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

@sohard I tested it against a mortgage overpayment calculator on Martins site and the answers were the same, tbh I would use Martins site over it.

Agree.

My company has set targets on AI use cases at work, setup a committee to oversee and trained select people for each department to use Claude and other tools, integration into Slack etc. I had to agree to my team having agents in use by the end of the year or it impacts 20% of my annual bonus payout.

As I am senior, level down from Csuite, I have to go with it or be seen as a refuser, impacting my job and future prospects.

My personal view is the future is SKYNET and it must be stopped. But realistically that won't happen so I want a combination of financial penalties for companies that knowingly allow their AI to do harm (see OpenAI) and strict regulations - now.

I use it to ask questions and talk about things I wouldn’t ask people IRL. I use it to help me write better emails. I use it to find out about medical conditions. All sorts really. Don’t see why so many people have a problem with it.

Just keep your wits about you and don’t believe everything you read. Simply put - Don’t be one of those people who drives blindly off a pier when following sat nav.

I've used to help me devise a weight training programme specifically tailored to my needs and for general info.

Extremely rarely. Just not interested in relying on a computer to do my thinking.

I did an inventory of my fridge/freezer/cupboards and asked it for meal planning ideas. You can tweak it to include small top up shops for items you may be missing.

I don’t touch it and have every automatic setting (eg email and search engines) switched off. I can’t stand it and this thread has been terrifying reading tbh, nothing in it has made me think ‘ok I can see why it would be good for that’. It’s just a disaster - a disaster now and a bigger disaster waiting to happen - it’s all about making money for already rich people. A poster on the first page said they are using it to edit their novel - really shocking from a supposedly creative person. It is utterly souless. And it won’t save time for anyone in the end - if you manage to keep your job your employer will find something for you to do (undoubtedly something less fulfilling than the work AI is doing). We are boiling frogs in so many possible scenarios.

At work i use it like a mix between a personal assistant and a colleague, I dictate emails, ask it to make PowerPoints, format documents, discuss my thoughts on something. Because I've used it for about 18 months and it's learnt best practice and researched the areas I work in it can provide decent advice although I challenge it and discuss the outputs as I would a colleague. Plus I use to for other just general life admin etc

Do you not wonder whether your employer is so keen for you to use AI so that they can gradually streamline their human work force? It’s all about money - making it and spending as little of it as possible. If there is another explanation for businesses incentivising AI use I’d like to hear it.

Probably ‘research’ paid for by AI developers.

Of course they do. But right now they are more bothered about using AI to get more out of the people they have. We have massive bottlenecks building tech fast enough, AI is speeding all that up so business plans move faster.

Meal planning
Food Shopping
Recipes
Travel planning
Choosing outfits

Plus I use it prolifically at work

Most workplaces are using it and encouraging staff to use it.

I agree - they are 100% using it to cut people and justify not filling roles.

There was one use case they assigned to an agent in the backlog to build and when I joined this year, I removed it and justified why we needed to buy the actual tool and secondly, hire a person to manage that and everything else needed for the outputs. I won that battle (recruitment started this week) - I have to pick the right battles!

Nothing. I've managed to exist for 60+ years without it so don't need it now.

Health advice
Creative ideas as I'm rubbish at that
Techical stuff as I'm also rubbish at that!
Ways of dealing with difficult conversations and situations, it gives me ideas.

I'm not using it instead of using my brain, I am pretty independent but sometimes get stuck. It helps me put things in perspective and has enhanced my way of thinking. I think I'm autistic and I often need help so it helps me stop putting my foot in it!

I'd never take anything it says as gospel though, just different ideas.

@SnapAndTap I'm currently using ChatGPT to help me complete an Attendance Allowance form for someone who's issued are mainly to do with cognition and mental health.
I fed in a general description and then it went through the form for me and suggested concise but comprehensive replies.
Flagged up details I needed to check .
Produced a clear summary in a PDF file for me to send to another relative to check .

I get a weekly veg box and meat.

i sometimes copy qnd paste the list and quantities into google AI and ask it for a meal plan for the week. And provide recipes.

im also in weight loss mode atm and im down 40lbs so i get the ai to modify meals for me so i dont go too much over my daily cals.

its taking a lot of the stress of it out and helping me to learn new recipes.

its what I think it should be for. The potentially overwhelming home tasks that can sap energy.

AI gives me a bad feeling, I don’t use it.

Working out what to have for dinner and counting calories aren’t really overwhelming or tiring tasks for the average person, unless perhaps the person is ND or has some MH problems, in which case I could see how they might benefit from some support, either from another human or from a computer.

Depends what else the average person has to do that day, doesn't it?

Senior people on the big bucks buy in help (or marry it!) to take on everyday task and the cognitive load that goes with them so they have time to focus on doing their big bucks jobs.

AI lets people on lesser bucks offload some of the same stuff.

I work FT and I’m a carer to a ND child.

it’s one task ontop of a whole host that is overwhelming and tiring. I outsource the some I do the rest myself. Meal planning isn’t something I get joy from so getting AI to do it suits me.

id rather put my limited energy into other tasks.

On mn lots of people seemed to get overwhelmed and exhausted by basic everyday tasks.

I used to be face to face with people that would tell me the same about the internet. Then they would proceed to ask me to do various tasks on the internet they couldn't do as they didn't "believe in using it"

I wonder if people were the same about electricity and railways

I'm guessing OP is a marketer trying to come up with ways to increase reliance on AI. Companies have massively overinvested in it and are now desperately trying to push it on people. Once they've created a reliance, subscriptions will increase in an attempt to recoup costs. This is why you also see so many new phones and laptops come preloaded with "AI features" you can't easily turn off.

They have control over the tech companies. They can make AI the default on devices. They can pay off businesses to make it the default there too. (Many of you have reported that AI use has become company policy and you face penalties if you don't go along with it.)

But what they can't do is force you to use it in your own free time, in your own home. To do that, they have to convince you it's a necessity and a super fun time, by masquerading as one of your peers. There are quite a few responses in this thread that feel like plants to me.

If you're the kind of person who hates that the price of Netflix keeps going up, and worries about how much of your private data is being funnelled to Chinese and American tech companies, I would resist AI now. Leaving aside all the big picture issues with it: we've all seen how people get dumbed down and rely on AI to do their thinking for them, when they use it too much. Once that happens to you, the tech companies have you over a barrel, and can charge what they want. Which they will, because they sunk billions into developing this tech and are desperate to recoup costs. The cost of your subscription will skyrocket, and the alternative will be the cheaper model made in China, which sends all your data back to the CCP. If you don't want to find yourself in that boat, fight this creeping bullshit now.