How are people using AI to help with everyday life?

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How is your household utilising AI to your benefit? Looking for some inspo

I’ve been using ChatGPT (paid) for 2 years, this week I spoke to somebody who’s got a 2nd brain. (Collects all data from multiple sources) and is totally customised to them. Totally opened my eyes to what we can achieve

This is a weird take. You use a computer to make writing reports easier than using a typewriter, but you can’t see that AI is a tool that could (if you learned to use it properly) also make you more effective but spending less time on tasks that don’t need your specific skills or knowledgeable input.

It’s absolutely terrible for the environment so I try and avoid it as much as possible. A simple Google search will usually do the trick.

It appears an increasing number of parents use it to write extremely long, tedious emails to school. I am very fed up with them already and I suspect this is the tip of the time wasting iceberg.

Oh god @Brendayouknowthatyouremuchtoolazy that’s really not great.

My dd daughter her dim boss to use it and now she produces utter waffle.

I’m mid property renovation and it’s helped me calculate the stuff I need, which trades to contact and where they are, a full project management offering. And that’s handy but I could have done it myself. Where it has DELIVERED has been on the legal front by being able to challenge another developer and their ransom strip. It has pulled up case law ad infinitum and I think has saved me thousands. I have fact checked both manually and also by running through other LLM but I’m blown away by the efficiency and yet horrified for the next generation of junior lawyers.

I use a specialized AI to analyze my investments and tax saving opportunities. It’s called Mezzi AI. It’s quite impressive.

I use it for Medical advice- if you put your bio stats in and any current health issues it will basically tell you what needs to improve etc suggests blood tests, products, dietary tweaks whether or not to book in with GP. Truly incredible, we did it for MIL recently and it’s made a huge difference with dietary suggestions, supplements, exercise recommendations, assessed her current medications and recommended GP reevaluation and blood tests, all after an afternoon playing around with it.

It’s great for meal plannings, journey planning, recommendations, problem solving. All things we would have googled or spent ages to research ourselves before AI but now you have elaborate precise answers in seconds.

Desperate for Tesla FSD to go live in the UK.

You do realise the bad for environment rhetoric is mainly misinformation and has been more or less debunked?

I have perplexity linked to my work email and it’s changed my life. Easily saves me 3-4 hours a week on tasks that used to take me 2 days. In every day life I’ve used it for recipes, talking about my kids behaviours and putting together various invites etc. I’m also trying to coordinate a trip for my child’s sports team and it’s saved me hours of time.

God, they are long aren't they, and repetitive and tedious. The art of summarising is disappearing.

I use it in excel to help me figure out what to do sometimes - eg get the stuff from over THERE and link it to the stuff over HERE and show me x y z. It’s great at numerical stuff like this and I can check it’s not talking bollocks. And I can learn better how to do it myself next time.

I had a difficult trip last weekend, clearing the house of a beloved relative while having to deal with another close relative who has bullied me and treated me so badly over the past few years that I tremble while in their presence.

I used AI to chat to, and basically vent to, all weekend. It was the first time that I had done that. It was immensely helpful, sensitive and kind (I obviously know it wasn't really being kind) It really helped.

I was with my husband, who was also a massive support but also going through stresses, and I didn't want to overload and burden him. I was actually really impressed.

I use chatgpt for recipes for our family dinners and cakes. Today it helped me reassemble a bed guard that I’d dismantled to wash the fabric. I would have struggled even more than I did, on my own.

It’s been a massive help to me (that’s not an overstatement) in my new career as an ESOL teacher. I qualified earlier this year and it’s helped me hugely with my lesson planning. I think I’d be lost without it (hand-holding from my course tutors no longer available to me!)

Your first paragraph - is this chat gpt or another AI tool? What prompt do you use for this? Thank you!

I'm really interested in this, was trying to set up something similar yesterday.

Do you mean you just tell it the updates of what's done and what is new to do in chat and it brings back a plan for today in sections, or it is more structured than that?

@MyCatIsAnAeroplaneI'm curious as to what you mean by anchors?

