Individuals would possibly get the impression that I’m one thing of a Luddite. I don’t use social media in any respect in my private life and make use of it solely sparingly in my skilled one. I don’t care a lot for watching on-line movies. I’ve hosted loads of visitors on the podcast who criticize trendy tech.
Given this, individuals may think that I don’t look after the most recent technological innovation on the block: AI.
However truthfully, I type of adore it. It’s fairly wonderful. It makes me really feel like that is an superior time to be alive.
There are some legit issues to have about AI, to make certain. It’s not all the time correct and never but nice at every part. But when utilized in the suitable manner and with the suitable stance, AI could be actually useful, bettering your life and making it higher and simpler. It’s like having a private assistant with out paying private assistant costs.
The wonderful thing about utilizing AI like ChatGPT is that, not like doing a Google search the place it’s a must to sift by means of numerous web sites, conflicting opinions, and infinite data, you get a single, streamlined reply. Is it actually the most effective, most definitive reply? Possibly not, however oftentimes it’s good simply to be given one choice. Once more, it’s like having a private assistant; they might not all the time fulfill your requests 100% optimally, however the time, bandwidth, and frustration you save by delegating a process in a turnkey manner makes the tradeoff effectively value it.
30 Helpful Methods to Use AI
AI is new sufficient that individuals are nonetheless discovering the other ways it may be employed. Beneath are a few of the issues Kate and I’ve been utilizing AI for in our work and private lives; possibly it provides you with some concepts you haven’t considered.
Many of the strategies under could be performed with the free model of ChatGPT, although I exploit and would advocate the premium model. (As a facet notice, I’ve tried utilizing ChatGPTs new AI agent characteristic the place it might do issues like guide lodge rooms and flights for you. I didn’t discover it significantly helpful, nor definitely worth the $200 a month it’s a must to pay to entry it. Possibly it would get higher.) There are another AI instruments I feel are useful that I’ll point out with the related duties I exploit them for.
Well being & Wellness
Determine a well being challenge. I’ve changed Dr. Google with Dr. ChatGPT. I’ll simply sort in my signs (and generally add an image — don’t overlook that AI can analyze photographs!) and ask ChatGPT in regards to the potential causes. For instance, I’ve been having some ache in my quads these days. I couldn’t decide if it was a muscle pressure or a tendon challenge. So I informed ChatGPT the place my ache was, what the ache felt like, once I skilled it, and what precipitated the ache. ChatGPT helped me determine that I’m coping with a muscle pressure and never a tendon challenge. My daughter had some bumps present up on her foot the opposite week, and I couldn’t inform what it was. So I snapped a pic, uploaded it to ChatGPT, and requested, “What is that this?” ChatGPT dominated it a bug chew. Must you depend on ChatGPT to diagnose you for large points? No, however it might show you how to troubleshoot minor issues and know when to seek the advice of a healthcare supplier (when unsure, go see a doc!).Clarify medical check outcomes. I’ve used ChatGPT to assist clarify medical check outcomes I’ve gotten in phrases I can perceive. My father-in-law lately acquired an EKG and the heart specialist solely spent a couple of minutes giving him a cursory clarification of the outcomes. My FIL then went dwelling and ran the outcomes by means of AI, which gave him much more particulars.Generate exercise plans. AI can provide you a months-long exercise plan; simply inform it issues like your age, your targets, how a lot time you’ve gotten, and what gear you’ve gotten entry to. I’ve a human coach to do this sort of programming for me, however I’ll use ChatGPT to whip up a exercise on the fly. For instance, if I’m touring, I can inform ChatGPT, “I’m in a lodge fitness center that has a cable machine and a set of dumbbells. I’ve half-hour to coach. Generate an upper-body exercise that I can do with an emphasis on shoulders.” It immediately provides up a strong exercise I can carry out with the accessible gear.Estimate macros. ChatGPT has been actually helpful in my macro monitoring. One challenge I’ve had with counting macros is estimating the macros for a homecooked meal. Now I’ll simply snap an image of the recipe and ask ChatGPT for an estimate of the macro breakdown for a serving. It’s not going to be tremendous correct, but it surely will get you within the ballpark, and that’s ok. One other manner I’ve used ChatGPT for macro counting is to assist me determine what to eat at a restaurant so that it’s going to match my macros. Right here’s a immediate I’ve used: “Listed below are my remaining macros for the day: ______. What can I get at [insert restaurant] that can match my macros?”
