Have you seen AI used anywhere successfully in a new way, recently?

OP, same as you - only summarize meetings on Microsoft Teams, yet AI comes up in every meeting, our internal. blogs, etc.

Yes. Being a teacher one used to use old lesson plans or Google this and that for new ideas and such.

I created a whole semester of daily lesson plans in a couple of hours using it. It also, oddly, even suggested things that I already do.

Some young whippersnapper suggested it to me. Many teachers think it is "cheating. Meh..it's doing the exact same thing you would do but in seconds.

I’ve seen it work for smaller projects like R2 describes. Lesson plans, a resume, planning a trip. The big corporate applications are still all just talk, as far as I can see. They’ve done a few things at my firm and they aren’t great.

But it seems powerful. I think it will have an impact. It’s just a matter of time and I don’t think the timeline will be that long. Five years.

Why would you want to use it for something fun like planning a trip? I am an artist and I fucking HATE AI generated images. So lame and uncool.

I think it's going to change the way we write. Syntax and that stuff. Much like photography gave rise to Impression, Post-Impressionism, and Modernism.

Shyntacksh.

My favorite part will be when it starts replacing all these smug coders who think they run the world. It's already starting to replace all the writers and designers and marketing people who work around them.

All these commercials spouting AI for helping to write an email. Like WTF do you have a corporate job if you can’t write an email?

If you REALLY loved planning trips, you would use every tool at your disposal, not reject one. What if AI came up with an idea you missed?

Ah...but how to teach using it to the kids responsibly.

That is a question.

Off to ChatGPT!

AI already suggests how to write an email. It's already there.

Advances in technology often seem very clunky and disappointing at first. PCs. The Internet. Mobile phones. Texting. Web access on a cell phone,

[quote]I fucking HATE AI generated images. So lame and uncool.

And great fun.

Ha! It's now making a semester's worth of ACT vocabulary for me.

I edit using Premiere Pro and have used the new AI feature to edit music to fit a scene. I usually do the music editing...listening for parts I want to cut out and the piece back together. It's a challenging process but I have always enjoyed it. Now, I just pick a piece of music from our music library and tell the software how long I want the piece. It can edit it to be longer or shorter. It takes about 15 seconds and it's seamless. Music editors might be in trouble...although you will still need an ear to listen to the results or sometimes I still have to do it myself if I want to hit a specific beat that matches my video.

There are several threads where it's being used very successfully indeed here. 🤣🤣🤣

I use it regularly to write scenarios to jerk off to.

I’m using it as a collaborator on marketing strategy and content creation (I’m still final editor). It’s cut my development time by 80% and quality and consistency are better.

What kind of lazy fuck are you? If a random word generator provides better quality and consistency than your own brain, then I invite you to depart via the ledge on a nearby high-rise window.

Meh, I updated my resume and it barely changed anything. Perhaps, some better adjectives.

Only old people think AI is cool.

I'm using Goblin Tools right now. It's helping me generate and organize my to-do list for the house. I also make goofy AI pictures of my dog -- strictly for my own amusement. I don't pass it off as my "art" or anything.

That's it. The rest of it is useless to me.

Another grift

I relish the day, which will be this year, when I can fire my two whiny, bratty and self-entitled Gen Z marketing associates (a content writer and a social media person). The content and planning calendars I've created through it have been superior to their output. The only thing it's not good at is creating video for social, but that can be outsourced to a human, and I save $80k by firing the social media person (plus another $85k for the content writer).

Tick tock, bitches! Go whine in the unemployment line.

The way of the future. No escaping it.

R12 is correct. Anybody who doesn't pay attention to what's going on will be left behind, skeptics will likely lose opportunity to make money out of the transition. Even if the long-term outcomes are what we think they are, staying a breast of this as an insurance policy against job loss and financial ruin is probably a good idea.

