Beyond the hype, the shitty AI wrapper companies, what are the AI tools that you are actively using on a day-to-day basis?
I'll start.
I use ChatGPT4.0 to
- Help me write scientific grant proposals. I basically write the paragraphs in my own words, and prompt ChatGPT to rewrite them using better scientific language. It's great at this.
- Drastically improve the quality of my scientific papers. Same as above, I first write it in my own words and then let it improve the text. It's also pretty good at this, but the hyperbolic language that is ok for grant proposals sometimes needs to be tone-downed for a more factual paper.
- I also use it for improving the quality of other non-native colleague's paper drafts, but when their English is too crappy, it cannot do a better job than me at making sense of what the colleague was trying to convey.
- Debug Python code. Just copy paste the error message I get in my Jupyter notebooks, ChatGPT is faster than my past workflow of using Stack Overflow. I tried using it to write scientific code for me, but due to I presume the lack of training data for the highly specific type of code I do, it was not that good.
- When I played around with app development, ChatGPT has been great at helping me get started, choose the right tools, debug code, etc. I was almost relying on it too much in the sense that I did not always understand everything it wrote, yet worked. But as I progressed, the app structure was getting complicated and I had to spend a lot of time to remind ChatGPT what was already there whenever I was closing an ongoing session. I plan on restarting this process, but where I learn the fundamentals first and just use ChatGPT as a companion rather than my master.
I used to have a plugin in youtube that gives me summaries of long videos that I was about to watch. Helped me check if it's worth the time. The tool broke, didn't bother troubleshooting it. Don't remember the name.
Are there any ChatGPT wrappers that you use and believe will still be there in the future, i.e. OpenAI won't kill them by implementing the same functionality? Remember the PDF wrappers that died overnight.
Please avoid dropping lists of "10 AI tools everyone should know about" that are just there for Twitter engagement farming. I want to know about the tools YOU actively use on a day-to-day basis :)