What are some good uses for AI?
2026-03-30 20:48 UTC
Replies (40)
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@MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-30 21:27
I’m a therapist. I use HIPAA compliant AI to generate my (editable) case notes for my sessions now. Not only is it a huge time saver to simply edit a generated note as opposed to making one from scratch, but in many cases it takes more detailed notes, including quotes from clients. I have heard of other therapists and medical doctors also using AI to help with diagnosing. The danger is when therapistsdon’t review the content to check for accuracy. Because occasionally it will generate something not really reflective of what the therapist might have been doing, or it might lack detail that the therapist might have otherwise inclused. But more often the stuff it comes up with is surprisingly accurate.And editing is even easier when you can just tell the AI something like, “include more details about how the client noticed their pattern of putting their own feelings last,” and it just does what you asked. You don’t necessarily have to edit manually, though you can.
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@DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2026-03-30 21:30
Writing and fact checking ONLY the most basic and common information that is found multiple times and in multiple places online (eg. It’s strongly reenforced and verified already). Mass formatting, changing formats, changing language, and decoding via common methods. Pitching “what you mean, but can’t remember the name for”. …and that’s about it.
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@tyler@programming.dev 2026-03-30 21:48
You need to differentiate between generative AI, NLP, machine learning, etc. Your question is pretty much entirely pointless otherwise.
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@rossman@lemmy.zip 2026-03-30 21:49
rubberducking for those with social anxiety. Also small friction to get surface level answers that normally took digging from multiple sources. it’s a study monster that initially wiped chegg, duolingo, sparknotes etc. The double edge is that people forgot how to take notes, learn fundamentals to handle complex problems.
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@aceshigh@lemmy.world 2026-03-30 21:53
It’s very helpful for neurodivergent people - helps you figure out who you are and what you want, how you think, learn and work best, identify your obstacles and help you overcome them, understand your neurodivergency and compare it to how neurotypical people think. It’s fantastic at generating ideas that you then test out. The ideas that it gives you are based on how you actually function, so often times they’re valid.
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@logos@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-30 21:56
I have a friend at work that does a lot of video. He films weddings, music videos etc. and is making a pilot for Netflix. He uses AI to go through all his footage and tag it according to content. E.g. if he needs a clip of birds, he can just search ‘birds’ and it will pull up all relevant footage. Incredibly useful.
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@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-30 22:11
Not a hot dog
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@crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-30 22:31
Well, I know its quite specific, but nothing beats AI at stereo matching and depthmap generation and that’s important in many fields.
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@thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 2026-03-30 22:45
It’s ok for very furnace level exploration. Like 100 level stuff. If it’s something you’d google and easily find in an article it’s likely to do a ok job. I’ve also found it’s good for tedious straightforward tasks. Anything that would be uncomfortable or timely or automate manually. Best for one offs. I’ve also found it’s extremly good for translation, which was it’s originally use.
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@WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2026-03-30 23:51
Running automated hacking and blackmail campaigns against AI companies.
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@bibbasa@piefed.social 2026-03-31 01:09
neuro-sama
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@mo_lave@reddthat.com 2026-03-31 01:13
Drafts, coming up with ideas you may not have thought of initially Grading whatever you write against the quality of other trained material, especially research papers (LLMs tend to be trained more on those material) For LLMs that search the internet/cite sources, it can be a more powerful search engine. Enter a keyword, the LLM can guess other semantic terms related to your search prompt/terms and refine the results that way.
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@MorkofOrk@lemmy.world 2026-03-31 02:38
An amazing use for it in audio engineering is for feedback suppression. The old way to give yourself more headroom required you to sit there and turn up the gain until feedback happens and cut that frequency. Now you just turn on the feedback suppression and it does all that for you on the fly. It’s game changing for live sound, every major venue has it now.
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@nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-31 02:47
every single software company is writing as much code with it as possible
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@Azrael@reddthat.com 2026-03-31 12:22
Some hospitals use AI to scan patients and find signs of illness before it becomes a problem. I’d say that’s a pretty good use of AI.
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@bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2026-03-31 14:52
Pixel phones can monitor phone calls for scam conversations (it runs locally on the phone, so audio doesn’t get saved or uploaded).
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@Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-31 18:20
Everything Kitboga has used it for and is currently doing with it. Hilarious AND interesting!
