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Hello, and welcome to any of the other latinos who attack my name is Hugo Castellano.
Speaker:In this episode, I wanted to have a different format than I wanted to share some use cases
Speaker:for a chat GPT.
Speaker:I'm actually going to be in Europe for a few weeks, and I didn't want to rush, and
Speaker:and make an interview episode at the last minute.
Speaker:Because I have a couple episodes that I'll ready record it,
Speaker:but I really want to take the time to edit them
Speaker:and really make sure that they're formatting away
Speaker:that we're gonna have value to you.
Speaker:So I want to make a quick tutorial slash thing
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Speaker:And let's dive right in.
Speaker:So if, unless you've been living under a rock,
Speaker:you've probably heard of Chaggipiti and all these LLMs, large language models that are around
Speaker:like bar then claw then claw this actually a nice one you can actually attach files to it
Speaker:and ask the machine questions about the files but I wanted to showcase some of the five use cases
Speaker:that I actually take advantage of every week, not every day, but at least once a week, things
Speaker:that I do. And again, looking at what I do, so I'm an engineer, I'm getting my Masters
Speaker:in Computer Science and my host, two podcasts about Tech Careers. I also do Stand Up Comedy
Speaker:for fun and run meetups. Those are, that's like a good overview of what I'm about and the
Speaker:things that I do. And when it comes to how I use these applications, it's all tied up to my
Speaker:ADHD. For those that don't know, ADHD is this condition where you, um, yeah, what is ADHD?
Speaker:It's hard to define it in a single sentence. But it's basically a disorder. So it's a
Speaker:attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. When it comes to adult, it's this fact that
Speaker:that your intentions are a bit disconnected from your actual actions, I'm motivations.
Speaker:So when it comes to actually doing things, you get distracted and it's hard to get focused.
Speaker:There's this idea of the shiny object that gets you distracted.
Speaker:And he has some very real consequences in your work life and your personal life.
Speaker:like interrupting people when they speak things like difficulty focusing on a task if I don't
Speaker:find it interesting things like memory issues when it comes to following up and short term
Speaker:memory, staying on the task at hand and just several ways of dealing with it with therapy and
Speaker:also medication and mainly systems. So the way that you do things or mainly things that you can
Speaker:do you're in the environment? Things like keeping your study or work area as free from
Speaker:distraction as possible, things like noise-councing headphones, things like training,
Speaker:your blocking websites, that is attractive. Things like that. When it comes to chat
Speaker:GPTA and things that I do with it is that it's fantastic because it helps me get things
Speaker:started. I need to show that people would
Speaker:indeed have and that I have is that it can be
Speaker:very easy for me to start things if they're
Speaker:interesting to me. Not so easy to finish them.
Speaker:And likewise things that I find annoying or not
Speaker:interesting or not engaging, I don't start
Speaker:I procrastinate on them. So those are the two instances
Speaker:were we're chatty with the he helps me first the finishing the things that I start and then
Speaker:starting and finishing things that I don't I don't particularly care to do so it comes to
Speaker:so it's the biggest use case you know defeating that blank page that's use case number one
Speaker:how do you overcome the the the blank page so when it comes to writing emails so writing
Speaker:emails that I've been putting off because I want to ask somebody a favor or a text message
Speaker:and something that is really annoying. Okay, like I need to book an appointment with my doctor
Speaker:or things like that or I need to request my doctor for refilling a medication or something like that.
Speaker:Actually, I just in the beginning, I just asked you a GPT right an email to asking for this.
Speaker:And once the machine did it, I just copy paste it, put it in my notes app.
Speaker:So I just copy-based it every time I have to text my doctor for something like that.
Speaker:So that's the biggest, not the biggest, but that's one of the use cases.
Speaker:So drafting emails and messages, that's a big one.
Speaker:Because what happens is that, sure, you're computing your to-do-lice that, oh yeah, book a doctor's
Speaker:appointment. And that thing is so annoying. Like, for people with ADHD because, yeah, because it's
Speaker:a drag is just a drag is for some reason is something that you should do but just because
Speaker:you should do it doesn't mean that you're going to do it. Another one is looking at and within
Speaker:the same use case of overcoming the blank page is coming up with with title ideas. So what I mean by
Speaker:this is not only the episodes that I do but also when I have a presentation or when I'm
Speaker:brainstorming topics to talk about. I get invited all the time to give workshops on productivity
Speaker:and networking, career development, how to find your dream career. And the audiences are always
Speaker:different. Sometimes our college students, sometimes our professionals with years of experience,
Speaker:sometimes I get high schoolers. So I have to modulate my message and make sure that, hey,
Speaker:I come up with the interesting examples. And I have a database of examples, I have a database of
Speaker:worships that I've done, but when it comes to titles, it's a struggle of it. Coming up with titles that are
Speaker:Informative, catchy, but not clickbaiting.
Speaker:So I will ask, chagipiti, hey, I want a title that it's classy and
Speaker:ticing, but not clickbait. And give me 10 ideas. So the machine will give me 10 ideas.
