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In this episode, we explore the AI tools Chat GPT and Google’s Bard to expedite your life admin and drop your mental load.
We talked about:
- the key differences between the tools
- Chat GPT has been trained on data up until 2021and is better at responding to analysis queries
- Bard is continually drawing information from the internet so it has the latest information and research
- Bard generates multiple drafts of its response and ChatGPT lets you see alternatives if you thumbs down the response.
- Bard can also read out its responses and you can click buttons to generate shorter, longer, simpler, more casual and more professional versions. You can also click through to Google search results for your query, which is a good way to fact check whatever Bard told you. You can use the mic to give it an audio prompt.
- For both, you can click to copy the answer and paste it elsewhere, and you can share responses with others. They both store your previous chats so you can pick up where you left off.
Caveats
- they’re experiments and imperfect. they get things wrong. they hallucinate and make up stuff. fact check the answers if it's important.
- don’t type in sensitive, confidential info. they save every input they receive and might regurgitate it back to a stranger.
- human reviewers might scrutinise your conversations to improve quality.
Meal planning prompts with ChatGPT and Bard - give multiple criteria such as frequency, meal type, ingredients, categories, calorie count, nutrient macros or specific chefs or cooks
- “Create a weekly dinner plan with a mix of comfort food favourites and lighter options to satisfy cravings while maintaining a healthy balance. Include Jamie Oliver, Yotam Ottolenghi, and Rachel Ray recipes
- tell it the format you prefer so you can use it readily
- “ put it in a table format that I can paste into the Notes app in my phone”
AI prompts for life admin writing
- Use ChatGPT and Bard to draft effective letters, emails, messages
- give the tool enough context: who you are writing to, why, the outcome you are seeking
- suggest the tone: friendly, professional, formal, sincere/earnest, humorous, apologetic, sympathetic, inspirational, casual, in the style of a specific person
- ask it to draft 3 versions so you can pick and choose the best elements
AI prompts for travel
Use ChatGPT and Bard to get advice about:
- destinations and top attractions for time of year
- transport options : faster, cheaper, more direct
- currency exchange resources
- visa and passport requirements
- compare travel insurance policies
- packing lists for certain destination and activities at a specific time of year
Bard is useful here because it links to websites and shows images
AI prompts for gift giving
- Bard useful here as it includes links to websites and images
- “suggest some gifts that cost less than $70 for a man who is turning 53. he likes fishing, skiing, foraging, DIY, barbecuing and family time.
AI prompts for book, tv, film, podcast recommendations
- List titles you like and ask for similar suggestions
- Compile ‘best of’ lists of award winning titles
- Collate reading, watching and listening lists to dive deep on a topic
Be aware of hallucinations: ask the tools which sites can verify their responses and use those sites to fact check
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Transcript
Introduction to Life Admin Life Hacks
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This is Life Admin Life Hacks, a podcast that gives you techniques, tips and tools to tackle your life admin more efficiently, to save your time, your money and improve your household harmony.
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I'm Diana Roberts, an Operations Manager, and this week's show notes for this podcast will be brought to you by ChatGPT. I'm Mia Northrop, a researcher and writer who is a total sci-fi geek, and I remain optimistic that humanity can avoid a dystopian nightmare.
Using AI for Life Admin Automation
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In this episode, we'll do a deep dive into using ChatGPT and Bard to expedite and automate your life advent.
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Hello and welcome to Life Admin Life Hacks. Before we get into it today, we want to thank our latest reviewers. Hello Kelly29. She left her review on Apple Podcasts that said, great nuggets of advice. I'm naturally a very organized person, but I'm still finding so many great nuggets of advice in these episodes. Choirs of angels sung when my husband added source firewood for winter to our new shared to-do list.
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We're so pleased that the ideas we're sharing are useful for people who can tip themselves pretty organized already, as well as people who are setting up methodical processes and systems for the first time.
Introduction to ChatGPT and Bard
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So if you want to check whether you've been living under a rock, then your level of familiarity with chat GPT and its lesser known Google cousin Bard is your new litmus test. Both of these free AI tools came out in late 2022 and have been blowing people's minds ever since.
