How Your Neighbors Are Using AI

Yeah.

Well, and, and AI is interesting too in terms of, like, the, the, the information it has access to, you know, and synthesizes is just enormous.

And, you know, so one of the agents that, that Tanner built, uh, Nick, Tanner, and I, uh, kept-- all interacted with it on, like, a kind of a chat conversation.

And that's been interesting too, where the s-- it's kind of the three of us chatting, but then you have this sort of agent that's sort of, like, weighing in and building context on our personalities, our interests, like, the kinds of things we're talking about, and can pull on other references and then build kind of some sort of, like, a, not exactly institutional memory, but sort of, like, a, a context memory.

Uh, and so that's just kind of another way that we've used it.

I guess, um, open it up here for, for other things that, that you guys want to, to bring up.

But I think, you know, again, for, for ordinary people, there, there are sort of people who are, like, super into AI, a-and I think all of us are kind of more or less in that category, where we're very interested.

We're kind of trying to adopt it, figure it out.

A lot of people, they just sort of hear about it, and they're, they, they use, like, ChatGPT to ask questions.

It's like their new, their, their s- new search bar.

How do you think people should be thinking about or playing with AI? You know, if, if there's not maybe a direct professional connection, or, or maybe there should be.

They should think about a professional connection.

But what sorts of things might you recommend, or why should people maybe spend a little more time experimenting and playing around with AI?

I have an idea on this.

I-- One thing that I have found as I've utilized it is if there's ever a field or an area that I feel like just a complete beginner in, AI is fantastic for helping you build context and quickly move you from beginner to maybe novice or even intermediate, depending on how many questions you ask it and, you know, trying to just understand some sort of area.

Like I said, I have a broad range of interests, and to your point about having so much access to so much information, I, I think for just The average user who's not using it for much, I'd, I would encourage you to think about is there any area that you're interested in that you feel like kind of a beginner or a novice and you'd really like to increase your understanding or your knowledge in that area? Y-you would be surprised at how quickly I think working directly with an AI agent and asking those specific questions, you can go from a beginner to a novice or an intermediate, um, pretty quickly.

So that, that's where I would just tell people to look is look at those areas.

Yeah, I, I think one of the things that comes to mind immediately for me is, uh, is just debugging household problems too.

[chuckles] Like it used to be like, "Oh, I wanna do this on my car.

I need to, like fix this appliance." And it used to be like, okay, I'd watch this YouTube video, or I can go over here and see...

I mean, I did some, some pipe sweating a few years ago, and I think I watched eight hours of YouTube just to like try to understand, like, okay, this guy's doing it, but he's not explaining everything.

You know, like, what are the things to watch out for? Like, why am I doing it like this, you know? Like, I recently-- we, our, our dryer broke, and I was like, it's a gas dryer, so it could be the igniter, it could be the solenoid that controls the gas valve.

Like, so I went to AI, and I was like, "This is..." I took a picture of the, the model, and I said, like, "It's not running, it's not heating up, so what could potentially be wrong, and how could I fix it?" Um, and so it just gave me a whole list, and it get, got all the, like the corner cases, like, "Okay, do you see the igniter going off? Then it's probably the solenoid.

Do you see this?" You know, like, if the, if the dryer vent tube is dirty, then it's gonna overheat the parts or things like that.

And so it's like very thorough, and it, like gave me what would've taken me probably a couple of hours to get just watching slow, slow version, reading myself.