Welcome to Amanda's AI Lab, where she dives into all the new AI models and tests them out to see which features are really useful, and which are just slop.
Latest about Amanda's AI Lab
Everyone is using ChatGPT Memory wrong — 5 tweaks to make it a true assistant
ChatGPT's memory can be incredibly useful — but only if you know how to use it. These five changes transformed it from a chatbot into an assistant that actually remembers what matters.
I searched Amazon for AI-written books — and it was much harder to spot them than I expected
There are more AI-authored books on the market than you'd expect
I replaced my notebook with an AI pen for a month — here's what happened
I tested the Flowtica Scribe AI pen to see if it can accurately record, transcribe and summarize meetings, interviews and handwritten notes.
Is AI male or female? I went looking for the answer — and it completely changed how I think about ChatGPT
For thousands of years, conversation meant another human was listening. AI changed that — and we're still figuring out what it means.
I turned my YouTube watchlist into an AI bootcamp with NotebookLM — here's how
I used Google's free NotebookLM to transform my YouTube watchlist into a personalized AI bootcamp. Here's the workflow that's helping me learn faster.
OpenAI killed my favorite AI model — here's what happened next
Retirement almost never means completely deleting the model. Some get pulled from the app but keep running behind the scenes and at least one company is even "interviewing" them on the way out.
I kept hearing that AI data centers are draining towns dry — so I looked at the evidence
I kept hearing that AI data centers are draining towns dry, so I investigated the evidence. Here's what I found about water use, electricity demand and the real environmental impact of AI.
I tested local AI vs. ChatGPT side-by-side — here are the 7 biggest differences
I tested local AI and cloud AI side-by-side to compare privacy, speed, research capabilities, customization and cost — here are the 7 biggest differences and which one wins.
