How often do you use AI? [i.e. ChatGPT / Grok]

[Yoder]

I've used it a few times. Recently to write a letter of recommendation.

 

[robtattoo]

Not once.

 

[MuleyFever]

Really just the AI answers that come up from a Google search. I have used it a few times at work.

 

[Lil-Rokslider]

I only use it during hunting season to generate pictures of me with dead bucks and bulls to post on Rokslide

 

[EastHumboldt]

I recently repaired a commercial range hood exhaust fan for my DIL’s restaurant. I took it apart and installed new bearings. The job itself wasn’t that bad but the location of the fan, greasiness, and weather made for some fairly profound suckage.

I want to use AI to generate a romance novel cover, but I don’t know how.

On the cover will be a picture of a handsome bearded man with no shirt on holding a huge crescent wrench. His yoked bronze musculature is lit up by a sunbeam. Behind him, a filthy rooftop fan housing radiates menace under a glowering winter sky. The title?

EXHAUST FAN !!
One man’s lonely struggle against neglected maintenance!

Other than that I don’t know what to do with it. Yet…..

 

[Billy Goat]

Just to make characters.

Maybe a few other images.


I perfectly capable of writing inaccurate stuff myself.

 

[Turkeygetpwnd38]

I’ve used it once to make this picture of my cousins dog after it died. I put it on a hoodie and sent it to her

 

[MallardSX2]

I sometimes feed my emails into the thing and ask them to make my emails more “sniveling bitch friendly”.

It actually does clean them up to the point that I at least don’t have to attach a hurt feelings report with some emails.

 

[MThoundhunter]

I use Grok, it's been a great tool for investing and anything stock related. Recently had it start giving me some geology courses to study up on and I've been pretty impressed with what it comes up with.

 

[RADunfee]

Never have. I refuse. Don't even know how.

 

[ODB]

I use it every day to do menial tasks I don’t want to do myself such as calculating complex profits, royalties and costs associated with my side gig. Works great. I also ask it how to do things with certain programs like photoshop etc, . But never ask it to do it for me.

As a guy once put it to me: AI is like a librarian - the better prompt you give it, the better the result.

 

[menhaden_man]

Ask chat gpt to draw a picture of a clock with hands that says 6:28… it’ll always draw one with them on 10 and 2.

Or ask it to draw a guy writing a check with his left hand.

 

[txtransplant]

If you’re still in the workforce and you’re not learning to master AI utilization, you’ll be a dinosaur in a few years.

 

[txtransplant]

As a guy once put it to me: AI is like a librarian - the better prompt you give it, the better the result.

Here’s your hack for that - start your prompt with “what is the best prompt for [ChatGPT or whatever you’re using] to answer the following question?,” then type your question like normal. Refine the prompt if needed, copy and paste.

 

[buckbull]

The younger developers on my team use it all the time. I probably need to start using it more.

 

[PathFinder]

I use it pretty often. Solving technical issues, programming, electrical wiring, quick engineering calculations, brushing up on science and math or learning new stuff. Grok is really good at technical stuff and programming. Claude is great at code, but terrible with technical stuff. I frequently use it to bounce ideas off of and double check my own work.
I catch it making mistakes fairly often, but overall it's extremely useful and is improving rapidly.

Sent from my Pixel 10 using Tapatalk

 

[COJoe]

If you’re still in the workforce and you’re not learning to master AI utilization, you’ll be a dinosaur in a few years.

This is a false statement. AI isn't going to fix my doors at work or replace a broken handle set, it isn't going to fix the auto openers I work on, it isn't going to replace the faulty electronic strike on a door, it's not going to rewire a control board or run cable for me. It's isn't going to install a new camera and focus it correctly, etc. Trade jobs will always be needed. If you want to use AI, have at it but don't be surprised at how you feel living in a world that can't compose a letter, an email or conversation without assistance. So many people now can't communicate with each other. AI has it's uses, but it will not replace everything. Just like computers were supposed to get rid of all the paperwork....

 

[txtransplant]

This is a false statement. AI isn't going to fix my doors at work or replace a broken handle set, it isn't going to fix the auto openers I work on, it isn't going to replace the faulty electronic strike on a door, it's not going to rewire a control board or run cable for me. It's isn't going to install a new camera and focus it correctly, etc. Trade jobs will always be needed. If you want to use AI, have at it but don't be surprised at how you feel living in a world that can't compose a letter, an email or conversation without assistance. So many people now can't communicate with each other. AI has it's uses, but it will not replace everything. Just like computers were supposed to get rid of all the paperwork....

Yeah, I thought like 10 minutes later that I should edit to clarify “if you’re in white collar work,” but we were at the park by then.

And, to be clear, it’s not a panacea even in knowledge-based white collar work. If you use it enough in the office, though, it’s easy to see how it can significantly boost your efficiency and effectiveness today, and how it will be orders of magnitude more years from now.

I do think we’re going to go through an “irrational exuberance” bubble with AI. Not specifically stock valuations (although probably that, too), but more like a mass realization that its *current* power is greatly overstated. Think BlackBerry bubble and subsequent rise of the iPhone economy. I feel like that’s what we’re in store for here.

 

[Rock’N Tacos]

Every single day - for both work and personal life. My favorite are Grok and Perplexity.

 

[jml49]

never.