How Smart People Secretly Use AI to Win at Everyday Life
How Smart People Secretly Use AI to Win at Everyday Life
If you think AI is a new innovation, think again. The phrase ‘artificial intelligence’ actually dates back to 1956 when John McCarthy, a professor at Dartmouth College, set about developing Alan Turing’s question “can machines think?”. He chose ‘artificial intelligence’ as the project name and his associated conference is widely considered the starting point of AI as we know it today.
Part of everyday life
Today, AI is the tech shortcut we rely on without realising. That smartwatch on your wrist measuring your heart rate and sleep patterns? It’s driven by AI. Using Google Lens to translate text or track down a pair of shoes? AI is doing the heavy lifting. Unlocking your phone with face recognition? You guessed it!
In 2025, however – nearly 70 years after McCarthy’s ground-breaking work – we have moved on from a passive approach to AI to a more aggressive adoption. Awareness has reached such a critical level that we’re actively seeking out AI to achieve new time-saving efficiencies.
Smart life hack or sneaky cheat?
There is, however, still something a little taboo about artificial assistance. Is using ChatGPT cheating? Are people using tech on the sly to win at everyday life?
The type of AI used can influence your stance. There is generally support for machine and deep learning that can analyse huge data sets to spot patterns, flag up anomalies and crunch the amount of numbers it would take humans years to process.
A greyer area is Natural Language Processing, during which machines understand how humans speak and write. The aim here is for AI to power conversations and answer questions in a way that’s indistinguishable from humans.
Arguments rage about the lack of the ‘personal touch’ and people being replaced by machines but if the very best outcomes are achieved, what is wrong with using AI? In almost every profession and industry, AI is being lauded for its time-saving possibilities. It’s not there to replace an employee but to free them of mundane tasks so they have more time for critical projects.
Here’s why your co-worker is outsmarting you
If you’ve ever wondered why your colleague is so organised and always ahead of deadlines, the chances are they may be using a secret weapon. Notion AI and ClickUp AI are two popular schedule assistants that analyse deadlines, to-do lists and priorities to suggest what to tackle first.
How about meetings? Ever wondered why someone is as cool as a cucumber and not frantically taking notes? It’s highly likely they’re leaning on an AI meeting assistant, such as Otter.ai or Tactiq. It’s an easy win, with live transcriptions, AI summaries and automatically-created follow-up emails populated with action points.
And those on-point presentations and succinct emails your office adversary is churning out every time? They’re not slaving away for hours crafting masterpieces. They may be using a content creator assistant like Jasper AI or Smart Compose to create the first draft, then fine-tuning the text in a matter of minutes.
AI & property: the perfect combination
The chances are if you’re reading this blog, you’re involved in property in some way. It’s a sector not untouched by AI, with the home moving process being made easier and smarter for buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and property professionals.
For example, an AI development was the top story on trade website Property Industry Eye on the day this blog was written. In summary, the article detailed how AI allows agents to speak with potential clients in the most responsive, targeted way – no second guessing tone of voice or style of interaction preferred.
Humantic AI was noted for its ability to trawl publicly available data – such as LinkedIn profiles – to build an accurate, insight-laden profile of someone – from their seniority in a given company to the type of report they’re most likely to read.
Always open with AI
The 24/7 agency is also being made possible thanks to ever-powerful AI assistants that are hard at work while an agent sleeps and during peak times. Using basic information supplied by the mover, such as budget, location and number of bedrooms, eSelf AI searches available listings and takes people on virtual tours of suitable homes, providing essential information along the way.
Nurtur AI strays into the voice territory, with an AI agent immediately calling back potential leads, qualifying relevancy, capturing viewing or valuation availability and detecting cross-selling opportunities. It’s an AI development not intended to replace humans but to serve agents with the best quality leads in real time and ensure customers enjoy a quick response whenever they choose to get in touch.
Supercharged property listings
AI has also muscled in on creating property listings – a godsend for the less creative and time pushed agents. Those tapping into Street AI, for example, benefit from on-brand property descriptions – learnt by feeding the machine an agent’s most successful previous property descriptions and emails. There’s also instant photo editing to boot, for a completely automated listings package.
The portals are embracing AI too. Zoopla is now automatically scanning property descriptions and images to recognise the features identified by buyers as the most popular, including kitchen island and conservatory, creating six new search filters in the process. At Rightmove, a new AI-powered location tool is being trialled, which serves an AI-generated area guide to browsers looking at selected property listings.
Better but not brilliant….yet
AI has the potential to make portal-driven property searches even more insightful. The data exists to tell a property buyer the likelihood of getting a parking space at any given property, whether an area is predominantly ‘permit only’ and the EV charging point availability…the dots just need joining up.
Improve your move with AI
It’s not just agents who are upping their game using AI. Home movers can create a slicker moving experience for themselves. A good starting point is ChatGPT or Google Gemini. Both, with the right prompts, can produce essential lists.
We trialled the prompt ‘Create me a list that will help me buy my first home in the UK. It must contain a step by step guide to what I need to do, the documents I need to have and the contacts I need to make.’ The result would keep even the most clueless property novice on track.
Sellers can also use Homemove’s Advanced AI-powered valuation model – Homer. As well as scanning more than 20 data points and using historical data, it allows the user to upload current photos and list improvements to the property made after the last purchase for increased accuracy. It results in a valuation figure that is far superior to those usually given out by automated instant valuation tools, with AI taking structural damage, a dated décor and even clutter into account.
And how about the hefty, jargon-laden reports that come with buying, selling and renting? Reading every line, paragraph and clause can feel like a chore but home movers can now use AI-powered tech to distil the contents. iCaptur and Grammarly, for example, will quickly summarise large reports including property surveys, tenancy agreements and leasehold documents.
As a digitally-driven company, Viewber is excited to see how AI shapes the future of the property industry, applying developments to our own property viewing and visit business model. To learn more about our services, please contact the Viewber team.
