205 | ⅟👷‍♀️ Fractional AI Managers

In today’s Brainyacts:

1. Fractional AI Managers

2. AI Calendars

3. Adobe Acrobat gets new AI upgrades and other AI model news

4. Edward Snowden has warned us and more news you can use

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Lead Memo

I Love This AI Business Idea: ⅟👷‍♀️ Fractional AI Managers

AI is revolutionizing industries, but the sheer number of tools available can be overwhelming for businesses. Where do you start? What do you buy? This creates a problem: decision paralysis. With so many options, companies often struggle to choose the right AI tools, slowing progress and innovation.

A Solution: Get a Fractional AI Manager

The fractional model involves hiring a professional or specialist team part-time, offering flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and access to high-level expertise without the commitment of a full-time hire.

In a subscription-based approach, businesses pay recurring fees for ongoing AI management services (which can be a mix of expertise, products, and services), providing continuous support and scalability.

Example: TOO MANY ROBOTS (tmr.wtf)

This is a cool new company that simplifies AI for businesses. Founded by my friend, the badass presentation and talk guru Richard Mulholland from South Africa, this company wants to be your fractional AI manager.

Here’s how they will do it:

1. Smart AI Deployment: They have a specialist team that works to identify where AI can be most effectively used in your business.

2. Team Training: They train your team to use AI tools that are most relevant to your business and needs.

3. Collective Knowledge: They build a hivemind of AI use cases from your business as well as their other customers, continuously learning and improving, so that everyone has the best approaches as the technology changes and gets updates.

4. Cost-Effective Access: They are giving their customers access to some fo the top AI tools without them needing to get their own license or subscription. This is a nice try-before-you-buy offering.

Why This Will Work

TOO MANY ROBOTS is looking to make AI less challenging, more accessible, and a heck of a lot more practical for businesses. Many business - firms or even in-house teams, are under pressure to do something meaningful with AI but don’t have the time or resources to truly vet this stuff. A fractional AI manager might be the best option.

Hmm . . . maybe I need to build a small team and offering in this space just for legal . . . thoughts?

In the Meantime, Check It TOO MANY ROBOTS

I’m genuinely excited about TOO MANY ROBOTS and my friend, Rich. I think they have their finger on the pulse of a real challenge for businesses. If you're struggling with AI decision paralysis, I highly recommend checking out what Richard and his team are doing. This could be the game-changer you need to make AI work for you.

Oh and they have some of the best ad copy and art out there . . . check out their website.

Spotlight

📆 🤖 AI Calendars

AI Calendars are apps that use AI to manage users’ events, meetings, and tasks automatically.

These tools are able to consider specifics like travel time, working hours, and priorities to maximize the users’ free time and availability.

Plus, the AI can learn from your behavior and adjust your calendars accordingly in the future.

Here are some I have checked out:

Milo is your family's AI-powered partner. It tackles “the invisible load of modern family life and tries to give busy parents back some time and mindshare by tackling the daily details with a behind-the-scenes co-pilot.

Clockwise analyzes team members’ schedules to find optimal meeting times. It also blocks out focus time, lunches, and travel time.

Motion AI is an AI calendar assistant that can be used by individuals or teams. After the user adds priorities and tasks to the app, it creates a customized schedule.

Reclaim AI runs via Google Calendar (and soon on Outlook Calendar). Users create habits that they’d like to set and Reclaim automatically schedules the habits each week. It also features automatic meeting scheduling and rescheduling.

BeforeSunset AI helps you organize your day. It's free to use and works on both iPhones and the web. It turns your to-do list into a clear plan with easy steps. AI saves you time by tracking how long tasks take and helps you focus without distractions.

AI Model Notables

► Adobe upgrades Acrobat AI chatbot to add multi-document analysis, image generation.

► Google reportedly moving DeepMind from research to AI products.

► Google Deepmind's video-to-audio (V2A) tech can create rich, synchronized audio for AI-generated videos using just the video pixels and a text prompt for additional guidance.

► McDonald’s pulls AI ordering from drive-thrus — for now – as it looks to other providers rather than IBM.

► OpenAI keeps having outages.

► OpenAI’s potential shift to a fully for-profit model: implications and controversies

► Microsoft’s AI chief is digging into OpenAI’s code because Microsoft has intellectual property rights to OpenAI's software.

► Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team has released 4 new models:

•  Meta Chameleon 7B & 34B language models that support mixed-modal input and text-only outputs.

•  Meta Multi-Token Prediction Pretrained Language Models for code completion using Multi-Token Prediction.

•  Meta JASCO Generative text-to-music models capable of accepting various conditioning inputs for greater controllability. Paper available today with a pretrained model coming soon.

•  Meta AudioSeal An audio watermarking model that we believe is the first designed specifically for the localized detection of AI-generated speech, available under a commercial license.

News You Can Use:

➭ California AI Bill has Big Tech panicking.

➭ The US Navy will boost the use of threat-detecting underwater AI.

➭ A new IMF paper says the AI boom has immense potential to boost productivity, but will also increase inequality without changes to tax policy, education and social safety nets.

➭ Colorado has a first-in-the-nation law for AI — but what will it do?

➭ Indian election was awash in deepfakes – but AI was a net positive for democracy.

➭ Snowden’s take on OpenAI’s recent hire:

Who is the author, Josh Kubicki?

Some of you know me. Others do not. Here is a short intro. I am a lawyer, entrepreneur, and teacher. I have transformed legal practices and built multi-million dollar businesses. Not a theorist, I am an applied researcher and former Chief Strategy Officer, recognized by Fast Company and Bloomberg Law for my unique work. Through this newsletter, I offer you pragmatic insights into leveraging AI to inform and improve your daily life in legal services.