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Diferentes Usos Das IA
Diferentes Usos Das IA
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“Everything is becoming
much easier.”
35 Ways Real
People Are Using
A.I. Right Now
By Francesca Paris and Larry Buchanan April 14, 2023
The public release of ChatGPT last fall kicked off a wave of interest in
artificial intelligence. A.I. models have since snaked their way into many
people’s everyday lives. Despite their flaws, ChatGPT and other A.I. tools
are helping people to save time at work, to code without knowing how to
code, to make daily life easier or just to have fun.
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It goes beyond everyday fiddling: In the last few years, companies and
scholars have started to use A.I. to supercharge work they could never
have imagined, designing new molecules with the help of an algorithm or
building alien-like spaceship parts.
Here’s how 35 real people are using A.I. for work, life, play and
procrastination.
John Pritzlaff
Gardener
2.
Plan workouts.
Louis Maddox
Data scientist
Mr. Maddox finds ChatGPT the perfect companion for his workouts. For
example, one day he pasted in his workout notes and said:
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It’s not perfect, he says, but it gets the job done. Mostly, he says, ChatGPT
helps him get going under time constraints, and not let the busywork
“become an excuse not to do it.”
3.
Plan meals.
Kelsey Szemborski
Stay-at-home mother of three
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4.
Make a gift.
Matt Strain
Technology and innovation consultant
Mr. Strain used ChatGPT to create a custom book of cocktails based on the
tenets of traditional Chinese medicine written in the style of the J.
Peterman catalog. He took the idea further the next day, using DALL-E to
generate images of the cocktails for the final book, which he gave to his
girlfriend for Valentine’s Day.
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An A.I.-generated image of the Golden Elixir cocktail DALL-E via Matt Strain
5.
Design parts for spaceships.
Ryan McClelland
NASA research engineer
Mr. McClelland’s job is to design mission hardware that’s both light and
strong. It’s a job that has always required a lot of trial and error.
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The A.I.’s designs are stronger and lighter than human-designed parts, and they would be “very
difficult to model” with the traditional engineering tools that NASA uses. NASA/Henry Dennis
“The resulting design is a third of the mass; it’s stiffer, stronger and
lighter,” he said. “It comes up with things that, not only we wouldn’t think
of, but we wouldn’t be able to model even if we did think of it.”
Sometimes the A.I. errs in ways no human would: It might fill in a hole the
part needs to attach to the rest of the craft.
6.
Organize a messy computer desktop.
Alex Cai
College sophomore
“I had a lot of unsorted notes lying around, and I wanted to get them
sorted into my file system so I can find them more easily in the future. I
basically just gave ChatGPT a directory, a list of all my folder names, and
the names of all my files. And it gave me a list of which notes should go
into which folders!”
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7.
Write a wedding speech.
Jonathan Wegener
Occasional wedding officiant
“A few hours before, I said, ‘Can GPT-3 write this officiant speech?’” he
recalled. “The first version was generic, full of platitudes. Then I steered
it.”
“The speech came back with these beautiful metaphors. It nailed it.” It was
just missing one important part.
8.
Write an email.
Nicholas Wirth
Systems administrator
Mr. Wirth uses ChatGPT to simplify tech jargon when he emails his
bosses: “My organization specifically pays me to keep the computer’s
internet online, and my own literacy is limited. I work with C-level
executives, and their time is not to be wasted.”
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Hello [Name],
I want to bring to your attention an issue we are facing with the data
that was supposed to be provided to us by [Date.] As of now, we
have not received the following information that is critical for our
project …
9.
Get a first read.
Charles Becker
Entrepreneurship professor
“So I’ll have a paragraph I might be putting into a test for a student, or
instructions. I say:
Where might people have trouble with this? What’s unclear about
this? What’s clear about this?
“I generate a lot of writing both for my work and for my hobbies, and a lot
of time I run out of people who are excited to give me first-pass edits.”
10.
Play devil’s advocate.
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Paul De Salvo
Data engineer
“I use ChatGPT every day for work,” he said. “It feels like I’ve hired an
intern.”
Part of Mr. De Salvo’s job is convincing his bosses that they should replace
certain tools. That means pitching them on why the old tool won’t cut it
anymore.
11.
Build a clock that gives you a new poem
every minute.
Matt Webb
Consultant and blogger
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Matt Webb
“Yes, programmatic A.I. is useful,” he said. “But more than that, it’s
enormous fun.”
12.
Organize research for a thesis.
Anicca Harriot
Ph.D. student
Anicca Harriott has been powering through her Ph.D. thesis in biology
with the help of Scholarcy and Scite, among other A.I. tools that find,
aggregate and summarize relevant papers.
