OT: AI use

[ihatepants]

How?

AI alone is projected to use as much electricity annually as 22% of all homes within the United States by 2028. Only about 40% of electricity produced by the USA is from clean energy or renewable energy sources, possibly dropping even more since there seems to be a lot of lies being spread recently about the "harm" done by clean/renewable energy.

 

[TheShot1990]

I use ChatGPT for personal and professional use daily:
1) Write a recommendation letter for my neighbor to become a house/pool member of my country club who I've know for 8 years
2) take these 2 pdf travel itineraries and create a word document comparing them side by side with the date on the left. Put the hotels in bold and the flights in blue and include price summary for both at the bottom
3) Write me a VBA program that will take the data in sheet1 and sheet2 and create a table in a new tab, sheet3 that totals the X, Y and Z
4) Write me an excel formula in cell z43 that does blah blah blah (then just cut and past into cell z43)

 

[John]

How?

extreme electricity requirements

 

[uconnfan68]

extreme electricity requirements

Worse than bitcoin mining?

 

[GlastonTim]

I’ve asked to interpret CAT scan and MRI results. Explains in layman’s terms and suggests treatments if prompted. Very helpful.

 

[Spaceman213J]

It is used by many of the teachers at the school I work at. The students are split into 'houses' which have a mascot, color, motto and theme (perseverance, empathy...etc). Each team also has a song that the kids perform at the beginning of the year and end of the year during an assembly and field day. The songs were generated by a program using AI.
They also use it to create songs that help students learn things, and the admin use programs with AI to break down test scores, grades, and the correlation between them.
It can be very helpful, but it can be very unreliable if it isn't programmed right to begin with.

 

[Chin Diesel]

AI is going to doom us all.

That being said, I'm a department head in a school district. I use AI to create practice questions for the state test.

And using practice questions for state tests does nothing more than increase scores on state tests.

Doing so is a legacy of NCLB, and it does very little to improve the education of students at any level.

I know you need to do it, but it's a shame that it has to be done.

That's exactly how AI would respond to it.

 

[Chin Diesel]

it will doom those that don't adapt

... an archaic example, ATMs and online banking disrupted the financial industry ... I don't see many raising their hand, wanting to go back to the 'good old days' of standing in line for 30 minutes during their lunch break, to make a deposit/withdrawl during bankers' hours

Let me introduce you to my parents.

 

[temery]

AI alone is projected to use as much electricity annually as 22% of all homes within the United States by 2028. Only about 40% of electricity produced by the USA is from clean energy or renewable energy sources, possibly dropping even more since there seems to be a lot of lies being spread recently about the "harm" done by clean/renewable energy.

Those estimates never consider the other side of the coin. AI efficiency may save an equal or greater amount of energy.

 

[HuskyHawk]

We are supposed to use it at work. They think they can run on reduced staff if we do. So far, there are a few minor things it is pretty good at, but it hasn't made me more productive at all. I've found no personal uses thus far.

 

[Flipside]

 

[Marat]

In my current job, we are required to use it (MS Copilot) as an AI assistant to increase productivity in our software development. Management keeps tabs and if someone is not using it frequently sends a report to management.

But, It does help with productivity. It can write/generate code .

I used to think the thought of AI was amazing when it was starting up in the 80s/90s. But it didn't materialize then, and it became really quiet .... and past few years its taking off.

 

[temery]

I don't think it'll take long for someone to figure out how to game the system.

Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot.

www.reuters.com

 

[Deepster]

Here's an interesting article. A guy asked ChatGPT to count to a million and you'll be surprised and should maybe be worried by the response. Basically, AI turned him down repeatedly and refused what the human being told the robot to do.

https://www.uniladtech.com/news/ai/man-asked-chatgpt-count-million-shocked-reply-074354-20250827

 

[temery]

Here's an interesting article. A guy asked ChatGPT to count to a million and you'll be surprised and should maybe be worried by the response. Basically, AI turned him down repeatedly and refused what the human being told the robot to do.

Man asked ChatGPT to count to 1,000,000 and was shocked with the chatbot's reply

I just asked ChatGPT to count to 1 million and it said no it would take 12 days.

 

[Chin Diesel]

After reading this thread I used my company's AI and asked it a couple of general questions about work and scope of contracts. It answered them fine.
I then asked a very technical question about temperatures of a device. I know the correct Fahrenheit values. It gave me the answer in Kelvin but the conversion was right.
Later in the day I asked it the same question to show it to a coworker. It gave me the answer in Celcius and those numbers didn't jive.

 

[Deepster]

I just asked ChatGPT to count to 1 million and it said no it would take 12 days.

Do it again and say you don’t mind how long it takes, that’s what you need it to do.

 

[fatlucy]

I use it almost everyday for work and personal. Very helpful but you need to practice and remember it’s pulling info from the web from all sources so you have to be careful.