Speaker:And I'm calling it the machine in purpose because I want to remember that it is a machine.
Speaker:So yeah, and again, I don't use them right of the bat like I will modify them according to what I need.
Speaker:But again, it's in the same theme of the feeding the blank page.
Speaker:Another use case that I find very useful is an idea generator, and especially for gift ideas.
Speaker:Now when I maybe this happens to you, maybe it doesn't, but my circle of friends are not very
Speaker:materialistic people, like a lot of my friends, they don't care about physical gifts.
Speaker:It's more of experience people, quality time people, like, oh, let's all go out and do
Speaker:this new thing or let's all get together hang out and cook together for barbecue when play
Speaker:board games, I kind of think like most of my friends, like they're into those kinds of
Speaker:activities. So when it comes to GIF ideas for people that actually like gifts or for
Speaker:outing ideas, it's great. So give me 10 things that I can do in a rainy day with a group of
Speaker:five friends and actually give me some ideas because what happens is that when you're in the moment
Speaker:Like sure, you can have ideas, but are they good ideas?
Speaker:Only you can tell.
Speaker:So when you're in stock, when you're stuck, I find that
Speaker:Chagipiti is great for that.
Speaker:So defeating that blank page.
Speaker:Another use case that I really like,
Speaker:So third use case is processing data.
Speaker:So I'm part of a lot of WhatsApp groups,
Speaker:groups and maybe you are too on your Latino Latina and I'm a part of a lot of what's
Speaker:up groups and discord chats and things like that and what happens in a lot of these
Speaker:chats is that maybe there's a site conversations maybe you disconnected for a couple
Speaker:days or maybe your invocation or what have you and that there's I don't
Speaker:recommend you recommend you to just turn off all the notifications all together
Speaker:But what happens when you go back to a chat and 300 messages?
Speaker:What's a better use of your time?
Speaker:Actually, reading each message by each message or selecting all the text,
Speaker:dropping it and charging it in asking the machine,
Speaker:"Hey, can you summarize this conversation for me?"
Speaker:And if there are any action items with my name on them.
Speaker:And the machine will do that.
Speaker:I have a particular chat that I'm a part of.
Speaker:There's two people that they like to argue and they are very vocal in the way they argue.
Speaker:And it's not uncommon for them to have a 80 or 90 back and forth.
Speaker:So I will ask the machine to, or it will nominate the people in this conversation and the tone of the conversation.
Speaker:And I will tell me that oh it's adversarial, it's a debate, it's an summarized anything you want with it.
Speaker:So it's great because again it's a machine, it's fast.
Speaker:But you need to ask it the right questions.
Speaker:And the fort use case that I particularly enjoy it's Google in steroids.
Speaker:So basically I will ask it, I'm going to Barcelona for 10 days and I'm really into
Speaker:archeology, live music and history museums, not art museums.
Speaker:write me up a 10-day dinner area.
Speaker:And it will do that.
Speaker:And it will give you a starting point.
Speaker:Day by day with morning, afternoon, evening activities,
Speaker:and you can copy pages this into a Google Docs and just
Speaker:trim it and take what actually resonates with you and what
Speaker:doesn't.
Speaker:So if I give the verse a long example,
Speaker:but if it's a place that you've never been and you can actually, and it depends how you like to travel
Speaker:because a lot of people they like to travel scheduling stuff and actually saying, "Hey, we're going to do this from 1 to 3
Speaker:and then this from 5 to 6 or other people are just, "Hey, we're going to be there, they won.
Speaker:We only have to do this thing at 2 and then the rest of the day is free."
Speaker:The pencil on how you travel, the pencil on how you like, but as far as ideas for the trip,
Speaker:things that you can only do in that spot, a "Chagipity" is great.
Speaker:I do remember that we're going to use "Chagipity" for this is that the last instance
Speaker:when it was connected directly to the internet was in September 2021.
Speaker:So maybe it's not great as far as restaurants come and things that have open and close
Speaker:then but when it comes to generic sites things to do.
Speaker:Not like the statue of liberty has been there for a while.
Speaker:The generic places like they don't change.
Speaker:And it's also great for road trips.
Speaker:I find that hey, I'm driving from my house into this place.
Speaker:It's a make me an scenic route where I stop at least at one roadside diner.
Speaker:And it will do that. It will give you directions, things to do.
Speaker:It will write out the directions through the scenic route.
Speaker:So I find that for planning, pinnaries and trips and things like that nature.
Speaker:I find that it's a great first touch resource.
Speaker:Because again, you can...
Speaker:Because if you have the time and you like YouTube and things like that, sure,
Speaker:sure you can search, we have top 10 things to do in Madrid or top 20 things to not do in
Speaker:Paris or whatever and you can watch a 20 minute video if you want but I find that if I want
Speaker:to just get a quick overview in five minutes something that I can read at my own pace and
Speaker:and I don't have to withstand the antiques of travel to tours like a welcome guys to my
Speaker:channel subscribe. No thanks I don't need that. And yeah so for use cases so far so the first one is
Speaker:defeating the blank page at rewriting emails, scripts, titles, daily generator for gifts and experiences
Speaker:you have the drafting emails and messages from the beginning and some rising articles, some
Speaker:summarizing chats. That's something that I do quite often. And the last but not least is translating.
