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Hard Fork · The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose · 30 Dec 2025 podcast

What is this weird plant in my garden?

That kind of thing.

And I'm using it for work.

I use it for not for writing my columns or my podcast, but for research.

I am writing a book right now.

And so I am constantly using AI to look things up for me, to help me sort of piece together various primary sources.

We could talk about any of that in more detail, but that's sort of how I'm using AI just today, for example.

Yeah, the book is essentially the story of the race to AGI, which is artificial general intelligence, which is what all of these companies, OpenAI and Google and Anthropic, are now sort of pushing toward this vision of a sort of human-level technology

So I think it's a really wide mix.

I hear from people who are using AI tools for everything from medical research and developing new drugs to doing story time with their kids.

It really runs the gamut.

There was a really interesting study that OpenAI's economic research team did this year where they looked at 1.5 million or so conversations with ChatGPT

and how people were using it.

And they found that the biggest use cases among their study were what they called practical guidance, which is people basically using it to teach them things, you know, how do I fix this appliance, maybe do some health or fitness coaching.

Number two, the second most popular category of use was what they called seeking information, which was sort of as the kind of Google replacement, you know, how do I get to this place or,

book me a flight or something like that.

And then the third category was writing.

So as you would expect, a lot of people are using this stuff to write emails, business memos, to write maybe papers if they're a student, to help them with translation, things like that.

Those seem to be the largest categories of use across the user base.

I talked to a lot of programmers and a lot of engineers, people who are technical and work in tech.

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