AI: Since I can't beat it...

Why don't you start by asking ChatGPT why your life is pathetic and who you became so out of touch? You'll get an answer.

OP, a very simple way to get acquainted with AI is to sign up for ChatGPT (or Google’s Gemini) and simply replace your google searches with ChatGPT.

For images/inspiration, you should still stick with traditional Google Images, but anything else -> ask AI.

Thanks R2!

Appreciate it.

My pleasure, R3.

And to give you a bit of an idea of what types of queries you could throw at ChatGPT just to get a feel for it:

1. I will drive from Paris to Munich, no more than 2 days total. Generate an itinerary that allows me to take a break every 2,5h somewhere interesting, like a castle, a park, a museum. Also estimate how much that trip would cost me in terms of fuel at 7L/100km, 1.70€ a liter.

2. I live in London and I want to get out of the house this weekend: Give me some ideas for a nice afternoon on the town, with a bit of culture and some culinary exploration peppered in. Must all be walkable, not overly touristy.

3. Act as if you are my lawyer, specialised in Spanish tenant law, specifically Malaga. My landlord wants to raise my rent by 15%. Draft a response, in Spanish, saying I object to the rent hike. Please make my case by referencing law articles/paragraphs and known cases.

4. Here are my notes from yesterday's meeting with Johann, Louise, Bart, and Philipp. There are some to-do's and decisions in there: Turn my notes into coherent meeting minutes.

5. It's Sunday, the stores are closed. In my fridge I have eggs, a handful of potatoes, some cauliflower, half a bottle of Chardonnay, and 300g of ground beef. Generate two recipes for me to choose from, must be quick and easy.

Given Google's recent announcement about AlphaEvolve, it's probably the most powerful model for chatting out there. I don't use any others, although I do occasionally fact check it or compare it with the French Le Chat (from Mistral), and Microsoft's Copilot (based on ChatGPT). Sometimes Anthropic's Claude as well. I tried actual ChatGPT app on my phone once and it took so much time to answer my test question about the First Crusade, I deleted it immediately.

I use Gemini at least five times a day. Not just for facts and to help me with my purchasing decisions, but also for grammar. For example, I paste a sentence in with quotation marks and ask it if it's correct or if it needs commas – that's the thing I've always struggled with in English as they're used much more in my language. Or I ask it for an adjective for a certain noun, for a fancier term that fits a given description, to identify paintings I see online, flowers I see outside, to instruct me what to do if I skipped a dose for a certain medication, explain to me the Wars of the Roses like I'm twelve...

The possibilities are endless. I barely search anymore, and even there I rely on Gemini's digest at the top. Where the fuck was this shit all my life?!

DeepSeek and Perplexity are better than GPT.

OP you don't need a course. Just start using it. Try it for different tasks. Try different ways of engaging it.

PerplexityAI is good for summing up stories in your area of interest and or discovering new content from those areas, I use it too keep up with developments in tech.

DeepSeek is Chinese, with all the problems that entails, especially on the privacy front. They were busted sharing user data with TikTok, for example. They also keep postponing the release of their new R2 model, probably because they can't keep appropriating OpenAI's breakthroughs as easily as they did before.

R8 I would rather send my data to the CCP who has no issue with me, than Trump and Peter Thiel who want to put me in a gas chamber for wishing people had healthcare. DeepSeek gives better responses as a general chat partner IMO, and the reasoning feature is really helpful at getting you to improve and iterate on your prompts. If you pay for perplexity, you can use their platform to basically interact with a council of models too.

The immature peekaboo troll strikes again. My ignore list has been looking empty lately, so on you pop!

I love it on a steak!

Was OP written by AI? Was the prompt "write a post promoting AI, but from a moron's perspective?"

AI = Ass Ingestion?

R10 - Are you saying that about R9 or OP?