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Why? Because this is the first mainstream taste of that science fiction future where we can chat, or in these cases, mostly type prompts on a website to AI, and they respond sounding like humans with information we can readily use. Yeah, well, the magic of these tools, chat, GPT and BARD,
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is that they're a type of generative AI which learns from content across the internet and other data sources. And they use a language model and knowledge to create by itself. So you can ask it a question or ask it to analyze or explain something and it will draw on that knowledge and everything anybody has ever typed into it
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and feedback it's got on previous responses to generate a new answer.
AI Productivity and Concerns
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Yeah. So Diana, what do you find exciting about this technology? I guess I'm quite a practical person. So for me, it's massively into productivity. So the thing that I guess I've been using it the most for is writing because I can write like I'm not a terrible writer.
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But it's probably the area of like my life where I sort of agonize the most about things and I find I'm like the slowest at doing things. So the thing that's most exciting for me is like this.
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productivity boost I can get from it in terms of improving my writing really quickly. So I guess, you know, the excitement is the productivity gains. And is there anything about you freak you out? Well, I think that the thing that makes me the most nervous is when it gets things wrong. And I guess this is where, you know, our kids and particularly for the next generation who perhaps, you know, grow up in a world where A.I. is like
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You know, it is mainstream. And so maybe they're not as skeptical as we are about some of the stuff and don't have as good a litmus test, I think, in terms of, hang on, that doesn't seem quite right. And I guess what does that mean in terms of, you know, when misinformation gets so easily get like spread across the globe and become kind of the truth, so to speak? I don't know. What about you, Izzy?
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Yeah. Well, I know we're just going to talk about chat GP 10, but there are other AI tools that can use video and audio very convincingly. And that whole deep fake thing is fully freaky. I, you know, we've got a few examples today, actually, where we asked the different tools questions and they did get it wrong. Like they came back with very different answers and sometimes both of the answers were just plain old wrong.
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So yeah, I find this AI hallucinations kind of interesting while these tools at the moment can be really helpful, can speed up things, can create great first drafts. I think there's still that idea that when they're, you know, if it's something really important,
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you need to fact check it. Does it freak me out?
AI Accuracy and Fact-Checking
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Sometimes the tone of the responses freaks me out, especially Bard. Like, sometimes Bard comes across like a sulky defensive teenager. And I think about how in that, you know, science fiction movie 2001,
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I asked Bard some question, and he said, I am still under development, but I'm learning new things every day, and I am excited to see what I can do in the future. And I'm like, you're not excited, you're a machine, how can you be excited? You could say, it's exciting to see what I can do in the future, but you are not excited, buddy, you are programming. So I don't like the fact that Google has programmed Bard to communicate like that, because that to me is a bit uncanny valley.
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You're trying to be human, but you're not. So don't try to be human, you know what I mean? Have you asked Chet JPT who is Mia Northrup? Yeah, and it came back with a grand hallucination. I sounded much more awesome than I was. I think it thought I was Mia Friedman.
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I was like, yeah, no, that's not me. Clearly I've got pretty enough content out there. I did ask, well, you know, they're very different. They're different language models. I asked Bard about chat GPT and Bard
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first of all, was like, who's ChatGPT? And I said, oh, ChatGPT is another AI. And then I said, have you heard of it? And then it's like, oh, yes. And it gave this sort of technical description of what it is. And of course, I asked ChatGP about Bard and it didn't know because ChatGPT's data sources finished in 2021. But I thought it was, again, it was like a sulky teenager. It was like, I don't know who's ChatGPT.
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I think I have enough soggy teenagers in my life without any more. We don't need digital ones too. So they use different language models, which is the way that AI is trained on data to learn patterns and structure and meaning. And at this time, if you play around with BARD,
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it lets you see three other drafts of what its response was going to be. So you type in a prompt and then you can see the versions it discarded before it decided, you know, this was the one I'm putting forward, but you didn't see the other draft. ChatDPT does that as well.
