This article is published by Time's partner Allbusiness.com.
By Su Guilory
It is now impossible to ignore the effects and possibilities of artificial intelligence. Now it becomes the tool we use to organize our lives, conduct research and entertain ourselves. Every day, AI discovers new ways to make our lives more enjoyable and productive.
This applies to remote workers and digital nomads as well. Whether you're working on Bali beaches while on a trip from one European country to another or getting a video call, AI can be extremely useful to you as an employee or business owner.
Why ai?
If you are reluctant to lend a hand with this technology, you may want to rethink it. As a digital nomad, you may find it difficult to focus on your work while traveling while you're in the office, but AI won't miss the beat. It helps you maintain your business even if it's at your own expense.
AI can also help reduce the time spent on recurring tasks, such as email replies, data entry, and content reuse. This allows us to serve more clients without having to do more work. And as a citizen of the world, you can also serve clients in other countries without being fluent in their language.
10 Ways AI Can Help Remote Workers
1. Translate the content
If you are a digital nomad or work abroad, even if you are fluent in your local language, you may not be familiar with business or technical terms. Or you may want to serve your local community. In that case, you will need to translate the documents and marketing materials.
Tools like Google Translate and Deepl use neural machine translation (NMT) and large language models (LLM) to translate images and text. You can take photos on your mobile phone and instantly translate the text of the image, or upload the file to your desktop.
2. Schedule across time zones
It's painful to try to calculate the time in a client's time zone, especially using different daylight savings schedules. Use AI calendar tools like clockwise to find time useful to everyone you need to meet.
You can also add focus time when you need to focus on your work and avoid planning calls with others on your team.
3. Automate customer support
Instead of hiring a customer service representative for your company, use AI chatbots to serve your customers even when they leave the office.
Chatbots today can do a lot. You can give answers to frequently asked questions and set them to process returns. Most customer problems can be solved in this way, reducing the amount of human interaction required.
4. Streamline client communication
If you notice that you're writing the same email over and over again, AI tools such as Gmail's built-in composure window can draft emails that you can modify. Alternatively, you can create a template that responds to common questions that clients and colleagues ask.
You can also install the AI Mail Assistant to create personalized responses, translate emails, and create correct errors.
5. A smart way to learn a language
If you haven't cut it by helping Duolingo flow faster in languages, try an AI-powered language learning tool like Speak. It provides conversation opportunities and adapts to you as you learn. This tool creates a personalized curriculum that helps you reach your learning goals faster.
6. Become a better writer
In today's business world, perfect grammar and syntax are essential…and there are no excuses for AI errors! Grammarly can be installed as a plugin that can be used on Windows, Google Drive, and even mobile phones. It will fix your mistakes and make suggestions for better content.
ChatGpt offers you a way to hone your writing. Paste what you write and the tool can smooth out nasty transitions, change tones to suit your audience, or optimize for SEO. You can also get one content (for example, a blog post) and turn it into multiple other types of content, such as LinkedIn posts and X updates.
7. Reduce the pain of meetings
Maintaining a connection with your team probably means countless video conferencing. You already know that when you pause to take notes, you are missing important information about the phone. Otter.ai's AI Meeting Note Auto-Goinins Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google meetings, and even take notes so you can focus on your calls. It also automatically creates action items from the call. If you missed the meeting, you can get a 30-second summary.
8. Don't miss the deadline
If your digital nomadic lifestyle involves a lot of travel, you risk missing deadlines or slipping through the cracks. AI tools like motion take over task planning. This tool prioritizes the most important tasks and balances your workload to ensure deadlines are met.
9. Research faster
Artificial intelligence is changing the way we research our work. Instead of asking a question and then sifting through the results, AI tools like Perplexity.ai can do heavy lifting for you. Enter your query and you'll get a detailed response, whatever you're studying.
It's the perfect way to get data on competitors, markets, customer behavior and trends.
10. Finish other transactions
If you're an entrepreneur selling online, AI-driven customer relationship management software can automate your sales process. For example, ActiveCampaign can automate workflows and communications, making it more likely that the leads at the top of the funnel will buy from you. Use intelligent segmentation and predictive transmission to ensure that all messages are sent to the right audience at the right time.
Utilize the power of AI for remote work
These are just a few of the myriad of AI-powered tools for work. Finding what makes you more productive and going back to enjoying that nomadic life.
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About the author:
Su Guilory is a foreign coach and business content creator. She supports women who want to move to Italy. Su has been featured in Allbusiness, Forbes, Sofi, Lantern, Nav and more, and writes about entrepreneurship, finance, marketing and life as an Italian foreigner.
