Inspired by this post about this video "How I use LLMs" by Andrej Karpathy
Wondering what uses others have found for AI that feel like a secret cheat code.
Some game-changers for me:
- Interactive Tour guide - When you're in a foreign country, you can pretty much ask it anything- activity ideas, cultural questions, travel logistic questions. It has pretty much crawled all of reddit and it is so much easier than scrolling through forum posts. Also when using it for translating, it provides much more cultural context than simple direct translations from google translate. Worked amazing for me in Japan.
- ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode for Language Translation / Language Tutor - As a direct translator sadly this has actually gotten worse compared to when it was first released (it now randomly interjects comments and answer questions instead of just directly translating). Can't wait to turf the horrible ~$4/minute ipad-human translators at work once these get just a little bit better. For language learning it's like having a native speaker at your beck and call. You can have it quiz you and have a conversation in a foreign language and ask it to give you feedback. My biggest qualm is that the underlying LLM seems to be quite repetitive- when you ask it to quiz you it tends to circle back to the same few questions repeatedly and the conversations can get stale.
How do you use LLMs?