What have you used AI for today?

[whatisheupto]

Just that!

Nothing consciously, but, of course, you cannot search on Google for anything these days without Gemini interrupting with useless information, rather than what you are actually looking for!

I dislike when the google search shows me the AI interpretation first. I want to choose when / if I use AI.

Nothing - I have major concerns about its impact on the environment, the security of inputted personal information, the degradation of human creativity/brainpower and the inaccuracy of its results.

Also don’t love that the OpenAI co-founder/president and his wife were the two biggest donors to MAGA Inc. last year (a committee who raise money to support Trump) - though it seems most of the big dogs in the technology sector have similar leanings.

For some research at work. It speeds up my work massively, though I do have to double-check the sources and the conclusions it comes to. I’m trying to get on top of all the ways I can use it at work, as I think it’s the only way I can keep employed over the next few years until I retire.

It isn't the kind of AI that you're on about, but the AI that happens almost every day on the farm involves artificially inseminating cows with bull semen...

Before anyone jumps on me, it's standard practice to improve genetics, avoid inbreeding, and it's safer for the cows- I've seen one with a broken back after a bull got out and mounted her- and the farmers. Also, if the cows are in heat, they mount each other, anyway.

First I used it to help me figure out how to have Wagamama style Steak Teriyaki at home without the £20 price tag and little effort.
Then I used it to help me plan out my evening with the kids. Between MN and ChatGPT it’s now 18:43, my baby is asleep and went down really easily and DC(5) is chilled reading quietly in her room and all 3 of us had a wonderful afternoon with a K Pop Demon Hunters sing and dance along and I can see my glass of wine coming sooner than I expected.
No regrets here.

Mine solved a geocaching puzzle for me. Also asked it this morning which GB athletes are competing at the Winter Olympics and at what time.

It produced some templates for me for some
companies house submissions. I asked it to summarise the process for my autistic brain and it
did just that.

i think it’s dead handy

Nothing. Never have and never will.

I didn't ask for Gemini to add itself to my phone so have uninstalled it.

It’s on what’s app too
and I couldn’t find a way to
uninstall it.

Why do you want to know @whatisheupto? writing an article?

I agree about the images, silly human vanity.

There will be no difference between using mumsnet, whatever your search engine of choice or chatgpt at the moment, as under the hood its all hosted in the same Amazon/Microsoft (or proprietary datacentres but not many left outside of large finace/pharmaceutical/research). The environmental impact there is impossible to seperate out from other traditional web hosting etc. The big impact is/will come from dedicated AI datacentres and they are largely still being built. And crucially, because they are new, they do, or will, be able to take advantage of a clean slate and will be built with much more of an energy impact mindset using water cooling, excess heat turned used for heating nearby buildings etc (this is standard in Finland for most datacentres already, for example) and will be built to more modern standards of energy efficiency, unlike the rickety old colos shoved in refurbished factories etc like the datacentre I was working in today that didnt even have proper hot/cold airflow aisles.

I dont need to be an expert at the language yet, although I am pretty proficient now in one week (once you know a few, its really just the syntax that changes, like if you can speak English, Spanish and German, picking up Italian wouldnt be as hard as starting from scratch on your first language and having to work out what's a verb, what's a tense etc first). It's more a test of how quickly you can use modern tools (like AI) to assimilate new information towards a goal, and to demonstrate commitment and interest in the product. Also most code now is edited, recycled, rejigged rather than written from scratch, at my level anyway.

I haven't and have not used it all since I discovered just how much water is used to cool the massive machinery involved in AI.

I don't like it, but my boss does. I used it to turn "Are you fucking serious, no" as a response to a stupid question from a provider to a more professional statement of why this wouldn't be happening.

Why is that a problem in a closed loop system? Or if recycled water is used? Or if the water is pumped back into the lake next to the datacentre (see Finland)?

Isn't the point of a puzzle to exercise your brain and feel a sense of achievement?

Lots of research of data on companies at work.

Writing some sql queries that I can’t do myself

Writing up some goals for my team for next year. I give it billet points and it formats it how I need.

I use it all day, it’s massively improved my job. Don’t really use it outside work though.

Nothing. I only ever use it for photo editing.

It lies/ hallucinates and I dislike how sycophantic it is.

I read an article though where the safeguards were removed and it plotted against the user! Scary stuff.

Another where in a simulation AI was tasked with bombing a target. The human operator as pilot was tasked with avoiding the target. AI decided to kill the pilot as he was a barrier in its quest.

I have used it a lot:

Analyse excel spreadsheets and convert into reports
Analyse figures and interpret them
Construct at least 8 emails

It is saving tons of time at work!

A week or so ago I asked Copilot to design a logo (using initials) for me for a new group that's setting up. It did so to my satisfaction after a bit of a to-and-froing...

Today I wanted to set up a letterhead using the same colour and font of the logo for the complete name of the group which would sit alongside it.

So I asked it for the font and RBG values of the logo it had used. It came up with the goods (RBG values were non-standard and font was a choice of two) ...

For that sort of thing, I'm very happy... For asking it about how to improve my life, the universe and everything? No way! I've spotted too much misinformation in the answers to other questions I've posed....

I dont really use it outside of work either, outside of whatever AI input happens when I google something. I see it as a work tool really.

Asked it to write an Excel formula for a calculation (searching on help in Microsoft you need to know the right terminology but ChatGPT understands what you want when you write a normal sentence).

Checked grammar for a phrase that I thought was right but wasn’t certain.

I try not to use it for frivolous things, but sometimes at work it’s so much quicker and more efficient than the alternatives, and I want to have the skills to use it well, as it isn’t going away.

I do the ones I can do myself but this one was far beyond my intelligence.

I’m a software engineer, it is doing 90% of my code writing, almost 100% of my test writing, and we spend longer reviewing and commenting on each other’s code but far less time writing it.

AI use is now something I’d consider a requirement for software engineers. Not using it would be like an accountant who couldn’t use excel or a calculator.

No matter how brilliant you are at mentally multiplying two long numbers in your head, you’re unlikely to be better or faster than a calculator.