To ask what you’ve used AI for today?

I don’t really know what this means… I just fired it into ChatGPT, to be honest!

Give Claude a try, I find it really really good for coding with the way it uses artifacts.
There is also Claude Code that actually at terminal level.

I don’t really know what this means… I just fired it into ChatGPT, to be honest!

I do also use it sometimes for my reviews in work. They ask things like “How do you demonstrate that you’re a team player?” and it’s handy as a springboard for answering. I don’t just copy and paste, but the response is usually full of decent “office jargon”

Writing an executive summary for a presentation pack I put together, for a customer meeting on Monday

Find this thread genuinely, profoundly scary. I've not (intentionally - I assume some software I use has it baked in) used it for anything, nor would I. Nobody seen the research about how using ChatGPT and the like makes your brain less able to do stuff for itself?!

I uploaded a picture of my empty kitchen to Copilot and asked it to show me how it would look with different colour schemes and furniture combos. Was actually really impressed. Clearly a slow day at the office!

It does a fucking good job of it thought. I’ve used Claude for some informal therapy sessions and to help me process thoughts about things. It’s been extremely useful.

It is always substantially replicating existing ideas or thoughts. All it is doing is rearranging existing language patterns to find the most statistically likely combination of words.

It can't do careful thought. It has no mind. It is not devising. It it recombining.

It can generate a plan. It can't plan. There is a profound difference.

Seeing if i was a good fit for a job - i uploaded my cv and the job spec and AI compared the two. I now know what bits of my career to focus on in the application. I then used it to rewrite a short report I wrote as a stream of consciousness because I had an hour to do it. I wrote like i was thinking and then asked AI to rewrite it more professionally. I then went through what it churned out and edited it so it sounded like me.

Devise:

"plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought."

Or

"to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles"

"Devising" doesn't have to include inventing something entirely unique, it can be formulating a plan by drawing on and applying existing principles to certain facts.

And no, artificial intelligence does not have its own mind, is not capable of true thought - that's the "articificial" part, but it can absolutely prepare a plan, based on a set of facts and prompts, without substantially replicating any particular pre-existing plan.

If this is truly, genuinely concerning you, just assume that "artifical" is implied "AI artificially devised a plan", but that isn't how most people speak.

If someone said "my GPS isn't working, it thinks I'm in a different country" would you have genuine concern that the speaker thought their GPS software was capable of thought?

I used it to create a presentation deck describing the function of my department. It’s for some work experience students so it wasn’t necessary to be specific. I then validated the content and used prompts to format it using certain branding. I was happy with the results and it saved a lot of time. I then asked for some interactive tasks to engage the students (so they don’t suffer death by PowerPoint) and it offered a few ideas, then picked one. AI is going to change the world, maybe not immediately but over time.

To make multiple choice questions for plumbing students

Well, you probably wouldn't be in trouble, because it likely wouldn't ever be known, but you'd certainly be way offside of your professional obligations (putting you and your client at risk).

You should certainly take care to anonymize, though - you can use placeholder names and details from the outset, or parse them out retrospectively. You might also need to tweak a fact pattern if it remains potentially identifying even when anonymized.

😂 I love you for that!

I used it to help me improve a report I had to write for work, and I used it to make an exercise plan for the gym

As long as there's nothing confidential in that draft. Then you'd be in pretty big trouble.

Never used it until today - and it was to suggest easy family meals for the week. Saved me so much thinking time!

Drafting emails to the bloody useless bloody school. It drafts well and professionally, when all I want to do is email them saying ‘why are you so bloody useless you useless cretins?’

It's not always right.

Generated some ambiguous sentences to practise detection of minimal pairs.

Nothing and I never will use generative AI willingly. It’s just dreadful. Tragic to see things that were once developed by humans using their creativity and imagination being replaced by embarrassingly bad AI versions. People losing their jobs to AI or their jobs becoming to correct the work of AI. My own job is directly threatened which is why I refuse to use it despite enormous pressure. Why would you teach a machine to think like you? Don’t even get me started on AI hallucinations…

New AI database at work, in testing phase.

Personal, I asked it to tell me what colours suited me. Looking for a top for my son’s graduation next month.

Translating words and phrases in a book i am reading in another language.

It is excellent at translating in different contexts. It gives examples of different sentences if I need it. A million times more helpful than a dictionary.

Fair enough 🙈 I am learning python via datacamp along the way but there's stuff I need to do at work that is soo much better using python.

I got that and deleted my account as a result. Ridiculous waste of resources.

Nothing at all. Never have, I can do my own research and I am not a meme person so don’t use AI to ‘create’. Not planning to use AI any time soon.