What are you using AI for at the moment?

[Tulipmonster]

Just that, really. If you’re routinely using AI (I’m thinking of the public-facing large language models - ChatGPT etc) for either work or life stuff, what are you using it for? Which products are you using? And do you think it’s an improvement?

I have a subscription to ChatGTP.

I use it for work (mainly writing). It does an okay job but needs a fair bit of editing to get it up to scratch.

I’ve also used it to create a diet and exercise plan to help me reach my fitness goals. So far, so good.

I've had it create a tailored training program for my puppy too. That’s a longer term project, but it all seems like sensible advice so far.

I’m using it to plane a training scheme.

I also used it to help write a eulogy when I had lots of ideas but couldn’t, through grief, organise them.

Plane a training scheme? I need new reading glasses!

I used it for some counselling. I made more progress in a few days with copilot than in six sessions with a counsellor.
I also used it to help plan a loose holiday itinerary.

Me and my daughter sat for about 2 hours the other day asking it to write songs about random stuff in the style of different artists and it was very entertaining lol then we tried to see how far we could get being argumentative with it but it’s just too nice to engage with that sort of behaviour so we gave up.
I haven’t really used it for anything meaningful or helpful yet but I see that a lot of people find it useful

I have used it to do a packing list when I was too tired to think clearly - this was a very sensible list.

At work, I have used it to summarise a large document when I was pushed for time. Also to write an essay plan.

I use it for creating visuals of my home. It's been really helpful by creating mock-ups of a new sofa to check the dimensions etc and seeing it in situ and suggesting a colour scheme for decoration. I love it.

How do you do this? I’m moving house soon and it sounds really handy

It's great. So, I have been using ChatGPT and sending it photos of my room and asking it to create a visual mock-up of certain things, where to put things, colour schemes and asking it for a mood board. It's quite addictive actually!

Can't avoid Gemini on Google Chrome, sadly. Otherwise I try not to use it.

Apols @Tulipmonster that I'm not your target audience as I haven't used it, curious about it though!

I use Perplexity. I mainly use it to draft documents but as a previous poster says, I do a lot of editing after.

I use it to help me plan lectures, draft assignments and write case studies. It is very good at that. It still needs me to come up the ideas in the first place - and I use it to assist rather than do, if you see what I mean.

If I am researching a new area then it’s my go to give me an outline or précis so I can delve deeper.

I asked ChatGPT just a few days ago to compare two health insurance booklets, let me know the differences and find out if I could claim for a particular condition. For work previously it has helped me create policies for our ISO27001 accreditation and amazingly it was the auditor who gave me the idea!

Teacher - using it at the moment for lots of short prompts, like write a list of evaluative verbs or a model in the style of which we then edited to improve in class. Needs editing but does make things quicker.
holiday itinerary
def going to try a weight loss plan and maybe a time schedule!
practicing a difficult conversation
NOT for lesson planning although need to explore my colleagues a bit for that :-(
my husband uses it like a google duck
one of my students asked it for ‘harsh feedback’ on her essay 😂

We use copilot. Job descriptions, letters, meeting records... it's part of pretty much anything I do in a day now. My work is quasi-legal and I draft everything so the content is experience + human thinking. I use copilot to check and improve logical structure and then go over the language again.

It turns a complex letter or decision from a 5 hour task to a 2 hour task. What did take a while was figuring out my prompts 'UK English, warm but formal tone without bullets, past tense...'

i spend a lot of time trying to avoid AI in google searches. I can't trust anything it says. I go to sources and they have been misquoted or misunderstood by the AI.

Mostly I would like to use AI to avoid AI generated summaries. Is that possible?

Very little at the moment. Currently far too inaccurate and unreliable for work purposes and not needed otherwise.

Absolutely loads.

Meal planning.
A progress chart for my DS to swim without armbands and ride his bike without stabilisers.
I've just had my colours done (by a human, not ai), so now I'm using it to help me build a capsule wardrobe based off that.
I've recently received a complex letter from a solicitor with lots of jargon, so asked it to dumb it down for me.
Holiday itineraries.
And lots of work stuff too.

I'm a teacher and I use Copilot a bit. It's useful for quickly producing an overview or worksheet about something for students, especially on a complex topic for A Level classes that needs lots of facts and examples which would take a long time to look up. I think there are probably lots of other time-saving things I could use it for, but I haven't experimented that much yet. I did use it to write a model A Level essay, which was excellent.

I can’t remember where I saw this tip but if you put “fucking” into any google search it will skip the AI summary. So “best fucking restaurant in Edinburgh” just brings you actual links…

omg, you're a genius! It works. Hurrah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💝

Idea generator, summaries, conversion of dense text to plain English, recipes, itineraries

switch to ecosia. It is AI-free and plants trees with every search.

I’m using ChatGPT and Grok to help me through my child’s SEN tribunal. It gives me support as well as technical knowledge, but I do have to keep it on track as the technical piece is not always 100% accurate.

I use it at work, to make emails more diplomatic mainly! 😂

Another teacher - I find it’s like having an untired version of myself by my side! For example, it’s the day before we break up for half term and I have ideas in ind for lessons. Yeah, I can plan lessons, been doing it for 20 years but you get mentally worn out and having done the same things over and over find that lessons sometimes lack a bit of energy or freshness. So I asked ChatGPT to give me some ideas for fun activities and in 10 seconds it spits out 5 tasks that are really useful and just made me think about the lesson differently. Could I have thought of them? Yes, but I didn’t! I still planned the lesson myself, engaged the students and gauged what was useful and what wasn’t, but it was like tapping into the part of my brain that wasn’t in “nearly half term” mode.

I don’t use it for writing as I dislike the style. I’ve used it to give me an idea when assessing a tricky piece of work but assessing stuff myself is my job and I need to know where individual students are up to so of limited use there. Again, good as an extra pair of eyes on a piece I’m unsure about.