How do you use ChatGPT in your personal life?

[Anonymous]

My experience with ChatGPT led me to stop using it for any kind of questioning because I didn't trust the answers. I asked it a lot of questions on my particular field of expertise and wow, it gave some doozies. Many of the inaccuracies would have been hard for a non-expert to figure out.

I personally love to write so would have no use for it to write things for me but I assume that is a big appeal to many.

It can be fun for joke requests like to write a poem in the style of Emily Dickinson but in pirate jargon.

[Anonymous]

It’s pretty solid on technical stuff. It can be wrong sometimes and I tell it so. Then it apologizes and tries again.

[Anonymous]

I wish people better understood how this stuff works. It's not smart: it's basically predictive text, but with an incredibly high environmental cost. If you are using it to find lesson plan ideas or whatever, why not just Google search - why add the ChatGPT layer?

[Anonymous]

- Thank you note tweaking
- Helping flesh out itineraries, make travel and "things to do" suggestions
- Ideas for gifts for specific people
- Rhymes and thesaurus-like quick research
- "Dear Abby" type questions where it will give basic advice to ponder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish people better understood how this stuff works. It's not smart: it's basically predictive text, but with an incredibly high environmental cost. If you are using it to find lesson plan ideas or whatever, why not just Google search - why add the ChatGPT layer?

Google is more hassle. With AI you can continue a conversation the next day or whenever if needed. You don’t have to rehash your search. Plus it is there to read again another day if you need it (if you create an account). It also aggregates info for you so you don’t need to click on multiple search hits. But it’s far from perfect so you still need to use your head.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish people better understood how this stuff works. It's not smart: it's basically predictive text, but with an incredibly high environmental cost. If you are using it to find lesson plan ideas or whatever, why not just Google search - why add the ChatGPT layer?

Google is more hassle. With AI you can continue a conversation the next day or whenever if needed. You don’t have to rehash your search. Plus it is there to read again another day if you need it (if you create an account). It also aggregates info for you so you don’t need to click on multiple search hits. But it’s far from perfect so you still need to use your head.

Google has been decimated by SEO and ads. I find it almost unusable.

I use ChatGPT and Gemini and compare.

Environmental cost, sure but so many people use far more for crypto, or posting endlessly on Insta and TikTok:


Comparison:

• ChatGPT: A single interaction might use 1 to 10 Wh.
• TikTok: A dozen 2-minute videos could collectively consume between 240 to 480 Wh.

In summary, the energy required to post a dozen TikTok videos is significantly higher than that for a single ChatGPT query, potentially by a factor of 50 or more. The energy consumption for TikTok primarily comes from the process of uploading and hosting the videos, which is more resource-intensive compared to generating a single text response from an AI model.

(Granted ChatGPT could be lying here out of its own self-interest )

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish people better understood how this stuff works. It's not smart: it's basically predictive text, but with an incredibly high environmental cost. If you are using it to find lesson plan ideas or whatever, why not just Google search - why add the ChatGPT layer?

Google is more hassle. With AI you can continue a conversation the next day or whenever if needed. You don’t have to rehash your search. Plus it is there to read again another day if you need it (if you create an account). It also aggregates info for you so you don’t need to click on multiple search hits. But it’s far from perfect so you still need to use your head.

Google has been decimated by SEO and ads. I find it almost unusable.

I use ChatGPT and Gemini and compare.

Environmental cost, sure but so many people use far more for crypto, or posting endlessly on Insta and TikTok:


Comparison:

• ChatGPT: A single interaction might use 1 to 10 Wh.
• TikTok: A dozen 2-minute videos could collectively consume between 240 to 480 Wh.

In summary, the energy required to post a dozen TikTok videos is significantly higher than that for a single ChatGPT query, potentially by a factor of 50 or more. The energy consumption for TikTok primarily comes from the process of uploading and hosting the videos, which is more resource-intensive compared to generating a single text response from an AI model.

