AI has been used extensively in Washington DC for some time now...All my intelligence is artificial!!
I'm jealous, I used to "geek" out on that kind of stuff, but I don't have the time (or current knowledge) for those things much any more.I have used it. Probably in a different way than most. I've used copilot at work and used a few chatgpt prompts. The usual stuff.
But I've also got ollama and openwebui running on a machine at home. I use it to interpret a series of images from my doorbell camera to get a text description (frigate). I might eventually use it for locally hosting something similar to an Amazon Echo / Google home device (home assistant). That tech is evolving fast though.
I've also used it to make up a bedtime story for my kids (that's honestly probably been it's best use).
There are without a doubt things it will be useful for, but at this point it's another tool in the toolbox.
I don't use it and am 100% against it.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?
My employer is 100% not fine with you using a non corporate version. We have our own AI assistant, which is powered by one of the big boys.My biggest question about AI is privacy. If you're using free chatGpt or similar in a workplace, is your employer ok with that? Are you uploading documents to be summarized?
I know there's a lot of fighting about the datasets that have already been used to train models. Seems to me it would be a good idea to keep interaction with an AI localized if at all possible.
Debugging code is brilliant. I might actually finishing learning to code now.It’s great for debugging code. Or asking how to do something and getting a good head start.
This is somewhat accurate. It will give you answers that are usually correct. The problem is when it doesn't know the answer and instead of telling you it doesn't know it will essentially lie to you in a very convincing fashion.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.
I think it will eventually be transformative but unfortunately I believe there is a technological limit on the current method… we need an innovation in the space for it to be truly transformative
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.
See that's what I would expect from almost every employer. But it's not currently the case. People will eventually learn that they're both the product and the consumer eventually.My employer is 100% not fine with you using a non corporate version. We have our own AI assistant, which is powered by one of the big boys.