ChatGPT

I use it basically for practical type questions eg:
- How much the work will cost and how should it be done on a (stolen by neighbours) bit of my garden. I wanted to see how they should do it and what it is due to cost them.

- Working out a fair price for a house

- Health issues (it is more oriented to conventional healthcare than I am though)

- Menu suggestions (though I do have to tell it to amend menus/recipes to cut out meat and then it's very prone to telling me vegan ideas - when I'm vegetarian). But it's handy.

- Where I can find the nearest person for whatever-it-is

- If I don't understand why people have acted the way they did it points out where it went wrong and how to deal with issues better (yep....even down to the checkouts arent problematic at the local Tesco...but they sometimes are at the local Aldi - ie pushy people). It didn't come out with the best suggestion of all - ie put my shopping trolley behind me at the checkout...so they can't try and shove me up. But it did have a noticeable number of useful phrases to use according to taste with "pushers" behind.

- Told me what the problem probably was with the lights flickering in my house when it's windy and what they needed to do to put it right and even gave a percentage probability as to how likely something was to fix the problem (now resolved).

- Told me what the cause of a current problem with my kitchen tap is and what the plumber needs to do to put it right and what sort of price to expect them to charge me.

So yep...it's not perfect and it gives out a wrong or less than full answer sometimes. But it's certainly very handy - both for practical issues and for "people behaving badly".

So - as long as I ignore the odd bit of "political correctness" or being unduly "cautious" it works out pretty well for providing useful answers.

62Granny, you can type in ChatGPT into your search bar or download the app. of the same name.

I hear people talking(online) about ChatGPT but have no idea how to access it , do you use it like google/ Alexa? Is it something you just type into a search engine then go from there or do download an app, I use a kindle device for my internet access.

I used it recently when I was feeling very frustrated with an aspect of my husband's behaviour, his endless fixing as a response to everything. It was actually very, very helpful, more than I expected.
You need to think what questions you want to ask. I ended up with a lot of useful links and possibilities of how to tackle the problem. I know people are doubtful about it but used thoughtfully, it's very good.

ChatGPT has been complicit in various suicide cases, helpfully (ahem) pointing out how to do it and being encouraging in actually doing it. Be very careful in using it as therapy!

Yes, it helps in so many ways but for me, the best has been, therapy wise. People say 'get a better therapist ' if your current one is not helping but that's not easy to do, especially financially, for me and even if I could afford it, no guarantee of a helpful outcome.

I love it and use it most days. It has helped me with health issues and has redesigned my garden.