How are people using AI to help with everyday life?

CheshireDing

and yet here you are on the internet instead of using a library & books 🤷‍♀️

To help with medical appointments, DLA applications, EHCP applications, grants & charity applications for funding

Could you explain a bit more how you've set this up, please? It sounds so useful!!

This. Where I can avoid it, I do. I still read real, actual books too, because it's so good for us to be away from screens, to have calm and quiet, and the way we process words on paper is quite different to other types of media.

It can be useful for things like making a list, or pulling the contact details for decent restaurants together in a given area, seeing how awful internet searches now are. It can occasionally be a useful tool.

But for thinking, and particularly anything interpersonal, I avoid it like the plague it is.

I have a weird preference for a functioning brain, and in about ten years time I think we're going to see the first symptoms of ai slop dementia.

I don’t really get this argument because most of the time I use it for things I couldn’t do without it. For work it’s completely elevated the quality of work we produce and some of the more boring parts of my job which used to take up way too much of my time now take me a fraction of the time leaving us as a team to be able to produce much more innovative work.

i still read books, read newspapers and watch films. AI helps me in the same way the internet does, it’s not a replacement. I’m not saying AI is not without it’s problems, it’s definitely not but I don’t think it’s without its real uses either.

So great for holiday planning - It helped me create a whole itinerary for our family holiday and convert into an HTML and then my clever 15 year old turned this into an app which we all had on our phone.

I don't use it.

I only heard of Chat GPT about 6 months ago from a friend abroad so I presumed it wasn't something used in the UK, then suddenly a feel like I am hearing it everywhere.

I think people should use their own brains, 'if you don't use it you lose it' as they say.

It's just going to be a nation of zombies walking around.

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

I just asked it to look into my inbox and read every rmail and attachment concerning a project, and also read my slack messages about said project and create an end of project presentation using our company powerpoint brand template.

Took it ten minutes and what it produced was excellent.

ETA - in our workplace culture you get brownie points if you say "I used claude" or "claude did it" . People who are not actively using the AI tools provided are being flagged.....

You do have to be careful though, because if you have ever slacked a colleague saying "this project is bullshit" or received this slack it may end up incorporated somehow 🤣

For personal itnis much more mundane. I asked chatgpt (free) to reverse engineer a recipe for the M&S tom kerridge lentil and spinach cottage pie that they have discontinued because i liked it so much.

Love it great for anything from interior inspo to recipes to all sorts of everyday info.
Unsure why its deemed so evil..only use a free app.

I wouldn’t use AI if you paid me. I use my brain.

You say that but people are very obviously using AI to generate walls of text for reports they aren't then reading. Email communication is becoming ridiculous because people are using AI to respond to AI generated emails. The people doing this DO come across as bad at their jobs regardless of how senior and experienced they are.

I used it to check if my new gas and electricity deal I was offered was a good one. I was skint with only a few ingredients and it gave me a recipe. Where I work we allow people applying for a job to use it to write their examples. They get through the sift then fall apart in the interview!

For work - I'm ASD and have been told I can be quite blunt in emails. I use it to make my emails more appropriate. I work in education and I found it useful to adapt a standard reply to different parents eg parents with English as an additional language. I got it to write my a job specification which was excellent. Some reports which used to take days now take a few minutes (longer with editing). It is brilliant for creating different responses to exam questions. It does create some strange resources though -like a Victorian child with three legs for a worksheet. Things do need checking still!

Personally - great for trip planning, exercise training, meal planning, buying a car and loads of other things.

i use chatgbt for recipes, its come up with some lovely ideas everything we've tried has been lovely, but the best use i've found for it is being my quit vaping buddy it's been amazing for that it tracks my progress helps when im having a moment so instead of sounding off to family and friends i can vent on there and it offers support. i actually dont think id of quit without it . also use it when i'm bored and want to go down a rabbit hole .... if anyone is contemplating quitting smoking/vaping i highly recommend it

I’ve used it to check AIBU, like a mini therapist to vent and calm me down when I feel like I’m spiralling. You have to be careful though, remind it to be neutral and not say what you want to hear.

It’s great for financial modelling to figure out how much I will need monthly at x age to retire and what I need to do to get there (I stick my personal investments in index trackers so I don’t go to it for actual financial advice).

