I've been playing around with Chat GPT for while, but still haven't really found a way it'll enhance my day to day life. You use as focus Google Search and other useless tasks. Has anyone found any every day use cases?
Not personally, but I do know someone that used it to explore a number of legal issues they were involved in, and the answers gave a pretty good response, including letters that could be sent.
The thing I don’t like about AI is I like to know what processes they’ve gone through to get to the end result. Maybe I’m just a control freak but I don’t really like the idea of it - I’m not sure if I can trust what they’ve given me or if I need to do it again on my own how I’d do it.
I use it almost daily to summarise information/create content for work. We've saved the salary of a marketing assistant who moved on and I've not replaced. ChatGBT isn't as nice to look at as she was, and probably won't flash it's arse at the office party (I'll miss that) but it's quicker, cheaper and only requires about the same amount of corrections/rewrites.
It’s proven useful for some of the more admin heavy, boring jobs I’ve been asked to do. On the whole I don’t like it. You’d think technological advance would lift people out of the mundane and into more edifying, stimulating work and life. Instead it’s being used to create art so previous art creators have more time to do the washing up.
In an ideal world increased automation should mean that people need to work less in general and are free to live more fulfilling lives, but there isn't really any serious talk of ever trying to achieve that. It just isn't the way the world has been made to work I suppose.
Retired so only use it for personal stuff. But i find it incredibly useful especially for medical problems its does really well diagnosing problems and offering remedies and treatment. I also use it to track my fitness and sleep which i keep in a Spread sheet which I feed to it for analysis. In its analysis it will provide suggestions for improvement etc. I fed it my dental XRays a few days ago and it gave me a diagnosis and then treatment options. However if you are using the free version it shuts you off when you get into using too much compute time usually for quite a few hours. i begining to think i am going to pony up the $20 a month so that does not occur since I think i am going to be using more and more. It it also very useful for home projects and will give you step by step instructions on how to fix something etc. All in all I find it impresive and given its only going to get better its going to be a big part of our lives as well as upending the labor market-lots of white collar jobs will be going away. Oh and I think it would do a great job of selecting the next City manager after Jak. No need for Acun.
We are arguably on the cusp of the 5th industrial revolution. It could be argued that by the end of each of the previous 4 that the population, as a whole, has been left more prosperous, with more leisure time and a longer life span. There's no reason to suspect that the next one won't get to the same result eventually. It's also true that at the start of each of the previous 4 there has been fear and mistrust that machines would leave us all without jobs....funny thing is though. If companies want to make a profit they need consumers to buy products and services and to do that said consumers need a job. Of course that's if Skynet agrees. please log in to view this image
Interesting you say we have more leisure time as a population as a whole. I don’t have any facts to back this up, but my gut feeling is that’s possibly not true over the last 40/50 years. Previously, many families survived on one income. That’s not the case for lots these days with two incomes being the norm - squeezing leisure time to weekends when other chores will also need to be done. I know if you look back further past that time you’ll see many men doing 6/7 day weeks down the pit etc but I think if you average out across genders etc the stats might not be as favourable as technological advancements may have initially suggested since the 70s. Im more than happy to be proved wrong here as I say this is more my gut feeling than anything rooted in fact.
Interesting double page article in last Saturday's Daily Mail about AI (yeah, I know, DM ... it was passed on to me). I doubt many people realise what we are on the cusp of. Exciting yet frightening at the same time. And the reality is that we (UK) are miles behind China.
Talking to a young lass who’s at hull uni and she said all the students in her class are using it do their essays
I hear the same, have to start questioning the value of going to university and the value of a degree. My daughter's on a course with a lot of overseas students who can barely understand or speak English. They record lectures then put them through AI.
I will tell you whats crazy, having absolutely ZERO experience of web developing but having an idea i am currently building a full website from scratch fully using a website called replit which is basically just AI prompts its insane
I struggle to believe anyone's using it for legal letter or essays to any meaningful standard. Some of the responses it produces are just bollocks. It's a step up from a search engine, if you know what you're looking for you can quickly separate the wheat from the chaff, but people using it blindly like that will soon get caught out.
