AI Uses This Week:

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I like to bring back posts about my recent AI uses. I am sure many other folks are using LLM more and more but I still say to myself why am I doing this task when the AI can do it while I move onto something else.

First, let me start with my 80-year old uncle who is now using ChatGPT on a daily basis. He chats with it via the text prompt. And when he goes on his walks, he is chatting via the voice feature. Here are some things I found that what he has being using ChatGPT for.
  • He is a meticulous writer. Prose and poetry. He writes them and post them to ChatGPT so it can provide critiques and suggestions on how he can improves his essays. 
  • I recently told him that I was using AI to learn Japanese. He has since started doing that while he goes on his morning walks. He already knows some basic Japanese whereas I am starting from scratch. I think he'l make better and faster progress than I will. 
  • He has posted results from his medical tests to ChatGPT. He would over his personal information, take a photo of the results and ask what each result means. Privacy aside, he found it a good starting point to understand his health and know what questions to ask his doctor when they go over his medical results. 
  • And of course, ChatGPT has now become his default search engine. I ams that is your primary AI use as it is mine. 
As for myself, while my AI use has evolved beyond using it for quick tips, how-to when I cannot find what I need on Youtube or Google, or the easiest way to make chili, I have noticed that I prompt with more details, but not always right away. A lot of time, I begin with a simple prompt that waste compute, read over what the LLM gives me, and then refine it. I imagine most people do that unless the user has something very specific he is looking for. However, it does not always work. I find that for my work which deals a lot with Excel and large sets of data, I need to be very specific from the very beginning because each time the LLM "analyze and think", it can take a while and compute credits that if used up, I would have to come back tomorrow to continue. 

Here are my uses this week:
  • Perhaps it is a waste of compute to have the LLM convert a PDF with a lot of data into excel. While many might consider it to be a lowly task for an AI, what saved me a lot of was to have the LLM change information on a PDF that was just a photo or scan that could not easily be imported into an office app. So I told the LLM what I wanted change on the PDF and it did it. Well, it took two tries to make it perfect but it worked.
  • I am not unsure about training my on LLM but provided the AI model samples of some diagrams with specs. I then provided 50 more specs and had it create similar diagrams. It worked. I still need to review it but I think I saved my company hundreds of thousands of dollars. 
  • Health is a pretty big issue. My friends are observing Lent by giving up sugar treats. Though not religious, I joined them. Not a bit deal so I decided for myself, I would give up any treats and coffee.  During the past four weeks, I've used AI to help me craft meals and healthy snack options. 
  • I want to get into wood work. In a post-AI world, I think it is important we all learn a couple of old world skills. I am considering build a bed frame to start. But I do not have a lot of the tools and I do not want to invest in expensive tools. So I asked how people used to make furnitures and other woodwork before modern tools.
  • I am vibe coding like crazy. I am loving it. It's like a game for me. I spend the day thinking of ideas and then at night, that's when I get to work. I keep running out of credits but that's fine. At some point, perhaps I can upgrade to a higher level account with more compute credits.
It's Sunday night now. I look forward to another week given the new powers that AI has given me. I've mentioned this before but maybe you're new to my blog - my goal is to have AI replace me at work. It is not so that I will not have a job on New Year's Eve but rather I want to be the one in control of all to shape the role AI plays in my work life and guide the direction of where my job evolves. And who knows, maybe I'll enter a new chapter in my life with all the new skills that I am picking up.

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