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?

Thank you, I really appreciate that.

This was dumb, ChatGPT is as yet unable to accurately tell whether it produced samples of work and is known to hallucinate answers.

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

But why not search for answers by humans? Humans at least are using critical thinking and basing their facts on sources (even if those 'sources' are 'I think I heard this somewhere once').

A little after ChatGPT first came out, I asked it out of curiosity what would have happened had two historical figures married. Purely a 'what if', but it was a real life relationship (it was about Catherine the Great and Stanislaw Poniatowski, who was her lover as Grand Duchess and then, through her support, the last king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (which then Russia, Austria and Prussia partitioned between them). It gave me complete and utter nonsense, not in the least based on the historical situation.

Nothing.

Besides creating crap content, the water and electricity it consumes is ridiculous. https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/?sh=79f007377c06

I must live in the dark ages as I haven’t fit a clue what anyone is talking about. I e heard of AI but wouldn’t have a clue how to use it to benefit me. Does Alexa count as AI?! That’s my only experience.

What a charmer you are! It read quite strangely, very forced and over the top. Chat gtp was able to say it was probably ai because if the same styles I recognised.

Yeah, that’s it hedging its bets and saying “could be”, it’s not actually giving you a concrete answer. It’s not capable of that kind of analysis - yet.

your comment showed a fundamental lack of understanding of what these resources do and how they work, im quite comfortable in calling it dumb. Particularly given the tone you used in your comment.

Oh for sure you should always fact check what it gives you. It’s known to hallucinate regularly and probably that’s what it did with you, especially as you mentioned you were on an early version. But as a way of getting used to Gemini/ GPT etc, asking it general knowledge stuff is easy. And interesting too, if you get it to start giving you responses in the style of famous people and all that other stuff people love to play around with.

The advantage of GPT is that you’ll get your answer back very quickly and when you need quick answers that is priceless. I do believe though that we are in a fleeting era of free access, companies will try to get people hooked on these tools and then crank up the pricing.

I use AI at work to type up my minutes from a teams recording

I even used it to write my end of year performance review

Those against AI - you can’t stop progress.

AI software is being trialled as part of research in various NHS trusts to reduce waiting times, waiting lists, triage etc - that’s not taking a job away, that’s filling a gap that has previously been creating problems due to lack of staffing! Meaning doctors can do their doctor jobs.

AI can also make diagnoses but it would be reviewed by a human doctor before a prescription is made. It takes away so much of the HCP leg work.

Why wouldn’t you want that?! Unless anyone can magic thousands of doctors from thin air it’s a perfect alternative to tackling admin and workflow problems in the NHS

Using it to write business cases and form arguments is so bloody lazy. If this carries on future generations won't be able to write a few sentences without help from AI.

I love using it for recipes, it's far easier than trawling around looking for exactly what I want written by a human. It basically just does that for me anyway. I tell it what's in my fridge, tell it I fancy something Mediterranean to feed 3 that's no more than X calories per portion and takes about 30 mins to cook and out comes a recipe. It's brilliant.

It's also good at helping plan workout routines which I hate doing, so makes that easier too.

I bow to our future AI overlords.

Excited to try it for recipes now

I tried it a few times for work eg asking it topical questions that I face as an analyst of a particular region and it was rubbish - the answer was not balanced and bland. No client would have accepted it given then pay money to use analysts with decades of experience in studying this particular region. I might try the question again to see if it has improved.

curious about the recipes aspect, will give it a go.

Same, what a load of bollocks. Makes me want to go and live in the woods.

Netflix Prime, Sky TV all use AI to make recommendations on what to watch

Amazon, Tescos etc use AI to suggest shopping ideas

Chatbots on websites use AI to answer my questions

I use ChatGPT

to help write papers and presentations at work.

To prepare tourist itineraries when visiting somewhere new

I'm researching other AIs to help with projects at work that will cut costs snd be more accurate

I use it to help market my business - e.g ask for ideas for social media posts and then to write the posts to include emojis and hashtags.
The result is often too American and cheesy so I tell it to tone it down and then I edit it until it sounds like me. It still saves loads of time.

I've also used it to produce html code and meal plans.

I've used it for idea generation at work, mainly to design a project for my undergraduates. The final version obviously looked very different but it very quickly gave me the bones of it.

A teacher friend said she uses it for her lesson planning and her school wants them to use it for all their reports soon.

I also use it as a therapist. I ask it questions and it gives me sensible well thought out answers that make me think and self reflect. Love it.

It is useful for wording report comments for ‘difficult’ children, a few of my friends get it to help with that. The language given back can be overly flowery but it’s easy to simplify that

Used it recently for parts of a multi million pound tender. It saved hours of work and we could just personalise bits to give specifics and financials.
I’ve used it to show our useless HR Manager how to come up with an inspiring advertisement too.
I’m a beginner though.

This thread won't age well 😜.

I use it for all the social media posts from my "official" role. I copy the notes from meetings in and it generates minutes. If I can't work out how to finish an email with the right tone I let chatGPT finish it (then tweak)
I really struggle with writing and it turns bullet points into (very flowery) prose. Which I then edit.

It's a tool, just like spell check or the one that checks your grammar.

This is a little ironic. An applicant potentially used AI and you discard them based on GenAI suggesting they may have use AI. You used AI to aid you with the recruitment process but binned an applicant because they did the same 🤔