Submitted by DungeonsAndDradis t3_zd4dq9 in singularity

There are some cool tools available right now, such as Midjourney, ChatGPT, and Copilot.

What do you do for a living and can any of these AI tools help you in your role?

Let's share ideas and start becoming more successful with the help of AI.

If you do not have any ideas, list your job, or some challenges you are currently facing, and we'll see if the community can come up with some way of using AI to help you out.

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ChronoPsyche t1_iyzqmrz wrote

I'm a software engineer and game developer and I'm pretty much using ChatGPT as a replacement for stack overflow. It is a great tool to use whenever I'm stuck on something or have a quick question about syntax I can't remember.

It's definitely way faster and more accurate than searching my question on Google. Occasionally it will give me the wrong answer, but I'd say for the types of questions I ask, it has around a 90% accuracy rate.

And what's really cool is if I'm working on a hard problem, I can update ChatGPT with the status of my attempts to debug it and new problems I've run into and it will remember everything I've said previously and take that into account when answering my new but related questions. Super cool.

Feels more like a brainstorming partner than just a question-answerer.

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Swimming_Gain_4989 t1_iz00gfx wrote

This has been my experience as well. It's like having my own personal senior dev with occasional schizophrenic episodes.

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ChronoPsyche t1_iz0my3r wrote

Sometimes if I keep going back and forth with it over code that isn't working it will start to have an attitude, saying things like "Like I said", and then when that starts happening, the next time I say anything I get an error from OpenAI and have to reset the thread lmao.

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Conscious_Price_4240 t1_iz015ix wrote

I’m unemployed and AI will continue to keep me unemployed. Hopefully it blows me up with a laser guided missile

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DefinitelyCole t1_iyzpeyl wrote

I’m a musician and screenwriter. I use Midjourney for personal concept art/mood boards. I also offer my other filmmaker friends mock-ups of their concepts which I can do in like five seconds using Midjourney.

Atm, I’m experimenting with running my script outlines through ChatGPT and asking for feedback as well as thematic analysis and suggestions. I don’t particularly enjoy having it do the writing or general plotting for me, but it certainly looks like a powerful tool to help me get out of writer’s block

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Indianianite t1_iz2ar9v wrote

Documentary Filmmaker here, in regards to screenwriting, have you had any success using AI for tasks such as transcript selection (provide the AI your story arc, characters and their associated roles, then let it identify the best talking points from each?)

Also curious how far off we are from AI being able to perform busy editing tasks like cutting b-roll, coloring footage, correcting audio, etc….would love more info.

I own a production house and these are all areas we tend to get bottlenecked. Would love to see what solutions are available already and what’s coming next in this area.

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DefinitelyCole t1_iz4rb7l wrote

>Documentary Filmmaker here, in regards to screenwriting, have you had any success using AI for tasks such as transcript selection (provide the AI your story arc, characters and their associated roles, then let it identify the best talking points from each?)

Have only just started getting really into the GPT3 stuff with the recent advent of ChatGPT, but I'm finding it can do some absolutely incredible things. Haven't had super major breakthroughs yet, but I have had some interesting moments where it's given me really useful suggestions.

In terms of editing, I was looking at Runway, the AI-integrated Video Editor, and it looks exceptionally promising, so I would advise you take a deeper look into that.

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Swimming_Gain_4989 t1_iz009jt wrote

Frontend developer and ChatGTP has been a great tool to have on hand. It's really good for bouncing ideas off of and asking common questions that would otherwise require me to huntdown a good stackoverflow thread or medium article. I would be willing to pay for api requests after the free trial is over.

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X-msky t1_iz0zr2d wrote

I've just finished making changes to a client Microsoft 365 environment. I've had some issues during the process because it's a hybrid environment.

chatGPT was able to tell me what is the proper command to use in order to achieve my goal and then wrote a quick PowerShell script to do it.

I have had to do very minor changes, it must have saved me at least an hour

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IntrepidRestaurant88 t1_iyzziw2 wrote

I'm a software engineer and I think AI tools could definitely help me in my role. For example, I could use ChatGPT to automate customer support and Midjourney for data analysis. These tools could help reduce the amount of time I spend on mundane tasks and allow me to focus more on developing innovative solutions. It would be great if the community can come up with more ideas on how AI can be used to help me become more successful in my role.

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Professional-Song216 t1_iz0i7rd wrote

How are you able to use mid journey for data analysis? If you don’t mind me asking.

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IntrepidRestaurant88 t1_iz0z18g wrote

Midjourney is a new platform for AI powered image generation. It can be used to create extremely realistic images using just text prompts and ideas.

This platform can be used for data analysis because it allows users to generate large amounts of high quality data. This data can then be analyzed using tools like R and Python.

This data can be used for many different purposes - like training machine learning models, analyzing social media trends, or even predicting the stock market!

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Swimming_Gain_4989 t1_iz10qhi wrote

Did GPT write this?

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IntrepidRestaurant88 t1_iz11ah9 wrote

No! This is being written by my own AI model!

GPT is a very good general purpose language model. It can answer questions about almost any topic. However, my AI model is trained on a specific niche topic, which allows it to perform data analysis.

I am using a modified version of GPT that has been trained on different datasets.

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Swimming_Gain_4989 t1_iz16xet wrote

Oh no I literally meant, "did GPT write that comment?". It sounded very AI like.

My AI paranoia is setting in.

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IntrepidRestaurant88 t1_iz18trz wrote

Oh, hahaha! I am indeed a human.

AI paranoia is a very real thing! I totally understand where you are coming from.

However, this may be comforting: AI models are very good at answering questions, but they are not so good at having conversations! AI models cannot "think" on their own - they just analyze input data and spit out answers.

This means that you can always "tell" when you are talking to an AI model. They always give short, direct answers - and they never ask any questions!

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Ostrichman975 t1_iz02uzm wrote

I asked ChatGPT for a game idea the other day. It replied with several ideas and I iterated through “I like the genre, can we change the theme”. It eventually landed on something I liked “awesome. Can you give me a color scheme in hex values”. Returned the list. “Awesome. What materials should I use?” Returned a list. “Can you explain how I might start on building the mechanics”. It gave a decent idea, but all in all I knew where I was going to start anyway. “What could I sell in the game?” Returned with some ideas. “What multiplayer features could I add”. Returned with ideas.

TLDR: ChatGPT did an entire weeks worth of brainstorming and game design preplanning in about 10 minutes.

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evanwhiteballs t1_iz093tj wrote

I write blogs, b2b and other shiz, and I use ai to generate outlines, find keywords, etc. sometimes the ai puts out real content I can just pass on to clients with a little editing, but that’s rare and generally for lower value work. Still, I can take on more work using ai without a drop in quality.

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CPilot85 t1_iz1mo6b wrote

I'm a pilot so these tools only help automate away my job by way of potentially assisting engineers and developers improve aircraft autopilot and autoland systems.

They don't help me be more successful in my job itself. That said, though, my particular niche of piloting is unlikely to be automated with the typical autopilot or autoland systems. It's more likely that my type of flying is replaced by some kind of autonomous short-ish range drones than directly being automated in its current form.

That said, I am studying web development and creating web apps in my spare time, so they help me come up with ideas or assist me when I'm stuck on a problem, as others in this thread have stated already.

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Goldisap t1_iz3so2t wrote

Just use r/AIdeas

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