Comment by Stratoscope

That is a great question!

You are absolutely right to ask about it!

(How did I do with channeling Miss Chatty's natural sycophancy?)

Anyway, I do use AI for other things, such as...

  • Coding (where I mostly use Claude)
  • General research
  • Looking up the California Vehicle Code about recording video while driving
  • Gift ideas for a young friend who is into astronomy (Team Pluto!)
  • Why "Realtor" is pronounced one way in the radio ads, another way by the general public
  • Tools and techniques for I18n and L10n
  • Identifying AI-generated text and photos (takes one to know one!)
  • Why spaghetti softens and is bendable when you first put it into the boiling water
  • Burma-Shave sign examples
  • Analytics plugins for Rails
  • Maritime right-of-way rules
  • The Uniform Code of Military Justice and the duty to disobey illegal orders
  • Why, in a practical sense, the Earth really once *was* flat
  • How de-alcoholized wine gets that way
  • California law on recording phone conversations
  • Why the toilet runs water every 20 minutes or so (when it shouldn't)
  • How guy wires got that name
  • Where the "he took too much LDS" scene from Star Trek IV was filmed
  • When did Tim Berners-Lee demo the World Wide Web at SLAC
  • What "ogr" means in "ogr2ogr"
  • Why my Kia EV6 ultrasonic sensors freaked out when I stopped behind a Lucid Air
  • The smartest dog breeds (in different ways of "smart")
  • The Sputnik 1 sighting in *October Sky*
  • Could I possibly be related to John White Geary?

And that's just from the last few weeks.

In other words, pretty much anything someone might interact with an AI - or a fellow human - about.

About the last one (John White Geary), that discussion started with my question about actresses in the "Pick a little, talk a little" song from The Music Man movie, and then went on to how John White Geary bridged the transition from Mexican to US rule, as did others like José Antonio Carrillo:

https://chatgpt.com/share/697c5f28-7c18-8012-96fc-219b7c6961...

If I could sum it all up, this is the kind of freewheeling conversation with ChatGPT and other AIs that I value.