To ask what you’ve used AI for today?

[BlackBean2023]

Just today.

I’ll go first:

a critical analysis of a report I’ve written for work
a shopping list for a bbq tomorrow
To suggest planting ideas in the garden

OK, this feels like a successful use case: feeding specific information into a generic prose "template".

To help me write my pdr so I can show how my contribution to the business can be defined in financial terms

Writing a email to the head teacher requesting my son be separated from a child that has repeatedly hurt him this year.

It’s a email I shouldn’t have had to send.

That photo is a bit creepy and doesn't feel right. Was it made by AI from some other photos?

Nothing. I've never intentionally used it. I've never felt the need.

My brother is moving my niece to London tomorrow - she's working for a blue chip company for her year in industry as part of her business degree.

I created a picture of my brother and sister-in-law driving an overloaded truck like the Beverley Hillbillies to send to them with the caption "This is what I envisaged".

I don’t use it much, sometimes for coding R at work. But today on my walk to school I took a close up photo of a fruit tree and asked chat gpt what it was and whether I could eat it. It told me it was a cherry plum tree and I could. But I did then put that into Google to look at some more photos to make 100% sure! We tried a couple on the way back home.

With the exception of AI on a Google search (annoying), I never use it.

I've asked it to do work stuff for me - I don't then copy and paste what it gives me but it is useful inspiration to start from.

I've asked it for local cafes my teenage daughter can apply for jobs at.

I asked it if the place we are going on holiday is nice, and what are the best local beaches and restaurants.

Absolutely nothing, I prefer to use my brain.
Jesus, imagine outsourcing your thinking to a computer and being proud of it.

Packing list for our hols!

Nothing. I don't outsource my brain for simple tasks which I can complete myself without fucking up the environment.

Wrote a bio for a presentation I’ll be giving next week.

Switch to ecosia, it does the same as google but you can easily switch off the AI, and it runs a tree planting programme

Air conditioning units.
Long wheel Base vans available locally.
Genetic bottle necks and mpv size.
AI is great, I don't need to talk to people anymore.

About to do a skin check on an app that uses ai to identify high risk skin patches etc

Teacher off today. I needed to set some work. AI devised a task for my class to do that is relevant to what we are studying. Life saver as im ill- couldn't focus on much.

Other night I used Chatgpt when I couldn't get through to crisis team/mh support just out of curiosity and it was remarkably good which I loathe to admit seeings therapists, psychiatrists etc need a human touch. Or so I thought.

Today I have gone down a rabbit hole of companion AI after watching a video on insta, whilst the content was amusing and the person using it/making the video was "normal" i think it's safe to say we are now going to have a generation, in fact potentially 4 generations falling in love with their phones!!! I've already read one thread on here about a DH having an AI emotional affair. Scary times indeed.

But have just used it to see what my dog would look like as a human and is now regenerating him into a tattoo badboy 🤣

OK fair enough. Question then is how someone could check this if they didn't know.

I'm technically on "vacation", but for the past week I've been helping my DH transition his (smallish) business from monday.com to an alternative. I've used AI for generating/coding test scripts. It's all looking good and his company totally switches over on 1st July ... goodbye monday.com!

It's amazing how much these AI tools software dev tools have evolved in the past 6 months.

Asked it how far it thinks we are from base editing for my shitty rare genetic condition. Seeing if I can keep my legs going until time runs out! It guessed 10 years until it might be feasible based on current and previous research.

It genuinely concerns me that a teacher thinks that AI can "devise" anything.

I presume you are using an LLM. It's just interrogating an enormous database to put together the most likely sequence of words that answers your prompt. At best, it's plagiarising.

@MamaAndTheSofa what LLM are you using for your coding?

I've not.
Never used it, prefer not to as I prefer to write, think, research and analyse for myself.

I find this fascinating.

Why would you think ChatGPT or whatever knows what makes a holiday resort nice for you better than you do? I would want to see the legitimacy of the sources used and weigh up what they say with where they come from. I know Google AI will link to its sources, but that just adds another stage to checking. I'd just Google (with the AI function switched off).

Am I being a technophobe?