How are people using AI to help with everyday life?

Most workplaces are using it and encouraging staff to use it.

Meal planning
Food Shopping
Recipes
Travel planning
Choosing outfits

Plus I use it prolifically at work

Of course they do. But right now they are more bothered about using AI to get more out of the people they have. We have massive bottlenecks building tech fast enough, AI is speeding all that up so business plans move faster.

Probably ‘research’ paid for by AI developers.

Do you not wonder whether your employer is so keen for you to use AI so that they can gradually streamline their human work force? It’s all about money - making it and spending as little of it as possible. If there is another explanation for businesses incentivising AI use I’d like to hear it.

At work i use it like a mix between a personal assistant and a colleague, I dictate emails, ask it to make PowerPoints, format documents, discuss my thoughts on something. Because I've used it for about 18 months and it's learnt best practice and researched the areas I work in it can provide decent advice although I challenge it and discuss the outputs as I would a colleague. Plus I use to for other just general life admin etc

I don’t touch it and have every automatic setting (eg email and search engines) switched off. I can’t stand it and this thread has been terrifying reading tbh, nothing in it has made me think ‘ok I can see why it would be good for that’. It’s just a disaster - a disaster now and a bigger disaster waiting to happen - it’s all about making money for already rich people. A poster on the first page said they are using it to edit their novel - really shocking from a supposedly creative person. It is utterly souless. And it won’t save time for anyone in the end - if you manage to keep your job your employer will find something for you to do (undoubtedly something less fulfilling than the work AI is doing). We are boiling frogs in so many possible scenarios.

I did an inventory of my fridge/freezer/cupboards and asked it for meal planning ideas. You can tweak it to include small top up shops for items you may be missing.

Extremely rarely. Just not interested in relying on a computer to do my thinking.

I've used to help me devise a weight training programme specifically tailored to my needs and for general info.

I use it to ask questions and talk about things I wouldn’t ask people IRL. I use it to help me write better emails. I use it to find out about medical conditions. All sorts really. Don’t see why so many people have a problem with it.

Just keep your wits about you and don’t believe everything you read. Simply put - Don’t be one of those people who drives blindly off a pier when following sat nav.

Agree.

My company has set targets on AI use cases at work, setup a committee to oversee and trained select people for each department to use Claude and other tools, integration into Slack etc. I had to agree to my team having agents in use by the end of the year or it impacts 20% of my annual bonus payout.

As I am senior, level down from Csuite, I have to go with it or be seen as a refuser, impacting my job and future prospects.

My personal view is the future is SKYNET and it must be stopped. But realistically that won't happen so I want a combination of financial penalties for companies that knowingly allow their AI to do harm (see OpenAI) and strict regulations - now.

@sohard I tested it against a mortgage overpayment calculator on Martins site and the answers were the same, tbh I would use Martins site over it.

Thing is you can’t tell anymore

Tbf people ask things on S&B like what shoes can I wear with these trousers and follow influencers who help them “style” a t-shirt with jeans!

Meal planning, budgeting and shopping lists
When I’ve reached a dead end in my family tree, I ask it to look at other sources I don’t know about, like hearth and window tax returns, land records, etc
Translating signs in Greek on holiday
How to write letters of complaint
Researching medical conditions

Yes every time we interact with it, AI is learning more and more about human intelligence. Am I being paranoid to think this will surely be used against us in the future.

Sorry for being dim, but what is JV on BBC2? We don't generally watch TV but sounds interesting, and i have iplayer.

Of course I am not happy about it. However, is IS happening whether I like it or not.

If I dont use it to do that task then someone else will. In the meantime i get labelled as an AI refuser and end up in bad water quicker?

LI get the impression that AI is coming for most people's jobs. That it is too late now, and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

The future is bleak, but I am allowed to take the little delight (for now) yesterday that I was able to finish work early on a friday afternoon.

To be clear - I do not disagree with you. It is shit. And will get very shitty in future. But don't blame me for finding the few positives in the calm before the inevitable storm.

Hrft but I've tried asking AI for extended wear FF harness car seats, it only found one, maybe there is only one?

And wireless bras in my size, didn't find anything I couldn't find on Google anyway.

We use a task specific AI at work, which is 80% reliable which suits me bc i don't want to be out of a job?

Have tried chat gpt for a few symptoms checks and it seemed generally useful.

Reasons it is evil:

It has stolen copyrighted material from across the planet to build its models.

It is environmentally catastrophic.

It degrades original human thought and empowers robotic regurgitation.

It produces mountains of useless, hallucinatory slop that is filling the internet.

It is potentially uncontrollable and chaotic.

I’ve recently bought an air fryer, so I’ve used it to quickly ask temp/time question.

I’ve also used it to decipher GP terminology on a report and blood test results.

I occasionally use it at work to compare two spreadsheets for differences in data, I do currently quickly double check that the information is correct. It does save time.

I quite like it for asking random questions too.

Not sure why some people are opposed to it. Surely a Google search is similar but AI doesn’t give you pages of info to sift through.

Oh, and I use the free version, haven’t needed to upgrade to paying yet.

Well I cant really worry about that. It is happening the corporate world over in all corporate arms of industries.

Absolutely nothing I can do to stop it.

What batshit Al hallucinated that for you?