Speaker:And not translating, although you could use it for that translating from Spanish to English or
Speaker:French to English or whatever, when it comes to coding. So when when I have an assignment or a
Speaker:problem that I'm facing and I look at the code and I read it and I give myself some time
Speaker:let's say that okay I'm going to read this code for 15 minutes and see if I understand it
Speaker:and if I'm still struggling if it's not crystal clear to me what is this code supposed to do
Speaker:I will drop it in, I will ask the machine, "Hey, explain to me, live online, what does this module do?"
Speaker:And so it's basically like a stack overflow replacement in that sense, where I'm actually,
Speaker:I'm not asking the machine to summarize the code for me or to translate this from JavaScript to Python.
Speaker:You could do that if you have to do that. But when it comes to a learning environment,
Speaker:I like to give myself a designated amount of time where I'm actually going to try myself,
Speaker:the human carbon-based lifeform that I am, to actually figure out myself before I ask my
Speaker:or next machine overlords. Hey, explain this to me. Hey, silicon-based lifeform, explain this to the
Speaker:I just explained this to the monkey.
Speaker:(laughs)
Speaker:Just because, hey, it's,
Speaker:and again, it takes discipline to do it that way
Speaker:because, again, if I'm doing it for a class,
Speaker:it's like, I actually wanna learn the material
Speaker:like getting the ride or wrong answer on a test
Speaker:that's in the large scheme of things
Speaker:is in consequential, it's the you understand the material,
Speaker:the answer no, can you play it?
Speaker:If again, you're professionally employee working on something and you just need the machine
Speaker:to give you something quick, there are other resources, right?
Speaker:Like there's co-pilot that can write significant chunks of code for you.
Speaker:But again, it's useful for templates and things like that.
Speaker:But again, I wouldn't use it if I was just starting out and learning.
Speaker:I want to make sure you have a strong foundation.
Speaker:So I find that using it as a tutor, it's helpful.
Speaker:It's helpful to actually prove read stuff.
Speaker:And again, explain to me what does this code do?
Speaker:That's a valid use case.
Speaker:And when it comes to, and since we're talking about careers and a bonus use case, so I
Speaker:give you five use cases.
Speaker:A bonus use case is to review your resume.
Speaker:So actually, if you have a resume and you want to actually see if how good of a match you
Speaker:are to a job, you can copy paste the job description and copy paste your resume and ask
Speaker:it.
Speaker:Of the in my resume in a way that better matches my skill set for this job, that better
Speaker:highlights my skill set for this job.
Speaker:And it will actually modify your sentences.
Speaker:So you actually use some of the verbs that are in the job description.
Speaker:Of course, is your job to prove with it and make sure that, hey, it's not the exciting
Speaker:things.
Speaker:It's just formatting them in a different way.
Speaker:But it's very useful.
Speaker:It's very useful because if you're applying for a job, you want to make sure that you're
Speaker:experienced because we all have translatable experience.
Speaker:When it comes to project management,
Speaker:you can talk about stakeholder management
Speaker:and the results you've driven and communications kills
Speaker:and all those things,
Speaker:but they translate differently across industries.
Speaker:So when it comes to actually using keywords,
Speaker:they're gonna resonate in a different job
Speaker:that you're applying for.
Speaker:Why not use a machine to help you do that?
Speaker:And save you some time.
Speaker:you're actually applying for a large app.
Speaker:I also, I don't personally do this,
Speaker:but I've done it a couple times,
Speaker:but I don't do it often,
Speaker:is that I will, when I generate a draft of my resume,
Speaker:I will ask it to go over my resume
Speaker:and create a list of five roles
Speaker:that are best suited for this person.
Speaker:And in my case, it will speed out product marketing manager, competitive intelligence analyst,
Speaker:data analyst, and all these things that match my experience.
Speaker:So it's a way of actually doing the opposite.
Speaker:Instead of making sure that your resume matches the job description is to go the other way around
Speaker:and ask, "Okay, which job description matches the specimen?"
Speaker:So you can take, and again, so you can take a look at your experience and actually decide.
Speaker:Listen, like I'm too close to it, it's hard for me to tell which job should I apply for
Speaker:because I have all these experience, so which job titles actually match the experiences
Speaker:that I have.
Speaker:You guys will have a bias because you know what you've done and you know what you've done.
Speaker:And that sounds a bit creepy.
Speaker:So you're on experience. You know your own story.
Speaker:So it's a great way of actually separating yourself, giving some distance from your experience
Speaker:your own bias to what's actually on the paper was actually on black and white.
Speaker:So you could ask a friend or you could ask, "Touch a bity, good for you, quickly."
Speaker:quickly. So there we go. Different format, try to make it more casual, try to make it more
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