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If you thumbs down the original response, if you give a bit of feedback and say, no, I didn't like that. It'll say, oh, these are my other responses, you know, as one of these better. You can also read out its responses. So, but I'd like to read out the responses like an audio and you can also click buttons to generate shorter, longer.
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simpler, more casual, or more professional versions. So it already has those tools to tweak the draft that's given you. You can also click through to Google search results from Bard, which is useful because it might sort of get you started with something, but if you want to dive deeper and go to a source, it lets you click through to the Google search results so you can
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fact check it. You can also use the mic to give it an audio prompt so you don't have to type on Bard.
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Honestly, I hadn't spent that much time playing around with Bard until we planned this episode. There's definitely some strengths over chat DPT in certain areas. For both of them, you can click to copy the answer and paste it elsewhere, and you can share the responses with others. And they both store your previous chats, so you can pick up where you left off. So if last week you wanted to know all about retirement funds,
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And then you circle back this week with more questions. You can just go back to that previous chat and pick up the conversation and it has the context of what it was talking about. But there are some definite caveats, aren't there, to using these tools, Diane? Yeah. I mean, they're definitely imperfect and I've certainly experienced getting things wrong that can make stuff up. It's really important to fact check the answers if it's important to you. Yeah. And you don't want to type in any sensitive, confidential information.
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So they save every input they receive and they might regurgitate it back to a stranger. So you don't want to be putting in any personally identifiable information.
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you know, sensitive financial information, any, you know, account numbers or, you know, any numbers related to you that could be sensitive, or if you're using it for work, any kind of commercially sensitive information. Don't put it into these systems because they are saving all of it. Yep. And I guess finally, you know, human reviewers might scrutinize your conversations to improve the quality. So I guess that's, you know, reinforcing that privacy issue to make sure that you're not putting things in there. You don't want other people to see. Yeah.
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AI in Meal Planning and Communication
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All right, Diane, let's dive into some specific tasks and examples of these AI prompts at work. Yeah, so should we kick off with meal planning and grocery shopping? Because I feel like that's actually what I used first, to be honest. Yeah. Like a simple prompt, like I've got these things in my fridge, plan me a menu, but you can actually get way more specific than that, can't you?
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Yeah, so I think this is where you can have fun with giving it all the criteria that are going to shape how you want to eat. So you can start off your prompt by saying, you know, create me a meal plan where, you know, it can be a weekly, fortnightly, monthly, give it a number, 10 days, you know, specify whether you want dinner, breakfast, lunch and dinner. So your prompt might be, you know, give me a weekly meal plan for dinner and you could start there. And as you said, you might decide to use items from your fridge or pantry so you can say,
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suggest three dinner recipes that can use up these items in my fridge and pantry. Cauliflower, zucchini, chicken breast, rigatoni, lemons. And it will come back and suggest three recipes that will list out the ingredients. It'll step out the method and off you go. Yeah, so you can also do even more complicated things like
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creating a seven day meal plan that has dinner recipes for the following categories. You know, we advocate using categories for your meal planning. So you might come up with categories you use like fish, chicken, past, or you might use cuisine types. So for each meal state, like you can ask it to state the category, what the cooking time is, and you can even ask it then to create a shopping list for the entire meal plan with quantities, say for a family of two adults and two children.
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and even organise the shopping list by a supermarket department so it makes it way easier to get the shopping done.
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Yeah, so we'll actually put these prompts in the show notes so you can copy and paste them. But yeah, you're basically saying create a seven day meal plan that had dinner recipes for the following categories, pasta, vegetarian, roast, blah, blah, blah. And then you can say for each meal, state the category, mention cooking time duration, create a consolidated shopping list for the entire meal plan with quantities for a family of two adults and two children. And yeah, organize the shopping list by supermarket department.
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So you've got in there the range of cuisine. You know, you can actually specify if you want the cooking time to be a certain duration. So you might say create a meal plan where no dinner takes more than 30 minutes to make. Or you can talk about the ingredients. You can say I want seasonal recipes or low carb or gluten free or plant based or whatever your dietary czar. You can say this is where you want to focus.