(Granted ChatGPT could be lying here out of its own self-interest )

Google uses AI interface as its first answer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish people better understood how this stuff works. It's not smart: it's basically predictive text, but with an incredibly high environmental cost. If you are using it to find lesson plan ideas or whatever, why not just Google search - why add the ChatGPT layer?

Google is more hassle. With AI you can continue a conversation the next day or whenever if needed. You don’t have to rehash your search. Plus it is there to read again another day if you need it (if you create an account). It also aggregates info for you so you don’t need to click on multiple search hits. But it’s far from perfect so you still need to use your head.

Google has been decimated by SEO and ads. I find it almost unusable.

I use ChatGPT and Gemini and compare.

Environmental cost, sure but so many people use far more for crypto, or posting endlessly on Insta and TikTok:


Comparison:

• ChatGPT: A single interaction might use 1 to 10 Wh.
• TikTok: A dozen 2-minute videos could collectively consume between 240 to 480 Wh.

In summary, the energy required to post a dozen TikTok videos is significantly higher than that for a single ChatGPT query, potentially by a factor of 50 or more. The energy consumption for TikTok primarily comes from the process of uploading and hosting the videos, which is more resource-intensive compared to generating a single text response from an AI model.

(Granted ChatGPT could be lying here out of its own self-interest )

Google uses AI interface as its first answer.

Right so I save the energy from the search if I go directly to AI

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish people better understood how this stuff works. It's not smart: it's basically predictive text, but with an incredibly high environmental cost. If you are using it to find lesson plan ideas or whatever, why not just Google search - why add the ChatGPT layer?

Google is more hassle. With AI you can continue a conversation the next day or whenever if needed. You don’t have to rehash your search. Plus it is there to read again another day if you need it (if you create an account). It also aggregates info for you so you don’t need to click on multiple search hits. But it’s far from perfect so you still need to use your head.

Google has been decimated by SEO and ads. I find it almost unusable.

I use ChatGPT and Gemini and compare.

Environmental cost, sure but so many people use far more for crypto, or posting endlessly on Insta and TikTok:


Comparison:

• ChatGPT: A single interaction might use 1 to 10 Wh.
• TikTok: A dozen 2-minute videos could collectively consume between 240 to 480 Wh.

In summary, the energy required to post a dozen TikTok videos is significantly higher than that for a single ChatGPT query, potentially by a factor of 50 or more. The energy consumption for TikTok primarily comes from the process of uploading and hosting the videos, which is more resource-intensive compared to generating a single text response from an AI model.

(Granted ChatGPT could be lying here out of its own self-interest )

This is such an odd comparison! ChatGPT uses 10 times more energy than a comparable search on a browser search engine. Comparing it to a dozen videos (why a dozen) or crypto (also a pointless waste of energy) is not really relevant when you can get the same information in a simpler, less costly way. I'm not sure why you think SEO doesn't compromise ChatGPT, when the whole thing is probabilistic. You are talking to Google's echo-chamber.

And the above is ignoring the huge issues with IP infringement by training it on material they don't have the rights to: they may get sued out of existence.

[Anonymous]

I've used it for composing letters or emails.
Be aware that GPT cannot say "I don't know." If it doesn't find an answer it will make one up. And the answer will look VERY convincing. I would never use it for anything like medical or legal information, and I'd doublecheck anything it gives me.

[Anonymous]

I use it for emails and brainstorming research ideas.

[Anonymous]

i tell it what ingredients i have in the fridge and it gives me recipe options

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised people are relying on it for medical information considering how inaccurate it’s proven to be. For example, there have been a few recent situations where it was used in the legal field and was found to fabricate cases and laws.

Several of these things are already used in apps. There's a medical app that apparently has a good track record for diagnosing people. There's also an app for scheduling, where you put in your schedule and it will move it all around. I used it to get book titles on certain topics, and yes it fabricated titles. I can't recall the name of either app, but maybe these will become a thing and have more credibility.

[Anonymous]

I use AI to summarize documents and to write (soften) and respond to emails and texts with a co-parent

[Anonymous]

email drafting