AI for Consumers - 20250325
What went on this week with AI, and how it affected (non-)consumers.
Top 10-ish Articles
How AI Is Reshaping Our Intelligence?
Marlynn Wei, MD, JD, The Psychology of Al
Interactions with AI can impact independent and critical thinking.
Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.
Kevin Roose, New York Times
Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist. See also Bubble Trouble.
Study: ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama and all other top AI models show anti-Jewish, anti-Israel bias
Zev Stub, Times of Israel
ADL report says Llama most problematic, providing unreliable and sometimes outright false responses to questions related to Jewish people and Israel; Gemini performed best in test.
Changing the Way the World Builds Computers
Cade Metz, et al., New York Times
The race to build artificial intelligence is driven by little silicon chips called GPUs, which were originally created for video games.
Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
Will Knight, WIRED
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.” See also Donald Trump’s A.I. Propaganda, Why the world is looking to ditch US AI models, and Emboldened by Trump, A.I. Companies Lobby for Fewer Rules.
Can Artificial Intelligence Stir-Fry?
Oren Peleg, New Yorker
Ed Zitron, an A.I. skeptic worried about “rot-com” in the tech industry, gives robot-fried chicken a try.
The Quest for A.I. ‘Scientific Superintelligence’
Steve Lohr, New York Times
An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery.
Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life.
Kate Morgan, New York Times
Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.
Generative artificial intelligence is supercharging legal analytics
Danielle Braff, ABA Journal
Generative artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the field of analytics by assisting lawyers with tasks ranging from fee setting to research.
Earth AI’s algorithms found critical minerals in places everyone else ignored
Tim De Chant, TechCrunch
The news suggests that future supplies of critical minerals are likely to emerge from a combination of field data parsed by artificial intelligence.
What I’m Hearing in China This Week About Our Shared Future
Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times
There is an earthshaking event coming — the birth of artificial general intelligence. The U.S. and China are the two superpowers closing in on A.G.I. — systems that will be as smart or smarter than the smartest human and able to learn and act on their own.
Articles/Books
AI Agents Explained Like You're 5 (Seriously, Easiest Explanation Ever!)
Vendasta
Stocks
Cloudflare Stock Jumps as BofA Gives Rare Double Upgrade to 'True AI Winner'
Andrew Kessel, Investopedia
Alibaba Stock Drops. Its Chairman Sees an AI Bubble.
Adam Clark, Barrons
See also Cramer explains why investors are no longer paying up for AI stocks.
Four AI stocks to buy now and hold, says the manager of a five-star, $58B global fund
Philip van Doorn, Market Watch
Prediction: These 2 Unstoppable Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks Will Be Worth More Than $1 Trillion by the End of 2025
Keithen Drury, Motley Fool via msn
Apps to check out
AI Bots
Rewind: Truly Personalized AI
Rewind works by capturing what you read in Safari and importing your screenshots. This lets you leverage the power of AI to ask Rewind any question about anything you’ve seen, including summarizing it for you. iOS app.
Top 10 Microsoft Copilot Alternatives to Make Your Life and Workflows Easier in 2025
Pavitra, ClickUp
Anthropic / Claude AI
4 Reasons to Start Using Claude 3 Instead of ChatGPT
Maxwell Timothy, Make Use Of
Apple Intelligence
Apple Joins AI Data Center Race After Siri Mess
Patrick Seitz, Investor’s Business Daily
DeepSeek
Chinese Companies Rush to Put DeepSeek in Everything
Zeyi Yang, WIRED
DeepSeek V3-0324 tops non-reasoning AI models in open-source first
Ryan Daws, AINews
Google / Gemini
Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model
Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google DeepMind
See also Google unveils a next-gen family of AI reasoning models.
New ways to collaborate and get creative with Gemini
Dave Citron, Gemini app
OpenAI / ChatGPT
OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work
Will Knight, WIRED
Tutorial: Best Prompt Framework To Master ChatGPT
Luis Sousa and Rui Sousa, The AI Break
Agents
Explore Agent Recipes
Explore common agent recipes with ready to copy code to improve your LLM applications. These agent recipes are largely inspired by Anthropic's article.
Build AI Agents the Easy Way | No-Code Guide with Relevance AI
Seun's Automation Tips
Coding
How Software Engineers Actually Use AI
WIRED Staff
You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom
Benj Edwards, Ars Technica
Shuffle
Are you ready to create your first template? I'm the Shuffle Assistant, and I'll be guiding you through the process.
TabbyML / tabby
Self-hosted AI coding assistant.
Images
OpenAI rolls out image generation powered by GPT-4o to ChatGPT
Kylie Robison, The Verge
I Used AI To Reimagine 5 Iconic Historical Figures In Full Color—Here’s How They Look
boredpanda, AOL
Photoroom
Sell more with stunning product photos and brand visuals.
Jobs
How to Become an Army of One: The Rise of AI Generalists (9,900% Results)
Julia McCoy, YouTube
Meetings
Otter’s new AI agent can speak up in meetings
Jess Weatherbed, The Verge
Miscellaneous
Product Hunt
The future is AI. From poetry writing to tackling tedious tasks, AI apps can automate almost anything (yes, really). Index of AI tools.
Julius
Chat with your files and get expert-level insights in seconds. Partially free.
Podcasts
Google will let you make AI podcasts from Gemini’s Deep Research
Emma Roth, The Verge
Presentations
Beemer
Our AI powered platform makes it easy for anyone to create professional presentations.
Spreadsheets
SheetAI
Describe what you want in plain English, and watch the magic happen in your spreadsheet!
Tomat AI
Query and analyze Excel and CSV without code.
ChatCSV
The way you normally talk, but with your spreadsheets. Upload a CSV and start asking questions. It is an Ask Me Anything for Spreadsheets.
Startups
How To Use Google AI Studio Which Changed How We Will Market FOREVER!
Ciaran Doyle, YouTube
Video
Google is rolling out Gemini’s real-time AI video feature
Wes Davis, The Verge
Writing
How to stand out in a world flooded with AI content
Nick, Prompt & Prose
AUTONOMOUS: My Adventures with Claude
Kimmy Schmidt, The AI Writers' Room
Best AI Writing Prompts for Marketers & Writers
Pavitra, ClickUp