AI Appreciation Day is an awareness day that happens every year on July 16. It was created to recognize how artificial intelligence is showing up in everyday life. Let’s catch up with the team and get their takes on AI appreciation.
AI has been introduced, developed, and gradually woven into everyday life, and it has also become part of my own life for the better. While AI certainly has its controversial side, since it is AI Appreciation Day, I want to focus on what I appreciate about it and how I use it. I use AI almost every day, from simple suggestions about what to wear, including the colors of my top, bottoms, underwear, and accessories based on my Four Pillars of Destiny, or 사주, to recommendations for music that matches my taste and ideas for lunch or dinner. I also use it for grammar checks, writing assistance, and comparing products I am considering buying. Twenty years ago, people often had to know exactly what they were looking for, remember countless details, or become knowledgeable in many different areas just to make everyday decisions. AI has made my life easier, less time consuming, and less stressful. Of course, there may be certain things we lose by relying on AI, but there is no denying that it has made many parts of my life more convenient and manageable.
— Justin J, Asst. Project Manager
In honor of AI Appreciation Day, I wanted to share a bit about how I use AI in my everyday life. To me, AI has become the new search engine. When I’m looking for specific, tailored information, it’s my go-to tool for getting straight answers.
For instance, I’m definitely not an Excel wizard. Whenever I need a complex formula, I’ll ask AI to build it for me—or even help me structure an entire spreadsheet from scratch using my raw data. I also love using it for translations. Unlike traditional translation apps that just swap words literally, AI actually gives me the cultural context behind the phrases. Ultimately, AI has been an incredible productivity partner for my personal projects, and I’m genuinely excited to see how it continues to evolve.
— Kevin D, Client Success
I’ll admit that I use AI everyday.
What was once a ‘dip in and out’ of Grammarly workflow turned into ‘polish this or that’ with ChatGPT. Sometimes what needs a little appreciation is how AI can touch people or their daily work differently.
From AI that’s trained to detect illnesses doctors can’t detect or a game artist making variations of their own art to spark inspiration, AI can be pretty powerful, for better or worse.
Sure, there are lots of cases where AI is used illegally or unethically but I’m happy with some of the positives and how real people are being helped.
I’m personally against AI mastering games like doing speed-runs or beating humans at chess or League of Legends.
I just don’t see the point.
Teams of researchers with millions of dollars in funding against humans who have to compete the old-fashioned way is just not interesting to me. Let’s see how good AI is at games when it has to deal with physical setbacks or last night’s rough conversation with a loved one echoing endlessly in the corners of its mind when things get tough in a head-to-head battle.
All that aside, where AI gets interesting is in the times where you need help writing an outline or researching recipes for that friend who’s visiting that can’t eat cranberries or walnuts. Little things matter.
I think AI is amazing but humans are pretty cool too and, for the record, both can – and often do – create slop.
AI hasn’t cornered the market there!
— Mace T, Project Manager
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