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@Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-01 01:00
Curating massive music libraries. I’ve been using a small embedding model to organise my music for DJing, and being able to generate a t-sne plot clustered on perceptual similarity has been wonderfully useful. I’ve also found CLIP models useful for searching videos, just embed a screenshot every couple of min of footage and query with a description of the scene
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@tomiant@piefed.social 2026-04-01 09:19
Learning, exploring concepts and ideas.
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@kugel7c@feddit.org 2026-04-01 14:17
Sorting millions of things by some visible (to cameras) feature completely automatically, especially if the cost of a miss is low.
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@TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 2026-03-30 20:50
And if ChatGPT made a mistake? How would you know before it’s to late ?
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@shellington@piefed.zip 2026-03-30 20:54
I agree there is a lot of annoying hype. However i also agree there are some specific use cases where it can be helpful. I for one find it handy some times when i am writing bash scripts to do things on my system. I obviously check them before running but it does save time. Although i do recommend running models locally if possible as it is obviously preferable from a privacy and cost standpoint.
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@damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 2026-03-30 21:10
I was sitting in a restaurant the other day and staring at the menu. It was Italian and none of the things made sense. Too wordy and not clear what was meat and what was fancy cheese. The waiter was utterly useless - too busy to help and when present, not answering my questions about what would be a good simple pasta in white sauce. I took a photo and asked Claude what’s a good white sauce pasta which would be like Alfredo. It found two options I hadn’t even looked at. AI is good at sorting through complexity. But I don’t just mean AI as in LLMs. It needs a lot more tools and knowledge to be useful. So what you need is a smart system which may or may not have AI as a component.
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@EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world 2026-03-30 21:12
I’m chatting with Le Chat about things I wouldn’t ask a friend and wouldn’t trust a stranger about. It brings up things I wouldn’t have thought of.
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@aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml 2026-03-30 21:17
The technology itself is novel and cool. Its the complete and utter meltdown of all tech companies into brainless hype machines that is harmful, which is course, is a function of capitalist incentive and the need for the tech industry to come out with some new paradigm shifting innovation every decade. A normal, healthy society would have been able to leverage machine learning and LLM technology where its most useful, like parsing large amounts of data, or running a local instance on your computer to ask a few questions, etc. We wouldn’t see LLMs in every text editor, pencilcase and pair on sneakers but these snake oil salesmen who run the US economy are absolutely desperate for a new paradigm shift so they can keep making exponentially more money. The thing is, we don’t need to build these datacenters siphoning comically evil amounts of energy from the grid and making personal compute a thing of the past. Average everyday person doesn’t need cloud compute, they can run a local 4b parameter (very, very small) model on their laptop or phone if they need to ask chatgpt to make them a workout routine or to ask them who won the 1918 world series. But these fucking cretins don’t care, that’s not the point, they are in this because it’s a golden ticket to growth city and once they cash their check they don’t give one hot fuck about the human-spirit-stealing-machine they built. TLDR: our society is broken and that’s why we keep getting the shittiest, lowest-common-denominator version of everything. everything has to suck by definition because that’s the only version that the system we built will allow.
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@Oisteink@lemmy.world 2026-03-30 21:22
Reading TOS and clicking off all the privacy options on the cookie popup
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@moakley@lemmy.world 2026-03-30 21:39
Honestly, Google Search has been better the last couple years after spending the previous twenty years getting consistently worse. Most of what I use Google for is trivial. Like how old is a certain actor, or why was this author canceled, or what does this item do in a video game? It’s great for those things. Especially the video game stuff. I don’t want to watch a 10 minute video just to get a discrete answer, and now I don’t have to. I can even ask it for spoiler-free hints on a particular puzzle, and most of the time it gives me something useful.
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@ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 2026-03-30 21:46
I occasionally use it to find links to VODs for esports tournaments. Asking it to only link the specific game I want with no other summarization is a way to find them without spoilers (like when youtube “helpfully” suggests the last game of the grand finals of the tournament as a search result).
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@ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 2026-03-30 21:47
Karrot is a used item app that has a feature where you take a picture of an item and it IDs the item and tells you what it’s worth. It’s pretty impressive. It could ID my houseplants better than some dedicated plant ID apps I’ve used. It’s not great with one of a kind items, but otherwise it’s surprisingly accurate.
