Artificially Awesome

July 30, 2025

Message/Experiment of the Week:

Did you know AI is doubling its capabilities every 3 months according to some experts? That means that in 2 years AI will be roughly 256 times better than it is now, and the AI we have now is pretty amazing!

Here are the results ChatGPT gave me for the following prompting: What are the most amazing and helpful things AI can help an average person with? Please include links and pricing.

Here are the most amazing and helpful ways AI can support the average person—things that used to take time, money, or expertise are now just a few taps away:

Everyday Productivity

ChatGPT (OpenAI) – AI writing, brainstorming, decision‑making, summarization. Free tier available; ChatGPT Plus ~$20/month.

Notion AI – Integrated into notes/projects: summarizing, drafting, Q&A, planning.

Business plan is $20/user/month (annual) or $24 (monthly), includes full AI features .

Reclaim.ai – Auto-schedules tasks and habits into your calendar to optimize weekly planning. Freemium; premium tiers approximately $9–15/month.

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Meal Planning, Budgeting, Travel, Gift Ideas

Samsung Food (formerly Whisk) – Generates meal plans, nutrition insights, grocery lists from ingredients/photo.

Free basic; Food Plus $6.99/month or $59.99/year .

Mealime – Personalized weekly plans, quick recipes, grocery list builder.

Basic free; Mealime Pro $2.99/month adds nutritional info and extended features .

Monarch Money – Budget syncing across accounts, spending categorization, goal and net worth tracking.

Free trial; subscription ~$15/month or ~$99/year .

ChatGPT or Claude can generate travel itineraries and personalized gift ideas via prompting; plus web-based planning engines.

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Learning & Growth

Duolingo Max – AI features for language learning: Explain My Answer, Roleplay, Video Call with Lily.

~$29.99/month or ~$168/year (US) .

ChatGPT / Claude – Teach any topic in approachable language or step-by-step homework help.

Perplexity.ai – For deep research and summarization via conversational web search .

Photomath / Socratic – AI problem-solving tools for math and homework support.

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Emotional & Mental Health

Reflectly – AI‑driven journaling and mood tracking.

Android ~$19.99/year; iOS ~$59.99/year after trial .

Wysa – Chatbot-based self-care engine using CBT/DBT techniques.

Free basic; premium ~$79.99/year .

Youper – AI‑guided emotional assistant, mood logs, CBT activities.

Free basic; premium approx. $9.99/month or ~$45–70/year .

Replika – Companion chatbot for emotional support, conversation, and affirmation.

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Creativity & Content

Canva Magic Design – AI-generated design templates for social media, story visuals.

Adobe Firefly – AI image generation and editing powered by Adobe.

Descript / ElevenLabs – Create/edit videos with voiceovers or realistic synthetic voices.

ChatGPT / Jasper / Copy.ai / Grammarly – Story prompts, content generation, tone polishing.

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Entrepreneurship & Side Hustles

Durable.co or Wix AI – Build websites or landing pages with no code.

Opus Clip – Turns videos into social reels automatically.

Copy.ai / Jasper / MailerLite AI – Write marketing copy, emails, product descriptions.

Perplexity / Claude – Market research, trend spotting, and customer persona analysis.

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Bonus “Magic” Moments

ChatGPT / GPT-powered assistants – Name that movie, analyze dreams, visual recognition.

DietGlance, NutriGen (research prototypes) – Image-based food tracking and smart dietary advice .

Bear Room – Easy stress relief via virtual room, breathing exercises, self-care prompts.

Free basic; premium $2.99/month or $29/year .”

For an experiment this week, pick an AI tool and play around with it. I’m playing around with Monarch Money, and you can try it free for 7 days and then use the following affiliate link to get half off your first year: https://www.monarchmoney.com/referral/vfcap3zi06?r_source=share.

Quotes of the Week (from the following ChatGPT prompt “What are the most helpful and important quotes about AI?"):

  • Understanding AI's Potential

    "Artificial intelligence is the new electricity."

    — Andrew Ng (Co-founder of Google Brain)

    "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

    — Albert A. Bartlett (often cited in discussions of AI progress)

    "AI won’t replace humans, but humans using AI will replace humans who don’t."

    — Seth Earley (AI strategist)

  • On Usefulness and Everyday Impact

    "AI is not a threat, it’s a tool. Like any tool, its impact depends on how we use it."

    — Fei-Fei Li (Stanford professor & AI pioneer)

    "AI doesn’t steal jobs—automation does. And people using AI will do the job faster than those who don’t."

    — Sal Khan (Founder of Khan Academy)

    "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."

    — Jeff Hammerbacher (Former Facebook data scientist)

  • On Ethics and Risk

    "The question is not whether intelligent machines can have any emotions, but whether machines can be intelligent without any emotions."

    — Marvin Minsky (AI pioneer)

    "AI is likely to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity."

    — Stephen Hawking

    "With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon."

    — Elon Musk

    "The real risk with AI isn’t malice, but competence. A superintelligent AI will do what it’s told—and that might not be what we meant."

    — Nick Bostrom (Author of Superintelligence)

  • On Humanity and Collaboration

    "Humans and AI working together will achieve far more than either could alone."

    — Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft)

    "It’s not about man vs. machine—it’s about man with machine vs. man without."

    — Garry Kasparov (Chess grandmaster)

    "The future is not written. It is built—by the choices we make about the tools we create."

    — Tim O’Reilly (Tech publisher)

Video of the Week:

AI Reporter: The NEW Way To Use A.I. To Get Rich in 2025 (Chat GPT, Gemini & Perplexity Labs!)

Song of the Week:

Tupelo - 40th Birthday (AI-generated visuals of Elvis Presley created from still photos and artistic AI models—resulting in a surreal, haunting visual narrative… https://pitchfork.com/news/nick-cave-ai-new-tupelo-video-elvis-watch/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)

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