How are you using AI in your work/personal life?
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Every day. I use it professionally (software developer) and personal for things I would have previously Googled
work - I have to see then ignore 'Press Alt + i to draft with Copilot' every time I start a new email.
personal - Last use was when I used ChatGPT to create a funny dumb picture for a team tshirt.
personal - Last use was when I used ChatGPT to create a funny dumb picture for a team tshirt.
I use it as a starter for writing technical content, scripting, etc. I also use it as a glorified search engine to quickly aggregate a lot of information, and most importantly provide me links to the source documents. I don't just copy and directly use anything that it generates. I vet it for accuracy, fix it, and then use the final solution for whatever my goal was. It is a great helper at times but is is not intelligent and is not reliable as an SME on anything.
The amount of times that AI gets things wrong is pretty alarming if you use it for research and of course some people take it as gospel.
I use it to write all my posts here.
I have used AI to prep a first draft of a legal brief regarding a subject Im not very familiar with, but I read all the cases the AI cited and made whole scale changes. It was pretty good for a rough draft though.
We've had a rash of lawyer's citing cases that dont support their argument, or that dont even exist. Owning up to a judge is hard enough, but how do you tell your client you didn't even proof read the brief you billed them for?
I have used AI to prep a first draft of a legal brief regarding a subject Im not very familiar with, but I read all the cases the AI cited and made whole scale changes. It was pretty good for a rough draft though.
We've had a rash of lawyer's citing cases that dont support their argument, or that dont even exist. Owning up to a judge is hard enough, but how do you tell your client you didn't even proof read the brief you billed them for?
I’m not using it for responding to SPS threads, I promise.
Yep. I've had it return results that had something as simple as numbering out of order. That is why I encourage people to use it to help in areas that they are experts and don't trust it to make you an expert in an area that you know nothing, especially if you acting incorrectly on it's advice could have some negative impact.
It's not good at the compliance work I do, but it's a helpful first pass and speeds up manual review.
I use it for JDs and interview question work all the time.
I use it to help me think through ways to automate repetive tasks. It helps me with writing some SQL and AppScript. I use it when I'm stuck on new software or building some automation, like witn n8n
I don't use it for my emails as a default but i'll ask it to rephrase something if i know it sounds harsh and/or dumb
It's not very creative but it helps with brainstorming, especially if i'm thinking about how to structure new processes, offload work, etc. Sometimes I realize the answer I'm looking for as I'm typing the prompt and other times I have no idea. Have also found it useful for overviews of subjects I don't know a lot about.
We've made some customer-facing tools but currently doing some of that on the staff-side to help answer workflow questions (e.g., give our approved workflows to the AI we use and have it answer questions based on that knowledge)
I use it for JDs and interview question work all the time.
I use it to help me think through ways to automate repetive tasks. It helps me with writing some SQL and AppScript. I use it when I'm stuck on new software or building some automation, like witn n8n
I don't use it for my emails as a default but i'll ask it to rephrase something if i know it sounds harsh and/or dumb
It's not very creative but it helps with brainstorming, especially if i'm thinking about how to structure new processes, offload work, etc. Sometimes I realize the answer I'm looking for as I'm typing the prompt and other times I have no idea. Have also found it useful for overviews of subjects I don't know a lot about.
We've made some customer-facing tools but currently doing some of that on the staff-side to help answer workflow questions (e.g., give our approved workflows to the AI we use and have it answer questions based on that knowledge)
I would stop practicing.
I once cited the wrong case in a brief, back when we used these things called "books". I cited the right volume and page number, but used the wrong case name. The judge actually thought it was funny. Im still not over it
I use it to compose emails that I don’t want to type out. Have to proof read it for sure but way quicker than doing a couple drafts. Other than that the only thing I recall using it for is to make a picture of a tranny TOSU fan for one of my insufferable friends that is a buckeye.
I use it all the time. About to try using it at a higher level creating microservices to speed up delivery of software. It’s super useful but like others have stated some people give it way too much credit. It’s far from infallible. I have to correct it about 10 times to get the right result sometimes.
To me - it provides a foundation to get started. You have to be intelligent enough to build on top of it. It eliminates a lot of remedial tasks in IT.
