We asked the AI community on Reddit what AI tools they use for their work and personal life.
Artificial intelligence has made a giant leap to take center stage in 2022.
Amazing tools like DALL·E (The image generator) transformed AI from scary and complicated to approachable, fun, and viral. But AI is so much more than a cool image generator, it’s something that helps us do things faster and easier, both for our work and personal life.
To get a deeper understanding of the possibilities AI gives us, we asked our friends in the AI community on Reddit what tools day use in their day-to-day lives for both categories (Work/life), here’s what they said.
AI tools for personal use
Brain.fm: Music to Focus
Brain.fm uses AI to generate music to help you focus, relax, meditate and sleep. They’ve done extensive scientific research to reach musical patterns they’ve patented. You can try it for free but after a few sessions, you need to upgrade.
My 2 cents: I listen to it as we speak and am pretty chill.
Bitesnap: Track Your Diet
Bitesnap is an easy way to track what you eat. You can count calories and nutrients just by taking a picture and with the help of AI, identify the ingredients in each meal. This helps you to stick to your diet and stay healthy
My 2 cents: There could be some ingredients that are so tiny the app won’t recognize them, but if you’re looking for an easy way to check you’re sticking to your diet — Bitesnap could be super helpful.
eezy.ai: Life Planner
Eezy is a personal life planner, they use AI in order to give you the best recommendations for events in the city or things to do at home. Eezy gives you recommendations on things to do depending on your mood and personality.
My 2 cents: I do like that it tries to Taylor things to your interest by trying to learn about you. I’m not sure if it falls into the AI category and the stuff to do at home was only to cook dinner 😒. So maybe more of an event recommendations app and not life planner…
Youper
Youper is where AI gets a bit serious in the sense that one of its goals is to fight depression. The app tries to identify and track your feelings via a chatbot and an emotional health assessment. It suggests a few activities to help you improve your feelings during the day.
My 2 cents: Mental health is a serious matter and I don't think that an app can really solve that kind of issue. It is an accessible first step for those seeking support or just looking to channel their negative energy somehow.
AI tools for work productivity
Grammarly: Writing assistant
Grammarly is a great tool for writing. It corrects spelling and grammar mistakes while providing recommendations depending on the tone of voice you would like your content to have. They provide an extension to browsers so you can write anywhere online and have the confidence that your writing will be clean and without errors.
My 2 cents: I love Grammarly and am using it as we speak (read?). It’s an amazing tool that saves me a lot of time and awkward spelling mistakes
Lalal.ai : Audio editing
Lalal.ai is a great tool for splitting voice and instrumentals from music tracks. Their goal is to support musicians, sound producers, music engineers, and basically all professionals that work with audio and video with a tool developed to “train” data to extract instrumentals and voice tracks from songs.
My 2 cents: I remember trying to do this manually with an audio editing tool and failing hard, this tool is a blessing.
GitHub Co-Pilot: AI pair programmer
With the Co-Pilot, programmers can spend less time creating repetitive code patterns and focus more on writing great code. Devs can simply write a comment with the logic and the Co-Pilot will suggest a code to solve it. The tool integrates with the main platform used by developers.
My 2 cents: Not a dev here, but seems like this tool could save time for running basic functions. I would be cautious as to rely on it too much.
Genei: Summarisation & research tool
Genei is a tool that uses AI to enable users to generate summaries from documents and web pages while extracting key information from articles. It helps to find keywords, references, and links. Users can easily copy all their findings to notes.
My 2 cents: Any college student knows what a pain it is to read and summarize academic material. Genei could be a great solution for this
Jasper.ai — Write original creative content
Japer will help you generate copy for social media, websites, or any other marketing channel you want. They claim to have consulted with the best SEO and marketing experts to create a tool that knows how to write great content.
My 2 cents: If you’re not a writer and can’t afford one then go for it. However, that personal touch that fits just your product and makes it special will be missing.
Textomap.com: Generate interactive maps from text in seconds
Maps are an important tool for many sectors like education, news media, and of course travel & tourism. With the help of AI, users simply type or paste their content and can easily generate a map from showing all the locations alongside the source text. They can share maps, embed them on their blogs and websites, and even export them to a Google Map for navigation.
Conclusion
Trends come and go, and sometimes tech that's promised to be the next revolution doesn't get adopted by the masses (Uhm…Google Glass) but AI seems like it’s here to stay. It is not just a gimmick and it will help us all be more productive and focused.
