How are people using AI to help with everyday life?

Indeed. Imagine making yourself redundant

My accounts and taxes.
I was dreading ‘making tax digital’, I just couldn’t get my head around what was expected of me. AI has helped me understand , and will answer whatever questions I have along the way.
Next up for it is when I VAT register next year, another thing I will have a million questions about.

I have used AI to build an app that alerts me when various things are coming up - insurance renewals, etc. I have some rental properties so there’s lots to keep track of. It also helps me keep track of my tenants, rental income and expenses.

I built an interactive revision schedule for my daughter for her end of year exams. It was Duolingo-style with targets and rewards.

I absolutely love what can be done with AI so quickly and simply. I didn’t pay for any of the above, each one just took an hour or so.

I use it for holiday planning, hotel reviews. Excursions recommendations, based on what I like.

Sometimes, I say the type of location I want for UK trips, the distance from home and I get good suggestions in an instant.

I use it for restaurant recommendations too.

The other day, I was looking at some protein pancakes that came up in a low calorie search, but the product didn't show a nutritional breakdown. I screenshot the product asked chat.gpt. it was so high in calories, I was shocked.

Chatgpt then went on to suggest some other brands, when I said these particular ones were unsuitable....I tried one suggestion and am happy with them.

I use it to make old photos clearer.

My daughter uses it when she goes for meals, based on who ate what from the receipt, it gives a precise calculation.. if you're not simply doing an equal split.

I use it in a lot of other ways did daily things.

I think a lot of people dunt know how to use it and are scared of it.

Somewherenorthofhere: Claude (Sonnet mode) saved me an entire day's work yesterday.

Sorry, but does this not make you a turkey voting for Christmas?

If I'm ever forced to use AI at work, I'll put most of my energy into showing my employers why it CANNOT do my job.

It’s linked to my work task list and also my email, I then asked it to create a separate section for my personal stuff on my personal email and task list - separate the sections and create a daily briefing. I keep adding and taking away. I don’t type anything! I talk to GPT and go through what’s been done and what’s not - work stuff I tick off as I go along on tasks. It’s been really useful for keeping track of stuff! Try it .. game changer.

Exactly
Someone sent me their job application to check the other day and they had clearly put the job spec into AI and got it to prepare an application. Not only did it read really poorly but it didn't have a shred of personality or actual specific information

Likewise we are binning about 50% of tender bids and they have clearly just put the pack into AI and got it to regurgitate something without even considering whether they can deliver

As little as possible. I think it helps people are quite full on with inane blabber or a bit lonely. I hate it though. It’s helped suggest a printer. It couldn’t even calculate a row of numbers properly recently so I don’t trust it at all.

It really worries me that so many people use public AI for very personal stuff, e.g. legal documents. Do they realise that they are giving private information to a public search engine which will never lose it? And that they are thereby waiving the right to confidentiality?

Used it when I was waiting 2 years to see a derm. I posted pics and requested creams that would work. Even after seeing the derm I still use the advice from ChatGPT as the derm didn’t have a clue.

When I want to compare two things that are similarly priced and appear to have little difference. It will break down each ingredients and tell me what is better.

For recipes getting it to use cups and to write the ingredients amounts in the method.

Asking it to explain why I react to certain conversations and how to deal with a relatives borderline personality disorder.

Explaining the ends of movies when I feel like they were crap and unsatisfactory.

Explaining what certain supplements do and to tailor them to my goals.

Breaking down what exercises I should do to grow glutes and get a flat stomach and the timeline and reality of achieving that.

Drafting emails.

Comparing countries I want to visit

Very rarely. I think reliance on it will make people less intelligent and it's also catastrophic for the environment

Plus it's quite often just wrong

We were testing it at work this week and it was hallucinating cases that didn't exist and presenting them as important authorities

We avoid it as much as possible. That so many people are unwilling to use their own brains is sleepwalking us all into a fucking disaster.

AI and help in the same sentence? Mutually exclusive, I would have thought.
As for people paying to help AI learn, more fool them.
I use AI to argue with. I ask it a very specific question, to which I already know the answer, and then challenge it. Eventually it admits defeat and backs down.
Any piece of software that "hallucinates" and produces "slop" is really poorly designed and programmed.
Just look at where it scrapes its answers from...I ask a question about something in Europe, for example, and all the scraping is done on US sites!
Any human that believes its output should be taken out and shot.

I loathe AI and refuse to use it. Is a step before the fat floaty chairs in WallE as far as I’m concerned. I can understand why some small micro businesses use it for posters/advertising as they have zero budget for creative advertising etc but I keep seeing actual art supply companies using SI made posters and it makes me promise to never ever use them again. I’ve already lost two glass suppliers and a wool supplier BUT plenty of us have voted with our feet and this means that the ones we have swapped to are more likely to succeed long term. And the companies we have swapped to are now asking their customer base for photos of projects and advertising help in exchange for the chance to win a voucher or a discount code which is brilliant. Lots of interaction on their socials (free advertising) and using actual creative’s to do it. Fuck AI.

Itinerary for my holiday when I uploaded all the separate train tickets, hotel reservations etc.

Timeline and spreadsheet of what is happening with our EHCP review - I was getting so confused and it helped me get it all clear in my head.

Recipe ideas and converting US cups to metric. Uploading photos of 3 recipes I want to make at the same time and getting it to write a step-by-step optimised timeline.

Answering random questions that pop into my head.

Translating photos of text in other languages.

Creating a flyer for a weekend I’m organising.

Tidying up minutes of a meeting for an interest group meeting I had to minute.

When you do a Google search, you can add -ai to the end, to stop it giving you AI-generated results

Where do you do that research?

I avoid it if at all possible.

The tech team at work have rolled out some "AI helpers" that are clearly designed to take work away from us and justify redundancies which the management would love to make. No thanks.

I use it at work daily.

Outside of work I’ve used it for travel itineraries. We’re away soon and staying in 5 different hotels which ChatGPT suggested for me, I’ve even booked restaurants it recommended.

I have also found it really useful for interior design inspiration. I’ve uploaded photos and asked it to suggest things which I’ve actually followed to the letter. And it’s redesigned a part of our garden and found me the best price for 20 yew trees.

I’ve never used it intentionally (I realise it is used automatically in some apps or webpages). I have no need for it and no interest in it and I enjoy using my brain while I still can.

Yep! I can think and research for myself.

I use it at work because I have to but try to avoid it as much as possible in my personal life.

The environment impact is awful, it's destroying academic research skills, and is used to cut labour costs.

It's not even that the technology itself is bad (e.g. when used in medical research), its the way the companies are pushing it out so fast.

I’ve used it to help with my autumn wardrobe. I uploaded photos of key pieces I have and asked it to put outfits together with suggestions of items I might benefit from adding to my wardrobe. I’ve had so many compliments at work. I know there are apps for this but I’ve actually found copilot/gemini do it better

to me that sounds like your company is planning to cut staff numbers - push staff to do more work in less time using AI, then use that to justify cutting jobs. I'd be worried about your industry- it'll go the way of staffed tills in supermarkets.

@Ohyesiwill2 AI slop dementia- did you coin this phrase or hear it elsewhere? Awful thought that using AI too much might contribute to dementia. I never thought of that, just of the risk of losing a habit of speaking and writing independently, or worse still never developing that habit, for young people.