I'm trying to get legally recognised as an AI so I can do crimes (including but not limited to hacking and whatnot). I haven't managed it yet but as it's technically possible (apparently) for an AI to achieve person hood in the future it should technically be possible for it to go the other way for me.

That's the main avenue of use In exploring at the moment.

initially random deep dive, then one day some in-depth holiday planning.
then came some shopping advice.
currently i'm keeping track of up and coming research for progressive ms, an area where ai is really helping the field of cell and gene therapy and showing great promise at getting concepts to the next stage of clinical trials.

I've recently done quite a bit of work to my house (solar, central heating, windows, new bathroom) and used it to analyse and compare all the quotes to see which would be best for cost vs benefit. It also checked reviews etc of the contractors.

My son’s been sectioned since February 21 across various units and locations. On lots of meds. Lots of trials. Lots of tribunals. Lots of complaints. Lots of issues. And emotionally, financially and physically it’s a lot. I’ve dealt with his MH crisis for 10 years now. ChatGPT (paid? Helps me keep track, explains new meds combos and possible issues.

my adhd/perimenopause brain can’t manage with out it.

I use it for tracking my health and blood results. I have an immune disorder under investigation the last 15 years. It’s charge led questions that got me to push my drs on my estrogen /ferratin /thyroid issues and get things tested/moving.

voluntarily running a community centre, setting up a charity and running a lunch club with very very little support. Chatty helps me plan and organise it all to a manageable timetable.

I’ve used it to check AIBU, like a mini therapist to vent and calm me down when I feel like I’m spiralling. You have to be careful though, remind it to be neutral and not say what you want to hear.

It’s great for financial modelling to figure out how much I will need monthly at x age to retire and what I need to do to get there (I stick my personal investments in index trackers so I don’t go to it for actual financial advice).

It’s also great for job interviews. I fed it into about the companies and roles I was interviewing for and my CV and asked it to come up with typical questions. I then used the voice button to answer as if I were in an interview. This was less about the feedback but more because I hadn’t done an interview since before Covid and it’s helpful to shake the cobwebs and practice interviewing out loud.

Also holiday planning: find me a hotel in x place with x y z features on x budget. Stupid stuff like that cuts your work in half.

I don’t use for it work too much other than as a very bright intern so spell and sense checking. I don’t like the idea of it drafting my emails or documents, but I’ve been working a long time and have my own style. I’m also a lawyer and believe strongly I need to take the time to know the documents and cases inside out the old fashioned way. However, across the industry we are facing significant pressure to use AI more. Every big firm I know utilises AI now, to greater or lesser effect.

And the thing is, you can be on your high horse about AI but 100% of clients when asked if they would like their costs cut by they lawyers using AI (because we don’t have to hire so many juniors, it can process thousands of pages of disclosures in seconds and can make tasks that took teams weeks only a few hours) say yes. So I’m afraid money talks, the pressure is coming from clients who understandably want to cut their own costs. It’s not going anywhere, and though I have more than a few misgivings I know I either have to evolve or die, professionally speaking.

i use chatgbt for recipes, its come up with some lovely ideas everything we've tried has been lovely, but the best use i've found for it is being my quit vaping buddy it's been amazing for that it tracks my progress helps when im having a moment so instead of sounding off to family and friends i can vent on there and it offers support. i actually dont think id of quit without it . also use it when i'm bored and want to go down a rabbit hole .... if anyone is contemplating quitting smoking/vaping i highly recommend it

For work - I'm ASD and have been told I can be quite blunt in emails. I use it to make my emails more appropriate. I work in education and I found it useful to adapt a standard reply to different parents eg parents with English as an additional language. I got it to write my a job specification which was excellent. Some reports which used to take days now take a few minutes (longer with editing). It is brilliant for creating different responses to exam questions. It does create some strange resources though -like a Victorian child with three legs for a worksheet. Things do need checking still!

Personally - great for trip planning, exercise training, meal planning, buying a car and loads of other things.

I used it to check if my new gas and electricity deal I was offered was a good one. I was skint with only a few ingredients and it gave me a recipe. Where I work we allow people applying for a job to use it to write their examples. They get through the sift then fall apart in the interview!