My toolset is always changing, mostly as I like to tinker and geek out on what is the newest and latest, but also based on what I find to actually help me in my day to day life.

  • ChatGPT - I go back between this and Claude.
  • Ideogram - It's just fun to make images of anything.
  • Runway - I bought a year subscription on accident, so I am just rolling with it now. It's amazing how fast AI video is evolving, and being able to make puppet videos at a moments notice is always great.
  • Replit - I am not an engineer, but I think I may be turning into one. It can build nearly anything for you, and even deploy it to a site in seconds. This is the future of web development if folks like it or not.
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ChatGPT is my best friend.

4 days later

Well I, as we all really, have been using AI for a long time but the first AI tool I paid for was one that would take video/audio recordings and automatically create transcripts from them where it tracked distinct speakers and built out a summation of the call and created action items. I am tragically bad at taking notes so I record all client interactions and use this feature. Unfortunately the company got bought by Loom and although it has a similar product so far I am not as impressed with it.

I have also started using GitHub Copilot a bit. I have never done much Open Source dev work but I am building out a library for a thing that I do and I thought I should sex it up with better code. So far I say "make it better" and copilot comes back with very few suggestions and most of them are unworkable. I have decide this means I am better at writing code than Copilot.

I am hoping it will blah out some unit tests for me because I am also trash at that.

I'm in HR and often tasked to create policies, SOPs, and procedures, so the ChatGPT paid version is my "go-to" tool for research and composition of thoughts.

As we all know by now, AI is the present and the future, and we all need to keep upskilling and utilizing AI more and more... (I mean we've been told this repeatedly on Upwork community forum)

I'm in the legal field. Have never used it and don't plan to.

I am a mechanical engineer, but now starting to use AI tools for coding and graphic design:

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  2. Openart

I am also looking for some tools can build print circuit board for me 😆

Ugh, none. Fortunately, I'm old enough that I will probably be able to retire before I am forced to either embrace them or change professions.

    I use ChatGPT Pro and Copilot. ChatGPT primarily because of the Santa voice they have available now and Copilot to help with some mundane tasks.

    DuncanThePig Do you not worry you’ll be quickly falling behind the rest of the world? I remember going to Sears to get our Christmas photos taken. Look at how Sears is doing since they didn’t worry about that whole internet thing.

    Tiffany But what if it could do half your job for you, and you could get that half back? To post on forums for 20 hours more a week? Thats the logic you have to go into it with.

          None. I rely on fresh air, cats, plants and good music to help me in my day to day life.

          Skynet has enough helpers. It doesn't need me.

          Sounds awful. I write for a living because I like to write, not craft stupid prompts and edit. I'd sooner clean bathrooms at McDonald's than craft stupid prompts and edit for machine. I don't even like editing for humans. (Your example really resonated with me, because I love photography and though I have adapted to digital, I miss film and the developing process and still shoot on film with my old K-1000 sometimes.)

          I ALREADY have plenty of time to do whatever I want, since my rates allow me to live quite comfortably working 12-15 hours/week. I usually work 20-25, but I don't need to. The rates for playing personal assistant to AI would be much, much, much lower--I'd probably have to work 120 hours/week playing with AI to get close to what I'm making now.

          All that said...as I mentioned in my original comment...I'm old. I would probably be quite a bit more concerned about it if I had 20 or 30 years years of earning a living ahead of me

          It does both entertain and worry me, though, that people think learning AI is somehow future-proofing them. The whole point of AI is that it continually learns to do more and more without you. So...if it does half your work for you today, that means half as many workers are needed in your field. In 2-3 years, maybe it will do 95%, and only one in 20 people will be able to find work, even if they've all gotten on board and learned to be good little attendants to the machine.

            Mallclerks Do you not worry you’ll be quickly falling behind the rest of the world? I remember going to Sears to get our Christmas photos taken. Look at how Sears is doing since they didn’t worry about that whole internet thing.

            Not at all. How would I be falling behind when using it would mean using inferior content?

            I'm no luddite. It's just that AI is of no use to me. I'll be happy to use it if/when it improves enough.

              Tiffany You can still develop. All you need is a little dev tank and some fixer. You don't even need a commercial developer. You can make your own with instant coffee, washing soda and Vitamin C. It's called "Caffenol" I've been using it happily with film and paper for years.
              From pinhole and paper negatives to reversal with home made solutions, there are many fun techniques to enjoy...

              (I know this is another kind of forum but I couldn't resist...Take care.)

                7 days later

                I work in apparel design. I use ChatGPT for day to day writing to clean up my messages. I also use Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Express quite a bit and they have built in ai tools within the software I tinker with. Mostly for inspiration or ideas. I actually don't really like ai art but I know we have to learn to use it so we can adapt. Something about it bugs me though.

                I have used ChatGPT and Copilot.
                Sometimes, I use the output of one to get it vetted by the other.
                Some background: I have experience in FORTRAN (yes, the oldie), Clipper, C, and AutoLisp.
                However, I am completely new to VBA.
                If I did not have programming experience, I would not be able to get ChatGPT to create workable code.
                The main problem I have faced with ChatGPT is that it tends to forget (without the memory being erased), which necessitates a careful check every time a code if modified or updated.
                Another problem is it needs very detailed instructions, and can still mess up.
                All things considered, I have been able to get ChatGPT to create some useful software (barring the trivial).
                As I wrote on the Upwork forum, I believe AI can be used effectively only by people that have expertise and experience. So a person who is not a writer is not likely to extract any decent output from AI. AI is a tool, an assistant.

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                None. My brain is better tool and I utilize it with pleasure. Also, AI is unethical and mostly illegal. Also it eats up Earth resources with the speed of light.

                Tiffany Hey, Tiffany, are you by any chance the Tiffany who requested a quote on UW for the translation of a series of novels?

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