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

You say that but people are very obviously using AI to generate walls of text for reports they aren't then reading. Email communication is becoming ridiculous because people are using AI to respond to AI generated emails. The people doing this DO come across as bad at their jobs regardless of how senior and experienced they are.

I wouldn’t use AI if you paid me. I use my brain.

Love it great for anything from interior inspo to recipes to all sorts of everyday info.
Unsure why its deemed so evil..only use a free app.

Claude (Sonnet mode) saved me an entire day's work yesterday.

I just asked it to look into my inbox and read every rmail and attachment concerning a project, and also read my slack messages about said project and create an end of project presentation using our company powerpoint brand template.

Took it ten minutes and what it produced was excellent.

ETA - in our workplace culture you get brownie points if you say "I used claude" or "claude did it" . People who are not actively using the AI tools provided are being flagged.....

You do have to be careful though, because if you have ever slacked a colleague saying "this project is bullshit" or received this slack it may end up incorporated somehow 🤣

For personal itnis much more mundane. I asked chatgpt (free) to reverse engineer a recipe for the M&S tom kerridge lentil and spinach cottage pie that they have discontinued because i liked it so much.

I don't use it.

I only heard of Chat GPT about 6 months ago from a friend abroad so I presumed it wasn't something used in the UK, then suddenly a feel like I am hearing it everywhere.

I think people should use their own brains, 'if you don't use it you lose it' as they say.

It's just going to be a nation of zombies walking around.

So great for holiday planning - It helped me create a whole itinerary for our family holiday and convert into an HTML and then my clever 15 year old turned this into an app which we all had on our phone.

I don’t really get this argument because most of the time I use it for things I couldn’t do without it. For work it’s completely elevated the quality of work we produce and some of the more boring parts of my job which used to take up way too much of my time now take me a fraction of the time leaving us as a team to be able to produce much more innovative work.

i still read books, read newspapers and watch films. AI helps me in the same way the internet does, it’s not a replacement. I’m not saying AI is not without it’s problems, it’s definitely not but I don’t think it’s without its real uses either.

This. Where I can avoid it, I do. I still read real, actual books too, because it's so good for us to be away from screens, to have calm and quiet, and the way we process words on paper is quite different to other types of media.

It can be useful for things like making a list, or pulling the contact details for decent restaurants together in a given area, seeing how awful internet searches now are. It can occasionally be a useful tool.

But for thinking, and particularly anything interpersonal, I avoid it like the plague it is.

I have a weird preference for a functioning brain, and in about ten years time I think we're going to see the first symptoms of ai slop dementia.

Could you explain a bit more how you've set this up, please? It sounds so useful!!

To help with medical appointments, DLA applications, EHCP applications, grants & charity applications for funding

CheshireDing

and yet here you are on the internet instead of using a library & books 🤷‍♀️

@Ohyesiwill2 AI slop dementia- did you coin this phrase or hear it elsewhere? Awful thought that using AI too much might contribute to dementia. I never thought of that, just of the risk of losing a habit of speaking and writing independently, or worse still never developing that habit, for young people.

to me that sounds like your company is planning to cut staff numbers - push staff to do more work in less time using AI, then use that to justify cutting jobs. I'd be worried about your industry- it'll go the way of staffed tills in supermarkets.

I’ve used it to help with my autumn wardrobe. I uploaded photos of key pieces I have and asked it to put outfits together with suggestions of items I might benefit from adding to my wardrobe. I’ve had so many compliments at work. I know there are apps for this but I’ve actually found copilot/gemini do it better

I use it at work because I have to but try to avoid it as much as possible in my personal life.

The environment impact is awful, it's destroying academic research skills, and is used to cut labour costs.

It's not even that the technology itself is bad (e.g. when used in medical research), its the way the companies are pushing it out so fast.

Yep! I can think and research for myself.

I’ve never used it intentionally (I realise it is used automatically in some apps or webpages). I have no need for it and no interest in it and I enjoy using my brain while I still can.

I use it at work daily.

Outside of work I’ve used it for travel itineraries. We’re away soon and staying in 5 different hotels which ChatGPT suggested for me, I’ve even booked restaurants it recommended.

I have also found it really useful for interior design inspiration. I’ve uploaded photos and asked it to suggest things which I’ve actually followed to the letter. And it’s redesigned a part of our garden and found me the best price for 20 yew trees.

I avoid it if at all possible.

The tech team at work have rolled out some "AI helpers" that are clearly designed to take work away from us and justify redundancies which the management would love to make. No thanks.

Where do you do that research?

When you do a Google search, you can add -ai to the end, to stop it giving you AI-generated results

Itinerary for my holiday when I uploaded all the separate train tickets, hotel reservations etc.

Timeline and spreadsheet of what is happening with our EHCP review - I was getting so confused and it helped me get it all clear in my head.

Recipe ideas and converting US cups to metric. Uploading photos of 3 recipes I want to make at the same time and getting it to write a step-by-step optimised timeline.

Answering random questions that pop into my head.

Translating photos of text in other languages.

Creating a flyer for a weekend I’m organising.

Tidying up minutes of a meeting for an interest group meeting I had to minute.

I loathe AI and refuse to use it. Is a step before the fat floaty chairs in WallE as far as I’m concerned. I can understand why some small micro businesses use it for posters/advertising as they have zero budget for creative advertising etc but I keep seeing actual art supply companies using SI made posters and it makes me promise to never ever use them again. I’ve already lost two glass suppliers and a wool supplier BUT plenty of us have voted with our feet and this means that the ones we have swapped to are more likely to succeed long term. And the companies we have swapped to are now asking their customer base for photos of projects and advertising help in exchange for the chance to win a voucher or a discount code which is brilliant. Lots of interaction on their socials (free advertising) and using actual creative’s to do it. Fuck AI.

AI and help in the same sentence? Mutually exclusive, I would have thought.
As for people paying to help AI learn, more fool them.
I use AI to argue with. I ask it a very specific question, to which I already know the answer, and then challenge it. Eventually it admits defeat and backs down.
Any piece of software that "hallucinates" and produces "slop" is really poorly designed and programmed.
Just look at where it scrapes its answers from...I ask a question about something in Europe, for example, and all the scraping is done on US sites!
Any human that believes its output should be taken out and shot.

We avoid it as much as possible. That so many people are unwilling to use their own brains is sleepwalking us all into a fucking disaster.