aiGED

Medicare open enrollment runs through December 7th, and The New York Times says this is the year to really check your coverage. I’m brand new to Medicare, so I made myself the guinea pig. I handed Claude the article and my whole messy Medicare folder and asked it to walk me through the checkup, step by step. Claude read every letter and PDF – even the upside-down phone photos – organized my files, explained what I actually have, and checked my drug plan for 2027. The surprise: my plan was fin...

The big AI companies are adding new features almost every week, and it’s hard to keep up. So this week I took a deep dive into two of the newest – Claude Design and ChatGPT Images – and put them to work on real projects from my own life. I asked both of them to make the very same storybook, starring my grandson James as a brave little knight and his little brother George as a dragon with a fire-breathing sneeze. ChatGPT painted pictures that look like they came straight off a bookstore shelf....

What’s your p-doom? It’s the number people in the AI world use for their own odds that AI leads to catastrophe — and the experts are all over the map. Jensen Huang, who runs Nvidia, says there’s a zero percent chance AI is the end of the world. Bill Gates says AI “makes nuclear weapons look like nothing.” I’m Ginny Deerin, and on this episode of aiGED — the podcast all about AI for the 65+ crowd — my sidekick Bitsy and I step back from the practical to talk big picture: how do we get smart ab...

What did I actually use my AI for this month? Thirteen things, straight from my real life — identifying some mystery droppings (roaches, as it turned out), pausing Audible instead of canceling it, getting cake-decorating help from a photo of my piping tips, cleaning Sunbrella fabric and a steam iron, and helping my sister get her passwords in order. I’m Ginny Deerin, and on this episode of aiGED — the podcast all about AI for the 65+ crowd — my sidekick Bitsy and I kick off what’s now a month...

Do you trust the app, or your gut? My two youngest grandsons sleep under the watchful eye of a Nanit — an AI-powered baby monitor that logs every wake-up, every fuss, and can even track breathing. I’m Ginny Deerin, and on this episode of aiGED — the podcast all about AI for the 65+ crowd — my sidekick Bitsy and I take on a new bit of AI lingo I think we need: instinct surrender. Inspired by an episode of The Daily from the New York Times, I look at what these smart baby monitors can do, where...