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.

  • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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
      3·
      7 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.