Asklemmy

I use GPT-4 daily. I worked with it to create a quick and convenient app on my smartwatch, which allows it to provide wisdom and guidance fast whenever I need it. For more grandular things, I use its BingChat interface which can search the web and see images. The AI has helped me with understanding how to complete tasks, providing counseling for me, finding bugs in my code, writing functions, teaching me how to use software like Excel and Outlook, and giving me random information about various curiosities that pop into mind.

I don't keep it a secret and tell anyone who asks. Plus it's kinda obvious that something is going on with me. I always wear bone conducting headsets that allow the AI to whisper in my ear without shutting me out to the world, and sometimes talk to my watch

The responses to knowing what I'm doing have almost always been extreme: very positive or very negative. The machine is controversial, and when some can no longer stay in comfortable denial of its efficacy they turn to speaking out against its use

Edit: just fixed its translation method. Now the watch will hear non-english speech and automatically translate it for me too (uses Whisper API)

A friend of mine just used it to write a script for an Amazing Race application video. It was quite good.

How the heck did it access enough source material to be able to imitate something that specific and do it well? Are we humans that predictable?

I use ChatGPT fairly frequently. For example, I often have to write a business email. I'm usually pretty good at it. But sometimes I don't have the time or desire to find the right wording. This is where ChatGPT comes into play: I have trained my writing style using several examples and then simply have the quickly written emails beautified.

My boss doesn't know about it, but I don't hide it either. My company is very, very slow on the technical side and will only understand the benefits of AI in a few years.

There was some issue that came up relating to network shares on a Windows domain that didn't make sense to me and a colleague. I asked GPT to describe why we were seeing whatever behavior and it defined the scope of the feature in a way that completely demystified my coworker. I'm a Mac and Linux guy, so while I could loosely grasp it, it was gone from my mind shortly after. Windows domains and file sharing has always been bizarre to me.

Anyway, we didn't hide it. He gave it credit when explaining the answer to the rest of the team in a meeting. This was around the end of last year. The company since had layoffs and I'm looking for a new job, but I did have it reformat my resume and it did a great job. I've never been great at page-layout stuff, as I'm a plain text warrior.

My job actively encourages using AI to be more efficient and rewards curiosity/creative approaches. I'm in IT management.

Coworker of mine admitted to using this for writing treatment plans. Super unethical and unrepentant about it. Why? Treatment plans are individual, and contain PII. I used it for research a few times and it returned sources that are considered bunk at best and hated within the community for their history. So I just went back to my journal aggregation.

English is not my first language. I use it to fix grammar and rephrase sentences for making communication easy.

The platform/language that I use doesn't supported by chat GPT or Bard. So I write my own code.

I've found ChatGPT is good for small tasks that require me to code in languages I don't use often and don't know well. My prime examples are writing CMakeLists.txt files, and generating regex patterns.

Also, if I want to write a quick little bash script to do something, it's much better at remembering syntax and string handling tricks than me.

As a backend developer I use it to explain some SQL, dev processes that I should know but unsure on, or best practices for X.

SQL is my weakest link.

I am the boss and I've had to cajole a couple of my employees into using it.

Any employer that thinks using ChatGPT carefully and judiciously is a bad thing is mistaken. When it works it's a great productivity boost, but you have to know when to kick it to the curb when it starts hallucinating.

I don't have much use for confident-sounding nonsense.

I use it

My boss likes it too. Of course we dont trust it m, but it can do certain things easier and faster than a human can

Im using the shit out of gpt-4 for coding and it works. And no never told anyone cause nobody asks.

Not using chatgpt at all because it's queue is always full.

I use it to speed up writing scripts on occasion, while attempting to abstract out any possibly confidential data.

I'm still fairly sure it's not allowed, however. But considering it would be easy to trace API calls and I haven't been approached yet, I'm assuming no one really cares.

I've run emails through it to check tone since I'm hilariously bad at reading tone through text, but I'm pretty limited in how I can make use of that. There's info I deal with that is sensitive and/or proprietary that I can't paste into just any text box without potential severe repercussions.

I tried it once or twice and it worked well. It's too stupid now to be worth the attempt. The amount of time spent fixing its mistakes has resulted in net zero time savings.

We openly use it and abuse of it from top to bottom of the company and for me add Co-Pilot to that as well

Aside from asking it coding questions (which are generally a helpful pointer in the right direction), i also ask it alot of questions like “Turn these values into an array” or something similar when i have to make an array of values (or anything else that’s repetitive) and am too lazy to do it myself. Just a slight speedup in work.

I use it at work but gladly tell the boss... It's only pluses if we can do more trivial work faster. More time to relax. They don't watch what I do during the day. The boss relaxes also. All good.

As a coder, we have had discussions about using it at work. Everyone's fine with it for generation of test data, or for generating initial code skeletons but it still requires us to review every line. It saves a bit of time but that's all.

My boss pays for it! I don't use it that much, but it's pretty useful from time to time instead of going through a bunch of unrelated Google results.