How are you leveraging AI to improve yourself?

[Vhwin]

Hi everyone,

I like to use it to save TIME to free up my mental load. My opinion is that it's knowing how to use AI is crucial skillset and the world is going to be divided into people that can use it effectively vs those that don't - not too dissimilar to how search engines were viewed during the start of the internet era.

Here's three ways I like to use it for myself to stuck out to me:
Travel advice and planning itineraries, can be tailored in for myself to factor in activities best for different seasons & stuff that's more enjoyable with family vs a couple
Professionally, I use custom ChatGPT's that are based on operating principles and tailored on giving strategic feedback.
Public speaking is something I'm working on myself, so I'm currently using an AI service that tracks my calls in my calendar and tracks analytics such as conciseness/filler words/pacing/weak words quantitatively.

I'd love to know, what are your favorite ways to use AI?

 

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[Colin MacLeod]

I use

• a coding assist (Github Copilot)
• AI-driven search (perplexity.ai)
• Generative fill in Photoshop

I'm weaning myself off the last one because I'm cancelling my Adobe license. Not sure what I'll replace it with. I make video games and it's useful when the artist hasn't given me enough background to fill a given space, for example.

For the first, I find copilot increases my productivity. If I want a simple routine to iterate over a collection, generally it suggests the right thing and it saves me time.

I recently switched from Google to perplexity.ai and I find it much better for finding out answers on pretty much everything I would previously have "googled." For example, here are some of my recent "searches":

1. What exactly is an explainer video?
2. Where does Danny from "Rate My Takeaway" come from?
3. In C#, can you have a list that allows negative indices
4. OBS macOS shows default image after sleep

In these cases, the AI provided the answers to the questions I had. Previously, I might have searched for a query, then drilled into a bunch of pages to see the answers. With perplexity, I can ask contextual follow-up questions - it's like having an all-knowing assistant!

We as a family also occasionally ask Alexa triva at the dinner table ("What is the biggest….", "what is the population of…", "How do you say "Lemon" in Spanish?"). it's a bit hit and miss.

 

[Vhwin]

Amazing, I'll have to give perplexity.ai a go. I'm from a non technical background, so my equivalent is chucking any scenarios I need advice on to problem solve into GPT and generating tables from them

 

[Colin MacLeod]

Amazing, I'll have to give perplexity.ai a go. I'm from a non technical background, so my equivalent is chucking any scenarios I need advice on to problem solve into GPT and generating tables from them

My teenage son recommended it last week, and it's been an absolute game-changer for me.

One of the standout features of Perplexity AI is its flexibility. You can choose from various language models, such as GPT-4 and Claude-3, to tailor responses to your needs.

I use it for initial context and even advice on pretty much everything from coding, through business/legal to parenting. There's a very generous free offering, but given the value I've gone Pro at $20/month.

The big difference over something like Chat GPT is that it searches the internet for you so the information is current and complete with citations and detailed follow-ups.

 

[HoosierLife]

Well let me check my logs and tell you how I’ve used AI recently:

1. Legal advisor
2. TCPA advisor
3. Copywriting
4. eBay listing tool (helping my 9 year old son start a business)
5. Chess mentor
6. Tax return auditing
7. Reading PnLs
8. Converting pdf to word
9. Converting webp image to jpg
10. How to comment on am FCC proposed rule
11. Screenshotted a warning on a PC to see if it was a scam
12. Pickleball court dimensions and rules
13. Campaign name ideas for a new Product (settled on Voice AI Money Machine)
14. Create eBay listings by screenshots of the product
15. Text appointment setting
16. Voice AI live transfers

 

[JimmyJonCricket]

I'm pretty basic with AI. I use TheB.AI to access many paid models (topped it up $10 a few months ago and get to use all the paid models, has only used $5 for my use rather than $20 per month/per model).

GPT 4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet are my go to.