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13.
Skim dozens of academic articles.
Mr. Rodriguez works for a private equity fund that invests in soccer
players. And that means reading a lot.
“We use our own data sets and methodology, but I always want to have a
solid understanding of the academic literature that has been published,” he
said.
Instead of picking through Google Scholar, he now uses an A.I. tool called
Elicit. It lets him ask questions of the paper itself. It helps him find out,
without having to read the whole thing, whether the paper touches on the
question he’s asking.
14.
Cope with ADHD …
Rhiannon Payne
Product marketer and author
“With ADHD, getting started and getting an outline together is the hardest
part,” Ms. Payne said. “Once that’s done, it’s a lot easier to let the work
flow.”
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She writes content to run marketing tests. To get going, she feeds GPT a
few blog posts she’s written on the subject, other materials she’s gathered
and the customer profile.
“Describing the audience I’m speaking to, that context is super important
to actually get anything usable out of the tool,” she said. What comes back
is a starter framework she can then change and build out.
15.
… and dyslexia, too.
Eugene Capon
Tech founder
“Because I’m dyslexic, it takes me a really long time to get an article down
on paper,” Mr. Capon said. “So the hack I’ve come up with is, I’ll dictate my
entire article. Then I’ll have ChatGPT basically correct my spelling and
grammar.
“So something that was taking like a full day to do, I can now do in like an
hour and a half.”
16.
Sort through an archive of pictures.
Daniel Patt
Software engineer
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their loved ones. It’s a task that otherwise would take a gargantuan
number of hours.
“We’re really using the A.I. to save time,” he said. “Time is of the essence,
as survivors are getting older. I can’t think of any other way we could
achieve what we’re doing with the identification and discoveries we’re
making.”
17.
Transcribe a doctor’s visit into clinical notes.
Dr. Gladd uses Nabla’s Copilot to take notes during online medical
consultations. It’s a Chrome extension that listens into the visit and grabs
the necessary details for his charts. Before: Writing up notes after a visit
took about 20 percent of consult time. Now: The whole task lasts as long as
it takes him to copy and paste the results from Copilot.
18.
Appeal an insurance denial.
Dr. Ryckman uses ChatGPT to write the notes he needs to send insurers
when they’ve refused to pay for radiation treatment for one of his cancer
patients.
“What used to take me around a half-hour to write now takes one minute,”
he said.
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19.
Write Excel formulas.
Mike Jungbluth
Video game animator
“I could ask a specific question on the type of formula I wanted, and then I
could reword my question based on the answer it gave me. This allowed
for a more interactive and iterative process towards finding the answer
than I found through tutorials, articles or random message board posts.”
Mr. Jungbluth had needed a formula that would assign time estimates
when he picked out a combination of variables. With a few prompts to
ChatGPT, eventually he got it:
=IF(OR(C263=”GroupAType1”, C263=”GroupAType2”,
C263=”GroupAType3”, C263=”GroupAType4”),
IF(D263=”GroupASize1”, Key!$K$3, IF(D263=”GroupASize2”,
Key$K$4, IF(D263=”GroupASize3”, Key!$K$5, “NA”))),
IF(OR(C263=”GroupBType1”, C263=”GroupBType2”),
IF(D263=”GroupBSize1”, Key!$K$8, IF(D263=”GroupBSize2”,
Key!$K$9, IF(D263=”GroupBSize3”, Key!$K$10, “NA”))), “NA”))
20.
Get feedback on fiction.
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Paul Gamlowski
Microfiction author
21.
Get homework help.
Maya Upadhyay
High school student
Ms. Upadhyay takes advanced placement math classes, like statistics and
calculus, and says when she’s confused with a homework question, she’ll
feed it into ChatGPT.
It will give her an answer, but also step-by-step instructions on how it got
there — a kind of self-guided tutoring process that she once used math
apps or Khan Academy videos for.
“Sometimes if I’m still confused, I can ask the A.I. to put it into simpler
terms. It’s just become another option for me to use and it’s been really
helpful to have whenever I need it.”
22.
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Learn Chinese.
Jason Phang
Ph.D. student in data science
23.
Get help when English is your second
language.
Ronald Mannak
Entrepreneur
“If I can’t think of a particular word, for example, it is super easy to just
describe the word, and GPT almost always knows what I mean, even if the
description is really bad.”
24.
Create an app when you’ve never coded
before.
Ethan Mollick
Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
25.
Fix bugs in your code.