Dwelling & Life-style
Diagnose dwelling restore points. I’ve been utilizing ChatGPT to assist with dwelling restore points. The opposite day, I used to be putting in a fan. My outlet had extra wires popping out of it than what the set up directions mentioned there can be. So I snapped a pic of the set up directions, informed ChatGPT I had an additional wire not listed within the directions, after which requested what I ought to do with that further wire — I acquired the right reply in a number of seconds. One other challenge I had once I put in the fan was that one of many lock washers acquired caught on a screw, and I couldn’t get it off. So I snapped a pic of the screw and caught washer, informed ChatGPT the issue, and requested how I may get the washer off. It gave me a solution that labored.Work by means of dwelling enchancment estimates. Our upstairs bonus room wants some transforming. We acquired an estimate from a contractor, and it was manner over our funds. So I uploaded the line-item estimate to ChatGPT and began asking it questions like “How may we cut back the associated fee by $____? What may we remove from this estimate?” It helped us work by means of some eventualities rapidly to determine an method that will work for the way a lot we wished to spend.Translate laundry care symbols. The laundry care directions on a garment’s tag are generally given in symbols reasonably than textual content. In the event you don’t know what the symbols imply, snap a pic and ChatGPT will translate the symbols into written directions.Determine what’s happening with the vegetation in your backyard. I planted a tree in my yard final spring. In the course of the fall, the leaves began getting black spots on them. So I snapped a pic and requested ChatGPT, “What’s happening with my tree? Why are there black spots?” I acquired a solution and was capable of take motion to treatment the difficulty.
Private Help & Productiveness
Transcribe and summarize YouTube movies. I don’t care a lot for the overwhelming majority of on-line video. I a lot desire to learn issues. So, I exploit Tactiq, an AI instrument, to transcribe YouTube movies immediately. I can then learn, scan, and skim the transcript to get the data I’m on the lookout for rapidly. I’ll generally additionally run the transcript by means of ChatGPT to provide me a cleaned-up abstract.Transcribe the conversations you’ve gotten with your self within the automobile. After I’m alone in my automobile, I speak to myself. It’s how I work by means of issues. I’ll additionally speak to myself within the automobile whereas making an attempt to arrange my ideas for writing. Now, I transcribe the conversations I’ve with myself utilizing Otter.ai. I can then ask Otter.ai questions on my dialog to assist make clear and summarize the details. A number of articles I’ve written on AoM have began as Otter.ai transcriptions from my automobile.Manage your laptop. By no means lose a file once more by permitting AI to arrange your recordsdata for you. I’ve been utilizing Sparkle, and it really works like a champ.Use it as a coin toss in shut choices. After I’ve acquired a minor choice to make and might’t resolve between two shut choices, I’ll ask Claude or ChatGPT for its opinion and resolve to go along with whichever one it picks. I principally deal with it as a coin-toss mechanism that offers me barely extra confidence within the consequence than really flipping a coin.Use NotebookLM as a analysis assistant. I like utilizing NotebookLM for the analysis a part of my writing course of. I enter all my notes into NotebookLM, after which NotebookLM creates a chatbot primarily based on these notes. I can then use my chatbot as a analysis assistant. “Discover me quotes about ____ matter.” “Are there any connections between ____ and ____?” “Give me a abstract about ____.” It doesn’t pull in exterior data, which retains its solutions centered on the particular notes I need solutions sourced from and reduces hallucinations.
Meals & Cooking
Generate a recipe. Consider a dish and ChatGPT can generate a recipe for it. Simply say, “Give me a recipe for coconut curry hen,” and it spits out a recipe. Are the recipes that AI produces going to be nearly as good as these you discover on cooking web sites? Most likely not, however generally you don’t wish to kind by means of all of the variations on the market and skim by means of all of the narrative fluff meals blogs encompass their recipes with.Generate a recipe primarily based on what you’ve gotten readily available. You can’t solely use AI to generate a random recipe, you possibly can inform it what you’ve gotten readily available and have it give you one thing you may make with these substances. For instance: “I’ve leftover white rice, Mexican cheese, a tomato, and a rotisserie hen. What can I make for dinner?” It would then generate a number of recipe choices that use these substances.Modify a recipe. Feed an present recipe into ChatGPT and ask for it to be modified, e.g., “Make this recipe dairy-free,” or “Scale the measurements as much as serve twelve individuals.”Manage your grocery record. When you write out a giant grocery record, you possibly can ask ChatGPT to arrange the gadgets by sections within the grocery retailer. You can too feed it a recipe, and it provides you with a purchasing record organized the identical manner. It makes purchasing much more environment friendly.
