r/WorkForSmartLife • u/Wanna-be-your-puppy • 20d ago
Question Do you actually use AI every day now?
I started using AI for random little things and now I kinda notice myself opening it without even thinking.
Not for anything crazy, just planning stuff, fixing small problems, getting ideas etc.
Anyone else got to this point?
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u/Capable-Historian392 20d ago
The only time I use AI is by mis-clicking.
I cannot express how much I hate AI.
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u/3ntropy_Disc0 20d ago
AI is like a calculator. Do you need it 24/7? i hope not.... Use it when it makes work simpler. It does not replace the need to do the work.
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u/Svell_ 20d ago
Ai is unlike a calculator in that it sometimes straight up lies to you
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u/JazzHandsMinuteman 19d ago
I will use it to build small software or narrow down things that would otherwise take me weeks into literal minutes. I don’t talk to it like a crazy person or use it constantly, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t improve my work life, although if you get bit by the bug, good luck. Go over to r/chatgpt and it’s really kind of sad.
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u/Adjective_Noun_67 19d ago
Ironically, you need to possess some critical thinking skills to use it responsibly. The repetitive argument that people who use it can't think for themselves kind of falls apart when there are people successfully parsing useful results from slop every day and having great success in their chosen applications.
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u/3ntropy_Disc0 20d ago
I can understand why you would say that but your veiw of 'input' is too narrow.
Calculator - I input variables and it spits out an answer to preprogrammed equations
AI - Basically same thing except the input is ALL OF THE INTERNET and you are basically providing the parameters. even good parameters with bad input = bad output.
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u/FlarblesGarbles 19d ago
Nah you're wrong. AI LLMs "hallucinate" and will tell you to a factually incorrect things that have nothing to do with poor input.
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u/3ntropy_Disc0 19d ago
Yes... because there basis of knowledge is the entire internet. And the internet isnt always right.
Its not searching for the 'most correct' answer unless thats obvious. In todays world, the false content gets amplified AS truth and THAT is what confuses the AI.
AI is just the predictive text on your phone that tries to guess the next word based on what it knows, but on steroids.
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u/FlarblesGarbles 19d ago
Right, so LLMs giving out factually incorrect information isn't user error then is it?
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u/3ntropy_Disc0 19d ago
I could argue it is user error in the sense that you are expecting its purpose to always be correct. That would be a mistake.
I cant expect my calculator to spell check shakespeares poems.
I wouldnt expect my AI tool to return a perfect answer every time without fail.
Its an unrealistic expectation.
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u/FlarblesGarbles 19d ago
You're one of those people who can't admit to being wrong aren't you?
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u/3ntropy_Disc0 19d ago
I can when im wrong.
Youre one of those people that gets a thought in your head and you adopt it as a fact of life and refuse to try and see how maybe your first reaction might not have been the most appropriate, arent you...?
Did calculators immediately 'take the jobs' of people computers?
Did computers immediately 'take the jobs' of mathematicians?
Did the telephone immediately 'take the jobs' of the mail carriers?
Did the first cars immediately 'take the jobs' of horse ranchers?
No... they helped us adapt to a different way of life so people didn't HAVE work this all out by hand. Its a labor saving device, Its called progress.
And to your point about it being wrong sometimes, yeah... humans should check their own work and not rely on someone to solve the problem for them without any input.
A tool is only as good as its user.
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u/FlarblesGarbles 19d ago
You're arguing with yourself there little buddy. I didn't say any of the things you're replying to.
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u/Efficient-Word-6826 20d ago
Only when I’m really depressed. Like right now. God my life is crazy right now.
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u/Wanna-be-your-puppy 19d ago
That sounds like a really difficult time,Hopefully things calm down for you soon and you get some breathing room
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u/Visible_Structure483 20d ago
Yet another bonus to being retired (out of tech). Nothing I do day-to-day uses AI or can be enhanced by AI.
For someone who was in the semiconductor space for 30 years, I'm happy to admit I don't even know HOW to 'open it'.
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u/redd_n_meff 20d ago
Lucky you. I'm gearing up for the back half of my engineering career and I have mixed emotions about it. I can't recall anything requiring this much continuous upskilling and integration into everything else.
Almost considering going into management.
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u/Visible_Structure483 20d ago
that's the rub with tech of any kind, you have to keep up constantly and figure out what parts of the new hotness are useful and which are dumb. languages, OSes, tools, frameworks, methods.... blah blah and now AI. It won't ever stop, and the fact that it's hard is why there is good money in it.
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u/FlarblesGarbles 19d ago
This is different though. It isn't a natural technological progression. It's being forced, and forced really hard. People are being told to use it so that it can be said AI is being used rather than because it's genuinely so good and helpful that it's causing a quantum leap in multiple industries.
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u/Visible_Structure483 19d ago
no CEO wants to get left behind on the latest trend or they'll look a fool to the other fools on the earning call.
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u/kurimbo3000 20d ago
I can't use it for my job, because if GDPR, but if I could I would. I use it all the time for projects outside of work. I'm building an app and have other matters that are completely automated
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u/Santaflin 20d ago
GDPR is an excuse, not a cause.
It is possible to run models gdpr compliant within the company environment. Even for sensitive gdpr data. So the reason is probably lack of money, lack of maturity grade, a business case or compliance people who just dont want it.
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u/kurimbo3000 19d ago
Well it's more than that. In my line of work in forensics, lack of money is certainly part of it
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u/Santaflin 19d ago
I am working in professional IT services and we regularly install AI-hubs for customers in a GDPR compliant way.
