Has anyone actually found AI useful for everyday mum stuff?

[JennaMadeAU]

Feeling like I'm late to the party but I've been playing around with ChatGPT and some of it is genuinely useful. Not the weird sci-fi stuff, just practical things.

The meal planning one has been brilliant - told it what my kids will/won't eat, our budget, and it planned dinners with a shopping list. Saved us money.

Also used it to draft a politely assertive email to DS's school. Would have taken me an hour; solid first draft in 10 seconds.

Anyone else using it? Or am I going to get told I'm being replaced by a robot?

Yes dear. Bluesky echo chamber is that way.

I think the poster talking about bedtime stories means AI writes the story 'to order' and they read it...I doubt they're plonking a laptop in bed with the kids for a robot voice to read to them.

Chat GPT has written several highly personalised short stories for ds3 (8) which I've read to him and he's loved.

I used it to create my daughter's birthday party invitations, other stationary for the party and thank you cards.

This.
I can't understand the horror being expressed by other posters unless they are so vehemently against any use of AI that they find it horrifying on principle. Do you people think she's getting the AI voice to read to her kids??

I am deeply suspicious of it and dont use it. DS is a musician and is already seeing AI replacing live performances and impacting on those who have spent years perfecting their craft. Teacher friends are already seeing the impact on children's ability to study independently. " just ask AI" is the answer to everything and homework tasks come back identical. It really worries me how much people trust it and interact with it.

Helpful to "plan a weekly vegetarian meal plan for perimenopausal woman that avoids ultra processesed foods as much as possible, delivers a minimum of 80g of protein daily, has at least 8 different types of plant each day, has at least the daily recommend amount of fibre and averages about 1500 kcal a day"

I'd have spent hours working out the nutrition and shopping list... Chat GPT... meal planning and shopping list done in less than 10 mins.

God that’s depressing.

The Peggie judgement. It misquoted the Forstater judgement and changed the wording of the Equality Act such that the judge could determine it said the opposite to what it does.

Not my organisation. A whiff of AI and it’s in the bin. We need people with actual skills in analysis.

I am deeply opposed to it on principle.

On the upside, DP is making a killing using his actual coding skills to fix shitty AI code that makes some of the biggest global companies’ systems fall over.

My dad, a musician, composed countless pieces of music having been inspired by mine and my sibling’s nursery school paintings, or bedtime stories, or make believe play. Handwritten scores and recorded first on reel to reel and later CD.

i know that’s at the extreme end, but how could machine-generated slop ever compare?

I used it to plan how to best stop breastfeeding my toddler.
Plan some hallway storage - I did have to tell it to stop trying to erase the light switches as I wouldn’t be moving them.
Asked it to plan a heating schedule for our poorly insulated house.
Did the upload a photo of my kids and turn them into colouring pages from elf on the shelf thing.
I think it’s both useful and scary.

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Did the upload a photo of my kids and turn them into colouring pages from elf on the shelf thing.

You admit you think it's scary, but still happily upload a photo of your children to a random website.

Don't get me wrong I've used it the odd time but then I heard it is SUPER bad for the environment because of the amount of water being used to cool the systems so I've really cut back now because as useful as it can be, I worry about the environmental impact on my sons future.

Why? It really was hilarious 😂 Some funny stories based on our own lives and personal nuances. Just a bit of fun one evening, trying it out, what's the problem???

Why?

Anyone else thinking about when Sarah Connor decided to leave the terminator in charge of John, as it would make a better parent?

AI can pick things out of excel spreadsheets and rearrange them how you want quite well, but it still can't simulate common sense. Anyone who has been directed down a ridiculous windy lane by google maps will know that the 'best' route isn't always the one the computer picks.

It didn't "write" them. It took bits out of the material that it's already got and created a story for you out of that.

In the future, if everyone stops buying books/ stories written by people there won't be any new content for AO to use. It'll just keep repeating itself and creating stories from the stories it's already created. It'll be bland and boring.

I’ve asked AI to plan different outfits for me. When I’m very specific about the colours/style etc, it’s not done a bad job tbh.

Exactly!

seven201 · Today 22:22
I used it to plan how to best stop breastfeeding my toddler.

Ask a friend, relative, health visitor, parenting book/website......

Oh right, I haven't seen the Notice of Appeal (and presume you haven't earlier) but there's no confirmation that AI was used and even if it was I don't think any of the mistakes, which were corrected, went to the ratio. But we'll see.

Yes, for holiday, trip & event planning.

It is also pretty good at summarising various dull things, e.g.: insurance or mortgage-related, however I only use it as a very basic initial guide and check things myself or appoint an adviser for more complex matters. It's a decent intro, though.

I wish it was better with searching for clothes and shoes I want, it's frustratingly useless and worse than Google.