AI. How does it impact on your life so far and what do you think will happen next and further into the future?

[LindorDoubleChoc]

(Leaving aside the obvious immense worries about how it will negatively impact my young adult dc future)

I'm interested to see how we all perceive AI.

I'm in the final third of my life now so I don't feel it will impact me as much as everyone younger. But then again it might do? - just as new technology in the digital age was hard to embrace for the generations above me. I imagine I could be left behind by AI and not know how to handle it and that could leave me unable to fully function as a human in the near future (as per elderly relatives who couldn't use the internet). I'm not sure.

How does AI affect you now and how do you see that changing/progressing? I just haven't got the imagination to take it all in.

At the moment, I'm only aware of AI in social media - predominantly Mumsnet which is changed hugely already by it, but I've also seen quite a few non-human-written threads on Facebook Reels. Oh, and also my DH who works as a lecturer has talked to me about AI generated work from his students.

I have never used ChatGPT for instance, I wouldn't know how to or why I would want to.

P.S. the suggested title for this thread was "How do you think AI will affect your life over time?". Which do you think is the better thread title - mine or the AI version?

It has its place however I know a few creatives that are losing work. I hope this will turn around in time.

I also worry about the tech going far and systems failing due to it eventually if it’s too heavily used. Health. Banking and so on.

and god forbid super ai falls
into the hands of the wrong party. Then we are totally screwed.

@sweetpickle2 do you mind me asking what tasks you use it for?

I seem to have got into a trap in which I've delegated too much of my thinking to it and just end up spending loads of time adjusting and correcting things it produces for me. I almost feel like I've damaged my brain!

It does my expenses for me- pulls invoices from my emails and uploads them to my accounting software.

It runs a scheduled task every morning where it pulls in any action points from meetings I've had or voicenotes/messages/emails I've been sent and puts it in a notion page categorised by client and due date/urgency. When it does this, it tells me which tasks it can do for me- ie responding to emails or drafting proposals.

Drafting proposals is a gamechanger, it pulls in my notes and the transcript from the intro meeting with the client and then using what it knows about me and my work creates a full interactive live proposal to go out to the client in minutes- previously that would have taken me up to an hour.

When I'm really stuck with where to start with something I brain dump my thoughts in and it gives me a starting point.

Updates my website copy for me.

A lot of these are great because they work in the background- I use claude cowork and will set it off on a task while I get on with something else, or run it overnight. Saves me hours.

I dont send anything out without checking it first, but for the above its accurate.

What I don't use it for- writing copy, generating images, researching data.