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Jonathan’s series of AI generated financial articles was not the most popular with many HD readers. Others of us found the experiment quite interesting. Although there were a few major duds in the series, there also were computer generated articles that could have easily passed undetected on Yahoo Finance. This year, I’ve started using AI to assist me in my encore career as an engineer in the nuclear power industry. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how helpful my AI assistant can be at times. Today, the benefits of AI extended into my personal life. I realized an article that had popped up in my Google News feed a few days ago was haunting me and I wanted to read it again. A series of various Google searches got me nowhere. I gave up and went to bed last night thinking at least I had given it my best shot. When I woke up this morning, I had the idea to try to find the article using the AI tool I use for work. It successfully pinpointed and retrieved the article on the first try. Disclaimer: this post was written with no AI involvement.
I’ve been using the free versions of ChatGPT and Gemini. I help residents here at my CCRC solve their tech problems. I like that I can ask the AI complicated questions in a paragraph with multiple sentences containing all the details about the situation, and get a single straightforward answer. Google searches, no matter how well crafted, and even refined using the verbatim tool, tend to produce an overwhelming number of results, making it hard to find exactly what I need.
great description and suggestion, thanks
Nice summary of the advantages of using AI for searches.
Targeted searches? I like it!
I use Gemini regularly. I write an article, mostly for my blog, and then I use AI to ask questions relative to the article and compare them. I fact check or get another point of view as it were. Sometimes I expand the article based on AI info. Really not different than Google except it’s well organized and draws from more than one source at a time.