I Asked AI to Help Me Choose a Hobby. Judging Its Suggestions, From Beekeeping to Astronomy

Wasting time is a matter of opinion. One person’s enjoyable afternoon putting the final touches on a detailed Lego Death Star build is another person’s mind-numbing chore. Then there’s the investment. You could spend a fortnight and a prince’s ransom only to discover miniature ship building does not, in fact, float your boat.

AI Atlas

Model trains, running clubs, robotics and coding classes all sound fun — until you realize you’d rather fly, running shoes cost far more than they should and you’re less of a front-end/back-end person and more of a “no end in sight for how boring Java can be” person.

I asked three different AI systemsClaude AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT — about what my spouse’s next hobby should be using the exact same prompt, and the results were surprising.

Claude: Getting a clue

Here’s the prompt I wrote: “I am a 39-year-old man in the United

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