com/tyfiero/tool-use Read about OLMOE: https://huggingface.co/allenai/OLMoE-... Connect with us: https://x.com/ToolUseAIhttps://x.com/MikeBirdTechhttps://x.com/FieroTyhttps://x.com/sunglassesface
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Sep 4, 2024 • 44min

Obsidian Plugin Generate and Scripts that make Scripts

Join us for an exciting episode of Tool Use as we welcome our first guest, Twodog, who showcases the innovative Farm Friend project! Don't miss this knowledge-packed episode on leveraging AI to create powerful tools that streamline your workflow! Episode Highlights: Deep dive into tools that build tools Discover free and open-source time-saving solutions by Mike and Ty Explore the game-changing 100 million context window from Magic Showcasing The Privacy and Sovereignty Company Featured Tools: Obsidian Plugin Generator https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/ai-to... Script-o-matic https://github.com/tyfiero/script-o-m... Check out Farm Friend http://farm-friend-v1.replit.app Connect With Us: https://x.com/ToolUseAIhttps://x.com/MikeBirdTechhttps://x.com/FieroTyhttps://x.com/twodogseeds
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Aug 28, 2024 • 36min

Video to Content Pipeline and YouTube Playlist Summarization

Ty and Mike show you how to extract data from videos to leverage in amazing ways. Have AI get information from videos to improve your life. Have a YouTube playlist that's grown so big that you'll never get to watch all the videos? Ty shows you how you can turn those videos into consumable summaries. Did you make a video and want to generate content from it? Mike shows you how you can use AI to turn a video into many different pieces of content. Learn about the amazing work done by the Human Feedback Foundation. Learn about how consumers are tired of hearing about AI in your marketing material. Code: https://github.com/MikeBirdTech/ai-to...https://github.com/tyfiero/tool-use Be sure to subscribe and keep up on X: https://x.com/tooluseai Connect with Ty and Mike on X: https://x.com/FieroTyhttps://x.com/MikeBirdTech

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