What are your AI use cases?
* Drafting emails?
* Summarizing 50-page industry reports?
* Generating social media content?
* Prototyping a quick game or building personal workflow tools?
Most of our day-to-day conversations around AI naturally center on personal productivity and speed – getting through our inbox faster, sharpening our code, or automating routine tasks. And that alone has transformed how many of us work.
But then you see projects that remind you of what AI can do on a planetary scale.
A fantastic example is Cathay Pacific’s collaboration with Google and Contrails.org (shoutout to Oliver Haas and the team for sharing this journey).
By applying AI models to predict where contrails – the heat-trapping cloud streaks left behind by flights – are likely to form, flight operations teams can make minor altitude adjustments to bypass them. It’s an elegant, data-driven approach to tackling real-world aviation climate impact in real-time.
Efficiency gains are great. But using AI to make our planet a better, more sustainable place to live? That is where the real inspiration lies.
Curious to hear from you all : Beyond everyday productivity and automation, what is the most impactful or unexpected real-world application of AI you’ve seen lately?