It’s also great for job interviews. I fed it into about the companies and roles I was interviewing for and my CV and asked it to come up with typical questions. I then used the voice button to answer as if I were in an interview. This was less about the feedback but more because I hadn’t done an interview since before Covid and it’s helpful to shake the cobwebs and practice interviewing out loud.

Also holiday planning: find me a hotel in x place with x y z features on x budget. Stupid stuff like that cuts your work in half.

I don’t use for it work too much other than as a very bright intern so spell and sense checking. I don’t like the idea of it drafting my emails or documents, but I’ve been working a long time and have my own style. I’m also a lawyer and believe strongly I need to take the time to know the documents and cases inside out the old fashioned way. However, across the industry we are facing significant pressure to use AI more. Every big firm I know utilises AI now, to greater or lesser effect.

And the thing is, you can be on your high horse about AI but 100% of clients when asked if they would like their costs cut by they lawyers using AI (because we don’t have to hire so many juniors, it can process thousands of pages of disclosures in seconds and can make tasks that took teams weeks only a few hours) say yes. So I’m afraid money talks, the pressure is coming from clients who understandably want to cut their own costs. It’s not going anywhere, and though I have more than a few misgivings I know I either have to evolve or die, professionally speaking.

My son’s been sectioned since February 21 across various units and locations. On lots of meds. Lots of trials. Lots of tribunals. Lots of complaints. Lots of issues. And emotionally, financially and physically it’s a lot. I’ve dealt with his MH crisis for 10 years now. ChatGPT (paid? Helps me keep track, explains new meds combos and possible issues.

my adhd/perimenopause brain can’t manage with out it.

I use it for tracking my health and blood results. I have an immune disorder under investigation the last 15 years. It’s charge led questions that got me to push my drs on my estrogen /ferratin /thyroid issues and get things tested/moving.

voluntarily running a community centre, setting up a charity and running a lunch club with very very little support. Chatty helps me plan and organise it all to a manageable timetable.

I've recently done quite a bit of work to my house (solar, central heating, windows, new bathroom) and used it to analyse and compare all the quotes to see which would be best for cost vs benefit. It also checked reviews etc of the contractors.

initially random deep dive, then one day some in-depth holiday planning.
then came some shopping advice.
currently i'm keeping track of up and coming research for progressive ms, an area where ai is really helping the field of cell and gene therapy and showing great promise at getting concepts to the next stage of clinical trials.

I'm trying to get legally recognised as an AI so I can do crimes (including but not limited to hacking and whatnot). I haven't managed it yet but as it's technically possible (apparently) for an AI to achieve person hood in the future it should technically be possible for it to go the other way for me.

That's the main avenue of use In exploring at the moment.

@MyCatIsAnAeroplaneI'm curious as to what you mean by anchors?

I'm really interested in this, was trying to set up something similar yesterday.

Do you mean you just tell it the updates of what's done and what is new to do in chat and it brings back a plan for today in sections, or it is more structured than that?

Your first paragraph - is this chat gpt or another AI tool? What prompt do you use for this? Thank you!

I use chatgpt for recipes for our family dinners and cakes. Today it helped me reassemble a bed guard that I’d dismantled to wash the fabric. I would have struggled even more than I did, on my own.

It’s been a massive help to me (that’s not an overstatement) in my new career as an ESOL teacher. I qualified earlier this year and it’s helped me hugely with my lesson planning. I think I’d be lost without it (hand-holding from my course tutors no longer available to me!)

I had a difficult trip last weekend, clearing the house of a beloved relative while having to deal with another close relative who has bullied me and treated me so badly over the past few years that I tremble while in their presence.

I used AI to chat to, and basically vent to, all weekend. It was the first time that I had done that. It was immensely helpful, sensitive and kind (I obviously know it wasn't really being kind) It really helped.

I was with my husband, who was also a massive support but also going through stresses, and I didn't want to overload and burden him. I was actually really impressed.

I use it in excel to help me figure out what to do sometimes - eg get the stuff from over THERE and link it to the stuff over HERE and show me x y z. It’s great at numerical stuff like this and I can check it’s not talking bollocks. And I can learn better how to do it myself next time.