As I’ve been busy with my day job(s) and various projects, like the Tech Insider Podcast, I haven’t put my hands to the keyboard for an article in a while. In this piece, while I’m still talking about AI, I want to demonstrate a few use cases that have significantly impacted my daily life.
It’s easy to get caught up in the news cycle and hype about 100,000 GPUs being deployed, requiring nuclear power, and dealing with sustainability challenges—not to mention the cooling requirements now and in the future.
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I use AI quite a bit in my day-to-day work—primarily to co-pilot areas of my business that don’t require me to hire someone but need more firepower than I can provide on my own.
Last month, I used AI in three very different ways, and each time it positively changed the outcome. AI is not a gimmick; it is not 3D TV or a “Smart Refrigerator.”
Use Case 1: Disneyland Planning
Our family was fortunate enough to visit Disneyland in September. Prior to the trip, I had planned to map out an itinerary days or weeks in advance. However, life got in the way, and the night before our trip, I found myself staring at my phone in silence while my family slept in the hotel room. I put on my headphones and skimmed 3-4 YouTube videos explaining the best strategies, secrets, and hacks. Having been to Disneyland once before (six years ago), the nomenclature was already confusing. Adding the Disney influencers’ over-the-top narratives made it more nauseating than the Guardians of the Galaxy ride.