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Have you used so-called "AI" for actually productive work ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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With copilot included in Professional-grade Office 365 and some politician claiming that their government should use AI to be more efficient. I am curious on whether some of you did use "AI" to get some productive things done. Or if it's still mostly a toy for you.

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[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I use it all the time, and not just for myself or for work. Yesterday I fed my son's study guide into ChatGPT and had it create a CSV file with flash cards for Anki. It's great at any kind of transformation / summarizing or picking out specific information.

When school sends me overly verbose messages about everything that's going on I can feed the message into ChatGPT and have it create an ical file that has events for the important stuff that happens in school in in the coming week.

I used it to write a greeting card for my dad on his birthday ("I'm giving him X, these are his interests, give me ten suggestions for greeting cards").

I have it explain the reasons behind news stories (by searching for previous information and relating it to the news story). I ask tons of questions about anything I wonder about in the world such as chemical processes, the differences between oil frying and air frying, finding scientific papers about specific things, how to factory reset my Bose headphones... the list goes on.

[–] zerozaku@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

how to factory reset my Bose headphones

I don't think it can get the information for this with 100% accuracy unless the process is same for all Bose headphones. How did it go?

and have it create an ical file that has events for the important stuff that happens in school in in the coming week.

How did this go? It can hallucinate stuff even when you post static data to it, last time I tried.

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don’t think it can get the information for this with 100% accuracy unless the process is same for all Bose headphones. How did it go?

Why not? I told it the model (Bose 700). It searched the web for information for that model, found an article that described how to do it, and provided me with the key points without having to scroll past tons of ads and noisy language. Of course it sometimes gives me the wrong info (usually because the sources are incorrect), but I'll notice soon enough.

How did this go? It can hallucinate stuff even when you post static data to it, last time I tried.

It went perfectly. Again, there are certainly times when it makes errors / hallucinates, but I can fix those manually. In my example of producing flash cards for my son, we obviously had to proofread the cards but that's much faster than writing all the cards by hand. One out of the 20 flash cards had a nonsensical question/answer so we just removed it.