AI The Complete Manual

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all over the news lately, but what is it? What does it do? How can it improve your life? That’s what this book is all about. Over this series, we get to the heart of today’s AI platforms, with plain-English guides and fully illustrated tutorials. After a short explanation of how AI works and why it’s nothing to be afraid of, we show you how to use artificial intelligence to improve your writing, create pictures from scratch and get more from your photography and videography. Artificial intelligence can also help you control your smart home and organise your life, keep you fit and healthy and help you organise your finances. Look out too for our guides to AI and social media, how to use AI for…

If you’re able, pick up your phone, activate it, and ask either Siri or the Google Assistant a simple question. Now ask it a more complicated question. You’ve just talked to an AI system designed to listen out for your voice, analyse what’s being asked and respond to it in an appropriate fashion. Significantly, it also learns from what’s being asked. The Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and whatever else is available now, are all cloud-based natural language intelligent bots that use the complex computing capabilities of the cloud to provide a personalised consumer experience. There are two sides to the AI coin: the intelligence side that, when asked something, knows what to do or can work out what needs to be done, and the learning side, that will actively…

Using Writing Tools 1 Writing Tools can be used almost anywhere in macOS where you can write. Here we’re using it in the Mail app, but you can also use them in Pages, Notes and more. First of all, you need to write something. Writing Tools cannot (yet) generate original text for you, but it can revise text you’ve previously written. 2 When you’ve finished your first draft of whatever it is you’re writing (here, it’s an email), tap the Writing Tools icon which is found in the toolbar at the top of the email window. This brings up the Writing Tools window, from where you can choose how to manipulate, rewrite or simply AI proofread your piece of text. 3 First of all, we’ll take you through the uses of the Proofread…

1 This icon opens a sidebar, which gives access to tools and a history of previous ChatGPT requests. 2 Tap here for a pop-up window that lets you share, rename, archive or delete your current request, or open a details page about it. 3 Unsurprisingly, this icon opens a new ChatGPT page so you can start afresh. 4 Instructions given to ChatGPT are shown on the right, as seen here. 5 ChatGPT’s responses are shown in the main body of the page. Here we asked the AI to rewrite something we’d written. 6 These icons are, from left to right, Copy; Read Aloud; Mark the response with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down; Redo the response. 7 This text field is where you type your questions, requests, instructions and other such things to ChatGPT. If you want to get…

Signing Up for An Account 1 Point your web browser at https://scribehow.com/scribe-ai. It’s best to use Google Chrome, as we need a Chrome extension. Click Get Started or the Try Scribe Free. You’re then taken through the sign-up procedure. Follow the on-screen prompts and fill in your details. 2 Click the Extensions icon (the jigsaw piece in the top right of the Chrome browser). In the pop-up menu, click Manage Extensions, then click the Chrome Web Store link on the left. Now search for ‘Scribe’ to get to the Scribe AI extension page. Click the Add to Chrome button. Using Scribe 1 You’re now ready to start using Scribe AI. This is done by carrying out processes on your screen, and letting the AI follow your actions. Click the Create your first Scribe…

1 Open the website https://myninja.ai. You can sign in for an account if you want. As is usual for AI assistants, there’s a free tier and paid-for programmes that offer more features and facilities. If you want to upgrade, you can choose Business or Individual plans. 2 Give Ninja AI a task to do. Here, we’re asking it to write a letter thanking relatives for attending a wedding. After a little thought, it delivers on your request. At the top of the response is a guide to its thought processes, and how it came up with what it’s offering. 3 As you can see, in this case, several different letters were produced, each with its own character and contents. You can choose between a formal letter, something more personal, specific thanks for helping…