I use it as a way to rewrite emails to sound more professional, especially when I’m too lazy to word good, or I’m mad at the person I’m emailing. I can say what I really want and have AI tone it down, or smarten it up.

I use it a lot for helping structure written reports. I can’t use exactly what it spits out, of course, but it helps me get an idea of what reads well and what doesn’t. It’s made me a better writer, I’m still bad, but getting better.

Helps with trouble shooting common or obscure IT issues in a pinch, not always right, but tends to point me the right direction. It’s great at reminding me about steps I skipped over. Also helps explain underlying technical causes.

I use it to explain certain industries, sciences, and technical reasons behind specific technologies I don’t have enough experience with, medical, biotech, IT, industrial, chemistry etc. Why would they use this vs that, what are reasons why they would or world not.

Jargon translator! If you want to learn a subject but you’re eyes glaze over at all of the jargon, ask an AI. I feel like there isn’t a topic I can’t learn now. If I don’t understand something I just copy and paste it in and say Explain. Anything I still don’t get I can ask for more details or a comprehensive breakdown. There isn’t a level of abstraction it can’t get to. Works just as well in reverse like when I want to quickly turn my explanation into something someone else will understand. Cross department communication is much easier, same for explaining something up the chain. My favorite is to have it explain things to the execs layman terms.

Using AI feels like having my own smart…thing .alien .gnome by my side, or an extra lobe in my brain. I feel like I’m making new connections and learning faster than I would have without it. I think a big part of that has been my initial double checking ALL of it’s answers. That gave me a good feel for it’s weaknesses and strengths, when to doubt it, double check, or know when it’s just saying what sounds correct. I started using it day one every day, it’s definitely improved but still has a ways to go.

Finally, simple scripts. Anything more than that and I end up wasting too much time debugging.

Sorry bedtime stories. Kids list anything they want in the story, as silly as they can come up with, and in seconds we have a short story to giggle to.

There are probably more, but those are the ones that came to mind. I want to list the things it’s absolutely terrible at too but another time.

Corn syrup!

Not a movie but a limited series, Devs. You won’t know what’s going on for a while, but damn, I still think about it. Same guy who made Ex Machina and Annihilation. Great sound track.

Financial advisors for the Uber rich. I remember hearing an interview of one on…radio lab or this American life or… Something…I can’t remember it was years ago, but anyway she described what it was like. They don’t use passports, they would call her to find bracelets they lost in taxis, it didn’t sound like they were working at all. I don’t remember if she went into their work schedule, but financial advisors are treated like baby sitters, or at least she was.

I thought that might be a good place to start, I’m sure some of them have written books about it, or done more interviews.

I remember being excited for pc gamer to show up in the mail

💯 they’re not outnumbered, they’re less organized.

us

I feel the same way when I think about how when ever you get a whole bunch bunch of stuff together in one spot, it frickin warps time and space and that’s why I’m standing and not floating.

Yes! This is it, so let’s all work together to make it a good one for each other.

A much much larger proportion of users are computer illiterate, especially federal employees. On top of that, the vast majority of basic software applications used are the Microsoft suite of Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. How do you

1. Retrain an aging workforce to use a new OS.
2. Retrain to use new software suite for email, docs, etc.
3. Or rebuild existing software to run on Linux
4. …there’s more but I’m short on time…

The ENTIRE US govt runs on Microsoft. That’s a very big pie to rebake. Where do you even begin. I do agree with you, it just feels unsurmountable.

It was an aside joke, you Muppet. Dumping the potential deaths of millions on a random commenter trying to be facetious so you feel publicly superior is psychotic. Or am I also misunderstanding your intention and publicly displaying my superior observation for clout. It’s ingratiating to be told what your intentions are what you should or should not do. Infuriating to be lectured to about what is right and wrong. We are not arbiters of online moral behavior. How about we both try to not be jerks to people we’ve never met from now on. Oh wait, I just was. Talking to each other this way doesn’t feel good.

Thank you for the fact check

I can’t think of a fictional character that has this, but the ability to know, and convey the answer to ANY question.

o7

Everyone: It’s a scam, game runs like crap, so many bugs, etc. etc., all valid points.

People who like it anyway: vrrroooommm weeeeeee, pew pew pew, vsksshhh, crash. Reload. Vrrroooooommm…

Who cares, go have your own fun, leave us to ours 🙄

Edit: down voted for wanting to have my own fun? Fine, I’ll go play with my toy spaceship with out you.

I remember watching that and thinking, they don’t sound very rock-‘n’-roll. I guess they lived long enough to become the corporate villain

Some days I’m just an autocomplete

To remind you that this is it, so make it a good one

Thank you for such an amazing response. You’ve given me so many great threads to pull on. I’m going to have a great time diving into all this. Sincere thank you.

I want to turn a Microsoft surface go 2 into a kali linux machine. I would appreciate any guidance pulling this off. I want use it for learning it security stuff, partly for work but mostly for curiosity. Occasionally I run across malware, trojans, and I want to look under the hood to see how they work. I’m assuming Kali is the best tool for the job and that Lemmy is the place to go for tooling around with tools.