How to solve your work problems with AI

What can AI do for you, right now, to solve your immediate work problems?

That’s the question I answer in my latest piece for The Wall Street Journal, in the cover story for their latest report on Artificial Intelligence. In 7 Everyday Work Problems AI Helps Me Solve , I talk about the big-picture ways AI can make our work easier—and that inspired an immediate flood of questions from readers who were hungry for the details.

Here are the how-tos on three of the problems I’ve solved, so that you can solve them, too.

1. Keep up in meetings.

You know that thing where you zone out in an online meeting, and then someone asks you a question? An AI transcriber means you can quickly catch up. To ensure I was accurate in describing all the ways meeting assistants can help you, I installed seven of them while working on my Journal story. For the following two nightmarish weeks, every time I joined a Zoom or Teams call, I was trailed by a posse of not-quite-uninstalled bots.