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For friends, business owners & curious technical minds
A little help making sense of AI.
Practical explanations, useful tools, and thoughtful perspectives—at your own pace. Start with a question, read a short guide, and try one thing you can use.
Welcome to Graylinks.com. I’m Eric Sundberg, a retired electronics business owner based in Richmond, Virginia. The AI revolution is unlike anything we’ve seen before, and staying informed is no longer optional—it’s vital. This site is a curated, accessible resource built from thousands of materials I’ve been gathering since 2023. Whether you are looking for entry-level video intros or advanced how-to guides, you will find them here. To give you a complete picture, I also feature perspectives from both AI Doomers and AI Accelerationists. Explore the links, dive in, and please share your feedback. Enjoy!
What would you like to do?
Use AI in a small business
Compare documents, improve customer messages, and test useful workflows.
Understand the technology
Explore language models, local AI, coding, and the larger debate.
Browse the topic shelves
AI foundations
Understand what AI does, how language models work, and which questions matter before choosing a tool.
Prompting & everyday tools
Get useful help with writing, planning, and ordinary tasks. Start with a small example you can check.
Education & self-improvement
Practice a skill, organize a personal goal, and use AI as a patient tutor while keeping your own judgment active.
Research & knowledge tools
Read documents, compare evidence, and build a useful collection of sources instead of collecting unsupported answers.
Images, video & audio
Make invitations, illustrations, narrated stories, and short videos. Learn where creative freedom ends and factual accuracy matters.
Engineering & coding
Explore software development, local models, retrieval, and evaluation with explanations that connect concepts to working projects.
Agents & automation
Understand the difference between a helpful chat, a repeatable workflow, and an agent that can take actions.
Hardware, robotics & infrastructure
Look beyond the chat window to processors, electricity, data centers, and machines that move in the physical world.
Science & healthcare
Separate promising research and specific clinical tools from claims that a general chatbot can replace scientific or medical judgment.
Work, business & marketing
Find sensible ways to improve a small business, develop skills, and measure whether AI actually helps.
AI economics & skepticism
Examine jobs, market power, costs, economic threats, and the difference between a useful technology and a profitable business.
Industry news & model updates
Learn to interpret launches and benchmark claims without chasing every product announcement.
AI optimism & future possibilities
Examine the hopeful case: broader access to expertise, better tools, and faster discovery. Keep benefits separate from forecasts.
AI risk, safety & governance
Explore current harms, the doomer debate, uncertain future risks, and practical questions about accountability.
Privacy, security & digital society
Protect personal information, recognize impersonation, and make better decisions about which services get access to your life.
Choose a tool by the job
Each tool guide explains what it does, a small project to try, and what to check before relying on it.
Prompting & everyday tools
ChatGPT: a practical first project
ChatGPT is a conversational AI assistant for explaining, drafting, researching, and working with supplied material. Start with a small task whose facts you know. Available tools and account limits vary, so confirm what your current session can actually access or do.
Research & knowledge tools
NotebookLM / Gemini Notebook: study your own sources
Google’s source-based notebook helps you ask questions about a selected collection of documents and other supported material. Its current help pages use the Gemini Notebook name. Use source citations to inspect the evidence, and remember that a generated overview can still omit or misinterpret important details.
Research & knowledge tools
Claude: turn a document into a useful working draft
Claude is an AI assistant from Anthropic for tasks including writing, analysis, coding, and research. A useful first exercise is turning a short document into a clear brief with traceable facts. Keep source passages and your own interpretation separate.
Prompting & everyday tools
Gemini: an everyday assistant with Google connections
Gemini is Google’s conversational AI assistant. It can help with explanations, writing, and other tasks, with connected-app capabilities depending on account, device, and settings. Begin with a self-contained request before granting access to additional services.
Images, video & audio
Canva AI: make a clear invitation, handout, or presentation
Canva combines a design editor with AI-assisted creative tools. It is useful when you need a finished layout with editable text, not just a generated picture. Start from the required format, then check readability, facts, and export settings before sharing.
Images, video & audio
Blender and AI: start with a small scripted 3D scene
Blender is a 3D creation application with Python scripting. An AI assistant can help write scripts that you review and run inside Blender. Direct AI control requires a separate compatible integration; a chatbot conversation alone does not establish a connection to your computer or Blender projects.
AI accelerationists & doomers
There is room for both hope and careful questions. Explore the case for faster AI development alongside concerns about economic disruption and serious risks.
The curated video collection
Browse the saved playlist by topic, publication date, format, or experience level.
Search the video collection All video and reference links by topic
Good sources make better questions
Use official tool instructions, research organizations, and independent references to check what you read or hear.
Open the source library · Plain-English glossaryA note from the collection
Graylinks is a personal learning resource built around Eric’s playlist. The written guides add explanations and practice ideas. They are prepared with AI assistance and link to factual sources; they are not transcripts of the videos.
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