ChatGPT meets LinkedIn, but is it really that great?

Three AI tool reviews.

ChatGPT meets LinkedIn – an email generator using AI

tl;dv – a meeting transcriber that does a great job capturing takeaways

durable – an AI website generator (or maybe just a glorified template builder?)

Let’s get into it!

ChatGPT LinkedIn Email Generator

Overall rating: 3/5 🤖🤖🤖

The ChatGPT LinkedIn email generator is a Google Chrome browser extension. This extension is designed to help you generate LinkedIn messages with the assistance of Generative AI using your company information and the recipients LinkedIn profile. The combination of their LinkedIn profile and your company name is designed to generate a personalized message.

I developed a fictitious company called InnovateX1 who produces an annual conference called Global Digital Impact Summit. It is a sales organization committed to revolutionizing the technology conference landscape. They primarily focus on finding speakers for conferences as well as sell conference booth space to vendors.

Here is the about information I entered into the tool for reference:

Today, we’re going to test it out on some popular people:

First, let’s get this setup. To install this, you first need to install this Google Chrome extension.

Once installed, you will need to activate the extension and enter company information. You have the ability to automatically pull in your profile and company information or enter it yourself. For the purposes of this experiment, I entered the fictitious company information in myself.

To do this, a new button appears on the LinkedIn UI that says “Write personalized email”.

Now it’s time to start generating the emails. My expectation for both generated emails is for it to target them specifically asking them to speak at the Global Digital Impact Summit using personal information from their profile. Let’s see what it comes up with!

Gary Vaynerchuk:

Meh… I mean – it’s an email, but it is kind of boring. It also didn’t target Gary V. as a potential speaker for the conference. Maybe it would be good to add a creative mode to the prompt package to allow the AI tool to have a little fun with its messaging. Let’s try Simon.

Simon Sinek

Again, I’m going to have to give this response a…meh… In the about section of InnovateX1, I specifically added “Our primary goal is to connect cutting-edge conference spaces with visionary speakers, fostering an environment of collaboration, exploration, and expansion within the digital technology sphere.” I believed this would encourage the generative AI tool to seek speakers for the conference.

But what about job seekers?

One great use case for this type of technology would be for job seekers. Commonly, job candidates will reach out to recruiters on LinkedIn. What would a sales letter look like using this tool? For this use case, I chose a random Google recruiter and modified the company description to be about a fictitous job-seeking product manager.

I created a fictitious job-seeker named Alex Hartfield. Here is Alex’s background that I will put into the company description field. I added a key phrase “I am seeking a new role with a great company” that I am assuming will ask the recruiter about roles in product management. I also set the Title to “Job Seeker” and the company name to “Product Management”.

Let’s give it a shot!

Not too bad. Certainly better than the previous two examples. I can see how this could aid people in their job-seeking efforts by generating LinkedIn messages.

All-in-all, I feel this tool is interesting, but falls short on its promise to send personalized messages to LinkedIn members based on their profile information and creativity. As you know, you need a bit of creativity to stand out in a crowd. These influencers and recruiters receive countless messages. This tool would benefit from a couple things:

1. Expand out its use cases. Create a job-seeking mode, sales mode, etc. Find all of the use cases that people are typically sending messages to others on LinkedIn and engineer the prompts accordingly.

2. Add in a creativity toggle. One of the features of generative AI is its ability to adjust the temperature of its responses. A higher temperature will produce a more creative response, while a lower temperature will be more straight-forward.

Meeting Transcriber by tl;dv

Overall rating: 5/5 🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖

Wow. I was really blown away by tl;dv after my review. I was skeptical of the tool at first, but after I ran some tests of my own where I literally tried to trick the tool, it caught on and was super precise on the takeways it came up with. Below is my experience.

First off, tl;dv works for both Google Meet and Zoom. I did not test this on Zoom, but I did independent tests on Google Meet.

tl;dv touts itself as an AI meeting notes recorder powered by GPT. It transcribes & summarizes calls with your customers, prospects, and your team. It supports up to 20+ languages, has the ability to create clips from the recordings, and even has company-wide search capabilities of all meetings recorded by tl;dv.

