Been using Perplexity AI quite a bit lately for random queries, like travel suggestions.

So I started wondering what random things people are using it for to help with daily tasks. Do you use it more than Google/etc?

Also if anyone is paying for Pro versions? Thinking if it’s worth it paying for Perplexity AI Pro or not.

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    I don’t use it for daily tasks. I’ve been tinkering around with local LLMs for recreation. Roleplay, being my dungeon master in a text adventure. Telling it to be my “waifu”. Or generating amateur short stories. At some time I’d like to practice my foreign language skills with it.

    I haven’t had good success with tasks that rely on “correctness” or factual information. However sometimes I have it draft an email for me or come up with an argumentation for a text that I’m writing. That happens every other week, not daily. And I generously edit and restructure it afterwards or just incorporate some of the paragraphs into my final result.

    • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      D&D related things actually seems like a decent use case. For most other things I don’t understand how people find it useful enough to find use cases to do daily tasks with it.

      • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 months ago

        Agree. I’ve tried some of the use-cases that other people mentioned here. Like summarization, “online” search, tech troubleshooting, recipes, … And all I’ve had were sub-par results and things that needed extensive fact-checking and reworking. So I can’t really relate to those experiences. I wouldn’t use AI as of now for tasks like that.

        And this is how I ended up with fiction and roleplay. Seems to be better suited for that. And somehow AI can do small coding tasks. Like writing boiler-plate code and help with some of the more tedious tasks. At some point I need to feed another of my real-life problems to the current version of ChatGPT but I don’t think it’ll do it for me. And it can come up with nice ideas for stories. Unguided storywriting will get dull in my experience. I guess the roleplaying is nice, though.

        Edit: And I forgot about translation. That also works great with AI.