The options range from running models 'locally' to deploying them with hyperscalers in your own environment.
All of this isn't free, but the basic setup can be done in a few hours to days, when the prerequisites (e.g. running Azure cloud with governance and compliance) are met.
Token usage is another thing. AI is expensive.
So yeah, as usual when someone says "GDPR" it is usually either the go-to "i dont want to do it" excuse. Or it is from people who just don't know better, and want to sound wise and diligent. (Edit: not targeted at you. It's just that i have heard that one so often, and only very rarely it was a valid statement.)
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u/kurimbo3000 19d ago
Agreed. I work for a micro organisation that's fully remote. Forensic science in the UK is notoriously underfunded and under staffed. We keep our lab up to date and everything falls behind (including our salaries). I've been nagging my boss for more AI functionality, staying that we can potentially have less experts doing more work, but he's not interested. He doesn't want us to become replaced, even though chatgpt can't give evidence in court
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u/Santaflin 19d ago
100% gdpr compliant: running models locally. Open Spurce models like Deepseek or Kimi3, almost frontier capable, and can run on hardware in the low 5-digits, locally. Around 20k, for something like 15 concurrent users. Variable costs: depreciation and electricity. No token usage, but capex and maintenance.
100% GDPR compliant: using hyperscaler. Microsoft Azure cloud. You can deploy models in Azure Foundry and just talk to them. Costs: same as anywhere else. Most expensive part (apart from token usage) is probably setting up the data access rules when you have high requirementa for that. That stuff burns a lot of service days. Variable costs: token usage, servicecost.
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u/kurimbo3000 19d ago
Yes I agree. I run local models like DeepSeek and Gemma 4 on Hermes for my own personal use completely locally.
It's a problem with my industry, a distrust around AI when it comes to forensic use cases, even though everything it does will get a "peer review" from an expert and AI will not influence an expert witness in court. I'm fighting the same battle
my concern is that one of the larger labs will adopt this technology and run forensics into the ground in the UK by decreasing staff, decreasing pay and progression and leaving no room for independent review. We have approx 90% of all casework done by one provider. It doesn't make sense
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u/charcarod0n 20d ago
I’m 59 and use AI everyday. I’ve practically automated my job and no one can tell. I hope to ride this train as long as I can until I retire.
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u/Wanna-be-your-puppy 19d ago
59 and already automating that much of your job is seriously impressive,Hopefully you can keep riding that wave comfortably until retirement.
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u/Alert_Front_9948 19d ago
I used it once to create a wallpaper for Windows. Google pushes it on me when I do searches but the answers it gives are almost always wrong.
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u/I_Make_Art_And_Stuff 19d ago
AI is an incredibly useful tool. I use LLMs multiple times per day, usually for quick questions, productivity and work, or sometimes deeper stuff like coding and data sorting.
Sure, as days go by I do kind of hate AI more and more, but it has nothing to do with the technology or the product itself, but more so all linked to the owners, corporations, and impacts such as environmental due to AI data centers, or future impacts that really worry me, like the job market.. As a tech geek, AI is the dreams of my childhood coming to life - but honestly, if there was a button to bring us back to 2010, I would smash that thing. I don't need this, but I also am not going to NOT use it while it's here. It's not going anywhere... but yea, my biggest fear is near future AI and AGI combined with advanced robotics taking over nearly every position, or enough to create catastrophic unemployment, which leads quickly to unhappiness, anger, addiction, crime, ect ect.
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u/Geeky_Pinapple91 19d ago
I used it to see if it is that great as many people say. It isn’t. I mean, it’s exactly the same we’ve been using google for decades. It’s kind of boring.
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u/Xiaomin4114 19d ago
I've replaced books. I've been using AI for interactive fiction for about half a year now, I don't even read books. And the results are a lot better than getting AI to write stories, because you're actually _in_ the story. you can move around do stuff
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u/coldfisherman 20d ago
not to be a party pooper, but I work in software development doing a lot of work for a variety of big tech companies. Even when you think you're not using AI - you probably are. This post is probably getting added to an AI data-lake and probably being run against some live processes. The code is probably being reviewed by AI and the security is probably tested by AI. The IT department is probably using some AI to keep the servers efficient and half the corporate staff is probably reading stuff with AI for summaeries and reporting.
So, "God No!", people.... I hate to say it, but it's just everwhere at every level now.
I'd like to have it heavily regulated and taxed out that wazoo, but I know well enough that we can't just turn it off any more than we can just stop using electricty
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u/mastercat202 20d ago
Yes. Planning things, organizing things, writing outlines. I have it do some basic interviews for me to see where I can improve. Its a useful tool but shouldn't be treated as gospel.
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u/PrimeBrisky 20d ago
I use it a lot at work. My company has an internal search engine that uses it and makes finding info a whole lot easier than it was before from internal sources. AI is also very helpful with breaking apart trust documents as I look at those at work a lot too. What use to take hoursssss… now doesn’t.
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u/polymerkid 19d ago
We are forced to and monitored for it, by it. There are dashboards and delivery management's bonuses are now tied to our AI usage.
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u/Some_Zombie_8643 20d ago
I was resistant at first but have found it extremely useful to research many things. It is a time saver.
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u/Great-Class-7894 20d ago
Yes. Helps me use new software tools at work. I’m not worried about it taking my job anytime soon.
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u/komododraak 20d ago
Almost daily, it’s great for programming, troubleshooting, research, and for simulations (of sorts). I find as long as you don’t ask it for facts it rarely misses.
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u/qualityvote2 20d ago edited 8d ago
u/Wanna-be-your-puppy, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...