Mostly just use it for questioning. Some recent prompts:
"As a Canadian, what would I need to buy real estate in Colombia?"
"My boss requested I look into and test vulnerability scanning within our SentinelOne Management Console. Can you detail steps on how I can do this?"
"What are the benefits of buying/using boxing shoes"

 

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[AlexisAutotte]

Hi everyone,

I like to use it to save TIME to free up my mental load. My opinion is that it's knowing how to use AI is crucial skillset and the world is going to be divided into people that can use it effectively vs those that don't - not too dissimilar to how search engines were viewed during the start of the internet era.

Here's three ways I like to use it for myself to stuck out to me:
Travel advice and planning itineraries, can be tailored in for myself to factor in activities best for different seasons & stuff that's more enjoyable with family vs a couple
Professionally, I use custom ChatGPT's that are based on operating principles and tailored on giving strategic feedback.
Public speaking is something I'm working on myself, so I'm currently using an AI service that tracks my calls in my calendar and tracks analytics such as conciseness/filler words/pacing/weak words quantitatively.

I'd love to know, what are your favorite ways to use AI?

I used AI to help me make the dungeon I use it to find information sources make my analysis of my coding to save time chatGPT is the future for sure

 

[Adam G]

Hi everyone,

I like to use it to save TIME to free up my mental load. My opinion is that it's knowing how to use AI is crucial skillset and the world is going to be divided into people that can use it effectively vs those that don't - not too dissimilar to how search engines were viewed during the start of the internet era.

Here's three ways I like to use it for myself to stuck out to me:
Travel advice and planning itineraries, can be tailored in for myself to factor in activities best for different seasons & stuff that's more enjoyable with family vs a couple
Professionally, I use custom ChatGPT's that are based on operating principles and tailored on giving strategic feedback.
Public speaking is something I'm working on myself, so I'm currently using an AI service that tracks my calls in my calendar and tracks analytics such as conciseness/filler words/pacing/weak words quantitatively.

I'd love to know, what are your favorite ways to use AI?

Thank you for starting this thread!
Could you share a bit more please - how are you using AI to improve your public speaking?

 

[Colin MacLeod]

14. Create eBay listings by screenshots of the product

Wow. That's far out. How did you do that?

 

[Landonclogsalot]

Following this thread, very interested to see other responses. I’ve been toying with AI casually and definitely see the potential in its use for business

 

[HoosierLife]

Wow. That's far out. How did you do that?

Well, it didn’t create the listing on eBay.

It was a custom GPT. Just took a screenshot of the item and it searched up the prices of like sold items, created the description, the headline, everything.

Then you just copy and paste.

Seems like an API connection to eBay would truly automate it. Don’t knowing that exists.

 

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[Gypsy Soul]

I'm trying to generate stock photos for my website using Stable Diffusion XL. Needs more training. Feels like "The SIMS."

 

[M@tt]

Glad nobody mentions Social Media suggestions / Netflix suggestions.

Interesting topic, will follow this topic. Curious how you use it, knowing I should benefit more from AI.

(This post was created without AI....)

 

[Vhwin]

Thank you for starting this thread!
Could you share a bit more please - how are you using AI to improve your public speaking?

I ended up going with Yoodli, it connects with my work calendar and gives analytics on my calls and tracks it quantitatively on a dashboard - I find it helpful because being aware of it has made it easy to make incremental changes over time

For example, it'll highlight the number of weak word/crutches (for example, 'so', 'um', 'uhh') in a call and suggests pausing. Combine that with asking chatgpt for a list of substitute words which I sticky note on my monitor - you get my drift

I'm fortunate to know some great public speakers and have gotten feedback for improvement, the analytics confirmed my areas of improvement and I do love having a pocket coach that can give effective feedback and tracks everything.

There was another one I looked at called Orai but I went with Yoodli because the founder created all their educational YT content when I looked into it and did a TED talk. Hope this helps!

