Innovation Profs - 2/27/2025

Your weekly guide to getting the most out of generative AI tools

Innovation Profs
February 28, 2025

Welcome to our Friday edition of the Innovation Profs newsletter. Look for us in your inbox every Tuesday with our usual news-filled newsletter and on Fridays to focus on making you more productive with generative AI. Let’s get started…

Six generative AI tools we love right now

We don’t just talk about generative AI tools. We use them. Here are some tools we are getting value from lately - three from each of us.

Snider’s picks

Notebook LM: Notebook LM is an AI-powered collaborator. You upload documents, links, text, and it becomes an instant expert on whatever you upload. Users can then ask questions of the content or even listen to a podcast that breaks down the information.

Gamma: Gamma is an AI-powered platform that enables users to create presentations, documents, and websites without requiring design or coding skills. Need a first draft of a presentation? Gamma can make it from your notes, from a file or from just a simple prompt.

Descript: Descript is an AI-powered, all-in-one platform designed to simplify video and audio editing. It offers a unique approach by allowing users to edit media files through text-based transcription, making the process as straightforward as editing a document.

Porter’s picks

Claude Artifacts: With Claude Artifacts, users can harness the power of the LLM Claude to build standalone content, including interactive webpages, computer code, diagrams, and SVG images. Artifacts can be shared with other Claude users (even without a paid account) and remixed to improve their performance.

Midjourney: Midjourney has been the go-to AI image generation tool of the Innovation Profs for over a year now. On top of the basic functionality to create images, Midjourney has a range of editing tools, a robust interface that allows users to craft highly specified image prompts, and its performance beats out the other AI image tools (in our opinion).

Microsoft Copilot: Powered by OpenAI’s GPT models (or some variant thereof), Copilot embeds the power of generative AI into the Microsoft suite of productivity tools. Just the ability to have a conversation with your Outlook inbox is worth the price of admission.

Join us for AI Lunch Club events

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our AI Lunch Club event on Microsoft 365 Copilot on Wednesday. Our next AI Lunch Club event will be a look at how AI is being used in social media on March 12. You’ll learn about…

How to create your own AI for people to chat with in Instagram
How to get the most from Meta’s AI advertising tools
How LinkedIn is using generative AI to better connect job seekers with job opportunities
Two apps that are foreshadowing a future where humans and AI bots interact
And more!

More Lunch Clubs:
March 26: AI Ethics NEW LOW PRICE!
April 9: AI in Law and Policy NEW LOW PRICE!

Generative AI Mailbag

This week’s question: How do I write better AI prompts?

Answer: Here are some tips to write better prompts using generative AI tools.

Clearly state what you need from the AI - as if you were asking a real person.
List any specific context that will help improve the prompt. Let it know what the results will be used for (I am writing a blog post about …). Let it know the desired audience (I am creating a guide for college students). Assign the AI a role if possible (you are acting as a marketing expert).
Specify the format and length you want for your output (format your response in bullet points).

Want more prompting help?

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