..but they just made my life harder – Business Insider – “Insider’s Aaron Mok used four AI tools in a week to see if they would enhance his productivity.

• Many workers are using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help make their jobs easier.
• Labor experts agree that AI tools can make workers more productive.

AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have taken the world by storm — and workers are using them to make their jobs easier. Many experts agree that AI tools can boost productivity, and people have already used ChatGPT and other AI tools to generate articles, write code, and produce real estate listings in attempts to save time. “It’s absolutely true that AI applications like ChatGPT can very much improve workers’ lives,” Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute who has researched the impact of AI on the workforce, previously told Insider. We wanted to put some of these AI productivity tools to the test. I simultaneously tested free versions of two AI tools — Grammarly and Notion.ai — and paid versions of two others —Brain.fm and Otter.ai — for a week to see if the tools would improve the speed and quality of my writing and enhance focus. Here’s what I found…”