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In this collection, you'll discover some of the most useful, clever, and actionable stories on how we can personally leverage AI to improve our lives and jobs.

I Tried These AI-Based Productivity Tools. Here’s What Happened

Juliane Bergmann

WIRED

Hoping to make life easier, I tested six AI-powered tools meant to help me write better and work smarter.

How to Fact Check Google’s Gemini AI

Saikat Basu

Lifehacker

AI chatbots like Gemini can be mighty powerful, but they’re not always accurate. Here’s how to double-check Gemini’s responses, and improve the quality of your research.

Side Hustle or Scam? What to Know About Data Annotation Work

Will Henshall

Time

As AI evolves, data annotation—or the work done by humans to train AI—has emerged as a potential way to make money.

How People Are Really Using GenAI

Marc Zao-Sanders

Harvard Business Review

There are many use cases for generative AI, spanning a vast number of areas of domestic and work life. Looking through thousands of comments on sites such as Reddit and Quora, the author’s team found that the use of this technology is as wide-ranging as the problems we encounter in our lives.

Here’s How You Can Spot AI-Generated Videos (For Now)

Tim Brookes

How-To Geek

How many fingers are too many fingers?

How GPTs Let You Use AI Any Way You Want To

Maxwell Zeff

Quartz

OpenAI’s customized chatbots will enable computers to work for humans.

Is Your AI-First Strategy Causing More Problems Than It’s Solving?

Oguz A. Acar

Harvard Business Review

The problem with an AI-first strategy lies not within the “AI” but with the notion that it should come “first” aspect.

Axios Explains: How to Use ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini AI Tools

Megan Morrone

Axios

Getting started using any of these tools is easy, but knowing when and how to get the best results from them can still be tricky.

The Ultimate Insider’s Guide to AI: How Founders, Investors, and Executives Really Use the Technology [PAYWALL]

The Information

We’re deep into an era-defining boom in artificial intelligence, and with so much attention falling on the money and mania generated by this fast-evolving technology, it’s worth stepping back to ask: How do people really use it? And moreover, what are the people at the epicenter of this surge ...

A Poster’s Guide to Who’s Selling Your Data to Train AI

A.W. Ohlheiser

Vox

Those Tumblr, Reddit, and WordPress posts you never thought would see the light of day? Yep, them too.

How to Use ChatGPT’s Memory Feature

Reece Rogers

WIRED

The latest update to OpenAI’s chatbot improves the AI’s ability to remember user details, but the feature is not yet available for all ChatGPT accounts.

I Used AI Work Tools to Do My Job. Here’s How It Went.

Danielle Abril

The Washington Post

We tested Microsoft’s Copilot and Gemini for Google Workspace’s generative AI features and found them to be both helpful and a pain to use when it comes to everyday work tasks.