Artificial intelligence is a machine that's able to learn, make decisions, and take action—even when it encounters a situation it has never come across before.

AI has now reached the point where it's generally useful to people working in a wide variety of fields. Here are a few of the ways you—a regular human, reading this article written by a regular human—can use AI.

First of all, there are the ethical concerns: bias, misinformation, copyright infringement, the list goes on.

It might feel like everyone is suddenly talking about AI—and generative AIs in particular have finally reached the point where they're useful—but really, the current moment has been building for decades. We've now reached the place where the theories and the computer hardware can work together to do some amazing things.