Anyone else routinely using AI in their day-to-day life now?

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I started playing about with chatgpt a couple of months ago, but it's only really been in the last couple of weeks I've really got the hang of prompting it and I'm just blown away.

I'm using it daily for work: probably about half the work I do can benefit from chatgpt in some shape or form. But I'm also using it personally too - in just the last few days its helped me to turn some random ingredients into an edible meal, plan a city break against a specific set of requirements, recommend a new card game that our kids would enjoy, diagnose why my plant is losing it's leaves... the list goes on and on.

What made me really stop and think today was that I googled something and found myself thinking how... underwhelming it was. Just pages and pages of links that I then have to figure out myself. It shocked me to realise how quickly my own expectations and behaviours have shifted.

Anyone else finding chatgpt (and other similar technologies) are creeping into their everyday lives? In what ways?

I think I've been put off it because I asked for the average rainfall of <insert UK town> for the past twenty years (up to the date of the data it was trained on) and it gave multiple figures all of which didn't match the basic met office source.

It's good for e.g. giving some prompts or ideas for a presentation though

It depends what kind of writing you do.

AI tools basically just work to the mean. I work in a high-skill academic field where the writing and idea generating I do only makes value if it’s original and genuinely new/innovative. ChatGPT isn’t going to give you that, by definition!

I've had it give a complete bollocks answer about setting up a hiera eyaml file.

Luckily my boss is a fan too - and very capable. However it is a real danger taht some boss will go off in a rage because they're waving a piece of paper around (that they paid for) that says "all you need to do is connect the snod-rod to the ganglepin and refresh the matter batter" and all the techies are going

"Do what mate ?"

However, this isn't really new territory. I am sure some of use have worked in jobs where because some twat at the golf club has told the boss a weeks job should take "half an hour", you become the idiot.

I had a colleague once who made a point of telling managers at conferences completely ludicrous timescales just to stir trouble when they got back. They ended up working for a local authority.

Interesting that someone says they are using Co-pilot. I want to use that but we can't get access yet.

Age and rank have their privileges.

To be honest, for the (current) cost, I'd pay myself. But since work did ...

AI tools basically just work to the mean. I work in a high-skill academic field where the writing and idea generating I do only makes value if it’s original and genuinely new/innovative. ChatGPT isn’t going to give you that, by definition!

Some US lawyers have got into some very hot water after ChatGPT invented some cases for them to cite in court.

If you ask it to invent, then invent it will. Otherwise what was the point of teaching it English. Which, by the way, is merely highlighting the Anglophone nature of the world. I've got ChatGPT to work in French ...

I would but I cannot get the hang of prompting it so I can use it successfully.

I use it for work as a starting point or to provide some inspiration. It's good for explaining tricky concepts - I asked it to explain some really obscure piece of technical equipment to me "as if I was a seven year old" and it used analogies that meant I knew exactly what it did (if not how). It also planned a really good trip for me earlier this year - five days in a part of the UK I didn't know at all, with driving distances, places to stop along the way and ideas for things I'd never have thought about.

I'm a complete luddite. Can someone give me the idiot's guide on how to use it?? TIA

I'm a writer who uses AI daily at work, it rapidly analyses the main competition (for Google ranking) and generates a brief for the topic, scoring the content as I go and then it has the audacity to check that the content is original and written by a human, not AI.

The Brave New World is to create "chats" (what else would you call them) which are specialised. So you can have a Marketing chat, a HMRC chat, an IR35 chat and so on.

These "chats" can then be packaged up and sold on to people and companies that either can't be bothered, don't see the point or don't have the resources.

It's a new industry like "social media management" that didn't exist in the real world past.

I needed to get some information from a document that was in Japanese - Google translate is still rubbish for Japanese - and I copied and pasted the text into Chat GPT and it did a much better job.

I would not use it for any writing I was going to present to someone else though. I was looking at online Comp Sci tutors for my son, and it was very obvious which ones had asked Chat GPT to write their bio (they all had the same formulaic yet long winded/hyperbolic style), which just made me assume they were either a chancer or too thick to write it themselves - instant skip.

Nope. Never used it and don't intend to. I don't need it for work.

I’ve used it when I’ve had to fill in forms about my sons disability and knew precisely what I wanted to say in plain English but was struggling to articulate it more formally. I then picked out some key sentences and tweaked them. It was really useful as a tool! But if I’d just copy pasted it would mostly have been waffle, it was definitely better for a few key phrases and formal sentences.

Just to balance the scales, I have just had to ask it 5 times to do a simple job. each time it assured me it had done until I posted in the output of the code it wrote.

(Now admittedly that is totally human behaviour.)

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A friend is currently conducting her new romance with billet-doux written by AI. Bit sad really.