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Geek Wire
3 hours ago
- Geek Wire
Finding value from AI: These tools boost coding, writing, video editing, researching, travel planning
From top left, clockwise: Markiesha Patrice; Joe Heitzeberg; Elizabeth Russo; Darian Parrish and Joe Golden; Robert Mao and Xuchen Yao; Gayathri (G3) Venkataraman and Mamtha Banerjee; Ti Zhao and Beth Kolko; and Gregory Kennedy. (GeekWire Photos / Taylor Soper) Everybody is talking about AI. But how are people actually using new automation tools, and what value are they getting out of them? That was our question to attendees at the AI2 Incubator's annual BBQ party on Thursday, hosted at the AI House at Seattle's Pier 70 as part of Seattle Tech Week. Techies shared some of their favorite AI tools and how they're using them. Read on to learn more. Answers were edited for brevity and clarity. Joe Heitzeberg, founder of AI Tinkerers Favorite tools: Granola and Amp Use case: 'Granola just works really well. It automatically joins meetings. I can use it for anything where I want to take notes. It's unobtrusive. And the other one is Amp. It's a coding tool I've been using for two-and-a-half weeks — objectively, it's better than Claude Code. It just does a better job of taking my instructions and figuring out how to fulfill my objectives in a way that is compatible with my code base.' Mamtha Banerjee, left, and Gayathri (G3) Venkataraman. Mamtha Banerjee, managing director at JPMorgan Chase Favorite tool: Perplexity Comet Use case: 'It's not that I'm using it a lot. But it's very interesting how it changes what you think about a browser — it's almost like an operating system.' Gayathri (G3) Venkataraman, CEO at Dodda AI Favorite tool: Perplexity, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Use case: 'I use them a lot for pretty much all the tasks I have to do. I come up with plans and ask them to let me know if I'm covering everything or missing anything — I'm using it as a comprehensive completeness tool. I'm also using them for travel planning and for retail and other things I need to buy at home.' Ti Zhao, left, and Beth Kolko. Beth Kolko, investment partner at Pioneer Fund Favorite tool: Claude Use case: 'I just did a bunch of traveling and I used Claude to help me narrow down plans. I asked it to tell me the history of a place and where I should go. Professionally, I use it because I do a lot of writing and speaking for my career. I'll upload things I've already written on different topics and get it to do some synthesis work.' Ti Zhao, partner at Pack Ventures Favorite tool: Claude Use case: 'I use it for everything — to plan my workouts, plan my meal plans. It gives me recipe ideas and ideas to throw a dinner party or entertain children. It primarily solves the blank-page problem for me. I don't trust everything it tells me but it can generate a list of ideas and I can work off of it really easily.' Joe Golden, left, with Darian Parrish. Joe Golden, founder and CEO at Paper2Audio Favorite tool: Google Gemini Flash 2.0; OpenAI o3 Use case: 'Our company makes it so you can listen to research papers. We don't need complex thinking or reasoning, or agentic mode. So Gemini Flash 2.0 is fast and cheap. It can also parse images well enough and cheaply. Another tool I've been using is o3. A family member was recently diagnosed with cancer. It's incredible for medical research. It's really invaluable for getting into a new field of research.' Darian Parrish, founder and CEO at PwrOn Favorite tool: Poe Use case: 'Poe allows you to access all the models. That's the highest value chatbot. And I use a lot of the coding tools — Windsurf, Lovable, Cursor, Replit. I've estimated I'm around 30 times faster at software creation.' Markiesha Patrice, startup community lead at Nebius Favorite tool: Descript Use case: 'I do a lot of video content and editing, so Descript makes it very simple for me. It's saving time and it's also ease of use. If you're not someone who is super technical or trained, there is not much extra knowledge that you have to have in order to go into the platform and use it.' Gregory Kennedy, chief vibe marketer at Vibe Your SaaS Favorite tool: Claude, Canva Use case: 'As a writing assistant, Claude is probably the best one. It works for me like an intern, where it can get started with an idea. I use it more like a really advanced version of Grammarly. And I think Canva doesn't get a lot of love, and their AI tools are quite good. I do a lot of visuals and graphics for marketing. The tools are really powerful for moving backgrounds, manipulating things, whatever you need. It's really fast and easy.' Elizabeth Russo, CEO at adyn Favorite tool: Claude Use case: 'Mostly to help as a writing assistant, primarily for emails to potential partners and investors. It can sometimes unlock writer's block or help me get over procrastination of starting something. Even if it gives me a bad draft, I feel motivated that I can do better and fix it.' Xuchen Yao, left, and Robert Mao. Xuchen Yao, co-founder and CEO at Favorite tool: Warp Use case: 'I use it for vibe coding. I just open up a terminal and tell it the instructions. I use it to translate blogs into 20 different languages to make our company more international. I also use it to do code reviews.' Robert Mao, architect at AIGNE Favorite tool: AIGNE Use case: 'A lot of people are doing vibe coding, but for me, as a developer, I actually enjoy coding. But I really hate writing design documents and user documents. And so we're building a vibe document tool for developers. All you do is feed in your design idea draft and the AI turns it into a full document. Or if you already wrote the code, it makes a super cool design document.'
