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What do you use AI for?

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Aug-25 09:08:55

Clunky title I know.

But I am finding that I am using it more and more not just for information but for fun.

So over the past few weeks or so I’ve got it to create a weeks menu themed on a country specifically for 80 year olds with 1400 cals a day.

This week is Italy, but we’ve had, French week, British week, and Spanish week.

Now I’ve asked it for a weeks menu based on what the King eats šŸ˜„šŸ˜„. Avocado for lunch or nothing, afternoon tea at 5pm and dinner at 8-8.30 bit too late for us..

It will give you a full shopping list as well.

Bit of useless information😊

Septimia Fri 15-Aug-25 09:22:28

I don't use it at all if I can help it.

Lathyrus3 Fri 15-Aug-25 09:35:47

That sounds like such fun WWW2. 😁

I really must get up to speed.

A relative who is involved in A1 systems says we all use it much more than we thinkšŸ¤”

henetha Fri 15-Aug-25 09:49:35

I don't knowingly use it.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Aug-25 09:59:29

AI is inevitable, so we might just as well accept it and use it for our own ends including having fun with it.

So my menu today is

Oatmeal made with skimmed milk, dried apricots and. Cinnamon

Minestrone soup
Whole wheat bread -small slice
Small apple

Turkey meatballs
Marinara sauce
Spaghetti
Broccoli with lemon
Tbsp grated cheese.

Italian of course😊

BlueBelle Fri 15-Aug-25 10:02:33

I don’t use it at all unless I am unwittingly
I don’t think I want to use it particularly
Glad you’re enjoying it WWM2 but I eat my few dishes that I know are quick and easy to cook snd keep me out the kitchen snd the sound of buying to get ingredients for French, Italian, Spanish weeks would be my worst nightmare
Each to his own eh ?

Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Aug-25 10:06:58

Put in

Please provide me with a menu that is quick and easy and keeps me out of the kitchen for an x year old based on x calories with x preference or allergies.

See what comes up.

Next I’m going to try a nutrient rich menu for 80 year old based on a low budget. I’m going to work out how much a pensioner can afford based on minimum income.

Aldom Fri 15-Aug-25 10:12:42

Thank you WWM.
I have yet to use AI but your input has encouraged me to give it a try.
smile

BlueBelle Fri 15-Aug-25 10:14:16

Here’s my main meal straight from my allotment this morning
Stirfry onions, courgette, green beans tomatoes in my pan add some smoked tofu and chickpeas bit of Quorn mince if wanted add whatever flavouring you want
10 mins tops suits me cheap and quick
Don’t need A1 to do it for me but it’s a nice hobby if that’s what you like to do not knocking it but not needed at this stage by me

OldFrill Fri 15-Aug-25 10:18:40

Helped me redesign my garden including replacing aggregate, veranda and steps. Included suggestions for appropriate plants and patio cleaning. Suggestions where to source everything and fantastic photos of what it could look like (and it now does). All for free.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Aug-25 10:40:27

OldFrill

Helped me redesign my garden including replacing aggregate, veranda and steps. Included suggestions for appropriate plants and patio cleaning. Suggestions where to source everything and fantastic photos of what it could look like (and it now does). All for free.

šŸ‘ yes I have redesign a flower bed with its help, and it has never looked so good.

I am really beginning to appreciate its benefits.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Aug-25 10:42:31

So I put in the size and shape of the bed, aspect, type of look I wanted - cottage garden based on Highgrove😳. - I know😊, and my existing flowers.

Lathyrus3 Fri 15-Aug-25 10:51:55

Whitewavemark2

Put in

Please provide me with a menu that is quick and easy and keeps me out of the kitchen for an x year old based on x calories with x preference or allergies.

See what comes up.

Next I’m going to try a nutrient rich menu for 80 year old based on a low budget. I’m going to work out how much a pensioner can afford based on minimum income.

Excuse my ignorance but do you put that sentence into Google or is there a sort of A1 app to you.

Shamefully ignorant I know.

I shouldn’t switch off when the said relative starts talkingšŸ™„šŸ˜³

Galaxy Fri 15-Aug-25 10:55:19

Oh so could I use it to redesign a room ( neither dh or I are great at that type if thing) , i have only used it for information so far.

