At the onset of a year, you are at the greatest risk of widening the gap between your expectations and reality. There are several strategies one can employ to avoid such a gaffe. Understanding the ways in which you are capable of changing and the ways in which you are not is certainly one way. But that may require decades of psychotherapy. The other way is to introduce new tools that can actually help you achieve certain resolutions.

AI is one of those new tools, and we believe there are ways it can help you this year. So dream bigger, discard our caution at the beginning of this intro, and march into your new year by keeping up to date on some practical AI news with us.

Shall we?

80% of Americans Think Presenting AI Content As Human-made Should Be Illegal

Remember back in grammar school days when your paper would lose a letter grade if you made the unforgivable error of placing a comma in the wrong place within a citation? Hmm. Just us? We lost sleep over those bibliography pages. So it brings us no joy, pain in fact, to say what we’re about to say. We may need a required, standardized way to cite AI creations.

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AI Could Improve Your Life By Removing Bottlenecks Between What You Want and What You Get

Our pointer, middle, and ring fingers are raised. Scout’s honor we wrote the intro to this newsletter before coming across this article about how AI can narrow the gap between your expectations and reality. But how fitting? It’s a guide to do exactly what we were suggesting you do. While we’re being totally honest, we were never in the Boy Scouts.

Chatbot Therapy Is Risky. It’s Also Not Useless.

You shouldn’t trust a robot to solve all your problems. You shouldn’t trust a human to, either. So where does that leave us? Like all things tech/AI, it leaves us in the middle. Does Chatbot Therapy sound dystopian futuristic? Maybe a little. Do we live in a reality where both in-person and technological solutions should be explored for all things betterment? Maybe a little.

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