How are people using AI to help with everyday life?

Because it’s everywhere. When I want to contact a business by phone and speak to a human it’s often impossible to find a phone number. So I try to use the Live Chat but those are almost always bots. I tell the bot I want to communicate with a human and it will eventually find one but it’s quite long-winded. If there had been a phone number and a person at the other end of the line, the problem/query could have been resolved much quicker. AI is being offered as the first solution most of the time, so those of us who don’t want to use it are being discriminated against!

The trouble is that it’s getting harder to avoid @TheKeatingFive

There’s defensiveness coming across from some posters here, but if you don’t want to use AI no one is forcing you to. Just avoid it. I don’t see the issue.

It’s the way you can ask it very specific questions and get immediate answers.

So last week I wanted a recipe, but one that avoided ingredients usually associated with that recipe. It did that immediately rather than me having to trawl through multiple versions to find what I was looking for.

I wanted advice on how to wear a certain style that is tricky for my body shape. It trawled through multiple articles and summarised 4 key points that really helped, which again would have taken me much longer.

Thats where it delivers, for me. That’s not to say we’d fall apart if it ceased to exist, but that’s a genuine benefit above and beyond what Google used to do.

Not remotely similar

Why do people need to look stuff up on the internet when they could use an encyclopaedia?

Aren't many of the things that people are using AI for things that you could just have looked up on the computer previously, if you used the right search terms? I mean, with properly accredited articles where you could see the original research? And AI is basically a machine which is summarising all the information that is already available to you but without the ability to make sure that it is telling you the truth (if it has obtained some of its information from corrupted sources)?

But AI has only been available for a couple of years. What did everyone do before? It is suddenly so irreplaceable and wonderful and yet we managed with basic Google and Wiki and other sources before.

These are genuine questions by the way. I am not a fan of generative AI but can see the uses for it in other applications. I am a little worried about how easily people seem to have turned to AI to solve problems that have other solutions.

I’ve used it recently to draft my representations for my appeal against a parking charge notice.

In the majority of situations if an email is more than three paragraphs long I assume its been written by AI and that the person who generated it is unlikely to have properly proof read and tailored it to the situation. 99% of the time I'm correct and it makes me so mad they have made me read and respond to the slop. That when they haven't accidently left in the 'here is a firm but friendly email you can use to respond to LDGUK'

Meal planning, planning trips, understanding blood test results, financial planning, like a search engine if I don’t have time to browse. Work wise, to summarise lengthy documents or simplify complicated legal documents.

What a PITA some parents are. Everyone thinks they’re an expert in any subject now AI can write drivel for them.

Is anyone else thinking of asking CHATGPT to read this thread and summarise the posts for them ?

So you’re not going to primary source? But using information that AI is also using

I don't use AI. Why would I want to outsource my brain to a big tech company? Honestly pathetic.

What a stupid employer you have. They are looking to cost cut and get rid of staff plain and simple. Not your fault of course.

For now

Its free to use a basic version.

A year ago I felt a bit like this. Now the culture at my employer has completely changed and we’d be considered incompetent if we weren’t using AI- it’s an ordinary skill that employees are expected to have and insisting on writing everything yourself would be treated a bit like insisting on writing letters with a quill rather than sending an email- fine in your own time but at work you need to be more efficient than that. And as the technology continues to improve it will go more and more this way.

I don’t know how this will all end up. Quite pleased to be retiring in the next few years because mass redundancies seem likely, and I fear that people who can’t/wont adapt will be first to go, in my area at least.

I'm pretty internet savvy, but AI? Mostly goes right over my head! I've managed to ask Chat GPT two questions! Both times pretty good advice, but it's not my automatic go to.
To be honest, I'm a bit wary of it all. I suppose I'm getting a little 'old fart' ish about it. That and electric cars! A wee bit too much to take in, and too much to learn!

I’m actually shocked how much some people need it after reading the posts on here. They will be the ones held over a barrel paying massive amounts a month when the prices increase.

I'd be interested in hearing about how you got the procedure earlier and also about the weight loss help if you don't mind sharing

I find it super helpful for

• helping get the tone right for emails and cutting down my waffle
• planning any project with step by step guides
• researching when and how to do stuff in the garden e.g. what variety of apple tree is in the garden of my new house, when wil they be ripe and how do i best get rid of codling moth , how to grow a clematis up a wall etc and it gives timings, diagrams etc

It was also very helpful when my BF and I were going through a tough time and I used it as an interactive journal and it really helped me to make sense of the many layers I was feeling in a way that friends cant

I use it for things that I might have previously just searched for on the Internet for but its better because it is more detailed and can generate step by step instructions

As little as possible; I don't use chatgpt or any similar chat bots, I don't run my images through AI filters, or my artwork, or my writing. The environmental cost is a major concern for me, but I am also concerned that people are allowing AI to think for them and are becoming reliant on it for things we have been able to do ourselves perfectly well for many years.
I am also concerned by the fact AI uses faces, artwork and writing to "learn", scraping data from legitimate artists to churn out prompts and using children's images for frankly dubious at best purposes.

What do you use for designing rooms? Chatgpt or something else?

Do you use Chatgpt for interior design suggestions or something else? And if it is Chatgpt, is it the free one?