Journey & Planning
Create an itinerary for a visit. Simply inform ChatGPT the place you’re touring to, what number of days you’ll be there, what pursuits you, the age of your children, the place you’re staying, and so on., and it’ll offer you a steered itinerary in a number of seconds. You don’t must comply with the itinerary to a T, however it might make for a useful start line in creating your individual plan for the journey.Get lodge suggestions. It may be onerous to kind by means of all of a vacation spot’s lodge choices to seek out the one which’s best for you. ChatGPT can provide you some suggestions primarily based on a immediate like, “What’s a lodge in New Orleans that’s household pleasant, in a quiet a part of the town, and has a great fitness center?”Construct a packing record. Inform ChatGPT the place you’ll you’re going, what the climate might be like, and what number of days you’ll be gone, and it’ll spit out a packing record.Translate on the fly. ChatGPT is fairly dang good at translating issues, which may turn out to be useful whenever you’re out of the country and don’t converse the language. Snap an image of an indication, doc, or menu to get an immediate translation.
Training
Get homework assist. Are you stumped with a phrase drawback your child is engaged on for homework? Snap a pic of the issue and ask ChatGPT to interrupt it down. Ask for it to point out you the steps for fixing it, reasonably than simply giving the reply. Nice for serving to your child (and also you!) perceive the method.Chat with a studying tutor. After I’m studying a guide, I’ll use ChatGPT like my private tutor. For instance, proper now I’m re-reading Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. I simply completed chapter 3. So I began peppering ChatGPT with questions: “What’s happening in chapter 3? What do literary critics say about chapter 3? What symbols seem in chapter 3? What themes are being explored? What’s the historic background of this chapter?” The chatbot helps me perceive the guide on a deeper stage and see issues I might need missed. The trick is to get increasingly more particular along with your questions.Summarize scientific research. We reference loads of scientific research in our articles. I’ll paste in a hyperlink (when the entire research is offered on-line) or add a research (when it’s a must to pay to entry a pdf) and ask ChatGPT for a brief, accessible abstract.
Enterprise & Skilled
Brainstorm and work by means of enterprise points. I’ve been utilizing Claude to assist me assume by means of enterprise points. I can inform it an thought I’ve, what I plan on doing, issues I’m eager about, and so on. I then chat backwards and forwards with it as I work by means of the totally different points. I don’t search for solutions from Claude, however reasonably use it as a sounding board to do my very own private reflection.Carry out information evaluation. I exploit ChatGPT to investigate AoM-related information. I’ll add a CSV file of stats and begin asking ChatGPT questions on it. This type of evaluation used to take hours to do, however now solely requires a couple of minutes.Repair bugs in your code. A difficulty I’ve run into a number of instances is our web site breaking after I make an improve or code change. I’ll add the code and ask ChatGPT, “What’s inflicting this to interrupt?” What used to take an hour of Googling and trial and error to repair now simply takes a second.Simplify legalese. Received a contract that you just don’t perceive? Add it to ChatGPT and ask it to summarize issues in layman’s phrases.
Leisure & Occasions
Generate sport and exercise concepts. We’ve used ChatGPT to generate sport and exercise concepts to do with our church youth group on Wednesday nights.Generate guide and film concepts. We’ve requested ChatGPT to give you concepts for books and films to learn and watch collectively as a household. A great immediate is one thing like, “We’ve acquired a 14-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter. We’ve loved the next films collectively: _______ What are 5 films that we additionally would possibly get pleasure from?” Are the concepts all winners? No. However some are.
There’s some fear that AI will make us much less clever, and that danger exists if individuals use it mindlessly as a whole substitute for pondering and energy. Nevertheless, when employed judiciously, I discover it enhances my creativity and expands my capacities — streamlining tedious duties and liberating me to concentrate on what’s extra fulfilling, significant, and necessary.
