What do you use AI for?

Made with InVideo AI - thoughts?

https://youtu.be/wx-b6UBufN4?si=lezEd02BpXSJvstF

The logo at the end is also by Gemini AI.

What do you use AI for? Hopefully not web design.

https://WebProNexus.com 

That's a pretty awful video. The first frame is so obviously fake I would even click to watch.

As a marketing message it fails in all sorts of ways. Watched it twice and still don't get it.

And it's full of continuity errors.

I use AI to waste time.

What I want to use it for is important tasks - but it almost always gets it wrong, no matter how detailed the prompt or brief.

The "slop" descriptor is apt. Almost all output shows me our jobs are safe as it comes off as cheap counterfeits.

Asked three different AI tools to solve a programming problem. All three gave me a different solution and none of them worked.

I have found quite a bit of use in AI for learning about basic concepts and new topics. EG: I've recently started learning music production, and it's been useful being able to bounce really specific questions about gear or theory off of Gemini - a lot quicker and easier than going back and forth to Google and requiring multiple individual searches.

In terms of work, my best use case has been using AI as an "advanced filter" almost. If i have a big sheet with lots of data, and I want to pick out patterns or really specific results which fit criteria W, X, Y and Z, it's really helpful to just feed the info in and ask questions in natural language, rather than needing layer upon layer of regex or formulae.

Wouldn't ever trust it with original copy or YMYL topics though!

3 hours ago, DSTW said:

In terms of work, my best use case has been using AI as an "advanced filter" almost. If i have a big sheet with lots of data, and I want to pick out patterns or really specific results which fit criteria W, X, Y and Z

And that is the big strength of AI.

I mainly use AI for learning and filtering information. It’s great for breaking down complex topics or spotting patterns in large data sets quickly. I don’t rely on it for original content or critical decisions since it often gets details wrong, but for research, analysis, or checking ideas, it saves a lot of time.

It's useful for creating stand-in content for clients if they don't want to pay for a copywriter, which it's then up to them to correct and edit, so you aren't waiting on them for months to deliver content. That's helped me a lot to get jobs over the line.

I've also found it useful for organising chaotic information or doing otherwise very tedious formatting. A PDF of their terms and conditions needs converting to HTML with loads of nested lists for example.

I've tried getting it to write code, experimentally, but I don't rate it for this. I found you need to be so specific about the logic you want it to follow that you're basically writing whatever function you're trying to get out of it yourself, just in clumsy English. Otherwise it goes off on some mad, irrelevant path. Might have improved a bit since I tried it but it wasn't that long ago.