How to Attract a Technical Cofounder to Start Your AI Company

Good morning AI Multipreneurs!

This week a US federal judge rules AI art can’t be copyrighted, and I show you a way to find a technical cofounder for your AI company.

Let’s jump in.

This week’s lineup:

• Automation Strategy: How to Attract a Technical Cofounder to Start Your AI Company

• Latest News: AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US federal judge

• Insightful Videos

• Useful Tools

Read time: 7 minutes

AUTOMATION STRATEGY

How to Attract a Technical Cofounder to Start Your AI Company

Have an idea for an AI tool, but need a technical cofounder to help you build it?

Do you feel stuck because you haven't been able to find one?

Here’s 7 clear steps to attract a top-tier technical cofounder:

Step 1: First, do your part by building an audience that trusts you on X (and start a newsletter if you can).

Step 2: Once you have an audience, ask them about their problems, and figure out ways to solve them by creating multiple free digital products (e-books, tutorials, mini-courses).

These products should solve similar problems that your AI tool idea does.

Step 3: Announce your free products on X and link to them in CTA’s of your popular posts on X.

This will drive people to download them.

Step 4: The free product that gets the most downloads is potentially a validated idea for an AI tool.

You may have found a problem that people actually want solved.

Step 5: Now you can build a simple landing page to gather waitlist sign ups for your validated AI tool idea.

Post about it on X and in your CTA’s.

Step 6: If you can get a significant amount of sign ups, then you may have enough traction and insight to attract a technical cofounder.

Step 7: If people don’t sign up, then you may need a new idea or you didn’t do one of the steps well enough.

Go through the steps again and redo them to gather more feedback and sign ups.

Or start over with a new AI tool idea.

This is the tried and true process of validating your idea and building an audience around your solution.

It's one of the key ingredients in being a successful founder of an AI company.

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LATEST NEWS

AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US federal judge

Key Points:

1. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled that AI-generated artwork cannot be copyrighted, emphasizing that human authorship is a requirement for copyright.

2. The decision dismissed a lawsuit by Stephen Thaler for an AI-generated image, stating that copyright has never been granted to work absent a "guiding human hand."

3. Stephen Thaler plans to appeal the case, with the ruling highlighting complex questions regarding human input needed to copyright AI-created art.

Why it Matters:

The ruling sets a precedent in the intellectual property rights debate for AI-generated works, emphasizing human authorship. As AI's role in creativity grows, this decision could have broader implications for the legal treatment of AI and human collaboration in artistic and intellectual domains.

40% of workers will have to reskill in the next three years due to AI, says IBM study

Key Points:

1. A new IBM study analyzes the impact of AI on company business models and job roles, revealing that AI will cause change, but not necessarily negative. Executives estimate that 40% of the global workforce will need to reskill due to AI, affecting 1.4 billion people.

2. Rather than replacing jobs, 87% of executives expect generative AI to augment roles, and the study shows that successful reskilling in AI-related tasks leads to higher revenue growth. The focus is now shifting from purely technical skills to people skills like team management and adaptability.

Why it Matters:

The report challenges the fear that AI will replace jobs by highlighting how it can be leveraged for personal and business growth. This emphasis on augmentation over replacement and the shift toward people skills indicates a more collaborative future between AI and human workers, shaping the way education and workforce training may need to adapt.

ChatGPT Tests Into Top 1% for Original Creative Thinking

Key Points:

1. A study conducted by the University of Montana and partners utilized the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) to compare the creative abilities of ChatGPT, powered by GPT-4, with human participants. ChatGPT scored in the top percentile for fluency and originality, and 97th percentile for flexibility, rivaling the top 1% of human participants.

2. Dr. Erik Guzik led the study and found evidence that AI's creative abilities could be on par with or even exceed human abilities. This significant finding opens up potential applications in business and innovation, while also prompting discussions around the differentiation between human and AI-generated ideas.

Why it Matters:

The findings highlight a milestone in AI's ability to think creatively, a quality traditionally thought to be unique to humans. The success in creativity tests could not only transform how AI is employed in various industries, including entrepreneurship and innovation, but also lead to a reevaluation of how creativity is assessed and understood, both for machines and humans.

INSIGHTFUL VIDEOS

USEFUL TOOLS

AgentGPT simplifies the process of designing and deploying AI agents directly in your browser.

Civitai serves as a platform to explore, exchange, and rate custom AI art models, fostering a community of creativity.

Decoherence empowers you to craft AI animations and seamlessly synchronize them with your music for a dynamic visual experience.

Synthesizer V stands as an AI-powered music vocal generator, adding a new dimension to your musical compositions.

Uberduck offers a lifelike AI text-to-speech voice generator, enabling you to train and use your own customized voice.

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