What do you use AI for?

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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?

Very good suggestion! Actually for anyone who doesn’t know, when you open ChatGPT it will give sample prompts you can click and it will respond to. That’s a nice way to see how it works.

There’s nothing sad about this at all. Take your judgement away from how people should process their issues.

A friend is definitely NOT a therapist and there are some very deep issues that many people have they’d rather not unload or share with friends.

Friends aren’t always able to offer rational nonjudgmental responses either.

I've never used it for anything. There's no rule saying you have to!

I asked it;

You can use ChatGPT in various ways to enhance your daily life:

1. Quick Answers: Ask ChatGPT for quick answers to questions about anything from trivia to current events.
2. Productivity: Use ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas, make to-do lists, or generate creative solutions to problems.
3. Learning: ChatGPT can help you learn new things by providing explanations, definitions, or even tutoring in specific subjects.
4. Writing Assistance: Use ChatGPT to help with writing tasks such as composing emails, drafting essays, or generating story ideas.
5. Entertainment: Have fun chatting with ChatGPT by engaging in conversations, playing text-based games, or exploring hypothetical scenarios.
6. Self-Reflection: Use ChatGPT as a sounding board for your thoughts and feelings, or to explore topics related to personal development and introspection.
7. Decision Making: Discuss options and considerations with ChatGPT to help make decisions about anything from what to eat for dinner to major life choices.

These are just a few ways you can incorporate ChatGPT into your daily routine, but the possibilities are virtually endless!

I asked it to give me 10 more:

Sure, here are 10 more ways you can use ChatGPT in your daily life:

1. Language Practice: Practice speaking or writing in a new language with ChatGPT to improve your skills and fluency.
2. Recipe Ideas: Get inspiration for meals and recipes by discussing ingredients you have on hand with ChatGPT, or ask for cooking tips and techniques.
3. Book Recommendations: Ask ChatGPT for book recommendations based on your interests, favorite genres, or recent reads.
4. Personal Journal: Use ChatGPT as a virtual journaling partner to reflect on your day, express your thoughts and emotions, or set goals.
5. Virtual Travel Guide: Plan your next vacation or explore new destinations by asking ChatGPT for travel tips, recommendations, and insights.
6. Meditation and Mindfulness: Engage in guided mindfulness exercises or meditation sessions with ChatGPT to help relax and de-stress.
7. DIY Projects: Get ideas and instructions for DIY projects around the house, from home decor to repairs and renovations.
8. Trivia and Quizzes: Challenge yourself with trivia questions or take fun quizzes on various topics to test your knowledge and learn new facts.
9. Personal Finance Advice: Discuss financial goals, budgeting strategies, or investment options with ChatGPT to make informed decisions about your money.
10. Career Advice: Seek guidance on career development, job search strategies, resume writing, and interview tips from ChatGPT to advance your professional goals.

These additional ways can further enrich your interactions with ChatGPT and help you make the most out of its capabilities in your daily life.

That's true! Ii'm not clever enough to know what the work around prompts are or think them up but would love to know some to test it for myself.

AI will become and is already becoming a common place tool just like search engines.

The new OpenAI release is impressive, a huge step away from monotonous Siri.

We’ve wondered about this.

How will reality and fantasy be separated?

How will the truth be known?

Eg, anyone could make a deep fake video of Biden saying he’s launching all out nuclear war on Russia. Load up to social media etc..

or vice versa with Putin.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. It can be used at lower local personal levels for crime, fraud etc.

Where does the ‘real’ version of life begin and end?

How will veracity be proven?

Looks like we better cracking or we’ll be left behind 😂

@Minniemooose, ask Ai how it can help you with your job. Describe and all the tasks you typically do. You can also ask it to manage your time at work and at home. You might find you get used to working with AI very quickly.

Thank you. Where do ask it though? How do I get in contact? 😳🫣😂 I’m clueless

Here’s the link to ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/

Thank you! I’ll take a look at that

to draft emails/messages I struggle with tone and putting things into order because of my autism, so I dump in the gist of it and tell it what tone and writing style I want.

following as I am part of an "AI progress" steering group at work, I find it all quite interesting and potentially very helpful but don't really have a clue, not sure why I was recruited!

meant to add my area of work (consultancy) is convinced that AI is going to be a pretty huge thing and change the way we do things probably mostly for the better. Its imperative that we keep up with the competition. Yes it will eventually lead to less humans needed but we're not worried about that just yet.

