Thomas Smith | AI In Real Life

Award-winning, Johns Hopkins trained AI expert with 14 years experience. "A Veteran Programmer" - @nytimes. AI consultant, photographer and YouTuber.

[Thomas Smith | AI In Real Life @tomsmith585]

I built an AI poem generator. Someone used it to write this poem about how much my AI poem generator sucks. I love the poem. My AI poem generator works! https://t.co/JgeLqtQRbk

[Thomas Smith | AI In Real Life @tomsmith585]

I wrote this in 2020: "OpenAI and its founders could easily make billions (and likely challenge the advertising and content recommendation engines of rivals like Google) by throwing caution to the wind and throwing open the doors to GPT-3 to all comers." #chatgpt

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Can someone please DM me a Sora invite code? Would really help. Thanks!

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Sartre famously said “Hell is other people.” He was talking about the existential angst of the human condition. But he could just as easily have been describing a bad Uber ride. @fastcompany https://t.co/WDi2U2FhtO

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ChatGpt’s new Instant Checkout lets the chatbot directly spend your money. It’s huge deal for merchants and for the world of Generative Engine Optimization. My article in @FastCompany https://t.co/YUxjFX6l76

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@kevinokeefe Portfolio is up 17% in about 3 weeks as of today

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Want to get better at spotting AI writing--or to disguise your own? Start with a new list from Wikipedia. Here are the details in my latest @FastCompany article https://t.co/0oZx0huNrt

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Is AI the next failed Metaverse? Meta has paused AI hiring. Here's what it really means.

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Thrilled to be covering AI for @FastCompany! My first article is out today, sharing a new theory for why the GPT-5 launch was such a disaster https://t.co/2fVDMyTMHU

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Opus 4 (from @AnthropicAI), a new hybrid, agentic AI model that can work a full day, coding/writing/researching without human input. It's a game changer. Here are 3 things you need to know.

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With @midjourney V7, we have arrived at the age where AI can very easily make very good, very bad photos. The oversaturated, overly dramatic "AI Look" is officially dead.

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Here's how to make amazing, scroll-stopping, click-winning AI YouTube thumbnails with the brand new @ideogram_ai 3 https://t.co/S9QkvuFO1X

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@lilyraynyc Yup, what's exactly what @jaredbauman and I discussed on today's @nichepursuits podcast. Legacy forums that saw big gains with the HCU gave those gains back in this one.

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If you want to watch me recap the biggest week in AI since the launch of ChatGPT, in a single take with barely a pause or breath, you’ll definitely want to see today’s episode!

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Google’s March Core Update is done and the fallout is real.

This week, @jaredbauman and @tomsmith585 discuss who won, who lost, and what it actually means for creators and publishers.

They also discuss AI tools, their side hustles, and some weird niche sites.

Episode below!

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The new @OpenAI 4o Image Generation system can make boring images. That matters a lot. Here's why. https://t.co/Yw3iiGT8OB

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Ideogram 3.0 is out, and I tested it extensively! https://t.co/5qUJXwFf9d

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Missed OpenAI's big announcement this morning? Here I am watching and reacting to it live (and skipping the boring bits) https://t.co/T4kTtq5wkD

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This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen AI do. 4 days ago, I fed @PhilzCoffee's cryptic social post RE their Spring drink drop to @OpenAI Deep Research & asked it to predict the drink. Walked into Philz today. Prediction was PERFECT. Insane stuff! https://t.co/JnQoba87UT