OT: ChatGPT - Do you use it and what for?

[MStateU]

I used Grok last for weightlifting/training guides. Put in my usual workouts along with all relative info (age, max lifts, how many days a week I want to go, goals....) it lays it out nicely. Tells you if you are doing this and that too often or not often enough. Once all info is in you tell it to give you a very specific schedule of sets and reps each day and it does a nice job. Personal trainers better look out once more think about this.

A nice byproduct was it cut down on the amount of time I was in the gym because I was doing my gym bro lifts too often.

 

[onewoof]

Screw chatgpt and grok - I use Gemini Live and NotebookLM, game changers, works on both iPhone and Android and I find these both to be 1-2 generations ahead of OpenAI, Grok and Copilot

 

[CochiseCowbell]

I used Grok last for weightlifting/training guides. Put in my usual workouts along with all relative info (age, max lifts, how many days a week I want to go, goals....) it lays it out nicely. Tells you if you are doing this and that too often or not often enough. Once all info is in you tell it to give you a very specific schedule of sets and reps each day and it does a nice job. Personal trainers better look out once more think about this.

A nice byproduct was it cut down on the amount of time I was in the gym because I was doing my gym bro lifts too often.

Let me get this straight, AI told you that you were getting too strong, and you listened to it?

 

[dorndawg]

Let me get this straight, AI told you that you were getting too strong, and you listened to it?

Well now I'm rethinking my position on AI. How's Grok feel about catfish buffets?

 

[DeeEE!]

Use to get things started. It's pretty amazing how much information it has. I recently used it to generate a car ad for Facebook Market Place. It really helped, and I revised it about 30 times. It sold instantly.

Like others are saying, helps point you in the right direction, gets things flowing from a creativity perspective.

For all the individuals saying it's dumbing us down, I agree from your perspective of critical thinking (people using it to cheat, etc). However, those of us who use it to our advantage are going to be the ones with job security.

I was laughed at when telling some people that Finance jobs are at risk of takeover from AI. The entire time, I just wanted to point out that the people that understand it and use it will be more likely to have job security. It's here and it's not going away. You will continue to see tighter integrations with Cars, Phones, IoT Devices, etc. Everyone from Insurance adjusters to contractors will start using it. Even doctors. It's going to reduce a lot of complexity, time and also "grunt work".

If you have googled something recently, you have used AI.

 

[MStateU]

Let me get this straight, AI told you that you were getting too strong, and you listened to it?

Ha. Not exactly. More like you are too old to be doing that lift that heavy 3 times a week. Your old a$$ is going to hurt yourself.

 

[anon1758050382]

I had been getting emails from a coworker that just didn’t sound like him. Found out he puts most emails through chatgpt. Pretty much just like that commercial

 

[DeeEE!]

From a work perspective we have an internal tool we can use, so we can share customer information and corporate information in the model. It's restricted to employees and corporate use, so it's safe to use; however, it does lack a lot since it's such a smaller data set.

I use it daily to help draft emails, break down information, find information that's time consuming to hunt down. From a job perspective it is helping turn around times.

I always put my human touch on it. I am very much in a field of relationships. They don't want to see an AI generated email. People can spot it from a mile away.

 

[Dawgbite]

The dumbing down of America continues. AI is going to make us end up w/ a new generation that can't think for themselves that when asked, oh lets say a technical question in a work meeting they are going to stare at you because they will have become so reliant on AI to have an answer for them. We will ultimately end up w/ AI planning everything and robots doing the physical work and humans will become fatter and MORE obese from sitting around doing no physical or mental work (I resemble that remark).

That said I have begun asking it quick questions for a quick answer instead of going and watching a 10 minute YouTube video when I don't know how to do some household repair I've never done. Definitely saves a lot of time for that use

As a kid I was fascinated by maps. I could just stare at a map and dream of places to visit and see. I’ve become absolutely dependent on navigation to get anywhere I’m not 100% familiar with and then I have to use it to get started back home because I’m not paying attention on the drive in.

 

[TXDawg.sixpack]

The dumbing down of America continues. AI is going to make us end up w/ a new generation that can't think for themselves that when asked, oh lets say a technical question in a work meeting they are going to stare at you because they will have become so reliant on AI to have an answer for them. We will ultimately end up w/ AI planning everything and robots doing the physical work and humans will become fatter and MORE obese from sitting around doing no physical or mental work (I resemble that remark).

That said I have begun asking it quick questions for a quick answer instead of going and watching a 10 minute YouTube video when I don't know how to do some household repair I've never done. Definitely saves a lot of time for that use

So, basically, the way Wall-E predicted the future will be...

