Well, here is everything I did with AI this week. (Give or take a few days.) And I’ve added a new rating scale for my happiness after the AI Interaction.
Wrote a welding resumé: This was a demonstration for another training. I’m not into Welding. I don’t even have a welder. 9/10
Wrote a letter of recommendation for a colleague. In the prompt I put the name as Teacher and I asked it to give me no more than 3 paragraphs. (I find that Chat GPT often has really long sentences.) This recommendation was even easier because the colleague gave me their resume and I copy and pasted in what they had done. The result? Pretty darn good. In Google Docs I used “Find and Replace” to replace Teacher with the teacher’s name and changed a few words. It sounded remarkably like what I would have wanted to write all on my own. Next time: I will specify what pronouns to use because I had to go back and change those. 9/10
Some Google Sheets Formulas: ChatGPT and I had to spend some time apart after this interaction, so it could think about its actions. 1/10
Wrote a bio myself for a conference submission proposal: The bio was too jovial and glowing for my taste, but I pulled bits and pieces to complete the assignment. 5/10
Email suggestions: I was tired, so I asked for some ideas. I didn’t copy paste the email verbatim, but it at least got me started 5/10
ChatGPT was mean to me in French: I was, once again, trying to get it to have a Novice level conversation with me and I was chastised by the chat bot. 1/10 – still not ready for students, yet.
AI Training Image: I’m working on a presentation and I wanted an image of AI Training. In my head it looked like a bunch of robots in the gym working out, only some of them listening to podcasts and others watching TV and still others reading articles. Dall•E and I worked through several iterations and we came up with some I liked. But like why are these guys all running on the treadmill backwards?
Lingoteach.ai: OMG. I will be writing about this more later. 15/10