What should kids these days learn? I'd suggest:
- Well digging
- Vegetable gardening
- Basic construction techniques
- Hunting
- Firearms, melee weapons, and martial arts
Artificial Intelligence: How are you using it in everyday life?
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I have a friend who works in compliance - same with legal stuff. Saves him tons of time.
As for what people should tell their kids to do, help them discover a wide breadth of skills. My oldest is almost 15. He is outstanding at math and science. But I think he might be great at coaching/teaching.
Anything you build and anything where you work with people face to face I think is pretty safe.
IMO we're a long way from AI being genuine competition for a LOT of jobs. But you know what is competition for every job right now? Someone with less skill/experience that knows how to cunningly utilize AI in the workplace.
Personally, I believe AI is a lot closer to mirroring the widespread introduction of the PC than something that will replace 50% of the workforce. It's a powerful tool and if you learn how to use AI effectively and you're only helping yourself.
Personally, I believe AI is a lot closer to mirroring the widespread introduction of the PC than something that will replace 50% of the workforce. It's a powerful tool and if you learn how to use AI effectively and you're only helping yourself.
Web searches.
I have used it to help me make multiple choice quizzes. The problem with this (and multiple choice quizzes in general for literature and writing) is that there can be conflicting choices. A nice tool, though, for basic discussion questions to check for understanding and to stimulate deeper thinking.
I have used it to help me make multiple choice quizzes. The problem with this (and multiple choice quizzes in general for literature and writing) is that there can be conflicting choices. A nice tool, though, for basic discussion questions to check for understanding and to stimulate deeper thinking.
My MIL asked me to write her obituary. She thought I was a good writer because of the family "Night Before Christmas" poem I write every year. Of course I agreed to do it, but with only a couple of days left, I was not sure how I would get it done. That night we sat with her and asked her about the major chapters of her life. Who were the people, places, memories, etc. We jotted it all down, and then my wife plugged it into ChatGPT. It came back with a nearly flawless write-up. Only minor editing was required. I was amazed. I added a poem at the end, which I did write completely on my own. We let her review it and she loved it. Of course, we didn't let her know that we had help. For anyone tasked with writing an obit, this is the way!
We used ChatGPT to start my wife's small business. Everything from name/logo ideas to average local prices for the services. It generated a service list for her specific business that we were able to tweak and post on her website.
It was really handy.
It was really handy.
There’s been a lot of engineering work that’s been offshored in the past couple decades. We have a big team in India who are smart but can’t make a decision and need a lot of guidance. I’ve never felt like any of them were capable of taking my job. Now with AI maybe they start figuring out how to make a decision without me but we’ll see.
That's what I've been thinking as well. My biggest concern is hands on ability/work is an alien phrase in relation to my son, bless his heart.
Since I'm home all day and needed something to do, I thought I'd start an eBay Store for selling Pokemon cards since it's easy for my cognitive issues and I can go as hard/slow as I want. In about 5 minutes I had a good logo and wonderful version of the different shipping, payment, return, etc policies. I have a bunch of cards so I can get started but to maintain I'll need to buy in bulk eventually (have to make money first) so that gives me something to be on the lookout for.
FYI - my parent's are helping me get it up and running with a little funding since we have nothing ourselves, so if you have or know somebody that has great condition Poke cards they want to get rid of, they'd pay more than the 65-70% a trading shop would offer.
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I know they have melee covered from their video games, the rest we might have some problems with
They should specifically learn to fight the robots with their bare hands like my old favorite comic Magnus Robot Fighter. He had some kind of mental training to make his fists harder than steal and he'd just punch and karate chop them.
Robots never stood a chance against quads like those.They should specifically learn to fight the robots with their bare hands like my old favorite comic Magnus Robot Fighter. He had some kind of mental training to make his fists harder than steal and he'd just punch and karate chop them.
Yeah, we would have gone further with the policies and all that but the "free" version of square does a very nice job of doing all that. I can't recommend square enough for what we get vs. the percentage they take. It's a home service business and my wife can run everything from an iPad. Website, payment processing, scheduling, email notifications, invoices, etc. with a lot of customization. No upfront fee either.
Can't help you with the Pokemon cards. My son called me an hour ago to tell me he's scanning all his into an app. I know nothing about them but I'm sure condition is everything. He's got a few coming back in the 50-200 dollar range but I have no idea how accurate that is.
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Yeah, what AI is today and how people are using it will be changing drastically. People have no idea what’s coming. I’ve had plenty of wtf moments already plugging in code, business, etc into our in-house solution.
2 polar opposite use cases, both using Gemini.
1) Produced a report correlating stock price movement to the results of a companies earnings call. For example, what is the movement related to increasing/decreasing revenue guidance vs op income guidance to determine what impacts the stock price the most. It also accounted for general movement in the market in the days following an earnings release. It produced a table of expected stock movement if a company beats/misses by 1%, 2% etc. All that to say you can obtain some pretty interesting financial research.
2) I uploaded screenshots from my phone with addresses of garage sale listings over the weekend. It gave me a Google map link with directions of the most efficient route.
1) Produced a report correlating stock price movement to the results of a companies earnings call. For example, what is the movement related to increasing/decreasing revenue guidance vs op income guidance to determine what impacts the stock price the most. It also accounted for general movement in the market in the days following an earnings release. It produced a table of expected stock movement if a company beats/misses by 1%, 2% etc. All that to say you can obtain some pretty interesting financial research.
2) I uploaded screenshots from my phone with addresses of garage sale listings over the weekend. It gave me a Google map link with directions of the most efficient route.
I’m an old retired guy who doesn’t know anything about Gemini or AI in general. In terms of your point 1, what do you know about the results you got? Do you know what companies were used, what time frames, what statistical methodologies? It seems like when you ask AI a question, you always get an answer. How do you know the answer is correct?
I tried using copilot to look up the equation for a weir a couple weeks ago and it with 100% confidence pulled up a version of the equation with the wrong coefficient. Never seen that form of the equation before and could not find it when searching references myself.
Not going to rely on it anytime soon if it’s just going to assemble clearly verifiable data incorrectly.
Not going to rely on it anytime soon if it’s just going to assemble clearly verifiable data incorrectly.
