5 Unexpected Ways Generative AI Can Change Your Daily Life
You’ve probably seen dozens (or more) headlines about generative AI and how tools like ChatGPT will transform our jobs. But what about everyday life? Because the fact that AI can now generate content – including text, images, videos, etc. – could change your daily life in surprising ways.
Here are five not-so-obvious ways generative AI can impact the world around you.
Welcome to the world of AI-enhanced entertainment
Generative AI has the potential to enhance human creativity across the spectrum of arts, sports and entertainment. Think books written using generative AI, music created or curated just for you based on your personal preferences, and podcasts automatically translated into your native language. Generative AI is also used in films to generate backgrounds, characters and special effects, opening up the possibility for smaller studios to achieve the type of high-quality effects that were previously only available to the big players.
And like your favorite sporting events, generative AI can be used to automatically generate or translate commentary, produce realistic virtual simulations, and create visual augmentations, even in real time. In one example, Fox Sports uses generative AI to generate content from its massive archive of game footage. Google’s system can quickly search images from nearly two million videos and produce new video content “in near real time” for sharing on television and social media. In other words, watching the game in the future could be a much more immersive and fun experience.
Your Kids Might Have a Sneaky New Way to Do Their Homework
If you’re a Snapchat user, you may have noticed that every user suddenly gained a new friend at the top of their friends list in 2023: an AI chatbot built on ChatGPT. Snapchat users could give their new AI friend a name and profile picture, then start chatting with them 24 hours a day.
Now, you may not be a Snapchat user, but I bet your kids are (or will be). And that means they can ask Snapchat’s AI bot, well, just about anything. They can have deep and meaningful conversations with him. They may ask stupid questions. And it’s true, they can ask him to do their homework for them. Think about it. Why spend time researching a topic in books or online when they can simply ask their AI friend to answer a question or write a text for them? As parents, it’s up to us to teach our children how to use AI tools responsibly and ethically – to get the most out of them without relying on them. This involves learning to think critically and question whether the content presented to them might be incorrect or biased. (Indeed, it’s a problem that Snap, the company behind Snapchat, itself acknowledges.)
Are we going to say goodbye to Google search?
Since many people will increasingly access information through tools like ChatGPT, it’s not crazy to think that Internet search (as we know it today) could disappear. Let’s be real: the average Internet search experience can be pretty clunky. You can get dozens, hundreds, or even millions of search results. You have to sift through the top results, accept or decline all those cookies across multiple websites, and often scroll through paragraphs of SEO content to get the nugget of information you want. Compare this to asking ChatGPT for information: just type or speak a question and get an immediate response. It’s a much cleaner and less frustrating experience. (Of course, whether the information you receive is accurate is another matter. But the same can be said of the Internet.)
Internet search companies naturally want to integrate generative AI into search capabilities. Microsoft Bing was the first to integrate ChatGPT. But Google is also experimenting with a new search experience called SGE (Search Generative Experience), designed to help users better understand information online. For example, users will be able to see definitions by hovering over certain words or access a list of key points from long web pages.
Whether or not internet search in its current form disappears, you can be sure that generative AI will change the way we search for information.
Plan your meals with the help of AI
Have you ever found yourself at home after a long day thinking, “I have no idea what to make for dinner?” » Of course you did; we all have. But now, rather than picking up your phone and ordering takeout, you can grab it and ask generative AI for help. Language models like ChatGPT can suggest meal ideas and even create entire recipes for you based on the ingredients you have on hand and your dietary needs. Want a meal that uses up salmon, coconut milk, and spring onions that wilt quickly in your fridge? No problem. Do you want it to be gluten and garlic free? It is good too. You can even ask generative AI to plan your entire week’s worth of dinners.
Several recipe-specific generative AI tools already exist to boost your culinary efforts. Examples include ChefGPT, FoodAI, Supercook, and Plant Jammer (for the vegans among you). If only AI could cook and load the dishwasher…
Dating and Sex in the Age of Generative AI
Could generative AI transform dating and sex? This is the idea behind DreamGF, a platform that uses generative AI to create virtual girlfriends. That’s right, users can create the woman of their dreams, including physical characteristics such as hair length, ethnicity, age, and breast size. As for her personality, users can choose from a (considerably smaller) number of descriptors such as “nympho”, “dominatrix” or “nurse”. Users can chat with their “girlfriend” via text and ask her to send nude photos. A DreamBF version is in the works for those who want to create the AI boyfriend of their dreams.
Is it a little scary? Well yes. The idea of “dating” or even just sexting an AI is certainly riddled with complications – not least the danger of creating unrealizable expectations about what it means to have a real relationship with a real human being. Will this change dating for the majority of people? Probably not. But are there many people who would like to create their ideal partner, simple and perfectly compliant? Unfortunately yes.
As generative AI continues to evolve, its influence on our daily lives will extend far beyond what we can currently imagine, promising a future where technology reshapes everything from our entertainment and education to the way we search for information, plan our meals, and even approach complexities. meetings and relationships. Embracing these changes responsibly and ethically will be essential as we navigate this exciting new era of AI-enhanced living.