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And if you've got like picky eaters in your family, it can really help expand your repertoire because you can put in some of those restrictions, but it still will give you options that maybe you hadn't thought of. And I guess one of the other things that I found really useful was I did it once where I was like,
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give me meals that I can prepare in advance. So things that I knew that I could prepare maybe on the weekend or the morning before, et cetera. So that I knew if I was having a particularly busy week, I could get ahead of the game. Yeah. And I asked chat GPT, what are the kinds of meal planning prompts I can ask you? And it came back with this list of 10 things. And I love some of them. Some of them were like, generate a diverse and culturally inspired monthly dinner plan that introduces
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international flavors and cooking techniques. I'm like, thanks for you. You can also specify chefs and cooks who publish prolifically online. So I said, create a weekly dinner plan with a mix of comfort food favorites and lighter options. This is what chat GP has suggested.
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to satisfy cravings while maintaining a healthy balance, include Jamie Oliver, Yotta Mata Langi, and Rachael Ray recipes. And it spits out these responses with links to their recipes because they've got so many articles and published recipes online. And it's specified for each day, this is the dinner, here's the link to the recipe, this is your main dish, this is your side dish. And because I'd asked for comfort favorites and lighter options,
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It also included with it that was a salad or a dessert.
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know. Yeah, that's, and I love that. I love that you can link through to the actual recipes there. So that's great to be able to paste into your meal plan. Yeah. And I think the other thing to do is to really, I've started to use this really effectively in chat GPT is like, tell it how you want the output to display. So what's the format? So put it into text format that I can paste into a spreadsheet or what I often do is say, put it in a table format because, you know, it's just much easier to read in that way. So I think
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specifying that just makes the output useful in a way that, you know, otherwise if it's just information can be a bit tricky to, you know, be able to easily use. Actually use it and share it. Yeah. I get it to, I say, put it in a table format that I can paste into the notes app in my phone. So I can paste it into my phone and then I can share it with whoever needs to see it.
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The other two things I played around with is with giving it calorie count restrictions. So, you know, if I'm going to clean, eat clean for a little while, I can say no meal should be more than, you know, 600 calories and it'll come back with the list of meals and it'll specify the calorie count for each meal. And you can also get it to show the nutrient macros for each meal as percentages. So for each meal, they'll go, you know, 30% carb, 20% fat,
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40% protein or blah, blah, blah. So if you're looking at your diet and you want to understand those details, you can ask it to include it as well. Amazing. So yeah, definitely meal planning. It's a win. Yeah. And the grocery shopping, I think for it to be able to consolidate, like come back with the meal plan, but also pull together the consolidated shopping list with quantities
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and then organising it by supermarket department, that's gold. That's beautiful. Yeah, definitely a win there. Okay, so another use, which is I guess my biggest win in using ChatPT is around drafting or writing things for you.
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Letters, emails, messages, queries, complaints, cover letters for job application, you know, any communication that requires some crafting, you can ask both of these tools to help you give you a draft. Yeah, I use it when I need to write things, like ask your favour. And I'm like, how can I word this? So it's really going to sound, you know.
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just gets it right and I know you tweak it. So there's a few key things to keep in mind when you're doing this. One is to give it enough context. You want to say who you're writing to and why and the other. So you need to give it a sense of purpose and what outcome are you seeking from the recipient.
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Yeah. And I think the other one is to specify the tone you want. So I was using it actually on the weekend to write an email response to a teacher at my son's school. And so I wanted that to be quite formal, you know, as a senior teacher. So, you know, in a formal tone as opposed to if it's something different where you wanted to have like a humorous tone or a casual tone or
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a sincere tone or apologetic, all of those sorts of tones can really help. And you can actually also specify to write in the style of a specific person who publishes prolifically. So if you do know someone's writing and you know that, you know, you want to sort of replicate that style, you can ask them to use that tone.