I use it for research the most. It is also helpful for generating copy when I have writers block on proposals and plan documents text, but I always check references and heavily edit in my voice. I've also used it to give me ideas for titles and marketing taglines for some projects. The Google and Samsung Photos editing tools have been helpful, the ones that cut things out and do generative fill of the background. Since I use Adobe Creative Suite, AI tools are now built into the Adobe programs so I have been testing those. I've tried using image generation from prompt descriptions, but that still needs work, requires a lot of extra description and hand-holding of the programs.
It’s great for that. Even if you know it’s wrong you can refine it a little and then do the rest yourself. It’s also great for little tasks/scripts you rarely use. Pipeline scripting or shell scripting. I don’t specialize in that but need to use it every once in a while. It can spit it out quickly and get me back working on things that provide value.
I yell at it when stupid people piss me off and then it just replies “sorry sir!” In a deep British accent. Then it plays a random Monty Python clip off YouTube and I’m good again.
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Porn. That's it.
I hate how AI is getting used by Google because my store doesn't need their AI description over the top. They keep putting emphasis on things I dont want.
In my young career, we used AI to present emissions from combustion sources at power plants and chemical facilities. The models were only as good as the breadth of data it drew from.
I hate how AI is getting used by Google because my store doesn't need their AI description over the top. They keep putting emphasis on things I dont want.
In my young career, we used AI to present emissions from combustion sources at power plants and chemical facilities. The models were only as good as the breadth of data it drew from.
Pretty much only use it to make pictures for SPS about how depressing our football program has become.
Would have loved to have used it when I was in the newspaper business. I was pretty good at InDesign and Photoshop.
job descriptions and resumes. Think I used it to tell someone to 17 the 17 off in a nice way once too.
It is obviously used a tremendous amount in the news business now. Any news sites you read most of all that content is obviously generated by AI. Most articles repeat the same paragraph just worded slightly different multiple times and often don't have a concluding paragraph to the story.
Most of y'all are older so at least you probably, and possibly for some, have a foundation to use AI as a helpful tool. Slowly with younger people they will use it from point one and won't have those same foundations to recognize when it is not correct. My young nephews can't write in script for example. It will probably also kill human innovation. As it matures it will develop and continuously use an accepted set of rules and homogenize knowledge.
An example in our current world is ICE cars. When I was young you had to find different mechanics depending upon what make of car you had. Foreign cars had totally different engineering than American cars. French cars had technology not found in English cars. Chrysler / Dodge was different than GM. There was some Apple stuff going on where the companies wanted customers to be reliant on only them, but much of it was different engineers figuring out different ways to attack the same problems. Today there is very little difference in the engineering of cars all over the globe. Certain ways became the way we do it and the entire industry became homogenized. That same thing will happen with AI they will come to the same conclusions in the same way.
Now it could be argued that this homogenization is good and the end consumer gets a more reliable product in the end. The little tweaks are all that is left to do to improve it by a percent or two. However are we not going to find the next revolutionary idea because we have a tried and true way to do something and that tried and true way is already great. AI will end up falling into tried and true. Innovation and creativity dies when we stop looking.
An example in our current world is ICE cars. When I was young you had to find different mechanics depending upon what make of car you had. Foreign cars had totally different engineering than American cars. French cars had technology not found in English cars. Chrysler / Dodge was different than GM. There was some Apple stuff going on where the companies wanted customers to be reliant on only them, but much of it was different engineers figuring out different ways to attack the same problems. Today there is very little difference in the engineering of cars all over the globe. Certain ways became the way we do it and the entire industry became homogenized. That same thing will happen with AI they will come to the same conclusions in the same way.
Now it could be argued that this homogenization is good and the end consumer gets a more reliable product in the end. The little tweaks are all that is left to do to improve it by a percent or two. However are we not going to find the next revolutionary idea because we have a tried and true way to do something and that tried and true way is already great. AI will end up falling into tried and true. Innovation and creativity dies when we stop looking.
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Daily, but I cross-reference what I'm doing on several other engines. You can get some squirrelly results sometimes.
Financial planning, tax questions, option recommendations, it’s pretty amazing.
Been using AI for 30 plus years. The quality of bulls you can use is much greater than natural breeding. The economics of being able to use 5 different bulls vs 1 is also a plus. The disease and personal safety are an added benefit.***
Is that why most of the emails I get now start out with "I hope this email finds you well", or, "greetings, I hope this message finds you having a wonderful day" ?
Ha. Yep. I’m like “hey man- we email and talk 3 times a week, don’t do this to me”