How I use AI

Some of my favourite uses of generative AI:

Buying perfume. I'm quickly overwhelmed by comparing perfumes/aftershaves, so I took this approach:

  1. Identified my price range

  2. I took a picture of the shelf

  3. Asked a model to give me 2 or 3 words describing the brand image of each of the products

  4. sampled 3 based on the brand image words, and picked my favourite

Owners association minutes

For looking at residential property to buy, I like to get the protocols of the owners association, put them into Claude, and ask “what should I ask the estate agent?”

Writing an English exam

To compose an English exam, I used this proceedure

  1. scanned in old exams, asked the agent to index them by grammar/vocabulary (giving some examples of the kinds of keywords I wanted in the index).

  2. Wrote a list of what I felt needed to be tested and what I had told the students would be tested

  3. Asked a fresh agent to compose an exam based on the question index and the content I had taught to the required length.

  4. copy/pasted the questions from the input exams to my own draft, with a couple of minor alterations to throw anyone who tried to memorize the exam