What Are You Using genAI For?

[jyl]

I am curious what the PPOT Braintrust is using generative AI for, now that its been widely available for a year?

I am primarily asking about the groovy cool Large Language Model (LLM) kind of AI. I know some of you have been using machine learning (ML) for a long time.

[Dixie]

I'm not using it at all, sorry.

[stevej37]

In jr high school we had a whole different meaning for AI (late 60's)
Not proud of it...so I'm not explaining.

I just wish they would have named it something different.

[MysticLlama]

Searching the web for a good list of vendors or items to look at that someone didn't already create. Was much better than general web searching to find options for a 3rd party fund administrator that specialized in mortgage notes. It can take much more detailed prompting on what to search for and then refine with context and gave me quite a few more places to talk to than I was finding otherwise. - Note: 'SEO' for getting AI to find your site will be a whole new ballgame based on differences in results I've been seeing.

Excel formulas and SQL queries. Haven't been in the weeds as much in years and if I give it a rough query and just dump it in and ask it to fix it, it works super well. Or just being lazy and not looking up a certain formula for Excel and having it build it for me is handy. Ex, give me the formula for a monthly principal & interest payment on a loan amount in A1, interest rate in A2, and term in A3. - Note: you do have to know what's sane and in the ballpark of correct here, it won't fix you not knowing if something is way off.

Summarizing emails from people that are super verbose. This is useful to prioritize what to go over in detail.

Rewriting a sentence I wrote that just seems a little odd or to soften something that's too direct.

Funny AI cartoons of work related things.

Reviewing contracts for a set of tuned obvious questions. I've created a little GPT that scans business operating agreements for the most common issues we see so we can go back and get those clarified before sending for actual legal check.

[jyl]

I've tried using it, in a limited way, for help in the minor coding that I do (all I do is write VB Excel, and even then only occasionally). Mixed results so far - the code it produces is mostly okay but not enough to actually work, I end up going to the usual web sources to fix it, then find a better (more concise) approach. So I guess gAI gets me started. I realize this is nursery school stuff, coding-wise.

[Zeke]

I call it "arraigned intelligence." It wasn't conceived in and of itself.

[Arizona_928]

I pay for chat gpt.

I use it for everything that i don't feel like doing myself.

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by Arizona_928

I pay for chat gpt.

I use it for everything that i don't feel like doing myself.

I just was made aware of this today. The 3.5 version is free. Totally blown away what if can deliver. Coming soon, AI is going to eliminate allot of jobs

[Arizona_928]

3.5 sucks. Night and day difference of the 4.0.


I let the people in my research group use my 4.0. It'll give you current literature. It'll write a grant proposal. Dissertation/thesis. Mind you, you'll have to edit the text, but i would rather edit for 5 hours vs 10 hrs doing it myself...

I got stuck TA'ing. With no answer keys and just a lab manual..
. I wanted to spend as little time as possible. Chat gpt gave me everything i needed in a hour...

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by Arizona_928

3.5 sucks. Night and day difference of the 4.0.


I let the people in my research group use my 4.0. It'll give you current literature. It'll write a grant proposal. Dissertation/thesis. Mind you, you'll have to edit the text, but i would rather edit for 5 hours vs 10 hrs doing it myself...

I got stuck TA'ing. With no answer keys and just a lab manual..
. I wanted to spend as little time as possible. Chat gpt gave me everything i needed in a hour...

AZ, I just got my feet wet with 3.5. I'm at the infant stage using this, but I will keep 4.0 in mind.

[MysticLlama]

I've been alternating GPT4 and Copilot. Copilot gets in it's own way sometimes trying to add context from your work files when you just want a web search, but when you do want to search work stuff, for instance, when did Joe last email or Teams message me about whatever, then it rocks.

I have seen some poor used lately, like a sloppy copy/paste that show up as 'sure, I can help you with that' at a spot in the middle of a cover letter for a job app.

[stealthn]

Using it to fight AI generated malware…you?