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The AI newsletter for the rest of us!

March 03, 2025

This issue of The AI Intelligence is all about making AI work for you. Get an overview of artificial intelligence tools you can utilize for a variety of tasks and then learn how to get the most out of them in the Tools and How-To sections below.

Good luck guessing the numbers on AI’s impact and add that knowledge to discoveries about AI manipulation, research breakthroughs, household robots and more in this week's News. Or just peruse however gives YOU joy.

Happy discovery, I’m glad you're here!

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  • Spotlight Toolbox: Everyday AI Tools, Streaming Wikipedia Facts, AI Career Tool

  • Guess the Numbers: Apply your AI sleuthing skills!

  • How To AI: Free AI Tutorials on How to Use ChatGPT for Personal Tasks, Creating Images with Midjourney, and Leveraging Copilot for Productivity

  • AI News: Musk’s Grok 3 seems to be censoring responses to favor its creator and his boss, bots as school counselors, the new Alexa, humanoid home robots, and more…

  • Next Issue: Deepfakes and Scams

With all the AI tools popping up these days, you might be wondering which ones are actually useful for your everyday tasks. Whether you’re looking to improve your writing, create images, or get more organized, there’s an AI tool that can help. Click here to find a quick rundown of some of the most popular tools, broken down by category—along with some pros and cons for each.

More tools….

(…sort of a tool :-) Developer creates endless “WikiTok” feed to fight algorithm addiction

The new site combines the best parts of Wikipedia and TikTok.

Searching for your dream job? Google's new career AI tool can help - and it's free

The 'Career Dreamer' AI experiment is easy, free, and, dare I say, fun to use. Here's how to get started.

Which of these numbers about AI usage are correct? Find out if you guessed right at the bottom of the newsletter.

What percentage of devices today use AI technology in some form?

How many jobs is AI expected to eliminate by 2025, while also creating new ones?

What percentage of companies are either using or exploring the use of AI?

A) 50%

B) 60%

C) 77%

D) 90%

A) 50 million jobs eliminated, 60 million created

B) 70 million jobs eliminated, 80 million created

C) 85 million jobs eliminated, 97 million created

A) 50%

B) 60%

C) 70%

D) 77%

A Selection of How-Tos from Ben’s Bites

Ben’s Bites is a great hub for AI tutorials, courses, and community. Check out a sampling of free tutorials below.

Using ChatGPT for everyday personal tasks - A quick look into using ChatGPT for writing, travel, summaries and asking questions.

Learn how to use Copilot and Copilot Pro—from the basics to advanced techniques to boost your productivity and transform your work.

Create stunning images with Midjourney - Learn how to use Midjourney to generate beautiful, professional-quality artwork for various projects and purposes.

Can AI sound too human? Sesame's Maya is as unsettling as it is amazing - try it for free

The company dropped a demo of its new AI chatbot that lets you talk to either "Maya" or "Miles." The goal, Sesame says, is to achieve something called "voice presence" or the "magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued."

OpenAI Bans Chinese Accounts Appearing to Work on a Surveillance Tool

A campaign with likely affiliations with China saw a company attempt to use ChatGPT to edit code for a social media surveillance tool.

British musicians release a silent album to protest plans to let AI use their work

A new album called “Is This What We Want?” features a stellar list of more than 1,000 musicians — and the sound of silence.

Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk

It appears that Musk’s xAI chatbot, Grok 3, briefly censored certain unflattering mentions of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Amazon unveils a new and improved Alexa, Alexa+

Amazon says that the new Alexa can answer questions like “How many books have I read this year?,” drawing on info from an Amazon customer’s account. It can notify users when, for example, new tickets for a concert drop, and help with certain tasks like booking a dinner reservation.

Large Law Firm Sends Panicked Email as It Realizes Its Attorneys Have Been Using AI to Prepare Court Documents

Morgan & Morgan sent an email to its lawyers warning about AI tech's habit of lying after two of them were caught citing fake court cases.

Nvidia unveils powerful AI system for genetic research

The system learned from nearly 9 trillion pieces of genetic information taken from over 128,000 different organisms, including bacteria, plants, and humans.

When There’s No School Counselor, There’s a Bot

Teens around the country are confiding in Sonny when they feel they don’t have anyone else to talk to. Sonny is part human, part AI: a new kind of chatbot that school districts are adopting to provide support when there aren’t enough counselors to go around.

When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats

When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.

China: World-first dual-loop brain-computer interface unveiled

Chinese researchers have developed the world’s first two-way adaptive brain-computer interface (BCI), increasing efficiency 100-fold.

Figure's humanoid robots will take on your household chores this year

The idea is to enable Figure bots to see what's happening around them, understand natural language, interact with the real world, and learn to do just about anything.

Google ‘AI Co-Scientist’ Cracks Decade-Long Research Problem In Two Days

Built on Google’s Gemini AI assistant, the tool promises to make research faster and more efficient. But the company acknowledges the need for safeguards against misuse.

Answers to Guess the Numbers