A running list of ways I’ve used AI

Jared Newman   |   October 14, 2025

If you’ve been reading Advisorator for a while, it should be clear that I’m not aboard the AI hype train.

All the talk about how generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini will someday—soon, these companies swear—transform the workforce and upend the global economy doesn’t line up with my own experiences using them. Bill Gates said in 2023 that AI will be as fundamental an invention as the internet itself. To me it’s more like Google: An important internet product, but a product nonetheless.