4 ways this technology can help improve your life

It’s been more than two and a half years since AI” became a buzzword. That’s when ChatGPT, a web-based chatbot from OpenAI that addresses your questions through artificial intelligence, debuted. But AI had been around for years — decades, really — before that, and the technology, largely under the hood, has many applications.

AI is a chief reason you can snap pictures with your smartphone and blur the background while keeping the main subject in focus. It’s why you can ask smart speakers for a recipe or weather forecast. And AI powers search and product recommendations.