A lot of us are sleeping on AI ever since ChatGPT launched late last year. There has been an explosion of different AI tools, all of which can really improve our lives. But I think a lot of people believe that AI is just for tech nerds — it’s really not. It’s for the everyday person. AI right now is our friend. So before AI steals our jobs, I think everyone has a responsibility to look for ways to improve their lives with AI.
How AI Can Improve Your Life
In this blog, I’m going to go through a couple of ways that I’ve improved my life using AI. We’ll talk about ways that can save you money, save you time, and just generally improve the quality of your life.
AI for Job Searching
One way you can start using AI today is in your job search process. If you’re someone who was recently laid off — especially people in the tech industry — this is extremely top of mind. A lot of people are dealing with layoffs right now. ChatGPT can really help you throughout the entire job search process.
Building Your Resume
One of the first places you can use ChatGPT is in creating your resume. You can give ChatGPT bullet points, and it will write a compelling description section for your resume. It will handle the proofreading, editing, and even choose the most important stats that make you look the best. It tells you exactly what you need to highlight.
Tailoring Your Resume for Each Job
Once you've used ChatGPT to help you develop your resume, you can put in the job description alongside your resume. ChatGPT will even create unique, tailored resumes for that specific job description.
Writing Cover Letters
And this is not just for resumes — ChatGPT can actually help you write your cover letters too. You can feed ChatGPT the job posting and your resume, and then ChatGPT can create a really compelling cover letter that you can submit for that job role.
Handling Email Communication
Finally, once you’ve applied to jobs and start interacting with recruiters and interviewers, ChatGPT can help you handle the back-and-forth. It can assist in writing professional emails to improve your chances of getting the job. It can even help with tricky email situations like negotiating your job offer.
AI for Art Generation
AI Art for Non-Artists
As someone who doesn’t have any art skills — I can’t draw, I can’t paint — this is mind-blowing to me. I have artistic ideas and thoughts, but I was never able to translate them into actual physical art. Of course, I could learn to be an artist, but I just don’t have the time for that.
Beyond Art: Logos and UI Design
It’s not just artwork that AI can generate. It can also create logos, UI designs for web applications, or website layouts. It’s really helpful in all those different mediums.
Personal Experience with AI Art
In my case, I wanted to use AI to help me decorate my apartment. I recently moved to a new place, and I don’t really have an artistic eye. I used MidJourney to generate some unique art pieces for a gallery wall in my apartment. I wanted a remix of very famous art from the Renaissance and Impressionist periods.
Fun AI Art Prompts
For example, one of my favorite pieces of art is The Last Supper by Da Vinci. I wanted every character in The Last Supper to be a baby drinking bottles of milk — and MidJourney generated that for me.
Another thing I wanted was The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, but I wanted Venus to be a Black woman with blonde braids. Again, MidJourney nailed it. I also wanted Van Gogh’s Starry Night to be set in New York City — and MidJourney succeeded in making that text a reality. And this is just with my beginner-level skills at prompting. Some people are extremely advanced at creating AI prompts and can create breathtaking artwork.
The Ethical Dilemma of AI Art
But I can’t leave this section without talking about the murky ethics of AI art.
One of the things I really want to point out is that a lot of AI-generated art is trained on art created by real humans — artists who didn’t consent to having their work put into these AI models. There’s also going to be a huge societal impact and copyright issues from AI-generated art. Artists are already extremely underappreciated and underpaid. Now imagine — what’s the incentive for an artist to create art if an AI will eventually learn from it and generate similar art?
What’s also the incentive for people to purchase art from artists when they can get AI art easily and cheaply? There’s a lot to think about when considering AI art generation.
For me, I’ve enjoyed using AI art tools. But in the end, I decided not to use it in my gallery wall. I chose to pay for art created by local artists instead — but it was still really cool to play around with AI art.