A.I. in Mental-Health Care: Chatbot Therapy

Chatbot Therapy

Mental-health-care practices are increasingly having to contend with A.I.’s encroachment on mental-health treatment, specifically in the form of chatbots. However, these chatbots have a number of risks that mental-health-care practitioners should be aware of.  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Some mental-health-care practices will include A.I. chatbots, likely in an assistant mode rather […]

Using A.I. Chatbots for Mental Health Care: What to Know

Chatbots for Mental Health Care

There are chatbots that are for mental-health care, and there are chatbots not for that purpose but are nonetheless a go-to for users looking to chat about their mental health.  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Woebot and Wysa are just two examples of mental-health chatbots.  Despite the availability of mental-health chatbots, plenty […]

Tech Companies Are Safeguarding Against Using A.I. to Remove Watermarks

A.I. to Remove Watermarks

High-profile generative-A.I. like Google’s Gemini 2.0 model, available in AI Studio, have been used for the purpose of removing watermarks on stock images. However, it seems that most tech companies have put in enough guardrails to keep users from doing this.  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post This controversial use of A.I. does […]

Not All Ads for A.I. Are Accurate. Example: Google’s Super Bowl Ad.

Google's Super Bowl Ad

Back in the colder months of early 2025, Google ran an ad for Gemini A.I. during the Super Bowl. But there was not only a factual error in this ad, but even some apparent deception, in that what was made to look like Gemini’s output was actually human-generated writing. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This […]

A.I. in Auto: Lyft Implements Claude in Customer Service

A.I. in Auto

 Lyft claims that customer-service request fulfilment has become 87 percent faster. This follows an initial implementation of having Claude field questions from drivers themselves.  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Lyft says that the chatbot only handles common queries and will otherwise direct customers to human customer-service representatives.  According to Anthropic, the creator […]

Apple Intelligence in iOS 26: What to Know

Apple Intelligence in iOS 26

 Apple’s new software update across eligible Apple devices includes a number of improvements to Apple Intelligence. This blog covers what business owners should know about these features.  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post A major feature is Live Translation, which can help people cross language barriers. In Messages, FaceTime, and Phone communications, users […]

A.I. for Data Visualization: Best Practices

A.I. for Data Visualization

A.I. tools like ChatGPT can be used to generate data visualizations. If you are a business owner looking to transform raw data into visualized pie charts, bar graphs, and the like, A.I. can be useful.  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Use cases include quickly putting together slide-show presentations or newsletters. If a […]

Is Copilot’s “Think Deeper” a Deep Thinker?

Copilot

Reasoning models are a hot topic in A.I. These models take more time to answer prompts than large language models that generate instant answers. The result ought to be a better answer. Copilot’s Think Deeper feature, powered by OpenAI’s o1 model.  The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Think Deeper is meant for extended […]

Google’s Gemini “Translates” Spreadsheets to Charts

Google's Gemini "Translates" Spreadsheets to Charts

For users of Google Workspace, there is a Gemini feature that allows users to readily visualize Google Sheets. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post You can also get insights about data from Gemini. These insights can be predictive, such as predicting customer-churn rate for the next quarter. The insights can also be analytical.  […]

A.I. Use Case: Machine Translation in Minnesota Enterprise Translations Office

Machine Translation

Businesses with the need for translation services could look for inspiration to the State of Minnesota’s Enterprise Translations Office (ETO), which provides translation services for the state’s Executive Branch, using A.I. for machine translation in communicating with people.    The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Approximately a fifth of Minnesota’s population primarily speaks […]