Now, before we move forward, you HAVE to check out their video featuring Jack Nicholson as “Jacky Boy”. I found this really entertaining 🙂

To use tl;dv, you must first install it. It is available for both Google Meet and Zoom. The Zoom version seems to only be available for MacOS and not Windows. This is a big miss in my opinion as the majority of business users are on Windows machines. I am hearing, however, this is coming very soon.

I installed the Google Meet version as a Google Chrome extension.

The installation was very straight forward. Once it was installed, I had the option within my Google Meetings to record and transcribe my calls. Once I invoked this on the application, a tl;dv bot joined the meeting.

First, I recorded a short monolog with myself as the only meeting participant. In my dialog, I was debating whether I should send the botified newsletter on Thursday or Friday. After I finished my monolog and ended the meeting, the portal showed the below “Ai is writing…”.

After my 1-minute monolog with myself, tl;dv decided that the key takeaway from all of the verbal speech I was having was that I decided to send the newsletter on Thursdays only moving forward. This was spot-on as I concluded this on my debate.

The nice thing about tl;dv is it skipped all the fluff and got the the point on a key takeaway from the discussion.

I decided to have a bit more lengthy of a monolog with myself. Ok I’m starting to sound crazy here in my office talking to myself on a meeting, but it was the only practical way I could test out this tool! 🙂

Below is the transcript of my monolog to myself for reference as well as what tl;dv took as my main point. This was highly accurate. The monolog was a highly indecisive discussion going back and forth on whether I should take a (random) opportunity or not. tl;dv did a great job at picking up on the fact that I decided to take the opportunity versus not taking it. Here’s the conversation as well as tl;dv’s takeaway:

I really think this tool is one of the better use cases for AI out there that can help one be more productive. I am very impressed with tl;dv and its capabilities to transcribe and capture action items from meetings. It seems robust enough to stand up to conversations which could be very variable in nature and have a lot of people involved. The biggest downside being unavailable on Zoom for Windows, but this is coming soon.

I highly recommend you leverage this tool as it is one of the better use cases that I’ve seen using generative AI and audio.

Website Builder with AI by durable

Overall rating: 2/5 🤖🤖

Alright botified nation. Let’s build a new botified.ai website using the durable AI website building tool.

The tool starts out with the below button to generate your website in seconds. I started by clicking the button to generate my website. Wow, this sounds easy enough…

Once clicked, you’re presented with a map and it attempts geolocate you. You also enter the business you’re building. I typed in newsletter.

Next, I entered the business name botified.

After this step, durable generated my customized AI generated website. It created several sections such as a hero, a fake testimonial, a services section, and some other fluff. It also made some broad assumptions about the business. This is not surprising as the inputs were pretty minimal (location, business type, and business name).

It was fully customizable and mobile friendly.

durable.co then gives you the opportunity to regenerate sections of the website it generated using AI.

To improve this tool, I have the following recommendations:

• Expand the questions further to allow people to add more breadth to their AI generated site. The key to generate meaningful responses from generative AI models is to give really good context in the prompt. For example, the website would have been more meaningful if I was able to explain more about the business than just a business name and business type.

• Build in the capability to scrape an existing website’s content and leverage the existing content in the prompt. This could give a lot more context to the large language model (LLM) to generate more meaningful website content. It seems durable.co is in the business of building websites and monetizing their product through paid plans that include domains, hosting, and other such activities, so I would think the market for users upgrading their web presence would be pretty ripe.

I have to admit, I was pretty underwhelmed at what it generated in the sense that it didn’t leverage the power of AI in the ways I would have expected. This tool feels more like a glorified template generator and lead magnet. I think the idea of tools such as these to generate websites are ideal candidates for LLM technology, but the execution should be more thoughtful and consider common scenarios for users (more customization options and the ability to leverage existing content).

And…May the 4th Be With You

Prompt: a bunch of chewbacca’s taking a selfie while smiling and having fun, wide angle, Directional Light, Soft Lighting, Cinematic Hyperrealistic, 8k, Extremely Detailed, Panoramic, Dramatic, Landscape , realistic, cinematic light , 8k–v 4 –q 5