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?

I trust AI even less than I trust humans, which is not a lot. I don’t even know how to get on to it (is it a website?!)

I can’t believe so many people blindly trust it!

I use it for decorating ideas (kitchen / living room / bedroom - even garden - design and layout). It’s brilliant! You can ask it “what flowers can I plant in my north facing garden”, “write me a SOP for my work”, “turn this picture into a funny one” etc. it’s brilliant!

My favourite thing to do is send it a pic if I don’t know what something is

I use it for my writing- not to C&P something but for ideas, much like the web generally. And for work I don't at all rely on the technical/legal content or input any specific dstail but I'm looking at how to use AI generally to speed up more mundane parts of my job.

Recently for health/leisure purposes I asked it to make up gym workouts, yoga practice and recommend high fibre and protein choices for lunch.

I use it for fashion ideas as in what outfit would go with my new boots - and upload a pic. It's given me some good dress options.
Ive used it to plan trips for my holiday, meal planning, exercise plans.

I quite like it.

Who says they blindly trust it?

i use it for a number of things already mentioned so I won’t repeat those.
Book recommendations - specifically literary fiction that’s not miserable.
Garden planning & plant identification
skincare advice based on my skin type and a particular budget
Revision techniques for DD and app recommendations to assist ( eg flash card creation)
Career advice based on my background
Assistance with a job application cross referencing my application against the person spec
CV writing ( not brilliant but a good starting point)
Pension calculations
Excel spreadsheet creation for tracking particular spending.
Brand recommendations - if I like this brand what else will I like.

Creatively I think it’s mid so coming up with an outfit it will produce something very safe but it’s pretty good at identifying why an outfit is off for example. You need to feed it a lot of data for it to learn about you so it’s an ongoing process.

I can’t believe so many people blindly trust it!

I don't blindly trust it but think of it as a useful tool. AI isn't going away and I'd rather know how to use it, find its limitations and advantages and disadvantages, than dismiss or fear it.

I got it to suggest last night's dinner - it worked really well, something I would never have thought of, it was quick, healthy and everyone loved it. I've been experimenting with meal plans and generating shopping lists.

Also book and podcast suggestions, it's very good at capturing general vibes and learning from my past responses.

At work I'll get it to draft letters and processes and it's helping me to learn how to use some of the 365 apps and tools. It does have its limitations though, I got it to compare a new policy to our old one and highlight the differences, it completely missed the fact that sick pay had been slashed by half in fact, it assured me sick pay hadn't changed at all. You have to treat anything it says as a draft and don't trust it completely.

Are people not horrified at how much water it uses?
This.
Plus, I prefer to use my brain. Use it or lose it.

I honestly think the human race is doomed when we outsource our thinking.

About 2 months ago.

I also have the (mis)pleasure of reading a lot of work that is clearly AI because the way it forms sentences is different. The structure may be technically correct but the flow is weird, the language is odd and the tone is robotic. I think it would be useful to give a starting point but to rely on it for a complete task is daft.

Absolutely nothing. Nor Siri, or Alexa, or any other robogarbage.

I put my writing from 2002 through. I'm an academic in a field that is quite up its own arse in terms of writing style, and the results tend to show my 2002 pre-AI writing is AI generated. Robotic, unnecessarily consulted. So maybe ai is just some old academic responding to people 😁

But social media, and smartphones generally, absolutely have dumbed people down. People lack the ability to carry out basic problem solving, research, in-depth reading, conflict resolution and information retention as a result of over use of smart phones and in particular, social media.

Double posted!

I am of the view than only a minority of people have ever been able to do or have been interested in most or all of those things, and social media exposes typos, poor grammar or poor communication in a way that wouldn't have been noticed before.

Having a smart phone and the internet enables me to do a lot more research and weigh things up on a million topics at my fingertips I wouldn't have dreamt about in the past. I was the sort of kid who used to read the dictionary and encyclopaedia for fun.

I use it a lot for work:
Policies
I’m an advanced excel user but use it for coding macros and more technical items than I know
Planning difficult conversations and business comms

Also personally:
for counselling
gym workout plans

you need to validate the information, but it’s a great starting point.

I have to use it a bit for work. If you value accuracy and quality it can only ever be a starting point - it will write you a good essay plan, but a shit essay.

I had it summarise some reports, extract the figures and make a chart. It hallucinated figures and made errors in summing up, and they weren’t human style errors, they were unpredictable and weird. Makes it even harder to check! It you ask it to do a CV you have to explicitly ask it not to lie or include anything it does not have a source for.

Absolutely no point fighting the inevitable.

I suspect these people have always existed ironically social media has just revealed them to the world.

Au contraire. In my field, explicitly not using AI is fast becoming a selling point. People are beginning to put no-AI policies on their websites as marketing.

I asked it to help with a job application to make sure I hadn't missed any points in the person spec, it took it upon itself to lie about a qualification I don't have! Good job I checked it.

To identify bugs for my 4yo DS 🤣

Legal stuff
Business plans
Verses, rhymes, poems,
Holiday prep
General stuff I don't know the answer to or what to learn more about.

That's your field not the whole world. Im not saying we should be using it for everything but to not understand how it works and to just turn away from it seems a mistake to me.