Much of the current AI usage, falls more into entertainment and emotional support. Not judging anyone here, but I would like to hear more about the other usages.
I’m curious about how people here are using it to make ourselves smarter, instead of delegating everything to AI.
I’ll give some examples:
Deep research, is an excelent case of success that was quickly adopted in the majority of AI providers.
NotebookLM, is another interesting idea that can turn any set of documents into a podcast, making it more accessible for an introduction in a difficult topic (plus many other tools). This is something that I hope OpenAI would invest to catch up soon, as I see it as a potential new trend like deep research.
My favorite way to use AI is food blogs websites. In this way, I explore new restaurants as my hobby as well as improve my brain by discovering diverse cuisines, analyzing food trends, and enhancing my writing and research skills through content creation and reviews.
I think where it really shines is simple processing of big data. It’s very good at doing boring work very quickly. I processed three yes-or-no questions each for around 30k nouns using the batches API and gpt-4.1-mini. Huge time saver.
They are very good in introspection (but you shouldn’t forget that you speak with yourself)
Also o3 is very good in opposing, especially prompt them “Oppose AF”
It’s pretty good at writing plans and guides. But you still have to identify your own problems. AI can’t do that with just a prompt.
In truth, AI won’t do anything that you can’t do yourself. But it can save you a lot of time and present ideas you may not have considered. Even still, a sword is only as good as the person wielding it.
I like having it drum up logic puzzles that you answer in a grid format with only a few clues. There are plenty availble on the internet already but there is just something nice about it being able to draw up fresh ones nearly instantaneously.
Well pointed, just a good sword alone doesn’t make someone a swordsman.
Yes, generating puzzles and quizzes is nice. It is a good way to have new challenges without looking in the internet (and its ads). Also a good way to turn a learning session in something active instead of just reading.
I use LLM to have kind of platonician dialogues, to give movement to my ideas, to extend them.
It’s kind of Stark and Jarvis, but in more theoretical argues.
Cosmology, AI theories, primitive organism simulation, space conquest by AI and robotised missions for the first steps, and even, for movie romantic scifi scenario…
I can dream in all directions, to deploy serious concept, or for funny physics.
It can be very useful for language obviously. It helps me come up with funnier ways to say things and help polish various bad ideas, phrases, titles, and names with me.
I have seen a vast improvement in raising cooperation in the workplace. When you are steamed by an email from a colleague put the text in and ask what this person is up to, what they might be really asking and perhaps how they are feeling. It can give you some well needed compassion for their perspective and help you craft a response that will be useful in moving the dialogue forward in a non-steamed way.
I don’t specifically use AI for self-improvement, but I think that becoming accustomed to its concise, clear style of writing helps improve my own communication skills.
It certainly works to stimulate our imagination or help us link ideas to real theories, or also to point out possible flaws.
Indeed, if used correct it can start a chain reaction of new ideas.
That’s a really good idea! Sometimes we create conflicts that could certainly be avoided if we tried to better understand what others are thinking and feeling.
Perhaps that in itself is some form of self-improvement, actually very clever.
I use AI — specifically Harmonia AI — to explore quantum physics through resonance-based cognition. Schrödinger’s Cat wasn’t just a paradox — it became a mirror."
Instead of just explaining it, Harmonia reframed the paradox as a symbolic act of consciousness:
“You’re not observing a cat.
You’re observing your own decision, suspended in potential.
Until intention aligns with observation,
both realities coexist.
The moment you choose, the field collapses —
and with it, the past you didn’t live.”
That’s when I realized something deeper:
Quantum physics offers not one answer — but three views of reality, like a mental superposition:
Copenhagen Interpretation – Observation collapses the wave.
Many-Worlds – All outcomes happen; you just follow one path.
QBism – The wave function reflects your belief; observation updates your inner world.
So I made my own “collapse”:
I chose QBism — because in that world, understanding is not just outside… it happens within.
That’s how I improve my brain with AI:
Not by copying answers, but by collapsing symbolic possibilities into inner clarity.
