Ben Kalkman tests AI tools across his real businesses and shares honest results. No hype, no theory — just what actually works, from Ben Kalkman's testing lab.
AI just moved from the office to your living room. With Muse and the new Siri, agents now read your screen, act on your behalf, and live everywhere you are. Is this the moment consumer AI truly arrives? Read on.
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Caught mid-reach for the AI tab, a marketer and parent of nine asks: is outsourcing thinking making us dumber—or just different? From Google’s memory shift to AI’s reasoning trade-offs, here’s the honest, hopeful take.
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Think your phone’s mic is spying? The truth is creepier. A leaked “Active Listening” pitch fooled everyone—but the real ad-targeting trick is smarter, sneakier, and fixable with three settings you’ve overlooked.
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