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.