Obviously using it to streamline automative tasks or research is great. But anyone that thinks it should be used to write movies or create art has no taste. . What’s the point? It just regurgitates stuff that’s already out there and there’s already enough of that. And write an email? If you can’t write an email then can you even tell AI what you want?

Why yes, OP, I've seen many businesses and universities successfully use AI to fire numerous lower-ranking employees and use the money they saved to hire upper-level administrators at much higher salaries. That way there's less planning and proofreading, but a lot more emails (which take longer to read and have to be clarified).

I've used it to assist me in writing an email, to address and explain certain issues; it still needs to be edited to sound like a human wrote it.

I like AI.

Until they take over and make us slaves.

What people aren't getting about AI is it still won't get your groceries and clean your house and do physical work, but it does speed up the kind of work that supports billionaires. Why do you think are those tech billionaires are libertarians and hate regulations? The massive tech layoffs are the canary in the coalmine.

The fixes will come later than the technology does, as it always does,. And everyone will just throw up their hands and say it was all collateral damage when people's lives are ruined. This is why it's especially important to have a lot of options waiting for you in case your current plans for financial security fuck up.

If I were creating an AI program for lazy, uncreative teachers and such like this in this thread, I'd have it insert "suck my dick" at some random point when it is inevitably used to create a worksheet for the students or to send an email to parents. It would wait until you got in the habit of trusting it so much you started to copy/paste without thinking (andvthiswill happen since you're lszy), then BOOM. Yes, I'm a terrible person.

At its core, AI is derivative and rips off human labor. It doesn't create. It synthesizes what humans have already made. It plagiarizes, essentially.

Ha! Those teachers against it are using it on district approved apps anyway.

These same teachers still use online lessons they created during Covid. Who are the lazy ones?

I do my job very well, thank you.

I’ve used it once but it helped me in a pinch. I do communications for a very disorganized public agency. They sent me some grant info to make into a press release. It was 445 and I’m done at 5. Wasn’t even a decent sized grant. But like a good little drone, I would do it. I dumped it in an AI program on my personal computer, made some changes and emailed it back to my work laptop. Dropped it onto letterhead, emailed it out and was done at 5 on the dot.

I realize this is probably ending my “profession” but I am not a fan of comms and boy that was handy, so what.

Teachers using AI for lesson plans are the last people I’d criticize for taking using AI. They still have to get up in front of a room and deliver the content and provide feedback and answer questions. So they are automating an aspect of their job that was already not usually created from scratch. That’s a good thing.

I taught some undergraduate course last as an adjunct and the lesson plans took forever. I felt I had to do it because it helped me understand how best to present the material. But I’d give AI a shot if I had to do it again. And I would imagine it would be far more effective for an tracher of younger students who has a defined curriculum.

I work at a university and I'm sick and tired of the topic of AI and how we need to adapt to it. This summer, I went to some strategic planning meeting, organized by the admins, where they hadn't given us an agenda in advance and when we started, I told the people at the table: "If one of the topics is AI, I'm walking out of here!" Most of those conversations are this "fear, uncertainty, doubt" nonsense, where the loudest voices are precisely those who know very little about how AI works.

I'm actually teaching a course in computational complexity in the Fall and my policy is: midterms and final exam we do in class and they can't use AI or anything else. But, those are the problems and things that are in the textbook (and lecture notes), so they don't need anything. For the assignments, I allow them to use whatever they want, AI included, but those are trickier problems where they would need to go to the library, look at things besides the textbook including online resources, and, if you're allowing that, you may as well let them use AI. They have to acknowledge it, write the solution in their own words, and I reserve the right to probe what they submitted by asking them to explain the solutions using the whiteboard. It's not a large class, so I can do it.

See, there is some responsible use they need to know. It's my job.

I use it at work to spew out formulas for Spreadsheets.

It will replace many, many jobs in a very short period of time. We are not ready. The tech layoffs are child’s play compared to the enormous change in the office workforce and the creative industry.

