Artificial Intelligence: Overview
The term “Artificial Intelligence” was first coined in 1956 at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire during a research workshop. The “Dartmouth Conference” is now considered the birthplace of Artificial Intelligence.
Sixty-eight years later, the market for AI technologies is booming, with ChatGPT as the widely recognized platform that has transformed how we obtain information.
The use of artificial intelligence and the buzz around AI tools in schools, universities, and offices nationwide clearly shows that the age of artificial intelligence is not just beginning but is already a fundamental part of the ongoing digitalization process.
The Most Popular AI Tools of 2024
In the business world, the use of AI tools is becoming increasingly important. Automation of processes, generation of images, text, or video content, and tailored responses within seconds—these common functionalities make many people’s work tasks easier, whether in marketing, development, or other professional areas.
In everyday life, we also encounter AI in many ways: chatbots in online shopping or voice recognition in various applications and devices, for example.
Most of us primarily use and are familiar with ChatGPT, which continues to enjoy significant hype and handles many of our tasks. However, artificial intelligence offers a wide range of other options when it comes to useful applications, tools, and solving individual tasks.
Therefore, we want to introduce you to a selection of the currently most popular AI tools in this blog:
Designs.ai: AI Optimization in Every Area
This platform offers a comprehensive range of diverse AI-based services that provide the right solution for any design need. Whether it’s creating a logo, video production, AI-generated images, or compiling appealing website content—Designs.ai shines with a fully equipped suite and is excellent for beginners and professional designers alike.
In addition to the AI features, the platform boasts an impressive library with a wide selection of fonts, graphics, colors, and design elements.
Price
There is a 7-day free trial, after which monthly plans start at €17.
Autodraw: The AI Tool for Simple Image Generation
Great idea, bad sketch? Autodraw is an application that can turn the most scribbled doodles into professional-looking drawings. It’s especially useful for those who want to turn a quick idea into an attractive graphic.
Simply draw your desired image in the provided field and receive a selection of professional sketches to choose from and download for your own use.
Price
Developed by Google, Autodraw is completely free!
Uizard: Artificial Intelligence for UI/UX
Rapid prototyping becomes child’s play with this tool: hand-drawn sketches are transformed into digital design prototypes for apps and websites thanks to Uizard. From amateurs to designers to app developers—this tool allows anyone to bring their UI/UX ideas to life without complex background knowledge.
You can start with the intuitive user interface, which is free from the ground up, or browse through hundreds of templates. Additionally, Uizard offers a comprehensive library of drag-and-drop elements/components that can quickly be added to the design. It also includes a text-to-image generator, a text assistant, and a theme generator that provides fonts and colors based on your uploaded images and URLs.
Price
There is a free plan with limited features, and the paid subscriptions start at €12 per user per month.
Sketch2Code: AI Automation for Code
This tool from Microsoft enables hand-drawn designs to be converted into HTML elements. Sketch2Code is popular among designers and developers because it significantly speeds up the process from idea to prototyping without the need for early design iterations to be manually coded.
Teams can collaborate on shared projects in real-time and exchange ideas on the shared whiteboard. Written texts and designs are automatically translated into HTML code by the tool. Accelerated project timelines ensure that aesthetic requirements are transformed into tangible digital results.
Price
Sketch2Code is also completely free!
Midjourney: The Favorite for AI-Generated Images
Midjourney is a tool that creates digital images based on prompts. High-resolution paintings, drawings, photos—with precise instructions, this AI tool can transform all your ideas into appealing images.
Besides a prompt, you can also upload your own images as PNG, JPG, GIF, or image URL and use them as a template. Thus, Midjourney is not only a text-to-image generator but also an image-to-image generator.
Following the text or image instruction, four image suggestions are generated. You can select one of the images to customize further or use it directly.
Certain words or images are blocked by an additional AI tool called the “Content Moderation System”; this includes, for example, depictions of violence or pornography.
Price
The Basic Plan starts at $10 per month.
Luma Dream Machine: The Text-to-Video AI Wonder
Generating videos with various AI tools is nothing new, but Luma has introduced an incredibly powerful and fascinating AI tool that delivers astonishingly realistic and highly detailed moving images.
A well-formulated prompt is enough to generate the first video within 120 seconds. It should be noted, however, that Dream Machine is currently still in the “Research Project” phase. While videos without people can look very realistic, videos with people can still appear somewhat unnatural in their movements. Despite this, testing it was a lot of fun for us—give it a try yourself!
Price
Currently, Dream Machine is free and limited to 30 videos.
Jasper: The AI Tool for Text Generation
Jasper covers pretty much everything you could wish for in terms of online text: blog posts, marketing texts, emails, social media posts, product descriptions, and much more. The tool uses innovative AI models tailored to the individual needs of various users.
You provide the tool with content or topics or give specific instructions, which are then transformed into relevant and well-formulated texts.
Jasper not only offers text generation but also tools to improve existing texts with spelling and grammar checks, style suggestions, and SEO tips.
Price
This AI tool is one of the more expensive applications on the market, with a basic price of $49 per month.
Conclusion
We hope that this overview of the most popular tools has inspired you and that you can use the potential of artificial intelligence in your work.
Despite the impressive advancements of these innovations, it is important to recognize that human work and custom-written programs remain indispensable in many areas. AI can be used effectively and situationally but cannot currently replace backend programmers or graphic designers.
Moreover, formulating prompts to achieve the desired end result is initially not easy. Working with these tools requires a certain level of finesse and precision—have fun experimenting and feel free to give us feedback or more suggestions for good tools!
We will definitely continue this list in the future and gradually introduce you to more tools—stay tuned 🚀
