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I'm your friend V-Song, and I'm here with a special Sunday bonus episode.

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We're calling this AI for Normies.

So here's the concept.

AI can be so open-ended. It's really hard for the average person to know what it's good for. And if you ask me, I don't think big tech is

doing such a great job at explaining that either. But we here at Theverge.com are a bunch of giant nerds and we test all of

this stuff for a living. So I've asked a bunch of my colleagues to join me in talking about how they've

used AI in their everyday lives. And I'm not talking about the canned demo examples that you hear at product launches that don't actually seem all that useful in real life.

I wanted to know what they found to be actually helpful.

And I also wanted to know what doesn't work.

We have a mix of practical applications, some quirky ideas, and personally, I think my main use is

a little unhinged. So stick around for the Vergecast and we'll see you after the break.

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So Esther Cohen is our director of subscriptions at The Verge, and she recently used ChatGPT

to help gather the information she needed before making a really

big decision.

So as of last week, our family of four made the really, really big change of moving from

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