Most people use AI to summarize PDFs or write emails. I use it to scan my fridge, calm my email guilt and even generate custom bedtime stories that appeal to my four-year-old and eight-year-old.
Over the past year, I’ve tested some seriously weird AI automations using ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and a few creative shortcuts. I didn’t expect most of them to work. But they did — and now I rely on them more than I’d like to admit. Here are 9 of the strangest ways I’m using AI in real life — and why you might want to try them too.