00:17:35
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Yeah, I think that's incredible. I've used it with my cousin who runs Goddess Retreats in Bali and she was pulling together some material and she's like, oh, she has, you know, some thought leaders that she follows. She's like, what if we write this copy in the style of, you know, this person of Tara Brock, this meditation specialist, or what if we write it like, you know, rub dust, this meditation guru. And it just changes the words. It brings back their language, the sentence length,
00:18:04
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tone, it's freaky. I've used it as well. It can be humorous to see how it spices it up. You can also ask it to draft a few versions. So instead of just saying, you know, write me an email, write me a formal email to the teacher about XYZ. You can say, create three drafts of an email, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So that you can see its variations and then you can pick and choose from which version you like.
00:18:28
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And sometimes I just say, can you make it longer? Can you make it shorter? Those sorts of things. So I think that that's a really easy way of getting a quick another version of something. So I think one of the things you suggested was getting it to write a complaint letter so you could give it instructions like, please draft a complaint letter to Ticketmaster explaining how I waited online for an hour to buy tickets to the weekend concert in Melbourne, only to have the tickets sell out within 10 minutes. Oh, my God, it was so annoying.
00:18:56
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and for resale sites to offer the same tickets at triple the price within half an hour. I would like Ticketmaster to explain what they are doing to protect the integrity of the purchasing process. Write this letter in a formal tone.
00:19:10
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Damn it, ticket master. Yes. And so, you know, being able to just put that out there and then get them to, you know, generate a response, like really nailed it. It was like, you know, scalping, but I knew what I was getting at. And so we introduced all this other language and I'm like, yep, you got it. This is coming your way.
00:19:31
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It was professional. It didn't slip into any sort of irrational stuff or things that if you were feeling emotional, would seep into your writing. It kept it professional. I'm not going to get a result, but anyway, it felt good.
AI in Travel Planning and Recommendations
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A bit of therapy there. Another area that's really useful is travel itineraries. Have you been using it for travel itineraries, Maya?
00:19:55
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Yeah. So I guess with, you know, life admin, when it comes to holidays, it can be quite substantial trying to plan transport or plan attractions or work out, you know, you've got three days in a certain place. How are you going to optimize your time? So it can be very helpful to research destinations and understand the top attractions at certain times of the year. And you can ask it to plan, as I said, like you've got
00:20:20
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X amount of days in a certain place, give us an itinerary that includes, you know, these kinds of events. We're going to Japan next year. And so I said, you know, what are the top Tokyo attractions for a family with a 10 year old boy and a 12 year old girl?
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will be there for three days in January. And then I put in, you know, we're staying in this area and I asked it to plan the itinerary so that it clumped the attractions that were close to each other to visit on the same day. You know, that sort of actually made sense and it wasn't sending us all over Tokyo at random on random different days. And I did pull that together quite well. It was interesting here.
00:20:58
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using Bard versus chat GPT for this because this is where Bard was actually really helpful because it came back with links through to the places and pictures. So it had little images of the attractions that were suggesting and then they had links through to those places. So you can go and just sort of dig a bit deeper or fact check it or take that resource.
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I also asked about transport options. What's faster? What's cheaper? What's more direct? How do I get from A to B? Again, with Bard, it actually links through to the train service or the bus service so I can go and fact check it and make it happen, actually, whereas it was all a bit theoretical on
00:21:39
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chat GPT. And again, because I wanted something current, it's what I'd use BARD for because it's got the more current data sources, whereas chat GPT finishes in 2021. There's still possibilities for hallucinations there. So yeah, you would want to fact check it. And when I used it for something like this again, I asked it to put in a table format with a column for the total cost, which I thought was also kind of helpful in terms of just like getting a
00:22:05
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for how I want it to be displayed because once I put it into a table, it was easier for me to then take the information and get rid of stuff and add other things and those sorts of things. So thinking about asking it to put it in the format that's going to be useful for you also saves time.
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The other things it can help you with is currency exchange. So it can suggest the best places to do your currency exchange and time of year. It'll tell you your visa and passport requirements and it can help you compare travel insurance policies. So I was like, we're going skiing, help me compare travel insurance policies and find the best policy, given that we're going skiing and we've got two adults and two kids. And it came back with some suggestions about the criteria.
