# What practical tasks are AIs already good at today?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [March 24, 2026, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-practical-tasks-are-ais-already-good-at-today/1028737 "2026-03-24T20:49:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-practical-tasks-are-ais-already-good-at-today/1028737/2 "2026-03-24T20:54:33Z")

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To be honest, the coding I described in the linked post was done via chatbot (Gemini 3.0, Pro).

> [@So... How does one actually use AI?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-does-one-actually-use-ai/1027842/118):
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> As this thread is more appropriate, I’m going to quote something I posted about in the Pit AI thread regarding a couple of more use cases for which I found AI to be very helpful. As it’s long, I’m going to put this in a details tag. play_button I’ve taken the bottom example and now have a suite of web apps where we can upload documents, create a journal entry, and then put that JE into QuickBooks online. Processes that once took an hour, hour and a half, now take 3, 4 minutes.

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