I use it all the time, like multiple times per day.

I use it a lot to create formulas for me to use in excel / google sheets that I don't know how to do myself. E.g write me a formula to convert a date to a day of the week (simple example. it's great for creating more complex ones too)

I use it to help me code.

I ask it general questions that I have in life, such as 'what day of the week will it be on 7th of July' or 'my flight got cancelled with less than 24hours notice, what are my rights' or 'how do I get extra frothy coffees'

Then random stuff, for example I wanted to create a paragraph containing a list of words (so I could then translate said paragraph into spanish which I'm learning atm), and it did this perfectly.

@Nogain

Don't you worry about the amount of information you are inputting about your life and your deepest thoughts/ feelings? Chat GPT keeps a record of everything.

I mainly use chatGPT for writing formulae and macros for excel, I've created some very good tools for work (engineering) but also useful for personal finances etc. it explains everything step by step, you don't need any experience, I use it pretty much daily. Same with Python coding scripts, but I had a small amount of knowledge of this already.
Also good if I'm stuck on things to do with the kids, coming up with questions for a quiz, or names for characters in games. I hardly ever use google now, unless I want the number for a business or directions.

I also have co-pilot for Microsoft apps through work which is great for summarising teams meetings but very weak and restricted for excel so far.

Co-pilot for Bing search I've found to be inferior to basic Chat GPT, although I've not explored it in great depth. It does produces images though which is useful.

P.S. if you use these tools for work be very careful not to share any sensitive info

I use it to write reviews and if I have to send a dreaded complaint. I use Synthesia and MidJourney for my work and both are incredible / fascinating. With MidJourney, I have to edit the images in Photoshop before I put them out. It never gets it quite right.

I am not against AI. I work in the tech sector and I think it is important to "future-proof" my job by becoming an architect of AI, rather than a victim of it. That is to say, I focus a lot of time an energy on being good at making AI generate things for me that it won't generate for others. Teaching myself how to "talk to" MidJourney and ChatGPT is a bit like learning to code again.

When I create videos using Synthesia, I write a script and then I practice how I would like it to sound and feel in a mirror, making notes of where I would like inflection, eyebrow movements etc and then I go back and ask the software to reflect this.

I really really enjoy using AI for my work. It has been revolutionary and I think I may have found a new niche that I couldn't have dreamed of when I left uni many years ago.

I used Co-Pilot to create a holiday itinerary the other day (gave it a number of days and list of places) and it came back with number of nights per location, travel time between each location and things to do/see in each place.

Some of the travel times were a bit optimistic but otherwise was pretty good.

Also used it to create accommodation recommendations for each location.

@Precipice you use AI all the time. Mumsnet itself uses AI. Other examples:
Google maps
Facial recognition (to unlock your phone for example)
Spellcheck or predictive text
Search recommendations
Social media
Online banking
Taxi apps (like Uber)
Alexa and the like
Streaming apps (Netflix)
Brake (collision) warning in cars
CCTV monitoring
Email filtering (inbox or junk)
Weather prediction
And so on...

In various ways unconsciously.
Consciously and deliberately - none.

I would use it, but none of the things mentioned above I have any trouble doing by myself. I like writing, I don’t want someone to do it for me. I come up with recipes all the time, and have recipe books as well. I don’t need it for work.

Every time I’ve seen anything created by someone using AI, at the moment, it reads as if it’s been drafted by a half wit. It’s easier to do things myself. I asked it to come up with a job spec recently but it read as if a work experience student had written it. I’m kind of slightly convinced that it’s just a tool to make people even dumber by ensuring that they don’t learn to do things themselves.

I wasn’t interested, I’m happy with my writing style
I could imagine it, bright student A’s paper rejected for AI use because he claims he didn’t.

You could put in sentences like the above, and it can help you punctuate them correctly. It would still be your writing: just punctuated correctly. Maybe that’s why ‘someone’ suggested you run a recent paper through it: the poor use of punctuation.

See I can’t understand why anyone would want to outsource that! It’s the fun bit! Organising and planning are, to me, one of the really enjoyable pre holiday tasks. I’d never pass that on to a computer to do for me.

Social media posts for Guides and Scouts. Letters home to parents. If you're working in a second language it's an absolute godsend.