Aveline Fri 15-Aug-25 11:00:34

ChatGPT is brilliant. I've asked it all sorts of questions and got all sorts of information. It provides it in beautifully presented bullet points and always asks if it could offer more. eg I asked about a very faddy eater. A 12 year old. It reeled off lots of potential causes and suggestions and offered alternate 'bridging' diet foods. It then offered a 7 day menu for these foods to gradually move the child on to a better diet. 10/10 from me. ie not just the info but how it's presented.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Aug-25 11:04:13

At the moment I have used google and ChatGPT and that is the one that is giving me the best information so far with regard to planning etc.

The point is I think is that it is learning as it goes along from us and will get whizzingly better - probably what we are doing now will seem like small beer very soon.

So planning a room you can ask it first what information is needed - it will guide you and off you go!

So when I started on my menus it nudged me gradually until it had sufficient information.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Aug-25 11:05:57

I think there is Grok which I haven’t explored but seen examples on Twitter and it seems like a glorified Disney - but as I haven’t explored it I am probably wrong.

Galaxy Fri 15-Aug-25 11:06:23

That is really useful. I have been mostly ignoring AI which is not at all sensible.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Aug-25 11:07:14

It’s free at the moment, but I bet that won’t last.

So make hay folks!

Caleo Fri 15-Aug-25 11:07:17

My son installed ChatGPT on my list of websites I usually inhabit.

I have used it for :-
*personal counselling,

*uses for particular garden shrubs,

*how to clean shower room tiles.

*theology questions and info,

*philosophy questions and info, Chat's own code of ethics,

*if it would please be a little less flattering,

^testing the ethics it is trained to by typing in a racist claim,

*the best way to control AI politically and internationally.

*several recipes mainly how to make broccoli etc nice to eat,

* info on historical and contemporary political events and personages.

Caleo Fri 15-Aug-25 11:19:19

Plus:- the most hard wearing and dog- resistant lawn grass. seed

Plus how long a concrete -panelled garage lasts

Plus UK prices of a wet room.

Plus making sense of a long long garrulous text from someone online

Plus Biblical ,and Koranic ,quotations.
It would have taken months orfresearch among books or doing my own donkey work to be informed whereas with AI help it's at my finger tips, concise and in the sort of English I prefer.

Caleo Fri 15-Aug-25 11:31:09

Whitewavemark2

It’s free at the moment, but I bet that won’t last.

So make hay folks!

Chat told me the free edition of Chat makes commercial sense because many so free users go on to buy the paid -for editions .

One thing that worries me about AI is the environmental cost of the 'mother computer' which I understand is the size of a huge block of multistorey flats and consumes more electricity than any other human enterprise. BTW the above is not info from ChatGPT but is merely my own impresssion via my son.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Aug-25 11:32:47

Imagine if we had this when we were at university!

What a doddle!

Whitewavemark2 Fri 15-Aug-25 11:33:53

Caleo

Whitewavemark2

It’s free at the moment, but I bet that won’t last.

So make hay folks!

Chat told me the free edition of Chat makes commercial sense because many so free users go on to buy the paid -for editions .

One thing that worries me about AI is the environmental cost of the 'mother computer' which I understand is the size of a huge block of multistorey flats and consumes more electricity than any other human enterprise. BTW the above is not info from ChatGPT but is merely my own impresssion via my son.

Yes that’s right. Apparently it is using masses and masses of wateršŸ˜³šŸ¤”

Caleo Fri 15-Aug-25 11:37:01

Whitewavemark2

At the moment I have used google and ChatGPT and that is the one that is giving me the best information so far with regard to planning etc.

The point is I think is that it is learning as it goes along from us and will get whizzingly better - probably what we are doing now will seem like small beer very soon.

So planning a room you can ask it first what information is needed - it will guide you and off you go!

So when I started on my menus it nudged me gradually until it had sufficient information.

I don't know how often its training is updated. ChatGPT told me Google is more up to date than 'itself' as Google has that constantly web -crawling spider thing