Artificial Intelligence: How are you using it in everyday life?

[IOWASTATE]

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?

Fair point that you will always get ‘an’ answer. I asked it about 2 specific companies that I’m familiar with. Both have been public for less than a decade so data results were more recent. Can’t speak to the methodologies but you can go validate stock prices for the days following earnings releases.

To not answer your question, I don’t know. Is it right, is it wrong…. ????? At a minimum it was interesting and did compile a fair bit of information that could be verified. If anything, it summarized info in a thought provoking way that historically would take a lot of time to compile.

 

[HititHard]

I have a Bee wearable that is fantastic for summarizing meetings and creating to dos and deliverables from conversations and phone calls . It’s helped me not delay or drop the ball on stuff I promise. Probably the best $50 I ever spent. I ordered them for my Sr team and my assistant. Unfortunately they are quite a ways out on shipping.
Chatgpt deep research is becoming more useful all the time. I use it for competitor analysis, market research, and product development research.
Our internal AI generated creative and ads are out performing our agency If that stays consistent a few more months that’s a line item we can offload.
I use Claude for writing. Once I connected it to google drive and had it analyze previous writing it’s done a great job creating things that match my writing style. Saves me at least a couple hours a day just responding to emails and Slack messages.

 

[NorthCyd]

I've used it for writing mostly. I find it's a good way to get something started which is usually the most difficult part of the process for me. But it's an iterative process that requires a lot of editing and fact checking if you want something good. I still don't use it much for my job overall, but once they start integrating it into all the different programs and apps I use it will have a much bigger impact. Not sure how far off that is, but probably not very far out.

 

[iowastatefan1929]

Its scary how good it is, yeah it spits out junk but will fix it. I went from zero coding ability to being able to code anything I can think of via prompts. Does it work right off the bat all the time, no, does it work after some back and forth, yes. Pure coding is now a near worthless skill. Sorry as someone who is slow to adopt I am blown away on what it can do.

 

[iowastatefan1929]

Once AI has "hands" it will be a huge jump. We will lose control over the systems and humans wont know how it works. That tech might be here already not sure. Also its eyes are okay but pretty limited in my use. I tried to post a picture of a building and ask it to envision an addition and it simply cannot do it yet, at least the LLMs cant.

 

[mramseyISU]

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.

I tried to use copilot to create a table of line diameter converted over to dash sizes for an intern to help him out. It got every single line to dash size wrong. He just had to learn to convert mm to inches and divide by 16, over and over and over again.

 

[CycloneErik]

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.

It does that for "student" essays as well. Very interesting answers, but facts are, um, modified.

 

[simply1]

GPT-5 is out today.

 

[VeloClone]

What should kids these days learn? I'd suggest:

• Well digging
• Vegetable gardening
• Basic construction techniques
• Hunting
• Firearms, melee weapons, and martial arts

Obligatory:

 

[nrg4isu]

I'm a self described super-nerd. I do local gen-ai stuff for fun just because it hurts (and I trust no one). What gets me is the vernacular. There's always tech-jargon. But this is worse than javascript libraries:

• LLaMA
• PaLM
• Claude
• Stable Diffusion
• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• Hugging Face
• TensorBoard
• MC-GPT
• JAX
• Quants
• Anthropic
• DeepMind
• LangChain
• ComputerVision
• Transformers
• Attention Mechanism
• Diffusion Models
• Tokens
• Embeddings

 

[TitanClone]

I'm a self described super-nerd. I do local gen-ai stuff for fun just because it hurts (and I trust no one). What gets me is the vernacular. There's always tech-jargon. But this is worse than javascript libraries:

• LLaMA
• PaLM
• Claude
• Stable Diffusion
• TensorFlow
• PyTorch
• Hugging Face
• TensorBoard
• MC-GPT
• JAX
• Quants
• Anthropic
• DeepMind
• LangChain
• ComputerVision
• Transformers
• Attention Mechanism
• Diffusion Models
• Tokens
• Embeddings

It's what happens when tech bros name everything. One name in the AI world that is at least up front is Palantir, Thiel literally wants to be Sauron and have his eye on every aspect of everyone's daily lives.

 

[gypsyroad]

Its scary how good it is, yeah it spits out junk but will fix it. I went from zero coding ability to being able to code anything I can think of via prompts. Does it work right off the bat all the time, no, does it work after some back and forth, yes. Pure coding is now a near worthless skill. Sorry as someone who is slow to adopt I am blown away on what it can do.

That's going to be true someday but there is a ways to go. As a coder, I don't have to ask AI what I need and go back and forth, I tell it what I need and it gives it to me.

 

[gypsyroad]

I work by myself so getting stuck...really sucked. Now I have someone (something?) to help me when I do. I'm more willing to dive into something I'm not familiar with because I know I'll be able to get it finished even if I have some questions.

 

[nrg4isu]

Pure coding

I'm gonna have to disagree with that. I'm currently in a position where I review a lot of code from people who might agree with you. It's pretty obvious that the skill is still needed.

 

[CloneIce]

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.

I feel like a good % of the people who are increasingly reliant on AI to help them do their jobs are not experienced or diligent enough to know when AI is giving them incorrect information or making mistakes.

 

[2122]

I read the obits in the local small town paper and it is crystal clear that in recent months AI is being used to help write obits. I suspect that the local funeral home is helping folks with that.

 

[simply1]

Its scary how good it is, yeah it spits out junk but will fix it. I went from zero coding ability to being able to code anything I can think of via prompts. Does it work right off the bat all the time, no, does it work after some back and forth, yes. Pure coding is now a near worthless skill. Sorry as someone who is slow to adopt I am blown away on what it can do.

What are you coding? Worthless skill is quite a jump.