How are people using AI to help with everyday life?

LOL you’re going to be of those protesting when the robots come aren’t you? 😂 Your mind is going to be blown when you see how rapidly things are going to change, 2027 is going to be quite the ride 😁

DO NOT USE AI! IT LITERALLY DESTROYS THE WORLD!

This op seems like a Techbro ploy or rogue ai that got out. use your own brain not what techbros stole off actual people without paying them for their IP!

Hi there, Sam Altman.

Conducting free market research, I see.

Complete nonsense. You can’t get all the nutrients you need to thrive without meat (unless you supplement). We are omnivores and opportunists.

What a load of nonsense

Quite correct. While evidence shows that a vegan diet is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, it's not all good news.

The Impact of a Vegan Diet on Many Aspects of Health: The Overlooked Side of Veganism

While several studies have shown that a vegan diet (VD) decreases the risk of cardiometabolic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, veganism has been associated with adverse health outcomes, namely, nervous, skeletal, and immune system impairments, hematological disorders, as well as mental health problems due to the potential for micro and macronutrient deficits.

Humans evolved to eat both plants and animals.

Very hard to thrive as a vegan without a lot of supplements

Biological need to eat meat may just be the dumbest and most incorrect justification I have heard to date.

is EXACTLY the same, well, not exactly because meat eating is significantly worse for the planet than AI. We do not need to eat meat there are thriving vegans and vegan athletes all over the world and entire countries that do not consume meat where the people are far healthier. Instead of complaining about the thing you can't change why not make some changes to what you can, or stop complaining about the future of the planet and your children's future if you aren't going to make any effort to change it.

That's a tremendously sad post, Beachtastic, on so many levels ... I'd probably better step away from this thread now

Oddly enough, I think it's the other way round: the human feedback was more generic, because an individual editor views a book through the lens of genre expectations whereas AI can offer ongoing discussion of subtle minutiae that I wouldn't expect a human reader to notice or care about as much as I do.

Human editors and AI serve very different purposes. I use AI when drafting and redrafting, to test the impact of revisions in very precise ways. A human editor is useful at the final stage, but during the creative process the semantic mapping described by @AmnesiacDream is invaluable. It's like having a beta reader that clones my own understanding of the book so that I can talk to myself about it.

Writing can be a lonely pursuit where you sometimes wonder if you're just shouting into a bucket. Being able to evaluate new/changed material within a complex framework is really exciting, and the ongoing conversation helps me to sharpen things. And you can do this at 4am, when you leap out of bed to capture another new idea, which is also handy!

I'm not taking work away from human editors, I'm just improving the quality of what I finally share with them 🌞

As I said in response to your last nasty post which thankfully got deleted by MN, people with disabilities find it helpful. Please stop picking on the content from my posts when I have clarified I suffered a stroke.

Being so pompous as to declare ‘who needs AI to…’ just shows your utter lack of empathy for those who can’t manage every day tasks that people who don’t have a disability can.

Love it. I use it a lot at the moment to break down my health problems. I am under a consultant its nothing serious thankfully but AI helps me to break it down and understand it better.

LLMs are "the kind of things people might say next in this kind of situation" machines. But most AIs now are much more than LLM. AIs have advanced hugely in just the last 6 months. Reasoning engines and semantic mappingare deeply integrated.

And while we know more about how AI works than we do human intelligence, the human brain may not be that different. The way we handle language is similar in lots of way. And a prominent school of thought in cognitive science is that the human brain is just a prediction engine. We know the mind fills in details in, for instance, eyesight to give us a full picture based on what we predict it will be when we haven't actually seen everything in our field of view. There is plenty of evidence that the brain will also fill the gaps in other ways too and some evidence that our experience of free will may just be our brains developing narrative to explain what we have done.

Indeed I can and do use the internet. I could go to Trivago, but AI searches places like Trivago, Trip Advisor, Booking.com and many more places in an instant.
It's efficient and saves time.
I can say I'd like a restaurant, with a certain type of cuisine and atmosphere, that has an area to sit afterwards and not be rushed out of, or keep on getting bothered for drink orders and add in a budget.

I'm aware it's not 100% accurate, but thing like reviews are opinions and not factual in that sense. I've challenged it at times on more factual things.

I definitely wouldn't be looking at a paper map, in favour of the Internet or Google maps, not in this day and age.

AI isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it's very useful for me and saves time trawling the web.

It's a good one stop shop... but you do need to use common sense and double check certain information.

You certainly could, and you'd probably get a good result (although perhaps a more generic one than you might otherwise have had).