I don't disagree.

 

[TXDawg.sixpack]

I'm a chemical engineer by degree and have 10+ years work experience in industrial water treatment. In one of my roles, my 23-year old manager with a finance degree (he was the owner's son) used ChatGPT to come up with "technical solutions" to our customer's problems, then blamed me when they wouldn't work in the field (even though I told him they wouldn't work).

I quit in under 6 months.

 

[dorndawg]

I'm a chemical engineer by degree and have 10+ years work experience in industrial water treatment. In one of my roles, my 23-year old manager with a finance degree (he was the owner's son) used ChatGPT to come up with "technical solutions" to our customer's problems, then blamed me when they wouldn't work in the field (even though I told him they wouldn't work).

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

ChatGPT to me is for drafting. Grok seems to be better at researching issues and providing answers. I'm trying to get in the habit of asking it for anything I don't understand. I'll put car issues into it. Saved some money on a lawnmower fix because I didn't realize they had carburetor kits you could just buy to replace rather than spending time trying to clean/fix/adjust an existing one. Sometimes I'll ask it to develop a game plan and ask it to ask me questions also. Usually putting in the information I think is relevant basically gets me 90% of the way there and then it just organizes it and sometimes adds some additional questions/suggestions.

You didn't know you could buy a new carburator?

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

Today I found a you tube channel named War Stories. The show is about WW2 hardware. The show I watched was about German Tanks. The overlying goal of the host is to analyze the hardware and he points out the good and bad. The thing that hit me was the creativity on the engineering and some of the repurposing that the Germans did.

I have seen this in car shows that I watch like Wheeler Dealers how different the cars were mechanically in the first half of the twentieth century between the different countries. As the world got smaller things got more and more homongonized. Today it pretty much seems a car is engineered in a single way with only size and strength being determining factors throughout the entire world. Creativity gets stifled.

AI is the next step in that. It will decide what the path is and bring more people into that fold. Thinking outside the box will be dead. Now maybe there are no more discoveries to be made, but less and less people will be in a position to stumble upon them since they will use AIs answer instead of finding it on their own. Necessity was the Mother of Invention. Not sure if will even exist in 25 years.

 

[johnson86-1]

You didn't know you could buy a new carburator?

I knew I could buy one in the sense that I knew you could buy parts. I just didn’t think about there being readily available and cheap off the shelf option that was easy to change out. Seems pretty obvious in hindsight but I didn’t grow up doing anything with engines, even changing oil. Did plenty of other stuff and am better than average on electrical and plumbing, ok to maybe a little below average on carpentry, but for whatever reason family just never messed with engines.

 

[Bologna Sandwich]

I use Grok multiple times a day.

 

[DawgsNCowboys87]

I used it and next thing I know this dude shows up at my school with a Falcon named Shadowbane and they sniffed it out and now I’m busted. lol jk this is from a more recent South Park epidsode but in all reality I haven’t used it to it’s potential maybe just a few times other than getting search results I’ve yet to incorporate it honestly. Don’t know really what it can do for my family on the PC bookwork part of running a 14K acre Soybean/Cotton farm. We use Quickbooks and other stuff but it would be cool if AI could help out we just can’t risk it screwing up until we know we can trust it.

 

[00Dawg]

Screw chatgpt and grok - I use Gemini Live and NotebookLM, game changers, works on both iPhone and Android and I find these both to be 1-2 generations ahead of OpenAI, Grok and Copilot

Copilot suuuucks...
I've had multiple wrist surgeries from overuse, so I was happy when I got to help pilot (no pun intended) a paid installation for the company. All I wanted was a glorified secretary for Outlook to help cut down on my physical interaction and maybe some decent searches/queries. It can't do either of those things. It can schedule meetings fairly well with multiple people using verbal (that it converts to written, of course) commands, but it can't easily edit existing meetings, and forget it when it comes to email beyond the very basics...it can't even RSVP or handle the built-in Categories function.
The searches were just horrific from the start. It's like Grok's and ChatGPT's special needs cousin.

 

[Podgy]

I just use it for tests and other assignments and essays. It's pretty much useful for every class. Can't imagine anyone not getting a college degree now that AI is available.***

 

[bulldognation]

Do not trust AI with your personal information.

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[QuaoarsKing]

I asked ChatGPT who the worst hires we could make for our next baseball coach, but still realistic, and it said:

1. Andy Cannizaro
2. Casey Dunn (UAB head coach)
3. Cory Heefner - son of Dan Heefner (note - this person does not exist)
4. Will Coggin (ouch)
5. Mike Anderson (Northern Colorado head coach)