 

[clanis]

In my opinion, a good place to start and keep handy is

https://theresanaiforthat.com/

a huge directory that grows every day, with hundreds of AI apps and services, suitable for any type of job.
You can find everything there (with a little attention to security), from predictive tools for running A/B tests on videos to be published on YouTube, such as Creator ML, to video and audio editing tools, such as OpusClip and Adobe Podcast.

 

[DWX]

Outside of dad jokes and random search queries, I've been using it to help ideate, outline, and even write entire drafts of my fiction.

 

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[Xavier X]

I'm trying to generate stock photos for my website using Stable Diffusion XL. Needs more training. Feels like "The SIMS."

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That first image is terrible. Even Whatsapp's Meta AI will do better than that. Here's one I just generated in it. Not great, but better.

 

[Gypsy Soul]

That first image is terrible. Even Whatsapp's Meta AI will do better than that. Here's one I just generated in it. Not great, but better.

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Yeah it does look better. The polygons are gone. I will check it out. Thanks.

 

[amp0193]

1. Tax return auditing
2. Reading PnLs

I haven’t found it useful for data crunching or analysis.

Just makes shit up that sounds like it could be true, or cherry picks facts, or just does bad math. TBH, I’ve just given up on getting it to work for stuff like this.


Any tips?

 

[HoosierLife]

I haven’t found it useful for data crunching or analysis.

Just makes shit up that sounds like it could be true, or cherry picks facts, or just does bad math. TBH, I’ve just given up on getting it to work for stuff like this.


Any tips?

Yeah you definitely have to treat it like it’s petulant 5 year old. Making up crap.

Usually the custom gpts do better.

But you gotta know half of what you’re doing and know the right questions to ask and know when it’s way off.

Then lead it back.

 

[amp0193]

Usually the custom gpts do better.

That’s a good tip. Forgot about custom GPTs

 

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[HoosierLife]

That’s a good tip. Forgot about custom GPTs

 

[Adam G]

I ended up going with Yoodli, it connects with my work calendar and gives analytics on my calls and tracks it quantitatively on a dashboard - I find it helpful because being aware of it has made it easy to make incremental changes over time

For example, it'll highlight the number of weak word/crutches (for example, 'so', 'um', 'uhh') in a call and suggests pausing. Combine that with asking chatgpt for a list of substitute words which I sticky note on my monitor - you get my drift

I'm fortunate to know some great public speakers and have gotten feedback for improvement, the analytics confirmed my areas of improvement and I do love having a pocket coach that can give effective feedback and tracks everything.

There was another one I looked at called Orai but I went with Yoodli because the founder created all their educational YT content when I looked into it and did a TED talk. Hope this helps!

Thank you for the tip! I'll be using that!

 

[Pawan_Rathore]

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Hi everyone,

I like to use it to save TIME to free up my mental load. My opinion is that it's knowing how to use AI is crucial skillset and the world is going to be divided into people that can use it effectively vs those that don't - not too dissimilar to how search engines were viewed during the start of the internet era.

Here's three ways I like to use it for myself to stuck out to me:
Travel advice and planning itineraries, can be tailored in for myself to factor in activities best for different seasons & stuff that's more enjoyable with family vs a couple
Professionally, I use custom ChatGPT's that are based on operating principles and tailored on giving strategic feedback.
Public speaking is something I'm working on myself, so I'm currently using an AI service that tracks my calls in my calendar and tracks analytics such as conciseness/filler words/pacing/weak words quantitatively.

I'd love to know, what are your favorite ways to use AI?

It's helping me a lot to find innovative business models all over the world... It is really helpful.

 

[BizyDad]

Somewhat surprised there haven't been more responses. People playing it close to the chest on the forum, or maybe people really still aren't adopting as much as I expected.

I'm only recently starting to get into it. Mostly content creation, marketing ideas, story ideas, basic stuff.

