AI tips, tricks, faults, and failures

[Irrelevant]

I wanted to start a thread to share suggestions for AI use. What works well, what doesn't, which models are better for what, etc.

I currently have the lowest level of paid ChatGPT membership, but am trying to switch to Claude. It's not going well.

 

[TOGIE]

I dunno, I just generally find Claude to give what seems/feels like much more researched and scientific feeling answers to things.

ChatGPT feels like talking to a Gen Z for some reason.

The free version of Claude has done some great spreadsheet ingestion for me. Hard to fully put words to it, but Claude just seems better.

 

[WyoCoalMiner]

I have had good results with the same level Chat you are using. It has been able to search, analyze and calculate competitor costs from publicly available data and provide me with pricing models that have resulted in winning sales contracts. This work would have taken days for me to find and look through then run the risk of me doing the math wrong. My only complaint is Chat asks alot of questions. It seems to always know what the next step should be but is constantly asking me if I want it to do that. Kind of like an unsure of themself engineer.

 

[noharleyyet]

Listening in...

 

[TOGIE]

I really think AI is gonna revolutionize diagnostic healthcare in, more or less, unimaginable ways.

An AI can digest decades of tests, blood work, and reported symptoms, self reported feelings, sleep patterns, and actually effectively, and objectively, evaluate it against what the entire modern researched and published world understands about the human body in seconds/minutes.

Meanwhile, I'm barely able to tell my GP how i felt yesterday and what my sleep was like last night in the 15 $*)Q!#@$ minutes he gives me.

 

[npaden]

I use the free Gemini a lot for personal use.

Helped me diagnose why my chain was coming off the sprocket on my grain drill and repair it. Turns out the previous owner had put a #40 chain on it instead of #41 and that extra side to side play was helping it come off. I would have never thought to check on that.

It's helped me dial in my spray formulations and speed I need to drive for spraying weeds in my fields, planting rates on my cover crop for my CRP. Helped me sort through converting a variable life insurance policy to a long term care annuity for my wife, really does a great job on helping me prepare to teach adult bible class. Helping me design and plan my sea container cabin. Just helped me negotiate a deal with Discount tire for some new tires, helped me source replacement parts for my Brinkmann gas grill that has been bankrupt for 10+ years, helped me sort through some decisions on my new property on stand placement based on predominant wind directions in early October, it goes on and on.

I was going to move some stocks from Fidelity to Robinhood to take advantage of Robinhoods very low margin interest rate and it told me I should negotiate the margin interest rate with Fidelity instead and Fidelity dropped my margin interest rate from 10.625% to 5.5% so that's what I'm using to buy another 40 acres adjoining my land in Colorado instead of having to go get a loan that would require an appraisal, survey, etc. and saved me probably $2,000 minimum in closing costs and has a better interest rate also. It's helping me work on my Colorado State Forestry Plan so I can get my agriculture exemption on my property taxes there. I essentially treat it as a very smart friend who really knows a lot about everything. It's way better than using YouTube videos to figure stuff out, it does a better job of sorting through the stupid stuff.

It can still make blatant mistakes, you have to know at least a little bit about what you are asking it about to know if it is full of crap or not but it has saved me a LOT of money just in the last few months.

At work we are testing all the paid versions, right now we have CoPilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Codex. Most are on CoPilot because it is cheap and does okay. Our best tech users are all infatuated with Claude and really swear by it although they cuss running out of tokens all the time even on the $100 per month version. I think it is going to really change things and make us more efficient.