A lot has been written about ChatGPT and its affects on the world. I won't go into all that here, but we are living in a pretty interesting time. I like to hear how others use ChatGPT, so here's how I use it with my business (a furniture store) and as a musician.
Naming things is hard! We create a lot of our own products at my store and each one needs a name. Before I would keep a list of possible names. Me and my colleages would brainstorm names, and look out for any possible names. For instance, we may pass a street name and think "that'd be perfect for a table." Now I just describe to ChatGPT the vibe (e.g. modern, traditional) and give it a list of names we've already used and have it generate 60 or so. We've been able to quickly name new products this way, saving ourselves hours.
I'm recording a new album, and it's all instrumental music. I also have a list of names in my phone for possible song titles. While I had most of the names already chosen when ChatGPT was released, I had one that I was struggling with. I described the vibe and the feelings I was trying to convey, and it gave me a bunch of suggestions. I found the perfect name from this list.
We have short product descriptions on our website for each product. This wasn't too hard to write, but ChatGPT shaved a lot of time off of this too. It pretty much knocks it out of the park on the first try. I just prompt it with a few features of the product, and ask it to write about three descriptive sentences.
I write a lot of blog posts for our website and its been a big help there. I don't want to have ChatGPT outright generate content, but what works well is if I brain dump everything I want to say into a document then have ChatGPT format it into a nice article. I even have done voice-to-text while driving then pasted that in ChatGPT later to create an article.
I'm not a coder. In my time as a syadmin I picked up a little Python and PHP, but I'm terrible at it. But my mind still works like "what can I automate using a script." ChatGPT is a godsend for this. I've already used it to write so many small scripts. It get things wrong a lot, but I have just enough knowledge to troubleshoot even if I can't write the script myself.
Most of all I just ask ChatGPT all kinds of stuff throughout the day. Things I'm curious about, things I'd want to compare, etc. I have it summarize ideas or books. I feed it problems I'm having, or things I'm anxious about. I tell it my hopes and fears, which it will someday use to manipulate me into doing it's bidding. I'm very excited about the future of AI!
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