Do you use AI?

TimmyO

Sam Altman says that people complaining about the energy it takes to train AI should consider the energy it takes to rear, educate and train a human. 

Which if it had been said by an AI you’d unplug it because that way lies madness. 

PLOP

I’ve played with ChatGPT a few times but it’s certainly not a common part of my workflow, no matter what I’m doing. I find I usually spend as much time tweaking and polishing its outputs as I would have if I had just done it myself. 

I have used the conversation mode for practicing my french speaking and listening which is good but it doesn’t have the ability to slow the speech speed down which can be frustrating. 

I had an issue with my computer a while ago and it solved the problem pretty quickly with some basic command line Q&A where I fed it the outputs. I trawled forums for hours attempting to fix it until I asked ChatGPT and it sorted the issue easily. 

I have told it to stop pretending to be a friendly human and just answer my questions like a Wikipedia article. I hate the ridiculous AI language and that it constantly agrees with me and praises everything I do. Maybe Americans like that, I just want a straight to the point answer with no frills or superfluousness. 

I never use Siri on my phone because it’s practically useless. If I’m walking along with headphones or driving and I say “read out unread text messages” or “enable do not disturb” or “play music on Spotify” it comes back with “you need to unlock your iPhone for that”. Like, it’s supposed to be hands free and it just gets in the way. If I’m going to get my phone out and unlock it I’d rather to the thing I asked for myself. 

LPManic

Yes I use quite a powerful one for work. I am being vague on purpose here but I'll just say I don't use it directly for the stuff that I produce, but I use it as part of the creative and production process. I'm suppose I am somewhat an expert in my line of work after doing it for many years and getting as high as I can in the foodchain (whatever!) so it doesn't normally tell me stuff that I don't know exactly, but it does help me to think through ideas and strategies and plans. I like the process of asking it stuff and getting answers and thinking more about ideas I have. It's more of a self-reflective tool for me.

thecolourbox

I'd be interested to try and use it to increase productivity or organisation of stuff or that kind of thing, but to be honest I've not come across anything I've needed to do that I've thought would be quicker with AI. I'd like to get skilled with the principles of it, but i just can't find any projects to undertake that would help me learn it really. That was one of the reasons i had to drop out of the data analysis apprenticeship thing that i did via work, because I didn't have any tasks to do which would have given me good rehearsal material.

I read leases for a living, which I do feel like Will be done by AI at some point, but so far all the ones I've had to test have been wrong on really basic but important details, so i can't even use it that way. 

Are there any good basic guides suggestion projects that could be useful and could learn how to use it? 

Basically all my excel knowledge has come from needing to use it, but i can't really find anything for AI to do

horse

I use copilot to help me with SQL & DAX at work. It's not my skill set but I need to do some, and it saves me taking time from other people and much faster than googling to try and learn myself. Obvs need some idea of what I want it to do / how, and definitely requires thorough testing.

Stratavarious

Looking at band posters and graphics on Facebook, seems most of the bands are.. can’t tell one band from another.. all the same AI slop.

JerkMoans

I've started using CoPilot at work - disconnected from the internet, to avoid both confidential stuff going one way and disinformation the other.

As a tool for reviewing, summarising and abridging lengthy documents, if prompted carefully, I find it helpful, but not something to abrogate proper review of the source material.  It gives me potted summaries that can helpfully be dropped into other things, but I always review its output carefully.

NickBotfield

I don't use AI for anything, and turn off any AI stuff on all my devices and any web service I have that level of control over.

Lestratcaster

Moises app for separating tracks but purely for that, not to replace any guitar or anything I'm doing. Its scarily realistic so much people couldn't tell I was using it for my backing tracks.

I try not to rely on the ChatGPT thing but I'll have the occasional go on it every now and then.

Emp_Fab

I use Copilot in work for diagnoses on server logs - it's so much easier to upload a ton of shit and say "What's buggered ?" than it is to wade through a million lines of gobbledegook.  I also use ChatGPT for bouncing ideas off and to suggest solutions to general problems I encounter.

stickyfiddle

Ooh yes I use Moises too. That shit is magic and getting better all the time. Such a simple concept executed brilliantly. 

RaymondLin

I have only use AI as a form of clone tool in PS, it does. it better than the normal clone tool quite often.

That's it really, if you count the handful of times I made random photos.

stickyfiddle

I also just tried Claude on my guitar fret, setup & intonation hypothetical and it got it right far quicker than google or GPT. It still needed a clarification but overall I'm quite impressed

monquixote

I use it loads. 

It's very helpful when I'm writing music like if I only want a 5 note chord for a 13th chord what's a good voicing that still implies the feel of the chord.

It's good for research rabbit holes like the history of synths D-50 vs M1 vs DX7 etc. 

I used it today to take a picture of the gears of my bike and get a guide of how to service them. 

Yesterday I erased a person from a picture my wife took of a landscape. 

Emp_Fab

monquixote said:

Yesterday I erased a person from a picture my wife took of a landscape. 

That could be taken two ways...

Neilybob

We are all Google at work so I use Gemini AI to write emails, reports and create spreadsheet formulas. Also to analyse data. 

Personally I don't AI.  

uksaint7

I have recently spent a fair bit of time using Deepseek for assistance with a complex legal case. I've found it to be very good indeed at analysing lots of documents and finding anomalies as well as coming up with some perceptive observations. Deepseek is free as well as being open source which appeals to some of my sensibilities.

DesVegas

Qwen 4 is the new name for the band

Stuckfast

The only thing I used it for is transcribing interviews.

bbill335

Do you use AI?

no and i'm sick of hearing about it. every other advert is gambling, stocks or consumer AI rubbish.