Forbes
19 hours ago
- Forbes
Today's Wordle #1504 Hints And Answer For Friday, August 1st
Looking for Thursday's Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: How To Solve Today's Wordle It's August and it sort of feels like the world is hurtling toward a very bad time. Maybe I should say, A Very Bad Time for emphasis. The AI-apocalypse is upon us, and I'm not sure what that means for me, for the internet as we know, for all sorts of industries. Add to that the general instability in politics and global economics, the various wars, acts of terror and violence and...I'd just really like to travel back in time to the 90s and put a kibosh on the whole thing. Nothing faster than dial-up internet. No smart-phones. Hell, maybe just analog-only when it comes to technology. I don't mean to be all doom and gloom, but I'm genuinely concerned at this point. If AI kills the internet, I'll have to find a new line of work. Not looking forward to starting all over at 44, to be honest. But enough of that. It's 2XP Friday and we have a Wordle to solve. Let's solve it. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Wordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer. After each guess, the game gives feedback to help you get closer to the answer: Use these clues to narrow down your guesses. Every day brings a new word, and everyone around the world is trying to solve the same puzzle. Some Wordlers also play Competitive Wordle against friends, family, the Wordle Bot or even against me, your humble narrator. See rules for Competitive Wordle toward the end of this post. Today's Wordle Hints And Answer Wordle Bot's Starting Word: SLATE My Starting Word Today: CHAIR (92 words remaining) The Hint: Stringed instrument. The Clue: This Wordle ends in a vowel. Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming! . . . Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here. CHAIR was a really good starting word, leaving me with just 92 remaining solutions and two yellow boxes. I tried juggling these with ANGEL but that only slashed the solutions down to 27. NASTY wasn't much better, leaving me with 6. Talk about blowing all my luck. MANOR left me with just two, but I only came up with BANJO. Thank goodness. If the answer had been PANKO it would have taken me six tries! The Bot beat me by one point in July. We start over fresh in August, but I'm off to a rough start. I lose 1 point for guessing in 5 and 1 point for losing to the Bot. That's -2 x 2 = -4 points! The Bot gets 1 point for beating me and 0 for guessing in four, for a total of 2 points. Not how I wanted to start things out this month. Erik: -4 points Wordle Bot: 2 points The Bot wins this month, though just barely. On Friday, we'll start over at zero. Oh well. The word "banjo" likely comes from "banja" or "bania", terms used by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and North America to describe similar stringed instruments of African origin. Its exact linguistic roots are uncertain, but it may derive from a West African language, possibly Mandinka or Kimbundu. The instrument itself evolved in the Americas, blending African design with European influence. The term was first recorded in English in the mid-18th century. Be sure to follow me for all your daily puzzle-solving guides, TV show and movie reviews and more here on this blog!
San Francisco Chronicle
a day ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Are you smarter than a computer? New Exploratorium exhibition puts AI to the test
If the Exploratorium's newest exhibition is already the most popular, it's also one of the quietest. 'Adventures in AI' puts visitors of all ages face-to-face with different forms of artificial intelligence, forcing them to confront their qualms and explore the various applications of the rapidly developing technology. But it does so with an uncharacteristic calm and quiet that contrasts from the rest of the museum's summertime buzz. Doug Thistlewolf, the waterfront museum's manager of exhibit development, attributes the vibe shift to how deeply it engrosses visitors. 'We really wanted to shape this show into something that was engaging for people (and) met them where their fears are or their excitement is,' he told the Chronicle. 'Everybody's kind of got a different entry point.' The show runs through Sept. 14, featuring 20 exhibits and eight artworks. Its range of hands-on experiences allow visitors of all ages to interact with AI, investigating ethical and environmental concerns and exploring the ways in which it can detect objects, engage in conversation and more. One challenges visitors to make shadow puppets for the technology to recognize, while another allows participants to train it with photos taken at the exhibition. 'I think it's a good way for everyone to get their hands wet in AI and (see) what it's all about,' East Bay resident Tim Wong, 60, said during a recent trip to the exhibition with his family. 'Especially for the younger kids, the term is thrown around a lot, and it's going to be a big part of their world when they grow up.' The exhibition is organized around a central plaza filled with AI-related pieces for visitors to play with, from a 9-foot-tall robotic hand to a giant thought-provoking distorted mirror. From there, it branches off into more in-depth topics such as social impacts and bias. Thistlewolf noted that 'Adventures in AI' has drawn a diverse array of demographics since opening last month, from families and children's summer camp groups to tech insiders and Gen Zers. While many of the adults, like Wong, have expressed excitement about the technology, some of the Exploratorium's younger visitors weren't as convinced. 'I think it's pretty cool how the AI can think of things, but I think it definitely needs to work on its thinking of concepts,' Luna Fischer Loya, 11, said during a trip to the museum with her grandmother. 'Sometimes I get a little intimidated by it.' Similarly skeptical of the technology, even after exploring the exhibition, 10-year-old Bruce Black admitted that AI is still 'a little bit scary' to him. 'It made me feel a little uncertain of what's going to happen,' he said after exploring a few exhibits. 'There are people saying that AI would take over the world, and I'm like, 'If that's going to happen, why am I using it? '' The Sacramento resident visited the Exploratorium with his mother, 34-year-old Abbie Black, who had a more positive outlook. She noted that as long as AI doesn't replace humans' jobs and is used for 'making life easier,' she's all for it. Thistlewolf acknowledged the broad range of feelings toward AI. 'There's a lot of nuance,' he said, adding that at the very least, he hopes that visitors can leave 'Adventures in AI' with a more thorough understanding. 'We're not trying to force people to change their opinion,' he said. 'We know that people are afraid,' he added. 'But they're probably afraid of the wrong thing.'
