What is AI and What Can You Use It For?

💡 This article is aimed at you who have not yet explored AI and who do not work with code in your daily work

AI is not really anything new; the technology has existed as an idea since the 1950s. But only in recent years has it become accessible to everyone, with services like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Mistral.

Now anyone can get help from an AI with writing, coding, calculating, analyzing, and more. Now that the technology has matured, the question is: how can we use AI in work and in everyday life, and what limitations are there?

What Can I Use AI For?

AI can be used to facilitate work, routines, and simpler tasks in virtually all conceivable areas. However, it is not that an AI should be used to replace people, but to streamline and facilitate daily work.

In this text, we go through a couple of use cases, and how AI can be used to facilitate work.

Text Support and Management

• Write texts for you based on your instructions

• Correct grammar and spelling

• Change the tone of a text

• Write or reply to emails

• Translate texts to various languages

Text support is one of the most common use cases today. Many of the services are also really good at this and handle multiple languages without any problems.

AI for Analysis, Summarization, Sorting, and Prioritization

• Write texts for you based on your instructions

• Correct grammar and spelling

• Change the tone of a text

• Write or reply to emails

• Translate texts to various languages

Text support is one of the most common use cases today. Many of the services are also really good at this and handle multiple languages without any problems.

Edit, Improve, or Create Images

• Remove or modify objects in an image

• Enlarge and upscale images

• Adjust colors

• Create entirely new images based on your instructions

However, when it comes to image handling, there are certain limitations – both technical and ethical. For example, many services do not allow manipulation of images with children. To get good results, it is important to give clear instructions about colors, environment, and details.

Create Video, Music, or Voiceover

• Generate video from instructions or images

• Create music for, for example, videos, without having to worry about rights

• Let an almost completely human voice read your text in multiple languages

Here it is often a bit more expensive to test compared to text and image, which makes the free versions that exist more limited. Instructions also become even more important to get good results.

Other Use Cases

In addition to the examples above, AI is already being used in many other industries – and in our own business, it is an important support for developers in daily work.

Some examples:

• Healthcare - analyzes test results and finds patterns

• Systems, web, games, and app development - corrects, improves, reviews, and writes code

• Agriculture – monitors crops and analyzes irrigation

• Security and facial recognition – identifies people in images

• Finance – detects fraud by spotting anomalous patterns

How You Can Test AI Yourself

Most major AI services offer free versions. They are often limited in use and do not always build on the very latest model, but are sufficient for testing simpler tasks or to feel out if it is something for you.

Here are some that work in English and are available in free version. To the right you can see which devices they work on:

Text Chat:

• ChatGPT* – iOS, Android, Web, Mac OS, Windows

• Claude – iOS, Android, Web, Mac OS, Windows

• Gemini* – iOS, Android, Web

• Mistral – iOS, Android, Web

* = Can also generate other types of content

Video, Music/Audio, Image:

• Beatoven (Music) – Web

• ElevenLabs (Voice/Speech) – Web

• Pixlr (Image) – iOS, Android, Web

• VEO 3 (Video) – iOS, Android, Web