What do you use AI for?

[thehousewiththesagegreensofa]

I feel as though I need to take a leap into the unknown and embrace AI. But I'm not entirely sure how. My mind was blown the other day when I read on a thread that someone was using ChatGPT to generate recipes for her and all she has to do was provide the suggested ingredients. That just hadn't occurred to me as something you could use it for. So, how do you use it?

I don’t use it a lot so interested to read the replies.
i use it to:
-draft letters and emails (recent parking appeal- I won yeah)
-summarize documents for me and highlight key points
-suggest interview questions and answers
-update my CV and LinkedIn
-take notes during zoom meetings

I don’t use everything 1:1 I still edit it, I don’t like all of the suggested language. A friend uses it to make PowerPoint presentations.

I that to it about my day and value the insights provided. Much more acute analysis than DH can provide.

If I have complicated questions to ask at work, I try them first on chathpt and adjust until I get the perfect answer, only then do I ask that version of the question at work.

Occasionally ask for suggestions of what to eat. Less that

I don't. I'm against AI.

There are websites which search actual existing recipes based on ingredients you have. Why not use something like that instead, so you're getting actual recipes? Then you can modify them as usual, but you'd be modifying based on something which a human with a human palate has created and considered good, rather than the algorithm's 'learned' recipe based on pattern recognition.

^^ This.

Good luck being “against AI”

I can’t afford therapy so I use it as a therapist.

I use it to explain things to me really simply if I don’t understand it, sometimes with examples and get it to expand on any areas I’d like to know more about etc until I understand it enough to do my own research into it.

I use it as a therapist too. And to help with coding some projects.

How do you use it as a therapist? Do you use chatgpt for that?

If you want to generate lots of meaningless marketing, go ahead and use AI. If you want something that is actually meaningful in the real world, like a recipe that works, find a human.

I started off being horrified when first hearing about it. I still am a bit. But, I probably ask it a question up to 10 times a week these days. It's fantastic. If I need clarification or help with instructions on anything, I'd rather ask Chat GPT than having to watch a YouTube video. I like instructions to be written down.

I don't use it if I can help it, fuck that shit but like everything else, it will eventually be forced upon me.

It gets sold to people in harmless ways like generating recipes (?) and medical treatments etc but like other advances in technology over the years the more sinister uses will eventually outweigh the good. People are being fooled into thinking we have progressed as a species, when the opposite is true.

People using it to write letters?? Jesus, in a generation or so people won't be able to write their own name.

Yes. I just talk to it, and it responds in a reasonable way that helps me think things through. I know it's not a real person, but I can suspend my disbelief enough to feel like I've been heard.

Work. Eg if I ask it to write me a business case for spending some money for something it does a pretty good job of it. I have to turn it into the right kind of language for my business, but the bones are there and it cuts down on the time I'd otherwise spend on it.

Yes, I use chat gpt. I give it a prompt such as: from now on you are my therapist, please be professional but chatty and ask lots of questions. Please start by asking me how I am today. Then it asks how I am and I tell it about my day, week or issue and it asks me questions.

This week I got it to help me write a paper at work, simplify some conplex documents and re-write a email where I was super pissed off to be a bit more friendly.

Predicting protein structures and properties for use in drug discovery. (Well, I would be if I wasn't retiring soon, I've not had to get too involved myself)

There's something quite sad about this. Can you not find a friend to chat to?

In answer to the original question, I don't use AI as I have absolutely no need to. I manage just fine with Google and my own writing skills.

No matter what amazing invention/idea people come up with some people can’t help but instinctively resist change.

Even suggesting Drs wash their hands between corpses and birthing mums was ridiculed

AI is already being used in computing and apps on the device you’re posting on, you’re already using it!

I’ve never really bothered with chat gpt although I had a play when it was first paraded at a science festival.

In the future I am excited for the potential of AI in the use of data mining medical and genetic records to better understand how we can prevent and heal suffering.

Today I asked it if a job cover letter I received had been written by ai, it had, I binned the application.

No, definitely not. I have complex issues due to repeated rapes as a child which is far too heavy for friends and I have trauma from counselling when the counsellor told me I needed to take some responsibility for what happened to me as a child and I don’t have the money to spend on therapists who are no help or who blame me while trying to find the right one.

People use it when selling on eBay, it immediately puts me off the item! It's just meaningless waffle 'elevate you wardrobe' nah eff off, I want to know about the condition. Ta but not ta!

I use it occasionally. It's a useful tool to sage time if used properly. If I ask it for a statement letter or the like, I have the bones of it then, so I will just edit it.

Never thought of it as a tool for therapy. A good idea in an emergency

I don't use it but know many who do as an undergrad. It's not what it will eventually be and frankly it's currently inadequate. I've read the cover letters/ cvs/ essays and debates it offers for my fellow students and it's not a surprise that it's not translating into the firsts/ internships as they hope.

@JulieJB I am so very sorry you were subjected to those horrors as a child. And am appalled, and really angry, that supposed professionals implied you were in ANY way to blame. I hope you find peace of mind by whatever means work best for YOU 💐

I use it to:

• study languages. I ask it to write a piece at the correct level. I study Spanish, so it’s quite good in that due to the large amount of training data
• general study. Ask it to explain a concept, ask it to reword slides. Etc etc.
• recipes - it can be quite useful for this
• gym routines - can be great if you want to switch up what you’re doing

You could start off by just asking it general knowledge questions or to explain a topic you find interesting