Have you ever used AI for anything to your advantage? I have and got positive results.

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I asked Al to help me compose a letter of complaint last week ..to a company l kept getting no where with and being fobbed off for the last six months.
AI did me a letter.. l copied and pasted and sent it via email mail.
Today l got an e mail back with an apology and a refund of nearly a thousand pounds going into my bank.. was told to keep the item ( an American fridge freezer.. with some dents in the side and one door).
Result.

I run an online shop and used AI to compose messages for situations which sometimes arise with international mail - slow postage/customs charges/late arrival/goods damaged/lost etc. Some customers get very annoyed if they are charged customs tax or the parcel takes longer than usual. They unreasonably blame the sender. Of course I have no control over these matters. The AI composed a nice chatty or sympathetic message which looked as though it has been speciallly written. I just paste in the names. This saves me the stress of becoming involved on a personal level with what is simply an admin issue.

I also use AI to compose descriptions whenever I am selling items which are slightly outside my field of expertise. I just feed in a few facts and the software does the rest.

Excel formulas a lot and I also used it to tidy up a performance review for a colleague so it sounded more professional,

That’s a perfect example of using AI smartly. It’s not about replacing people, it’s about helping you say the right thing clearly and firmly. A refund and keeping the fridge? That’s a serious win 😄 Well played.

As an anxious socially awkward person, I used it to practice my interview skills. It asked me questions I may be asked, I answered them back, it gave me hints and tips to make my answers better. Anyway, I got the job 🎉

I sometimes ask it to reword emails to clients when I am covering a technical topic that I know makes sense to me but may not make sense to someone non-technical.

I don’t use it to formulate the email in the first place, just to re-word it.

I would never use it for technical research without double and triple checking its output, it’s notorious for using out of date sources or in some cases made up legal cases.

Yeah, loads. The key is really, really detailed prompts and not blindly taking what it says as truth. I've used it for:

Job applications (matching up my CV/experience to the job description, making my personal statement more concise, preparing for potential interview questions, etc)

Career planning (asking it what skills I can/should develop, where the 'growth' areas are in my field, how to move my career from one area to another, etc)

Coding (it's great for this, but you need to know what you're asking it to do) so I save time by not having to look stuff up/ check the documentation for a particular coding library

Copy editing (tightening my prose, getting something within a word count, etc)

Interpreting the results of quantitative analysis, to make sure I'm not missing anything obvious

Menu planning (put in ingredients I have available and my nutritional preferences, or 'how can I use up Xg of Y')

Fitness programming (I put in my desired goal and my current paces, etc, and it comes up with an x-week plan of e.g. 3 sessions a week)

And so on...