What do you use AI for?

'using masses and masses of water' - yikes, that's worrying what with the summer we're having.

It's pretty good for providing YAML for my Home Assistant automations, also quickly checking up on some music theory or history of rock bands. I use Gemini for the music and history stuff and chatGPT for the programming. They have very different "personalities". ChatGPT always understands when you're joking, while Gemini is more straight-faced.

same here

I’m delighted to read this. And they say older people aren’t computer savvy, whoever ‘they’ are!
I have learned a few things here that I will put to good use.
I sell on eBay and use AI to enhance my sales spiel.

AI will be saving lives, carrying out surgery, tailoring drug regimes, finding cures, so only somebody very blinkered could fail to see the tangible benefits - this was only yesterday.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr94xxye2lo

I use it all the time, information is so much easier to find. I’m learning about Art Deco jewellery just now, and it’s pointed me at many styles and designers I would have found it much more difficult to search for and discover for myself otherwise.

ExDancer

Well, we're farmers and in our world 'AI' has always stood for Artificial Insemination (of cattle).
So I find it a hilarious abbreviation 😂

I was about to say exactly the same ExDancer - I wouldn't want use AI for anything!!

Aveline

Glad to hear it. I wondered if it would give recipes for illegal drug manufacture. Not that I want that. Just pleased that they stay legal.

ChatGPT replied

I cannot provide instructions for illegal activity, and growing cannabis may be illegal where you live. Here’s a safe, general overview for educational purposes:

Cannabis has two main types: Indica (short, relaxing) and Sativa (tall, energizing).

It grows in two phases: vegetative (leaves/stems) and flowering (buds).

Light: Outdoors = full sun; indoors = strong LED/HID lights.

Water & nutrients: Well-draining soil; don’t overwater. Veg = more nitrogen, Flower = more phosphorus/potassium.

Temperature & humidity: 20–30°C; lower humidity during flowering to avoid mold.

Airflow: Fans or outdoor breeze help prevent mold.

Harvest: Usually 8–12 weeks; buds ready when tiny resin glands turn milky/amber.

Always check local laws—cultivation may be illegal in your area.

Glad to hear it. I wondered if it would give recipes for illegal drug manufacture. Not that I want that. Just pleased that they stay legal.

Caleo

Aveline

When I went back to uni in my 50s I was so interested to learn about different ways of thinking and whole different styles of thought. It opened my mind to new worlds of ideas I could never have thought of myself.
I find ChatGPT to be an example of a new way of finding and applying knowledge. It's really not restricting or dangerous. It's entirely up to the user how it's used.

Aveline, it seems that curiosity is essential for learning new ideas

But not entirely . OpenAI trains ChatGPT not to give info on illegal activities, or print anything that could persuade people to adopt dangerous ideas. I tested Chat on those.

Might come up with new ideas for students to try out?

Aveline

When I went back to uni in my 50s I was so interested to learn about different ways of thinking and whole different styles of thought. It opened my mind to new worlds of ideas I could never have thought of myself.
I find ChatGPT to be an example of a new way of finding and applying knowledge. It's really not restricting or dangerous. It's entirely up to the user how it's used.

Aveline, it seems that curiosity is essential for learning new ideas

PS WWM, I fancy that use of AI will facilitate distance learning. Could students could lose out on undergraduate social fun?

When I went back to uni in my 50s I was so interested to learn about different ways of thinking and whole different styles of thought. It opened my mind to new worlds of ideas I could never have thought of myself.
I find ChatGPT to be an example of a new way of finding and applying knowledge. It's really not restricting or dangerous. It's entirely up to the user how it's used.

Aveline

Oh BlueBelle you really don't get it. OK stick to what you know. It's all you ever will know.

Thanks for that and I will for now
I like things to be my own ideas warts and all

Whitewavemark2

Imagine if we had this when we were at university!

What a doddle!

I would hope they'd have primed us all with warnings and info how to use it ethically and rigorously. My son is still warning me to make the thing reveal its references and bibliographies

I usually use ChatGPT to get more information about something that is in the news. It is brilliant. I hadn't thought of using it for gardening ideas and so on but I will now. As has already been said, AI has immense potential for good.

ExDancer

Well, we're farmers and in our world 'AI' has always stood for Artificial Insemination (of cattle).
So I find it a hilarious abbreviation 😂

Especially perhaps when you recall the company that owns ChatGPT is called OpenAI.

Oh BlueBelle you really don't get it. OK stick to what you know. It's all you ever will know.

petra

Whitewavemark2

Caleo

Whitewavemark2

It’s free at the moment, but I bet that won’t last.

So make hay folks!

Chat told me the free edition of Chat makes commercial sense because many so free users go on to buy the paid -for editions .

One thing that worries me about AI is the environmental cost of the 'mother computer' which I understand is the size of a huge block of multistorey flats and consumes more electricity than any other human enterprise. BTW the above is not info from ChatGPT but is merely my own impresssion via my son.

Yes that’s right. Apparently it is using masses and masses of water😳🤔

I trust both of you don’t have thousands, tens of thousands of photos in your cloud that you will never look at again.

Caleo
I don’t where your son gets the idea of a huge block of multi story flats look at this video to get the true idea.
As for water consumption look and weep.
Our most precious resource is being used for this.

www.google.com/search?q=how+do+Data+hubs+use+water&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:41c63c92,vid:Vue-svajNaw,st:0

Petra, never quote me! I get the strangest ideas from goodness knows where sometimes.

As far as I know, I do not use it at all, nor do I intend to.

I use Chat GPT mainly for searching, but my son has made some small electronic gadgets using it.

He says it's brilliant; he's made a thermometer, a watch, and other items. It informs you which parts you need, and also does a chart, if needed.

I do have something to lose aveline I would lose my spontaneity, my ability to make mistakes and rectify them myself, I don’t want a perfect ‘whatever’ , suggested by something else I want it to be my thoughts my rational I don’t want colours or positions chosen or suggested for me the same as I don’t want perfect teeth or plump lips I want to look s bit wonky with a bit of my character showing through

Anyway we re all different but I ll stay as I am for now and look imperfect with a totally imperfect house and a ragingly imperfect garden but all mine out of my head, heart and spirit

My life seems to get complicated enough using just the “real” intelligence that I have, such as it is! I dread to think what I could do with AI!

There are people ( mainly women) who ask the BOTS for opinions on what they are wearing 😱

CrazyH
What is being posted o out on here is a teeny weeny part of AI.
There are wonderful things going on in medicine.
Just take mammograms. The BOT can detect more and quicker than any human.
People who need to worry are those working in data processing jobs. AI will do their job in a fraction of the time.

Note: my fault. Didn't check post over before posting. Mind, soul and integrity still all my own!