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I don't.

And it's not really useful for work either, but that's not stopping my employer from blowing tons of money trying to shoehorn it into everything.

I use it as my travel agent. It planned my trip to one of a big US cities (did a really good job) and to advise me what I should know as a European driver driving on American roads for the first time.

Edit: Also, Claude by Anthropic is great at re-writing passages of generic text in the style of Donald Trump.

I use bing chat/copilot to help me with writing powershell scrpts

Literally the only time I've used one, I was upset about something and just wanted somebody to talk to. Sooo I vented to chat gpt. ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

It felt sorta like talking to a therapist, except its tone was very formal/polite and every once in a while it asked you to choose between two different responses (for training or whatever), which would be pretty strange for a human to do.

I've had pretty good luck getting cocktail recipes out of chatgpt. They sometimes need a little tweaking but it hasn't steered me horribly wrong yet.

I'm also going to be officiating a wedding for a friend in a few months, so I've been using it to work out what I want to say for the ceremony.

I have a coworker who's been taking some college classes. He struggles a bit with writing papers, he knows all the material just doesn't quite know how to get started putting things down on paper. I told him to give it a try, with some strong warnings to rewrite and fact-check everything it spits out, and so far it's been working out great for him and he's been heeding my warnings, he pretty much punches in some prompts and bullet points and then goes through and rewords everything it spits out and fact-checks it as he goes.

Helping me break down annoyingly long/poorly formatted code segments so I can think more clearly about how to troubleshoot them.

Generating meal plan ideas (I generally do my own thing but having it pick out proteins for any given day of the week helps me to mix things up)

Assisting me as a GM in games for the reasons other people have already mentioned. I also have my hands on a module that lets an LLM pose as an NPC and give dialogue when spoken to that is absolutely fantastic when my players want to talk to some random NPC I don't give a shit about.

Those are the biggest and most every day things.

I know this is a work example, but it's pretty good at writing Excel formulas. Helpful because my brain works in Python, not spreadsheet.

Also, when I have a word on the tip of my tongue (I know someone said this already), beyond helping me get the word it can help me out context around how it is used.

Coding.

The other day I needed to set up a node service with an HTML front-end that allows me to upload files from a browser that end up on my machine hosted in a docker container. Something like this would take me the better part of a day to complete. Through a series of prompts I got what I needed deployed in less than an hour.

Then unit tests. Sometimes all I need is good code coverage and since it's just tests you can verify the quality of the generated code if it runs and covers the lines you want. I've saved a ton of hours of tedious code coverage work this way.

I use GPT 4 for checking Physics Problems quickly. It's much better than education forums nowadays where you have to sign up and probably pay a subscription to be able to view questions

I would love a local one to use for the same things as CharGpt only I want to control the knowledge training dataset so only quality data is in it.

I do not have the resources or knowledge to pull this off but it would be really nice to not worry about garbage-in-garbage-out.

It's pretty nifty for software development.

It also comes in clutch when I have a word on the tip of my tongue, and a Google search isn't taking into account the nuances you know that this word has. It might take some follow-up, like "that's close, but the word I'm thinking of has negative connotations, and I know that it's used in [INSERT CONTEXT]"

I use ChatGPT to tell me how to pronounce obscure words.

I use GitHub Copilot as code completion tool

Drop-in replacement for stack overflow, letting ChatGPT modify my RCode to do simple things, rephrasing text and extracting equations from PDFs as Latex code. I also used Stable Diffusion to make some absurd Christmas cards last year.

You can use it for anything that requires a little logical multi step thought (anything single fact based is a straight web search with your search engine of choice)

For example,

• Rewrite your CV.
• reply to a letter
• write some code for a particular task.
• debug your computer problem.
• form a legal analysis to a situation ( https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/09/over-40-of-lawyers-now-use-ai-to-accelerate-their-work/ )
• have a conversation about a topic to help you understand yourself or a thing better. ("How do I build a ceph storage cluster in Kubernetes on Talos Linux with a raspberry pi, a mini pc .."). Then you can ask about alternatives solutions or whatever.
• come up with a business idea and talk it through with some'one'. Pricing etc.
• summaries of text.

At the moment they don't always spit out correct answers to factual questions; they'd rather give crap than say they don't know (without anthropomorphisising). When I asked Claude for equivalent sections in another jurisdictions legislation I got crap back on several occasions rather than the correct answer, but the false 'facts' were easy to check. However, the analysis was correct. ChatGPT gave the correct answer (to the original question). And I've had it the other way around too. So for the moment, pair them with Google or something similar for any fact output requested.

They're excellent tools for analysing situations and providing feedback. The code it writes is pretty good.

Hopefully they never get trained on social media.

I use it for a jumping off point creating an itinerary for trips. Asking to create a 3 day itinerary with a mix of recommended restaurants, bars and cafes in between has been really helpful. The google maps links usually don't work but you need to confirm the places still exist anyway, and adjust as needed.

Help me make fancy html for my personal website lol 😂