Artificial Intelligence: How are you using it in everyday life?

[isucyfan]

My company is plunging headlong into using AI and we're all tasked with becoming familiar with the ways it can help us, both as a business tool and personally. What are your go-to tools and uses?

I've started using it for more complex queries I would usually go to Google for. I've also used it to create performance review goals. I've played with generative AI for images, Teams backgrounds, custom-written songs, turning a document into a podcast, and of course, dirty limerick composition.

How about you?

 

[BryceC]

Literally nothing, but I do believe it will be a transformative technology.

 

[Dopey]

It's like at Ask Jeeves that works. Saves time finding an answer and explanation for exactly what you want to know.

I have a conversation going with it on likes and dislikes for meal planning ideas.

And if I'm sending an email more than a couple sentences long, I'll copy it in and have it review for clarity. I'll usually prompt it to ensure it's clear for non native English speakers too.

 

[Gonzo]

Serving as a crutch for Americans' horrible, horrible, horrible and continually deteriorating ability to write the English language is going to be among its highest-rated values. I hate it.

And I hate that people call it "generative AI" because, at least when it comes to putting together research pieces/white papers/blogs/articles/etc for which so many are using it, that sh*t isn't "generative"... it essentially harvests and assembles information that actual humans have "generated." I hate it.

 

[madguy30]

My Google box made this the other day. Should be fine.

 

[isucyfan]

Literally nothing, but I do believe it will be a transformative technology.

I asked AI to respond to you. Here's what he/she/it said:

> "Ah, the 'future visionary' approach. Admirable. So you're basically a professional 'I'll believe it when I see it, but I'm already convinced' type? Respect."

 

[FerShizzle]

My company is plunging headlong into using AI and we're all tasked with becoming familiar with the ways it can help us, both as a business tool and personally. What are your go-to tools and uses?

I've started using it for more complex queries I would usually go to Google for. I've also used it to create performance review goals. I've played with generative AI for images, Teams backgrounds, custom-written songs, turning a document into a podcast, and of course, dirty limerick composition.

How about you?

how do you go about becoming familiar with the ways it can help us, both as a business tool and personally?

do you stop every time you are about to do something and type into an AI interface "can you do___________" ?

on a related note, about 3-4 years ago a person in my industry got fired because he was got caught using AI to answer most or all his emails. i joked at the time that they should have promoted him instead of him being fired.

 

[FerShizzle]

can it search through a history of communications and piece together context? because i could use that everyday.

 

[Cyientist]

I really like Notebook LM for summarizing large documents.

I use co-pilot to offer improvements on things I write.

I’ll use ChatGPT if I’m stuck and can’t get started writing.

 

[isucyfan]

how do you go about becoming familiar with the ways it can help us, both as a business tool and personally?

do you stop every time you are about to do something and type into an AI interface "can you do___________" ?

on a related note, about 3-4 years ago a person in my industry got fired because he was got caught using AI to answer most or all his emails. i joked at the time that they should have promoted him instead of him being fired.

I had a similar reaction. Basically, it's experimenting with all of the tools and concepts in the hope we can automate some tasks and maybe even find revolutionary ways it can help the company. I work for one of the largest library technology companies and we're already using it in some powerful ways.

 

[Cyched]

Personally, use Copilot at work as an enhanced search engine and help with writing proposals (much quicker to jot down bullet points you want to cover and have it generate some options).

Best use I've seen is taking a recording of a long Teams meeting and generating meeting minutes.

 

[somecyguy]

I own a small electrical and solar company and it saves me so much time. I ask it to create marketing copy, it organizes some of my operational notes so I can quickly get them out to people. I bounce ideas off it. In many cases it's replaced google as my go-to search. For example, I was needing some specs for a generator. Rather than google search the spec sheet and look for the info there, I just asked chat GPT for the info, it did the search for me and spit out the info.

What's really helpful is that it "recalls" who I am and what I've asked it previously, so when I ask a random business or electrical related question, it already understands the context of my request. That's a subtle but powerful feature.

 

[Mr Janny]

My team is evaluating MS Copilot for the company I work for. It's pretty sweet.
Taking meeting notes is a thing of the past. When we're finished with our meeting, Copilot summarizes everything and generates the notes. Awesome at catching me up on what I've missed if I have to be out of the office for any amount of time. Great for generating project outlines, job descriptions, and if you use something like Scaled Agile Framework, it's great for formatting text into the specific nomenclature that system requires. It's not that it does work for you. It's an augment. Very useful. I'm definitely on board.

 

[isucyfan]

My team is evaluating MS Copilot for the company I work for. It's pretty sweet.
Taking meeting notes is a thing of the past. When we're finished with our meeting, Copilot summarizes everything and generates the notes. Awesome at catching me up on what I've missed if I have to be out of the office for any amount of time. Great for generating project outlines, job descriptions, and if you use something like Scaled Agile Framework, it's great for formatting text into the specific nomenclature that system requires. It's not that it does work for you. It's an augment. Very useful. I'm definitely on board.

Our company just got the Copilot office suite integration as well. It really does help having it tied into the ecosystem as opposed to having to go elsewhere to use the tools.

 

[FerShizzle]

its starting off on good standing. in the running for my new favorite coworker.


this is less good though.

 

[Big_Sill]

AI is like teenagers and sex…everyone is talking about it but nobody is doing it.

 

[dmclone]

I use it for questions I have about the software I support, which is pretty specialized. It does a better job than that companies web site and usually their help desk in answering my questions.

I used it to provide feedback on my co-workers. I'll type in a few highlights, it will wrote out the review, and then I'll ask it to make modifications.

I can't go into details, but it is a security risk if used in the wrong way. We haven't had anything happen at our company but we've heard some frightening stories, and it's just getting started.

 

[Gonzo]

Conversations I've heard in my industry...

"Aren't you worried?"
"About what?"
"That AI is going to replace copywriters and designers and photographers in advertising and marketing?"
"No."
"You don't think agencies are going to start using AI for their creative?"
"No."
"Why not? It'll save them so much money. Their margins would be huge."
"Because the minute their clients hear they have AI doing their creative, they'll be out of business."

 

[cydsho]

Serving as a crutch for Americans' horrible, horrible, horrible and continually deteriorating ability to write the English language is going to be among its highest-rated values. I hate it.

And I hate that people call it "generative AI" because, at least when it comes to putting together research pieces/white papers/blogs/articles/etc for which so many are using it, that sh*t isn't "generative"... it essentially harvests and assembles information that actual humans have "generated." I hate it.

I agree. No doubt it could/will be completely trans-formative but right now most AI tools are just really highly organized search engine results.

 

[GTO]

My wife has used it in her work to compile info from multiple research papers and it works well for that.

I don't use it, because I would rather not feed the algorithm that creates Skynet.