Creating flashcards, but you have to double check. Some info is just stubbornly wrong. (My topic was art history for a test.) I also want to try chatGPT for learning a new language. Does anyone have any experience in this regard?

Ahh, that's where finessing your language come into play.

[quote] Teachers using AI for lesson plans are the last people I’d criticize for taking using AI. They still have to get up in front of a room and deliver the content and provide feedback and answer questions. So they are automating an aspect of their job that was already not usually created from scratch. That’s a good thing.

This!

I've only seen trash so far from people who've submitted AI-generated (and presumably human edited) documents.

Slippery slope and the workforce already isn't able to make change or, in the case of post-docs I manage, think straight.

Why the fuck aren't you creating your own art history flash cards? Here's a tip: Create your own flash cards, in your own writing, not typed. The act of writing it by hand will help you remember. I do this even with programming and tech topics. Writing at least one set of notes/flash cards by hand really helps the memory.

I started a ChatGPT conversation beginning with "what should we do tonight" which ended up turning into a very elaborate story spanning decades. The "conversation" was finally deemed too long to continue by ChatGPT and cut off. I downloaded it into Word and it was a 400 page, 160,000 word doc.

Yes, it's extensively used in photography.

R43, exactly. I read the textbook, take way too many notes, and then I make flashcards for key vocab words. I got a 95% on my last two final exams. For me, it's all about writing the information down. I have Google Docs full of class notes that I rarely consult after the fact.

Unfortunately for me, I'm also studying data analytics, so my future job may or may not eventually be eliminated by AI.

What are the best AI platforms for writing reports, etc., with prompts?

I'm using it to create designs for T-shirts also magnets, stickers, pin buttons also laser engraved pet tags, for my Etsy stores (three separate stores). But didn't really had that much success yet. Even with the help of AI, it takes a lot of time

R48, does it take less time than you yourself would take if you tried working the task out without AI?

I love what AI thinks gymnastics looks like; limbs sprouting from butts; legs for arms; decapitated heads....

R49 hell yeah. To create some of these designs it would take you days. AI creates dozens in 30 minutes. But you still need to clean up the designs, remove the background, fix the misspellings, vectorize it for laser engraving.... Also, human brain has blockages, it's hard to come up with new ideas sometimes. AI never runs out of ideas.

P.S. sorry for my bad English.

Thanks r51. And your English is fine.

Will Smith eating spaghetti looks true to form, too!

AI and robotics have its place and can be beneficial in a limited capacity. The problem is most businesses are looking for a way to outsource these programs to eliminate a sizeable number of their workforce. Then when something goes horribly wrong, which from my experience frequently does, they have to scramble to hire back new temp workers instead for a extended period of time. In the meantime the full time employees are out of work.

My higher-ups are salivating at the use of AI with the end goal of cutting costs, i.e., letting a bunch of people go. I am not opposed to AI in the abstract if it works. However, what do all these execs think will happen when even more folks are plunged into unemployment? The target market for my company is the middle market which is slowly being whittled away, in part, due to greedy execs and boards who only think as far out as the next quarter.

R55 capitalism always eats itself

Very.

Generative AI has limited commercial or consumer application. The tech sector has over promised and will under deliver on AI, which will probably tank the economy in the next couple of months. Nothing about AI adds up. It’s not good enough to automate processes like driving or coding, meanwhile it’s very expensive in terms of energy, compute and storage. Just another bullshit pump and dump VC hype cycle like crypto and Web 3.0, except this one will probably tip us into recession.

The other thing is that the processing power for AI is massive, and there will be serious conversations to come about the carbon footprint of this technology. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. The data centers in the Republic of Ireland use more electricity than all of the households combined, for example, and it's pretty gross that they tech companies are encouraging you to use extra processing power for things that can be performed on a simple Google search.

A lot of people say AI is bad and won't amount to anything.

Don't forget, it is still very much in its infant stages right now.

I don't like people putting down Al. He's an alright guy even if he is still working as a shoe salesman.