I’m excited to share something special with our AI Bits & Pieces community, especially the AI-curious members of our community. 🥁 🚀 Starting this week, my wife Michele will be contributing a new series called AI in Real Life — a warm, honest look at what it actually feels like to learn and use AI from the perspective of an everyday, real-world user. ✨ AI in Real Life is for anyone who’s ever thought: “I’m curious… but where do I begin?” This series will follow her personal journey with ChatGPT and other AI tools as she explores how they show up in everyday life — conversations with family, planning and organizing, trying new ideas, and even navigating the hesitation many of us felt in the beginning. Each week, Michele will share a short story, a small discovery, or a real-life moment that brought AI into her world in a simple, human way. My hope is that her voice helps make this community feel even more welcoming for those who are just getting started. ________ 🕰️ By way of background, Michele (@Michele Wacht ) spent twenty years as an executive selling services to the automotive OEM industry. She came from a corporate marketing and sales background, achieving top salesperson status at her company for many years before stepping away eight years ago to prioritize our family and be fully present for our daughter during her teen years. Now that Emma is off to college and recently turned 21, Michele felt ready to re-engage. And to my delight, she decided to join AI Bits and Pieces in helping people understand the benefits of AI — not from the perspective of an engineer or a strategist, but from the vantage point of someone discovering her own curiosity and how AI fits in as a life skill. If you’ve read Michele’s writing — as I and many of her friends have — you know she has a gift for turning simple moments into meaningful reflections. She approaches AI the same way — with curiosity, humor, and a down-to-earth honesty that reminds us that learning something new doesn’t always start with confidence. Sometimes it starts with dinner plans for friends, a college-age daughter on speed dial, and a willingness to try (a preview of her first post).

We just updated and expanded one of our core classroom modules: AI Basics to Everyday Use — previously titled Widely Known AI. This newly revised version now provides a clearer, more structured path through Levels 1–4, covering: - The major types of AI - Key system categories - How modern AI models learn - Where AI shows up in everyday work This update reflects the needs of our growing community and sets the foundation for deeper learning across all future courses. If you haven’t reviewed the updated course yet, now is a great time to dive in, click here to check it out. Classroom content is updated weekly, so you’ll continue to see refinements, new pages, and expanded lessons designed to build real AI literacy — one practical concept at a time.

Today I learned how powerful it is to have a Master Prompt — a single reusable prompt that teaches ChatGPT who you are, how you think, and how it should respond to you. I put everything I learned into a clean PDF that you can download and use anytime. 🔥 What’s Inside the PDF Inside the document, you’ll find: - A simple explanation of why Master Prompts are so useful - A full step-by-step template you can paste into ChatGPT - The exact script ChatGPT uses to interview you - The instructions for generating your personalized Master Prompt This makes it easy to create your own “AI identity” that you can reuse in every chat. 📥 Download the PDF #ChatGPT

The wait is over! Google has just rolled out a major update with the Gemini 3 release, fundamentally changing how we interact with the web. The most visible change? A dedicated Gemini button is now embedded directly in the top bar of your Chrome browser, turning it into your always-on AI browsing assistant. Graphic 1: The New Gemini Button The first thing you'll notice is the new icon on the right side of the top bar, next to your profile and other extensions. - Before: Using AI while browsing meant copying text, opening a new tab, pasting, and prompting. - Now: The single Gemini in Chrome button gives you one-click access to Google's most powerful AI model, making the process seamless. Graphic 2: The Contextual Dialogue Box When you click the button, a side panel slides out, presenting a clean, focused dialogue box for your prompt. This panel is the heart of the new integration. - Context-Aware Help: This is the game-changer. By default, the panel is aware of the content on your active tab (you'll see a small note confirming this). This means you can ask it to: - Multi-Tab Intelligence: Even better, you can ask Gemini to work across multiple open tabs simultaneously—perfect for comparing product reviews, consolidating research, or planning a trip from several sites! Graphic 3: Set Preferences - Go to Settings - Then AI Innovations - Then Gemini in Chrome to set preferences This will let you hide the Gemini button in the top bar or tray. ❓Where is this going? In the coming months, Google plans to expand its agentic capabilities to let Gemini in Chrome perform tasks on your behalf, such as: - Booking appointments. - Ordering groceries. - Automating password changes on supported sites. This feature is rolling out to Mac and Windows desktop users first, with more regions and languages to follow.

We all have that one friend. Ask them anything — sports, history, the migration patterns of penguins — and they’ll give you an answer with total confidence. Are they right? Sometimes. But wow, do they sound right. That’s ChatGPT. It doesn’t pause. It doesn’t hesitate. It doesn’t say, “Yeah, I actually have no idea.” Instead, it delivers an answer that feels polished, helpful… and occasionally built on pure creative fiction. It’s not lying — it’s predicting. And sometimes those predictions lead straight into elegant nonsense. Takeaway: ChatGPT is the friend who always has an answer — which is why your job is knowing when to double-check. ❓Has ChatGPT ever given you a polished, confident response that missed the mark?