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@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-30 22:07
I’m good with asking DuckDuckGo for help with a game and AI scrapes the game sites to just give me the answer. You know, sites like IGN and Dutch with popups and ads and other trash… and AI just steps past all that shit and gets me the answer. I’m fine with that. All these sites are just scraping guides and such, I don’t mind if they get stepped on. Like, tell me how to save both the Geth or the Quarians in Mass Effect 3. So if you don’t know, Mass Effect was this kinda mediocre space shooter with magic, and it was fun… but then you get to the second one and it remembers all your choices, and there’s so much to do. And the Geth were the bad guys in the first one. And if you’re playing a male character, the Quarian is this hot middle eastern type lady you can romance. Then you meet a nice Geth (it’s a long story and the game is longer) and by the third one, you do this mission, it’s a lot of bullshit, then this bullshit boss fight, then you get put on the spot. I’m not going to spoil it, but for like 99.99% of us, one of your crew dies. And it sucks. But if you made some very specific choices, going back to the very first one… you can save both. I’m talking like 100+ hours since you made a mistake that didn’t even matter then, but it locks you out of saving one of your people. Stuff like that.
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@ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 2026-03-30 22:08
Finding info in a large quantity of information.
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@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2026-03-30 23:05
I had a project of markdown files. About 400 of them, with about 1200 plus links in them. The original filenames were changed. The links no longer worked. The LLM went through each link, and found the new one, based on filename and file content, using its ability to recognise patterns, words, etc etc. Absolutely saved me maybe a couple of days of manual pain labour, and all done in about 10 minutes. This is the kind of thing I use it for. Horrible repetitive processes.
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@daannii@lemmy.world 2026-03-31 01:03
Language translations. I think that’s about it.
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@Danitos@reddthat.com 2026-03-31 02:47
Accesibility.
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@iByteABit@lemmy.ml 2026-03-31 10:53
It can also identify/predict cancer tissue early. Do you mean an LLM or a machine learning model specifically trained for this?
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@defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip 2026-03-31 11:13
You could ask it what’s in an image, then do your own research on what it tells you. I used it to identify a math function from a meme. It can also just be fun to toy with. I personally like to play with image interrogation in StableUI, then put the generated caption into an img2text. Like some sort of alternate reality image. It gives pretty funny results sometimes.
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@Paragone@lemmy.world 2026-03-31 12:09
it is THE best brainstorming tool there is for writing with. it helps one discover all the weaknesses in what one has written, though not necessarily for the reasons that’d be best ( I downloaded a local LLM, tried it, & discovered that it WOULD NOT ADMIT that Netanyahu’s “Israel” is genociding Palestinians.. until finally I found a quote of an Isreali military official admitting, to Israeli journalists, that yes, the Palestinian numbers were accurate, so it was 70k, not 7k, dead, of them, as they’d been insisting all along.. ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/30/israel-military-gaza-death-toll-broadly-accurate ) I don’t need ideological-torque that facts can’t even budge, in my own computer. Fuck that shit. it is brilliant for doing web-search, for finding stuff that normal web-search is too dumbed-down to find. Trying to find a specific video, or channel, on yt, & their “search” function won’t let you find it? Ask an AI. Trying to find some organization you remember reading-about years ago? Try an AI. Etc. I’m hoping that somebody does a specific-LLM for each subdiagnosis, & correctly chains the things together, so it isn’t only statistically-reasonable, but accurate diagnoses, & renders doctors irrelevant for diagnosis: total democratizing of medical-diagnosis would be THE medical-revolution that our world needs. I wish that bad-teaching were replaced with good personal-agents or personal/offline chat, so that ALL learners could have best-of-breed mentoring in all the subjects they want ( within limits: our world doesn’t need more evil-makers, obviously ), & learning could be broken from the “education” cartels which currently “own” it. _ /\ _
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@pineapple@lemmy.ml 2026-03-31 12:14
If your really bad at coding like me then its useful for debugging when I’m running short on time, but I always prefer to search it up.
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@lattrommi@lemmy.ml 2026-03-31 12:59
I went to my local neighborhood association because I wanted to improve where I live. I was elected president of the association a couple months later, mostly because no one else wanted to do it. It’s a fairly poor part of a medium sized city in the U.S. I’ve been using AI (running locally on a computer I built that isn’t connected to the internet, to reduce harm to the environment) to apply for grants, plan events and help me run the meetings. It is actually perfect for the job. Saying that as someone who thinks AI is mostly hype and useless for the majority of its current common uses these days. I feed it the text from city grant applications or ask it to make a poster to increase attendance and it’s saved me a lot of time. Without it, being someone diagnosed ADHD, I would not have been able to do most of the stuff I have accomplished so far.
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@ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 2026-03-31 13:08
I’ve been pretty happy with OCR.