Transformative AI will revolutionize the ways we interact with the world. But maybe narrow tool AIs are already starting to do so: Every week, there are new startups, websites, and tools launched around using modern machine learning techniques to solve everyday problems, and we might as well use them to amplify our productivity (especially for productively improving the world)!

What are your favourite modern AI tools that make you more productive? I'm using words like "new" and "modern" to distinguish tools built with recent (i.e. last 5 years) advances in deep learning such as GPT-3 from traditional commodity AI algorithms that are widely known and used such as Dijkstra’s algorithm for Google Maps or older machine learning techniques used in recommender systems.

For example, I've recently started using the OpenAI GPT-3 Playground and YouWrite for breaking through my writer's block and quickly getting some ideas to work with (e.g. "A friendly invitation to event X that mentions Y:") as well as Elicit for quickly searching research papers with generated TLDR answers to a specific research question (e.g. "How can we improve insect welfare?"), and I've heard of some friends enjoying OpenAI Codex for speeding up their programming (though I'm sadly deep in the waitlist).

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I found this page itself via https://metaphor.systems, and I very, very strongly recommend it. it's been more useful to me than ChatGPT.

OneNote OCR

tesseract for detecting image rotation and fixing it

One I recently found that I plan to use as a programmer: https://www.autoregex.xyz/ (uses GPT-3 to turn your natural language statements into Regex syntax).

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Not really a "productivity tool", but the grammar fixer and sentence completion in Chrome and other apps makes it one less thing to worry about.

I'd count that, reducing the number of things you have to worry about seems like a productivity improvement!