Which AI tools do you use?

Etchergifts

I’ve been using ChatGPT to help me compare deals and draft quick negotiation emails, which actually saved me a couple hundred on insurance renewals. Also use Google Sheets with AI plugins to track spending and flag weird charges automatically. Tried a budgeting app with “AI insights” once, but it just gave generic tips like “eat out less” total waste of time. The real game-changer for me was automating bill reminders so I’ve avoided late fees entirely.

LeafGreen

I recently started using chatGPT to help with my foreign language learning, more specifically practice with voice chats.  Early days for me but feels like a game changer, it’s so good, especially the advanced voice.  I give it a scenario to role play with me or just do general chit chat, it even understands my terrible French accent most of the time!

1957DfurdPensionist

I understand that GPT-5, released into the wild yesterday, was part designed/trained/developed by GPT-3 i.e. perhaps the beginnings of AI begat AI,maybe 18 months earlier than most recently predicted?  Anyone else heard this? GPT-5 is I believe now the Large Language Model behind ChatGPT which we can all interact with via the ChatGPT App.

Vitor

Yes, GPT-5 is now running ChatGPT, but the “GPT-3 helped design it” bit isn’t really right.
Earlier models like GPT-3 may have been used as part of the training data, but humans still designed and built GPT-5. It didn’t “make itself”.

One big change with GPT-5 is that it’s not just one big brain, it can call on different specialist tools in the background, each has been trained in a particular area, and it decides when to use them. That’s why it can handle a wider range of topics and tasks than earlier versions.

MattMattMattUK

I have run a few of the smaller Chat GPT models on my RTX 5090 recently and on Friday I got offered a Nvidia DGX Spark through a work contact.. The Spark (1,000 TOPS) is a lot slower than the 5090 (3,352 TOPS) but it does have 128GB of RAM so it can run far larger models. 

I guess I should figure out something to actually use it for!

RainbowsInTheSpray

Which AI tools do you use?:

None.

A decision which I heartily recommend to anyone else who wishes to retain a human presence on this planet.

gsomse

MattMattMattUK said:

I have run a few of the smaller Chat GPT models on my RTX 5090 recently and on Friday I got offered a Nvidia DGX Spark through a work contact.. The Spark (1,000 TOPS) is a lot slower than the 5090 (3,352 TOPS) but it does have 128GB of RAM so it can run far larger models. 

I guess I should figure out something to actually use it for!

I have used an open source LLM for enriching a 7000+ list of company data, it's not possible to run that kind of job on ChatGPT or Gemini, using the APIs would be cost prohibitive.

steviebuk

Dislike AI because its not AGI (which WILL be dangerous), its just predictive text and marketing departments and companies are selling BS which management falls for.

However, one useful tool is using them as search engines. When you're struggling to remember a movie, you can give it details and it will do the searching for you. Searching without judgement or ridicule.

Places like this forum and reddit are very useful, but you will at times get arsey replies so the "AI" tools are useful for trying to get answers to simple questions where you know it won't make the answer up and that it won't just give you an answer to please you.

Its not exactly great at script but its useful to ask it simple questions for programming and script to give you an idea where to look, without being called "a noob" "Maybe programming isn't for you" etc.

Use ChatGPT and as have access to CoPilot at work, use that also.