What cheeses me off

[prozac]

I was at one stage thinking "I'm too old for this" (but still only 35 years in the workplace).

But if used correctly it can be really powerful and helpful. I don't do coding, don't have automated tasks or any of that, but I find it can be really useful for discovering and organising information, and updating things. But it does depend entirely on the how specifically you ask a question and the context you give.

For example my boss asked us (me and my direct report) to summarise a 192 page report. I could have waded through it and spend a few days building a ppt. Or I could have uploaded it to ChatGPT and said "summarise this into a powerpoint", and be stuck with 20 slides of bullet points. Instead I gave Claude about 4-5 lines of context and requirements (who the report was for, a list of our product categories in development so we could consider opportunities, maximum number of slides, instructions include charts etc). 20 minutes later I had a 10 slide powerpoint, which had 5 summarising the report and 5 on opportunities and actions. This would have taken us several days. Now I'm still reading the original report, adding a slide or two here where explanations would be helpful, but it is allowing me to concentrate on analysis and messaging rather than format and information. Brilliant! {in fact waiting for another task to be completed whilst typing this}

Likewise with travel, I get specific "OK, I've been to New York xx times, done all the major things, find me some interesting off the track quirky things to do"..... so came up with Bushwick for street art and dining, "Little Red Lighthouse" which was interesting and bonus of seeing loads of ice floating down the Hudson, Museum of City of NY and a couple of other things.

WCMO is that it's trial and error finding the pro's and con's of the different AI models, and the corporate constraints around using them. Whilst there are valid concerns around commercial confidentiality, in my world (current and prior employer) CoPilot seems to be the most favoured (and most useless) and ChatGPT has slowly curried favour, but I'm finding others so much better.

Are any of these AI things free, if so what's best in show?

 

[Quickstatus]

Are any of these AI things free,

Not if you want it to work "properly"
The free versions are lets say a bit "work experience" level

 

[dajop]

The free versions are lets say a bit "work experience" level

Not too many of the free versions are that good

I found Claude free version better than the rest, but maybe that was a marketing ploy to get me to sign up for the paid version.

The other thing, particularly for the free versions, the post-answer follow up "So, now tell me your confidence in those answers and what errors you made".

 

[mel-world]

Are any of these AI things free, if so what's best in show?

Just remember that your brain power is always free if you use it everyday!

I can see why paid subscriptions would be very useful and save you lot's of time in business but as a retiree, I need to keep exercising my brain as often as possible.

 

[prozac]

Just remember that your brain power is always free if you use it everyday!

I can see why paid subscriptions would be very useful and save you lot's of time in business but as a retiree, I need to keep exercising my brain as often as possible.

I thought I might use the suggestion to see what it suggests for a euro drive itinerary.