Real things everyday people got it to do, and how to try them yourself.
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His 5th grade class studied Maricarmen and her eviction, a real case, and the pupils made work about it. He gave Notebook the AI directions to redo the class video so all of their work can be seen, and the video is posted with a PDF of the work on his class blog.
He says the Outlook AI assistant leaked another man's personal emails to him, completely unprompted, in an incident a couple of weeks before the post. He calls tools like this leaky and untrustworthy.
FlipIt's account of Business Insider's reporting describes UX designer Jay Eskenazi feeding his own compiled notes and recommendations into AI during a three-week Europe trip. The AI mapped his points of interest and exported routes into Google Maps, updated afternoon itineraries as plans shifted — accounting for opening hours, ticket availability and real-time events — and surfaced Barcelona festival information not yet fully published in English.
He drops one raw podcast recording into AI. Four skills turn it into an mp3, a transcript, a description on his clipboard, and a pull request on spring.io, with no manual steps.
Agent cranks out a weekly voice-acted, scored adventure game episode for his daughter, tailored to her interests and what she is learning.
Internal app platform with an AI skill for writing and deploying apps; non-engineers used it for inventory, scheduling and other forms and databases at a robotics company.
He spent about a tenth of his AI 6.1 SOL use having it sort all his chat threads into a few main projects and clean out the empty ones. It used the Chrome browser and finished the job with no mistakes.
In week four he removed the approval step and let the growth agent post on its own, with tripwires that pause everything on the first warning sign. Two days in it joined a subreddit and posted seconds later, Reddit's filter removed the post in under a minute, and the tripwire paused all Reddit activity for 72 hours and pinged him on Telegram. Weekly users grew from 37 to 64 over the same stretch.
While training on his Wattbike, he wondered if the AI Fable could crack the workout file format. It reverse engineered the format in under 10 minutes, and half an hour later there was a Python and JavaScript library plus a static viewer app.
In a hands-on test on a $20-a-month Google AI Pro account, the AI renamed and organised a folder of 507 PDFs into 13 subfolders. The session drew a broad warning that granting folder access could include sharing the folder's contents with third parties, plus a notice that backups of connected files would be deleted after a follow-up or 24 hours.
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