How Do You Use AI in Your Daily Life? Share the Applications That Have Made a Big Difference

I use ai to write scripts to quick­ly orga­nize data, run stats, and do graphs in R. I have cer­tain­ly learn new strategies/shortcuts that are often more suc­cinct. Anoth­er way I use ai is in proof­read­ing sci­en­tif­ic man­u­scripts.

I use Chat­G­PT and Per­plex­i­ty dai­ly and some oth­ers from time to time. I some­times repeat the same prompt. My most reward­ing expe­ri­ence is self — eval­u­a­tion. Exam­ple: I fed in 15 pages of notes I wrote after 30+/- live musi­cal con­certs and ask it to observe com­mon con­cerns. It came back with stun­ning­ly lucid por­tray­al of me which I can’t imag­ine how I would get that oth­er way.

Bar­ring the unpaid use of real peo­ple’s voice­prints, I think improved text-to-speech (and speech-to-text) is among the BEST uses of AI. It’s not pos­si­ble, work­load-wise OR fund­ing-wise, to get live human per­for­mance of all the read­ing-aloud that needs to be done, and so AI TTS is a very impor­tant acces­si­bil­i­ty tool that address­es a gen­uine unmet need — a holy grail the grifters try­ing to shove AI into absolute­ly every­thing to make stonks go up can only dream of.

I use Chat­G­PT dai­ly for things like:
o writ­ing client emails (for batch emails, not indi­vid­ual emails) using my style of writ­ing
o gen­er­at­ing Excel for­mu­las
o gen­er­at­ing code blocks in C#, Python, etc.
o gen­er­at­ing tables of infor­ma­tion I am curi­ous about (his­tor­i­cal data, sta­tis­ti­cal data, etc.)
o plan­ning trav­el itin­er­aries
o prac­tic­ing my Ger­man skills and expand­ing my vocab­u­lary
o occa­sion­al math prob­lems
o con­ver­sion of units (weight, mass, dis­tance, etc.)
o gen­er­at­ing cus­tom images

That’s just a par­tial list.

I try to be as pre­cise as I can to get the results I want in my pre­ferred for­mat (usu­al­ly tables) and ask Chat­G­PT to include its references/sources and degree of con­fi­dence in its answer.

But I always dou­ble check the answers because they are not always cor­rect.

One of the best uses I saw was to gen­er­ate sug­gest­ed alter­nate texts for images post­ed on social net­works. t2/Pebble did this. They also tried the worst use, gen­er­at­ing posts when you can’t think of what to say. That was absurd.

Thanks for the arti­cle and requests for how peo­ple use it. I use it often — and in ways that help me exer­cise my mind rather than this fic­tion-fan­ta­sy of expect­ing an omni­scient pres­ence to do my think­ing for me.

I find it inter­est­ing when peo­ple who’ve made up their minds about some­thing they per­ceive as awful, it auto­mat­i­cal­ly becomes some­thing that’s some­how thrust on them. Yes, we can blame uncon­trolled aspects of cap­i­tal­ism for all kinds of things shoved under our noses, but blam­ing the tech for this is like blam­ing the library for hav­ing so many books that you can’t relate to and/or would nev­er read.

The frus­tra­tion or fear peo­ple express about some­thing that cre­ates a sys­tem of syn­er­getic fab­ri­ca­tions might be root­ed in deep­er issues — such as infor­ma­tion over­load, loss of con­trol over per­son­al nar­ra­tives, or a sense of dis­em­pow­er­ment in the face of over­whelm­ing sys­temic forces rather than the tech­nol­o­gy per se.

When we expect absolute per­fec­tion from any tool, we set our­selves up for dis­ap­point­ment. In con­trast, by embrac­ing the inher­ent lim­i­ta­tions of these sys­tems, we open up space for a more dynam­ic inter­play between human insight and machine effi­cien­cy. This approach not only enrich­es our prob­lem-solv­ing capa­bil­i­ties but also encour­ages con­tin­u­ous learn­ing and adap­ta­tion.

Has any of the prop­a­ga­tors of AI giv­en a thought to the unde­ni­able fact of uneven devel­op­ment all around the Globe? Con­sid­er any of these peo­ple, in less devel­oped regions there is sim­ply no elec­tric­i­ty? Sure, robot­ic and tech­ni­cal activ­i­ty may be sup­port­ed by data all gen­er­at­ed and con­sruct­ed by the HUMAN into soft­weres uti­liz­ing this method for ease every­day work,
But, what about the high­ly dif­fer­ent cul­tur­al back­ground, edu­ca­tion- intel­li­gence lev­el of the crowd? Final­ly, how would a dig­i­tal sys­tem capa­ble to describe and make “sug­ges­tions” in the region of high­er qual­i­ty top­ics which are sin­gu­lar­ly and exclu­sive­ly char­ac­ter­is­tic for the HUMAN, like emo­tions, spir­i­tu­al notions, gen­er­al­ly: ART, orig­i­nal­i­ty in music, abstract depic­tions, etc?