How Siri and AI Helped Me This Week

Here is this week's segment on how I use generative AI and helped me this week. I think it is important we continue to actively engage AI on a daily basis. There is no need to wait for both Apple Intelligence with the improved Siri to arrive and for someone to show us how to effectively use AI. Just use it.

• I was given a serial number to an old refrigerator to find dimensions. I was able to confirm via ChatGPT and Gemini. 
• I described to ChatGPT my workout routine, daily activity, and diet and asked why I was not losing weight. The answer it gave me was something I already know. I was still eating a lot of treats and need to cut down my calories. (Personally, portion control has always worked)
• I asked what the win-loss record is between Messi and Ronaldo when they played against each other. Messi is slightly in the lead. (Apparently, they have earned over a billion dollars over the life time of their careers so far. Far more than American athletes.)
• I asked about living in places like Sapporo in Hokkaido, Japan. Gemini sold me on the weather. It is a dream scenario. I'm a dreamer. 
• Siri provided me with scores and game times for soccer and baseball. I have learned to word things carefully to get the results I need. I was able to get some interesting tidbits from Siri on sport stats. 
• Siri helped me set a few reminders, workout updates, and answered some weather related queries. This was all done on the Apple Watch. During my run today, I was listening to a podcast about Apple related subjects and one of the hosts has turned off Siri access on his watch.
• At work, I used CoPilot to help me find a few government related regulations. 
• While at work and because of work, I used CoPilot to estimate how much I need to retire if I supplement my retirement income with Uber and Postmate delivery jobs for a few hours a day. I have an EV with free electric charging. I would not mind driving a few hours a day delivering food while I listen to audiobooks. 
• Along the line of retirement, I asked a variety of ideas - running a partial newsstand and cafe. Open at 6 AM and closing around 4 PM each day and longer hours on weekends. This was not a viable solution from information CoPilot provided me.
• I asked where Shakira is from - I thought she was from Spain because of her tax issues but apparently she's from Columbia. I guess I know which team she was rooting for during the Copa America final game.

There was nothing new about what I used AI for this week. I did not purposely sought new ways to use AI or gained any new insight. I just do not want to force things. What I want to do this coming week is write another chapter of a novel that I have been working on perpetually and really finish it. With the help of AI, I like to develop a workflow whereby AI becomes an editor of sort but not as a sounding board. I want all my ideas to be mine. 

Regarding the podcast host who turned off Siri on his Apple Watch because he found Siri to be useless. I agree with his assessment on the limitations of Siri. However, I do not agree that shutting it off is the way to go.