Celia Quillan
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53 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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I do this all the time. Give me a quick recipe. I have chicken, asparagus, Parmesan and tomato sauce in my fridge. What can I make with this? It will generate back a recipe that will result in something tasty. It may not be the best thing you've ever made, but it will get you there.
Hi, Mike. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here.
Absolutely. I think many people think of it as a search engine, which, especially in the early days, might have been a detriment to them because at the time, many of these tools could not browse the web for you and do that search. Now they can. But I do think that that is kind of the first and foremost thing that people think of them as.
Brainstorming, it's excellent at coming up with new ideas and helping you creatively come up with new suggestions for how to accomplish tasks or how to name something. It can help you create and generate effectively anything that is text-based.
So if you needed to create a quick guide to a place that you're traveling, instead of searching one thing, you can search many things at once effectively by having it create a guide. You could have it craft a shopping list according to your groceries that you have to accomplish for the week.
You could turn it into your personal secretary, articulating out all the things you have to keep in mind and remember and have it jot it down and summarize it in a nice, concise way for you to refer back to later. There is no limit to how it can help you, really. Anything that is text-based, it effectively acts as an intern, as a super advanced intern that can do anything for you.
Another use case that many people enjoy is meal planning. So you can put in your preferences for what you... what your dietary preferences are, what you want to eat, how many meals you need prepped for, what your calorie intake you roughly want for each meal is.
And it can generate a list of ideas, recipes, grocery lists from there, and really help you outsource a lot of the menial tasks that take a lot of energy and mind space in your day-to-day.
Absolutely. And it is always better when you collaborate with it as well. You can refine it to make it more personalized. You can give it feedback. It's almost like a co-collaborator. And it really is, it's a magical tool when you first use it because I'm realizing that it can unlock this. It's like having a second intelligence in the room with you.
Yeah. Key thing to understand, unlike a search engine, these tools are not going and browsing a massive database of information, plucking out a paragraph or two and then pasting them back to you. They're not doing what a Google search might where it's browsing all the URLs on the web and finding the content that most matches your search. Instead, it is a predictive tool.
So it's predicting the best possible answer word by word or more technically token by tokens, a fraction of a word to give you an answer based off of the words you put into it. And it's basically like a very, very advanced autocorrect. How it's able to do this is these tools were trained off of a massive amount of data. So think about the contents of the entire internet, for example.
The computer is able to run a lot of complex calculations and notice different patterns within language. So it basically became very good at mimicking human language patterns and assigns weights to different words. So, for example, it might know that the word kitten is more frequently associated with cat than puppy.
And over time, all those different things informs the model that allows us to interact with these tools, the large language model. But all you need to know is effectively it's not retrieving information. It is predicting the best possible answer word by word based off of this massive training model that it has developed.
Certainly, I find them to be more or less interchangeable. So you have ChatGPT, kind of the leader, the most well-known, but there are countless tools in this arena. If you're looking for a more general purpose AI that can do kind of everything that I mentioned before, ChatGPT, Google Gemini,
Cloud AI is another one, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Meta has an AI now that also has a chat interface. All of these tools can do all of that text-based generation. There's some subtle differences between the different tools in terms of the extra functionalities they have, but as these companies behind them are developing and trying to compete with each other,
they are frequently introducing the same features and functionality that ChatGPT might have just released so they can keep up. So some examples are attachments. In the early days of ChatGPT and these other tools, many did not allow you to, say, attach a PDF to your question or query. Now, ChatGPT can do that. Cloud AI can do that. Google Gemini, you can connect it with your Google Drive.
Microsoft Copilot works in sync with your Microsoft 365 suite so that you can now communicate with those PDFs. Other examples, as we mentioned earlier, web browsing. So all of these different tools, with the exception of Claude that I mentioned earlier, can now actually go and browse the web, generate a response summarizing what it finds, and then link back out to the source that it got that from.
So all of these tools have subtle differences, but by and large, I try and encourage people to, you know, if you have one that you like, and especially if it's free and you're just getting started, experiment, play around with it.
In no time, if some competitor launches a new feature, it probably won't be long until they launch their own version of the same thing because these tools are evolving so quickly and they're all trying to stay competitive with each other.
So it doesn't really know anything, I guess is the one way to put it. It's not actually intelligent, but it is artificially so. So snappier, you know, kind of how a thesaurus works really. Snappier is associated with other words like catchy, zingy, you know, all these other things.
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