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've used it once, for this one thing.

What I didn't say is that I already had an itinerary (created by myself / Google!) but was curious as to what recommendations Co-Pilot would come back with. Turned out it was mostly the same, with a day or two longer in a couple of places. So no great surprises but was an interesting exercise.

because its faster and better to use Chat, vs a preset website

i use it to make various essays of different subjects, and or when people make speechs, i use it to expand what they are discussing to add more context to their speeches eg mi5/mi6

Only time I've used it was in a computer class. I tried ChatGPT and Copilot by asking them about a famous historical person. ChatGpT made an utterly stupid error. Copilot wasn't as bad, but they both read like the compiled-from-encyclopaedias things they were. I wasn't impressed, though it was useful to show the likely way a particularly useless job agency employee created a resume for me - the damn thing was essentially fantasy, it bore no resemblance to any work I'd ever done.

Well, as a working mom with a bit too much on my plate, I've found ways to use AI to save time, especially for content analysis. I use it to classify text and identify topics, which helps me understand what our audience is interested in and create/adjust content accordingly. It’s amazing how it can pinpoint trends that might take me hours to spot. I also use a ChatGPT extension for Google Sheets. It’s been super handy for creating catchy taglines and even generating entire tables with charts. It makes organizing and presenting data a lot easier. By the way, the company I work for has a policy that any AI tool you use needs to be approved by our IT department, and I'm seriously thankful to those guys.

You know that chat gpt is notoriously bad at accurately identifying AI written stuff right? So you’ve potentially just binned a cv from the perfect employee. Secondly don’t you think it’s highly hypocritical to use AI yourself, but automatically disqualify someone from employment because you suspect they’ve done the same? And thirdly, AI is a godsend for some ND people to help with things like covering letters and cvs, so watch you don’t find yourself on the wrong end of a discrimination lawsuit by automatically binning them.

I've tried to use it for information, but it can be EXTREMELY unreliable and inaccurate. Last night I asked it for a very good hotel in a certain area. One of the names it gave was not only not very good (we've stayed there) but actually no longer in business.

As a bit of an unpaid therapist when my relationship broke down. It was really useful. Can't see myself using it for work though (im in finance)

To quickly find information about specific topics, not good for very niche or recent developments, good for random things like finding telephone numbers for companies that hide them somewhere you can never find them on their web sites.

Yes looking for investment companies several were very bad or out of business for years, do not rely on AI for anything to do with money!

Very depressing

Depressing thread. I'm more convinced than ever that artificial "intelligence" is only of use to those who have limited intelligence and imagination themselves.

The only use I've found for it is transcription services, though I don't think those are LLMs even though they advertise themselves as "AI" (which is itself false advertising as there's no intelligence at play in them).

A lot of focus on how easy AI is compared to that herculean task of googling something and comparing multiple websites but less recognition of its sloppy outcomes in almost every field. I assume at this point we'll end up with a bit of a class divide based on it: those who can, will pay money for human doctors, therapists, accountants and artists. Those who can't will get the shoddy AI versions of the above.