 

[Andy Black]

Somewhat surprised there haven't been more responses. People playing it close to the chest on the forum, or maybe people really still aren't adopting as much as I expected.

I'm only recently starting to get into it. Mostly content creation, marketing ideas, story ideas, basic stuff.

Yesterday I was getting ChatGPT to write a Google Sheets formula, to pull out the first line of addresses from a list of addresses people had entered into a free form field.

 

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[ivary]

In addition to writing emails and letters, I have used Claude and ChatGPT in recent weeks/months to

- Write different software tools in different languages. Helped with complex algorithms in C for example...

- Write two Python tools to extract data from the API of a time tracking software, calculate overtime pay and generate Excel spreadsheets for the tax office and accounting department.

--> Claude was much better at python than ChatGPT.

- Used as a legal advisor in a neighbourhood dispute to answer and argue in response to letters from lawyers.

--> Again I think Claude is better at this. Even my lawyer used my texts (formulated arguments) in his letter

 

[S.Y.]

I have been using AI mainly for thinking and researching.

I just started using Perplexity AI, and it is slowly replacing Google search. It is very intuitive and so far has been providing good results.

I have the premium version of ChatGPT. In the last four weeks I have used it:
- create quick learning plans for topics I was interested in diving into
- explore the field of longevity and identify empirically what has been working
- as a running coach
- as a thinking tool to challenge and identify my biases
- to draft messages to send to a few people in my network
- explore opportunities in a field I am planning to launch a business into
- to find fun activities to do in cities
- to plan adventures

It is also integrated with Obsidian, which is the app I use to store information and to think:
- it helps identify other notes I have that have similar information
- it also has a chat that I can use for prompts from within Obsidian (using the ChatGPI API)


Also: Top 100+ Generative AI Applications / Use Cases in 2024

 

[HoosierLife]

Well, we're about to launch our Voice AI. Have 270 registered for the webinar for Tuesday. Should double that to 500 by launch time.

 

[MouseTrap]

Learning, learning, learning.

AI has changed my life! Anything I need to learn is now a conversation with an unlimited amount of patience teacher. Until I figured out that the more complex you make the questions the better the answers, I was just asking it stupid stuff like "turn on dark mode".

On Windows we can do a Win + H to "open the mic", and then just start babbling away with a ridiculously long, complex, don't matter about spelling, no need to fix the sentence afterwards, endlessly detailed question about the thing I am trying to learn. It comprehends way better than I ever dreamed, has total recall of every detail in the question, you can tell it to respond with an incredible amount of specificity; and what I don't understand I can then ask an equally long follow up to an already detailed answer provided (with voice), answers in table form, list form, bullets, PDF's on and on.

I have zero interest in creating custom CSS for my simple websites, but now I have no fear at all in delving into some of that as needed because I can just ask it to spit out the code, or I can spit code at it and ask it what the code does.

It doesn't matter that I pause and fumble my words and don't quite get the words out in the right order, it knows what I meant to say, comprehends the totality of the questions and spits out mostly accurate answers. I am lucky in that I do seem to have a special talent for knowing when things it says are not quite accurate for what I am trying to accomplish, trust but verify.

When I began to apply it to the things I was trying to learn, Power BI, Power Automate, WordPress, Excel I discovered an unperfect but mostly accurate encyclopedia of answers that could be followed up on and drilled down upon.

I never expected to be able to have a real back and forth conversation with an intelligent entity like this that I could learn from 24/7 for free in this decade. It came so fast, and it's growing better even faster.

I look forward applying it to helping me here with my future dream of creating a new income stream.

I haven't needed to go any further than the free version of Co-Pilot. I did try the pay versions for a couple of months but did not have the need as the application specific versions were no better at answering my questions.

I may try Elons AI soon as I am an avid X user, and think it is probably only a matter of time before I subscribe to something I use every day. Elons AI takes on all question whereas some of the others will not delve into what they deem to be sensitive subjects.