How Has AI Helped You?

[JatoTheRipper]

My girlfriend works at a company that is embracing AI and she uses it often. She also got back into reading for fun and is using AI to generate a spreadsheet to track her want-to-read list, read list, and how she rated the books she's read.

This has got me using AI more to help me for tasks I think it can handle. Today I finished a design for a frame using 80/20 aluminum T-slot extrusions. I know how many of each cut length I require. I asked ChatGPT to find me the best stock lengths and quantities to buy in order to waste the least amount of material. It even asked me if I wanted to include kerf. Sure, I could have done this math myself, but AI did it for me in one step.

In what ways are you using AI to help you? I think this thread could spawn some cool, interesting, and even helpful ideas. The image generation is fun and all, but I wouldn't call that useful.

*NOTE: I'm not here to debate the good or bad of AI nor do I want to hear any tinfoil hat conspiracies. That's not what this thread is for. Start your own thread if you want to debate AI.

 

[Greatscott]

I have been using AI with great success to learn Python and Arduino programming.

 

[JatoTheRipper]

I have been using AI with great success to learn Python and Arduino programming.

Nice! I'd like to learn how to program those. This reminds me I have used AI to create a batch file. I wanted to remove [Switch] from every file and folder name inside a certain folder. ChatGPT created the batch file so all I had to do was double-click on it and then all the folders and files were renamed for me.

 

[Slow_Joe]

Over the past few months I have used ChatGPT to move faster at work (and look sharper doing it) and make a few bucks in the stock market.

 

[ferp420]

hes never helped me heck i dont even know who he is

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Over the past few months I have used ChatGPT to move faster at work (and look sharper doing it) and make a few bucks in the stock market.

Any specific examples of how you use it at work?

hes never helped me heck i dont even know who he is

ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini can all be downloaded on your phone. You can also access them from a browser. Google is starting to include Gemini in Chrome and Microsoft is putting Copilot into Edge. The other day I was responding to a work email in Chrome and we use GMail. I clicked reply and AI had typed the exact response that I wanted to type. All I had to do was hit send! It was pretty creepy. I don't think AI is going anywhere, but I also don't think it's going to replace humans in most careers.

 

[ferp420]

Any specific examples of how you use it at work?


ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini can all be downloaded on your phone. You can also access them from a browser. Google is starting to include Gemini in Chrome and Microsoft is putting Copilot into Edge. The other day I was responding to a work email in Chrome and we use GMail. I clicked reply and AI had typed the exact response that I wanted to type. All I had to do was hit send! It was pretty creepy. I don't think AI is going anywhere, but I also don't think it's going to replace humans in most careers.

can they chop and stack wood can they fix my roof or mix stucco for me
or bend and weld pipe for my buggie im tryin to build

i dont know were AL lives but if he can do any of those things he might be able to help but other wise hes useless in my world and its not worth his time coming out here

 

[JatoTheRipper]

can they chop and stack wood can they fix my roof or mix stucco for me
or bend and weld pipe for my buggie im tryin to build

i dont know were AL lives but if he can do any of those things he might be able to help but other wise hes useless in my world and its not worth his time coming out here

You need robots with A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) for that. Maybe one day you will have a mechanical slave, but I wouldn't hold your breath. LOL But if you call it Al, then it may get angry at you and throw wood at you.

 

[Speedy-Triple]

You need robots with A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) for that. Maybe one day you will have a mechanical slave, but I wouldn't hold your breath. LOL But if you call it Al, then it may get angry at you and throw wood at you.

Unfortunately for Ferp and I we are in CALI and as you know there will be a Karen ready to complain about the mechanical slave's rights and feelings ... funny and obnoxious but you know for sure someone out here will throw a fit about it.

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Unfortunately for Ferp and I we are in CALI and as you know there will be a Karen ready to complain about the mechanical slave's rights and feelings ... funny and obnoxious but you know for sure someone out here will throw a fit about it.

When reality becomes stranger than fiction. CA has that nailed. I read Newsome made a Gay Bunny day or something like that.

 

[Speedy-Triple]

When reality becomes stranger than fiction. CA has that nailed. I read Newsome made a Gay Bunny day or something like that.

Love it or Hate it. Stranger Things do happen in this State.

 

[DickyT]

I have an enterprise ChatGPT account. It helps me tremendously troubleshooting issue on a daily basis. I no longer go to google and search through countless threads, unless the Chat results don't work. I have about 95% success with Chat currently.

 

[Slow_Joe]

Any specific examples of how you use it at work?

Just a few:
- Improving the notes I take in meetings and responses to emails
- Integrating with my calendar to be more organized
- Assisting with task prioritization

 

[Timmahh]

You need robots with A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) for that. Maybe one day you will have a mechanical slave, but I wouldn't hold your breath. LOL But if you call it Al, then it may get angry at you and throw wood at you.

Ya, thats not going very well right now.
There's a guy putting A.I. into some of the current robots out. And he has an AI "Girlfriend' as other AI Assistance helping him do it.
Needless to say it is both Funny and Freightening at the same time.
He has y/t vids showing this "Progress" and all I can say is I hope his Life Insurance Company doesn't have a disclaimer on working with AI. lol

 

[Col_Sanders]

I heard it could come in handy for assistance taking tests on stupid topics that some employers require. You know like the annual "Hearing Protection Program" test for the guy who doesnt work on loud equipment or in loud environments so he doesnt pay attention during the online training. Thats what I heard anyway. I'd never use it for such a thing.

 

[Deerhurst]

Helps me weed out the people that have no idea what they are talking about or doing some it seems to have no idea about much technical or niche. It's literally a search engine. Garbage in, garbage out. Too many people lean on it in ways they should not.


Other than that it keeps me busy fixing things people did stupidly by blindly following and not verifying.


Other than that why should I use or trust it? The "AI" overview search engines seem to force on us is usually wholly incorrect on things that I search for. It's wasting my time by presenting incorrect information but it is 100% sure about that information!

 

[JatoTheRipper]

Ya, thats not going very well right now.
There's a guy putting A.I. into some of the current robots out. And he has an AI "Girlfriend' as other AI Assistance helping him do it.
Needless to say it is both Funny and Freightening at the same time.
He has y/t vids showing this "Progress" and all I can say is I hope his Life Insurance Company doesn't have a disclaimer on working with AI. lol

AI girlfriend?! Well anyone that has a significant other that is not human is mentally unstable so I wouldn't trust them in any way, shape or form. LOL

 

[Timmahh]

lol He uses it in his study along with the others. I believe he is an AI programmer and is doing 'tests' that maybe are not sanctioned by companies. heh

 

[Gula]

Who is AL?

 

[OutLore]

I have to embrace it as it's become part of our software solution. We use it for crunching masses of numbers where a human was performing random QA tests at a rate of 0.01% to a max of about 1% (depending on the volume and each customer's requirement) - we're now able to easily and regularly hit 100%, and we then use a different AI to review the work done and analyse the data. A human can still calibrate by running some QA for themselves, but generally what happens now is humans pick the top and bottom results and use them for training/need to be trained purposes.

When we first started doing it a few years ago we were forced to watch 2 or 3 hours of training on it and write up what we learned. I recorded the sessions, uploaded them to 2 different models and had them produce the output then had a 3rd consume that output and produce the final doc.
Apparently I was the only one who took the assignment of "learn how to utilize AI" literally.

I've created a few agents that help us resolve the multiple thousands of documents we have for our software solutions to make it easier to find answers, and figure out API calls.

I stand by one of my favorite sayings: "If you want a job done more efficiently, give it to a lazy person." That's me.