Poll: Are you using AI in any capacity?

posted by Automatik

Check out this plugin.

https://www.aiprm.com/

Are you using the paid subscription of this service or just the free version?

Haven't really dove into it yet, but I doubt I'll pay for it.

I am still paying for GPT 4, but I'll probably ditch that eventually. 

posted by jmog

At least the answer wasn't "42"

That's the only answer I care to hear!

Been using ChatGPT heavily the last week or so. Upgraded to the paid subscription for $20 so I'm evaluating if it's worth it over the free version. So far, so good. It's not going to take my job, but it isn't going to augment my skillset by quite a bit going forward.

posted by justincredible

Upgraded to the paid subscription for $20 so I'm evaluating if it's worth it over the free version.

posted by MontyBrunswick

i've tried to use it but i have no clue what it's supposed to be doing. i was trying to get a photo made for a joke and needed to buy credits for it to work so since i'm not going to pay money for a joke, i'm not sure how much use case there is for me.

My company just rolled out our internal version of chaptGPT and i am going to try and feed it data and have it create a powerbi or spotfire dashboard to see how useful it can be at doing that for datasets that i'm not sure what the use case is at the moment and don't want to invest huge time into without knowing if there is a use.

Serious question. I wrote about a 9 page technical paper for an engineering conference coming up on a project I did that maybe patented down the road. 

I have until next week to turn the paper into about a 20 slide power point for the presentation and I have been too busy work wise to even start it. 

Can any of these AI programs turn an existing paper into a slide deck?

Now that would be useful. 

Maybe check this out:

https://www.slidesai.io

posted by jmog

I have until next week to turn the paper into about a 20 slide power point for the presentation and I have been too busy work wise to even start it.

A whole week?  LOL, I get it you said you have no time to start it.  THE worst aspect of consulting that I absolutely despise is over-formatting presentations.  Frickin' 30 minutes to make an effective slide, 3 hours to make one "professional".

posted by gut

A whole week?  LOL, I get it you said you have no time to start it.  THE worst aspect of consulting that I absolutely despise is over-formatting presentations.  Frickin' 30 minutes to make an effective slide, 3 hours to make one "professional".

Yeah, traveling for work all this week, Monday through Friday. Leave for the conference I am giving the presentation on Sunday morning, and being a speaker there, there are festivities to attend to Sunday evening, all day Monday, and I speak Tuesday morning.

So here goes...starting now hoping the AI helps at least gives me something to start with and just have to edit.

posted by justincredible

Maybe check this out:

https://www.slidesai.io

Let’s assume it would have taken me a whole workday to put together professional slides for 20-25 slide deck.

I spent an hour getting this downloaded/working (work laptop wouldn’t allow it, used hotel lobby and personal google drive, etc).

Free version didn’t have enough characters, and even the $20 version would only make 10 slides.

Had to make 10 slides from the first half of my paper, and 10 from the second half.

That all took me an hour ish combined.

I will need to spend maybe an hour/hour and a half editing the slides it gave mostly the pictures and some text.

So maybe 2.5 hours rather than 8…for $20.

And next time I just sign back up for $20 (I canceled already) and it only takes me 1.5 hours rather than 2.5 now that I know how it works…

I’m happy with it, would have been ecstatic if I didn’t have to do hardly any editing and if it wasn’t limited to 10 slides…

Gave the technical presentation Tuesday. 

Everyone says it went well, but who’s going to say “your presentation f&$king sucked”?

I spent about 2 hours after the AI spit out slides putting it in our company’s template and editing out the stupid shit that didn’t make sense (honestly far less than I expected). 

Overall I would recommend. Probably saved me half a day of work for $20. 

Here’s a picture of my fat ass, can’t show the presentation for IP reasons. 

You're welcome

posted by justincredible

You're welcome

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