00:22:48
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that I should be looking at. So it's like you want to think about the level of coverage in the deductible and the waiting period and exclusions. And then it listed with links to websites, a bunch of insurers that do include snow activities. So that was super helpful. It's funny though, there's little things, you know, Bard has this sort of generic
00:23:09
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I hope that helps at the end of its responses, whereas JTPT finished with things like, enjoy your family trip to Japan. I just love the level of sophistication there. Like, I notice what you're doing. It's kind of creepy though. It's kind of creepy. It's kind of nice.
00:23:26
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It's only in line. I find it just interesting. I think about the engineers who are doing this programming and the designers and researchers who are like, is this too much? Do we want it to have that understanding? But I kind of like it. The other thing it was really good at was packing lists. So you could ask it for a packing list for a certain destination and you could mention the activities you're doing and the time of year. So I asked it for a packing list and I was like, well, it's going to be cold. So you want to dress like this.
00:23:55
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You want to add layers, blah, blah, blah. And then it just pumped out the lists. Chat GPT did it in a format that was just actual lists. And then Bard did it in a format with some pictures as well, and then links to stuff you can buy. So depending on what you need, they're both useful in that way. Awesome.
00:24:14
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Okay, so another area where we think it can be really useful is gift ideas. So this is a cracker one like suggest some gifts that cost less than $50 for a man who's turning 53. Like those sorts of people are really hard to buy for. He likes fishing, skiing, DIY, barbecuing and family time.
00:24:35
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So those kind of prompts really will give you perhaps ideas you'd never thought of. And I guess, you know, it's a bit different to doing a Google search where you'll get kind of a different style of response in terms of the curation of it. That's right. It does broaden your, your thinking, some inspiration. And again, Bard was more useful here because it includes links to websites and it includes images for things. So, and that sort of spurs your creativity as well. Yep. Okay. Another area that we've been using it for is like
00:25:04
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book TV podcast recommendations. So things like, I like the Life Admin, Life Head podcast. So suggest some alternatives that I might like. Yeah. I've loved this for books and understanding, okay, I put in a few authors that I like or a few book titles that I've liked and it'll suggest a whole bunch of other books.
00:25:24
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Which is good to sort of expand your reading, certainly also about certain topics. You can ask it to actually create reading lists to learn about a certain topic. So you can say, generate a reading list to help me understand personal finance better and include TV shows, radio programs and podcasts that would also educate me about this topic. And it'll pump out, you know, some TV shows, some books, radio programs, articles. So if you want to, you know, deep dive on something, it's giving you a range of media you can get into.
00:25:54
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I must admit I haven't yet used it for, but I'm going to use it for my book club because I feel like we spend half our book club meeting talking about what's the next book. So I reckon this could be a game changer in terms of picking our next book for book club. Yeah, that's
00:26:10
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good one. You want to use Bard if you want current books. But this is another strength of it because you can ask him to compile best of lists. So I asked both of them, generate a list of the best picture winners for the BAFTAs, Oscars and Actor Awards, the Actor Awards of the Australian, for the lesser
00:26:28
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I've been watching these Australian awards since 2000. Organize the list by year and asterisk the films that are currently available on streaming platforms. And so I popped out this table and it had for each year, you know, who won best picture for the BAFTA, the Oscar and the actor. And I was like, this is cool. And then I had a little asterisk of which ones I could get on streaming. But interestingly, I put one on Bard. I put one on Shaq GPT.
00:26:57
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And they had different results. And I was like, wow, these are facts. There's like a tension. Yeah, that's really kind of scary, isn't it? Who won Best Picture. Yeah. And so I dug a little deeper. And not only were they both different, they actually got things wrong. So for example, in the year 2000, Bard said The Dish won the best film for the actual awards. And Chat GPT had, oh, I can't remember. I think it was, I think it was Lantana or something. Or maybe that's a year after.
