To ask what you use ChatGPT for?

[OhWhatsTheBloodyPoint]

I may be late to the party, but recently discovered it and wonder what others use it for?

Oh smart! my great love is Kerestase hair products but they are ££££ so im absolutely trying this. Thanks!

Professionally: I don't use it much as my boss didn't want confidential information to be stored in the cloud. Plus I've seen it's often unreliable. So I only use it to rephrase some sentences or paragraphs.
Personal use: meal planning, recipes ideas, workout plans.

Packing lists, summarising, managing and tracking meds and symptoms, travel itineraries, all sorts.

Nothing now. I have tried it for numerous tasks but decided on balance it wasn’t working for me. Examples:

Work - used it to summarise long reports into shorter summary, used it to write a communications plan, used it to suggest some interview questions based on a job description. For each, it did the job quickly, great, but I ended up doing each again as the results were pretty robotic, impersonal, souless, flat.

Holiday - used it to compile a few days itinerary for a city break. It was quick and seemed thorough, on face value great. When I was actually there I ended up not following it as it didn’t pick up on things like when the main tourist attraction would be so busy I couldn’t get in, where was good to watch a beautiful sunset, where was nice to have a coffee and just relax, etc, where there were cute little gift shops to browse.

Recipes - fine it can make good recipe suggestions, no different to lots of other websites.

Counselling - I decided to this as I’d heard lots of people say they were using it for this reason. At first it seems good, but I decided to stop as I was aware it’s not intelligent and human, it learns from me using it, and therefore was counselling me in reflection of what I was giving it. A decent professional counselled is using their own mind, their own professional viewpoint. I think AI counselling is actually quite a dangerous thing and shouldn’t be done.

I don’t, some of my relatives use it for stuff and sometimes the results are amazing, other times awful so I think how do you trust in then, especially in relation to health or education?

Generally I don’t. Just decided to test it out by asking it for car recommendations. It totally failed to understand part exchange, telling me my budget wouldn’t stretch because it wasn’t taking off the part ex value. Hopeless.

Complex pension calculations and comparisons. It's pretty amazing and to be honest probably more informative than an IFA.

When was this? It’s developed a lot since first available.

Actually I did use it for counselling and it was insightful. It wasn't just parroting what I said, even counsellors will reflect to you. I was very surprised and it was useful. It even came up with a plan. I'd definitely recommend giving it a go.

Never used it. Tbh from all the responses just sounds like a new Google so I dint understand why ide use it?

Clever! Which moisturiser??

Definitely not just Google

Counting weeks because I'm hopeless with dates!

eg how many weeks is x date from now. Lazy I know but quick!

My ds passed his probation period at work and was given excellent feedback on his performance to date courtesy of Chat GBP he is certain.

This is actually very interesting and for me, just proves how the use of AI is, as much as anything, a tool.

eg: Work - used it to summarise long reports into shorter summary, used it to write a communications plan, used it to suggest some interview questions based on a job description. For each, it did the job quickly, great, but I ended up doing each again as the results were pretty robotic, impersonal, souless, flat. I have used it similarly. But I have had great results. A long report that I want summarised, I read first myself. I take notes highlighting what I think are the most important things. Then I put that into AI and ask it to create a 500 word summary, ensuring it covers these 5 points. I get a really strong first draft whcih I then review. Outcome: slightly faster than doing myself, but with a much more seamless process and less need for editing and review.

Inteviews - asked it to help me think of questions related to some background info I had input for an article I was writing. Came up with a long list. Discarded some, used some as a jumping point for others, identified some that I would would not have thought of. Outcome: great tool that required less effort from me for a better outcome.

Holiday - used it to compile a few days itinerary for a city break. It was quick and seemed thorough, on face value great. When I was actually there I ended up not following it as it didn’t pick up on things like when the main tourist attraction would be so busy I couldn’t get in, where was good to watch a beautiful sunset, where was nice to have a coffee and just relax, etc, where there were cute little gift shops to browse.

This is fascinating again. I completely agree that in the first iteration, holiday itinary is pretty useless. But with fine tuning, it becomes MORE helpful, although you still have to really put effort in yourself. I asked it for ideas. I gave it frameworks - to suit child age x, no further than y in the car from hotel etc. Then when things came up, I asked follow up questions . Esspecting it to come up with something perfect without that ongoing to an fro seems unreasonable to me.

I had some flat pack furniture and the instructions were awful. I put the item into chat got and asked for clearer instructions with better pictures.

i didn’t know what tyre tread my car should be, and google required me to trawl through a million useless forums to try to find the right answer. I put the year and model into chat gpt and it told me straight away.

Significantly less than streamingg a film, boiling a kettle, driving a mile or eating a burger. Do those things horrify you?

I asked it what the answer to Nik Kershaw’s song The Riddle is - turns out there isn’t one. I use it for important stuff like that.

never used it either!

I avoid using it after a couple of plays to see what it was all about. It's an environmental and intellectual disaster I think

You can ask it to do certain things like remove a person or change it into a cartoon.

Nothing. I've never been near it. I work in a creative field and it is not fun to think about the future with LLMs.

I don't like reading it, either. Awful. AI is great for some things but replacing thought and art is not it.

Nothing. It is shit, unreliable, and unethical in about a million different ways. Plus I prefer my brain not dumbed down thankyou very much

Nothing. Ive never used it. No plans to.

Everything! I don't use search engines any more, I just use chat.
Most commonly use it for:
Work - usually to help me improve how I've written something or to summarise something
Medical stuff
Beauty stuff - including personalised skincare
Advice (life, parenting, romantic)
Astrology
Movie and TV SHOW summaries / explanations
To review messages or emails where I'm feeling angry to keep them professional!
Identifying things eg birds, flowers
Budgeting ad budgeting scenarios
Shopping lists
Recipe ideas
Measuring for a bra

It’s great and super helpful. I don't let it suck me in re it's extreme flattery though, I take all that with a pinch of salt. I know i'm not the most insightful and thoughful person in the world, even though it tries to make out that i am! 😂