Roman Pshichenko
Software engineer
When his code doesn’t run, Mr. Psichenko’s go-to fix is ChatGPT. He pastes
in his code, and he often gets a decent suggestion for how to rewrite it.
“It’s like if you had a good, mostly respectable co-worker, that can give you
the time to make their suggestions match your tools, your environment,
everything that couldn’t possibly be addressed in one of those generic
posts online.”
26.
Play Pong …
Pietro Schiarno
Developer and designer
Give me Pong.
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“It spat out the code. All I had to do was copy-paste, run it, and it worked.”
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27.
… or 3D games.
Ammaar Reshi
Design manager
Mr. Reshi first tried using GPT-4 to make the game Snake, and that was
too easy. So then he tried something in 3D: SkyRoads, one of his childhood
favorites.
It took time, and help from another chatbot (Anthropic’s A.I. assistant
Claude), but ultimately Mr. Reshi — who does not himself know how to
code — was able to replicate a simple version of the game.
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28.
Build entirely new games.
Daniel Tait
Hobby game designer
Mr. Tait was playing Sudoku, and got a little bored. It occurred to him that
ChatGPT might have a few ideas for a new game. So he asked:
“Instantly, it came up with some pretty good puzzle game ideas,” he said. “I
found one I was happy with.”
Then he wrote:
“Lo and behold, a couple seconds later, I had a playable version of the
puzzle.”
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29.
Teach people to curl like a pro.
Levi Lelis
Assistant professor
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Mr. Lelis trained an A.I. to come up with the best curling strategy, and now
he’s figuring out the best ways to use its results to teach players. His most
recent research shows that the program can make a decent coach. The key,
he says, is that the program doesn’t just give the player the answer —
where exactly to aim the stone — but also the justification. It shows you a
similar but not quite identical scenario, and tells you how much worse that
placement would be.
30.
Create new proteins in minutes.
Chris Norn
Researcher at the University of Washington
Two years ago researchers cracked the code on using A.I. to predict the
shape of proteins.
But all of that is hard. Building a new protein requires determining how a
sequence of amino acids will fold up into a final molecular structure, to
figure out how the protein actually functions.
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An artistic rendering of a protein created with artificial intelligence. Ian C Haydon / UW Institute for
Protein Design
“We can only test so many hypotheses in a day,” he said. “I can have an
idea, maybe a protein of a particular structure, but I have not memorized
all the protein structures. The algorithms have. They’ve looked at all of
them, and generalized rules for how to put together new structures. It’s
pretty amazing.”
He has done protein research for a decade. This, he says, is the most
efficient he has ever been.
31.
Identify diseases in banana plants.
Michael Selvaraj
Scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
There are a lot of ways a banana plant can die, from Xanthomonas wilt to
banana bunchy top virus. And the farmers responsible for producing more
than 100 million tons of bananas each year aren’t trained as diagnosticians.
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Tumaini is an A.I.-trained app that recognizes and diagnoses banana plant diseases. Image
courtesy of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
“If we know the disease is coming, this will be helpful for scientists,
stakeholders and government,” he said.
32.
Draw like Sol LeWitt.
Amy Goodchild
Generative artist
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The famed artist Sol LeWitt’s instructions were prescriptive and specific,
the kind you might want to hand over to an A.I. model. So Ms. Goodchild
did, seeing if A.I. could create art by carrying out Lewitt’s instructions and
generating Javascript code.
With OpenAI’s older model, GPT-3, it was mostly a flop. But GPT-4 did OK
— on some of them.
33.
Describe entire Dungeons & Dragons
worlds.
Jackson Green
Dungeon master
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When you run a Dungeons & Dragons game, Mr. Green says, you have to
be creative, but that almost always means pulling from existing fantasy
literature.
Venoria is a city of many factions and guilds, each with its own
interests and agendas. The Merchant's Guild is a powerful force in
the city, controlling much of the trade that flows through its ports. The
Artisans' Guild is also influential, with its members producing
everything from fine jewelry to intricate clockwork mechanisms ...
34.
Make a Spotify playlist
Jonathan Soma
Journalism professor at Columbia University
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A vibes playlist of Sum 41, the Cars and Green Day, with none of the tunes that would put Mr.
Soma to sleep. (Like “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.”) Jonathan Soma
35.
Play with language.
Ms. Howe doesn’t actually try out jokes on ChatGPT. But the A.I. is useful
when she needs a creative boost.
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Please tell me the words I could use to create the acronym ‘BIBERE’
to identify an organization dedicated to getting together after work to
hit the bar — without saying we’re going to the bar in a workplace
email.
ChatGPT offered:
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