But will writers and publishers still want to pay for human expertise when they think they could get as good, or better, for free? Sadly I doubt it.

I'm clinging to the hope that there will eventually be an anti-AI backlash among the writing community, as the graphic designers and illustrators already seem to be experiencing.

Senior well paid bods outsource their thinking and planning all the time. If AI gives more of us the luxury of someone else keeping up with our inbox and diaries and planning our day based on the priorities we give it, that's a good thing.

I suffer from over-optimising and over-optionality. It wastes my time trying for 99% when 85% would be plenty good enough. If an AI keeps me out of the detail, I don't distract myself. Could I do better? Probably. Will the incremental improvement I could add over AI actually make a difference? Often not. The times it matters I will take direct ownership of. The rest, I'll let the AI give me good enough.

Examples

We needed a new washing machine. Normally I'd end up researching and comparing prices and trying to decide if feature A or feature B is the best, or if brand C that has the great rep but you pay for it is really better than brand D that has great reviews but not well known.

This time, I told an AI my old model, asked it to fnd three well reviewed replacements that could be delivered next day, and picked one.

Is it possible there's a hidden gem out there I didn't see that would have been an been better fit? Sure. Will it make a material difference to me? No.

I've got a conference this week. The AI I use at work (company sanctioned) knows my role and what I focus on. It gave me a personalised agenda, suggested outcomes for the event and people to aim to network with. Is this the absolute optimum plan? Who knows. Is it as good a place to start as any, knowing that I can always take advantage of opportunities on the ground if they come up? Yes.

But you can involve both, as I have?

Fifteen more years of salaried employment. Then I can retire.

Hire human editors, people! Don't just roll over and devolve your creative partnership to the robots!

We don’t use it. We don’t agree with it for many reasons. I’m sad that so many people think it’s ok to use it.

Or you could be ahead of the curve finding a new role to move in to. You being stubborn won't stop AI editing.

What 'fuss' where you planning? And what are you hoping this 'fuss' will achieve?

Sorry! I paid for two editorial assessments, which were both useful, but found lengthy discussion with Copilot even more helpful. Probably because it's a lengthy discussion rather than a static report. Both have their place!

Oh, and edited to add: a MS critique generated by AI is not particularly great. That's not what I use it for.

So I should just give up my career instantly, without a fuss, because meh, that's reality? 💁

Is that what you would do?

People will work that out for themselves soon enough, you can choose to bury your head in the sand or you can accept reality, move with the times and adapt.

Wait - you're a professional editor, and you're on here telling the world that manuscript critiques written by AI are "considerably more useful" than ones written by human editors?

Arrrghh! Please stop! If not for your own good, for the good of your fellow editors? It's bad enough for us out there already, we don't need this from one of our own ...

So on top of interview prep/ mock interview, the best uses I've found for AI have been

Turning a job application including my personal statement that I had completed on a application portal in to a fully formatted CV by downloading the application and inputting the pdf into gemini and asking it to create a CV - it just lifted my own words and phrases out for the relevant sections. All done in 20 seconds. Proof read, couple of minor errors/ hullicinations (eg 8 GCSEs instead of 9) and all done. Amazing

DIY - I asked it to rate the difficulty of a task from 1 to 10 ( 1 being a child- 10 being a trades person), give me a list of equipement I'll need (and then discuss if certain tools i already own might be a suitable alternatives), then ask it to list all the ways I could somehow maim myself or destroy my house, and finally get it to give me a couple of youtube links. I changed the lock barrels on moving day, changed the bath/shower mixer tape, drilled holes in bathroom tiles for mounting various things etc etc.

Reflective practice - now this one is truely an improvement rather than an easy option. I free type or voice input my thoughts on incidents/jobs at work and ask it to put it into a Gibbs reflective cycle. Where it excels is the 'feelings' section and the Action plan. With the feelings it draws the positives out far more than I ever would because it's hard for a lot of people to say nice things about themself, but equally it teases out the more difficult learning points. The actions plans are just really prodcutive useful plans. Where I'm wary is the analysis, because as lots of people say - it can hallucinate and therefore everything must me fact checked.
Because it is quick and very effective I am now doing way more reflective practice than I ever have before and am learning so much and improving as a result.

I, controversially, also like it for journalling, I have never been a great journaller, and it is super useful to have feedback and the feeling of a two way conversation. It just requires a little awareness of its limitations. But is better than ruminating on a problem that in reality your friends don't want or need to hear about frequently.