00:27:26
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Anyway, I then I Googled it and the best film was actually looking for Alabrandy. So they both got it wrong. So that made me think about, you know, why, why did they get this wrong? It's from 2000. It was a long time ago, but I'm thinking about the amount of data available at certain points in the internet. And the year 2000 was a long time ago in the internet. And it's probably actually before most of the world was using it regularly on a daily basis.
00:27:55
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So, you know, even though these are facts that have been around for a long time, it's probably not that much data about award winners in year 2000. I'm sure if we looked at the films from like 2015 onwards, it'd be completely consistent and accurate, but yeah, it's something to keep
AI for Team Organization
00:28:12
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in mind.
00:28:12
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when you're thinking about those responses and whether you need to fact check it. This was not a life or death situation, so I don't really care. I just wanted some ideas of film that might have escaped my radar that it would be worthwhile. It was interesting that something so black and white was really wrong. It is interesting. I think what's also useful is you can actually use a prompt to ask
00:28:37
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What sources should I visit to fact check this response? And it'll say, go and look here to fact check this and point you to some places that should be giving you a. Yeah. I mean, I think that is the most useful thing is like the follow up questions and it has the context of the question that you've already asked, which I guess is what you don't get with a standard internet search. You don't get that context building. So I do find you kind of need to talk to it like you would talk to a person who you're asking questions of and like, tell me more about that.
00:29:06
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I want to know more about this part of something or something and then you will be able to get that information. Yeah. And also just following up around, you know, if you want to specify your country and where you live to get country specific advice and resources, because sometimes I have asked for things and it gives me a whole bunch of American references or UK references. And I'm like, oh, that's not useful because I need to understand how this works in Australia.
Exploring AI Potential and Conclusion
00:29:31
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So yeah, putting those follow ups can be helpful too.
00:29:35
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And I think another use case that you've been using it for is like organizing teams and groups, Mia, everyone tell us about that. Yeah. So I manage my son's soccer team and we need to select a captain for each week's match. And you know, it's a pretty straightforward task, but I'm like, can this just, can I automate this somehow? And so I asked
00:29:56
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chat GPT. I did it for both again to see how they would handle it. But I put in there, you know, I manage my Sun Soccer team. We'll need to select a captain for each week. Here are the names of the boys. And I listed the names. And I said, create a randomized captain roster for Saturday games between 1st of June and 30th of September. Display in a table with the names and the dates and specify those who are captained multiple times.
00:30:20
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and it just spat out a table with all the dates and names and I could just put that into my roster. I tried to get it to reference the actual official fixture so I wouldn't know the exact dates and when the school holidays were and where the buyers were but it like
00:30:36
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I just fell over doing that. But I'm like, that's the next step when you can say, look at this data or draw in from this resource and match it with what I need it to do for myself because pumping out that weekly roster with the location and who we're versing and everything. Oh my God. Is someone not solved that way? Just put in the kid's name and it just pumps out and tells you whether you're wearing blue socks or yellow socks. Oh my God.
00:31:05
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That's the next level. Well, so I think it's fair to say that both of us are fully embracing chat GPT and I guess increasingly you're getting into Bard. I need to dig into it now. So I definitely think it's something worth exploring for life admin. Is there anything else you think you're going to use it for going forward? What are your thought bubbles? What are my thought bubbles?
00:31:24
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I literally, half the time, as soon as I need to do something new, I'm like, hmm, what's your GPT? But I got to say about this, how can I use it? I'm leaning on them all the time for all sorts of things. I just, yeah, it'll imagine that as people get more curious and more creative with this, there'll be so many more use cases that come our way. And we'll be sure to share them either on our socials or in our newsletter, or we'll talk about them here as well.
00:31:50
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Okay. Well, I think that's hopefully given you some really good tips on how you can use both BARD and chat GPT.
00:31:58
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So our top hacks are to use both BARD and chat GPT, depending on whether you need up-to-date data, so use BARD in that case, and links to resources, or if you want more sophisticated analysis, probably chat GPT is the go-to. Yeah, if your inquiry is very important, fact check the response due to occasional AI hallucinations. And ask the tools how to improve the prompts you've written to get the result you want, and also ask it to put it in a format that's going to be useful for you.
00:32:29
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