My two favorite AI apps on Linux - and how I use them to get more done

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET When AI first hit the scene in its current form, I was dead set against it because of the generative nature of what was being sold to the public. I considered any shortcut to creating art to be offensive to the craft. But then I realized I could use AI for something that traditional searching was starting to fail at: Research. Also: Claude AI can do your research and handle your emails now - here's how With both sides of my writing career (fiction and nonfiction), I have to do quite a bit of research, and Google was becoming a hindrance to that process. Instead of being fed helpful information, I was inundated with ads, sponsored content, and its own AI-based answers (which were rarely helpful). I first kicked the tires with Opera's Aria, which showed me that AI could actually be helpful. At the same time, I realized that AI also had to be supervised because it could be wrong as easily as it could be right. I also found another helpful thing about AI ... Read full article.