[rswerve]

I still use ~Google~ Kagi for some searches (people, addresses, items to buy), but ChatGPT is a very different tool for me, and is a regular part of my life now. Some examples.

- My kid's sports schedule is in a table on the school's site. Paste it into chatgpt, give it a few handling rules, and ask for the contents of an .ics file back. Now I have everything in my calendar.

- A job posting looked interesting but I couldn't figure out what the company actually did. Pasted their website copy into chatgpt, asked for an ELI5, and had a five minute conversation, after which I could convincingly answer the "why us?" interview question.

- I haven't done math problems in a long time, so when my kid needs help with something that's totally unfamiliar to me, I can paste a photo of his worksheet into chatgpt and ask for an explanation, and after a few minutes I know enough to help him.

[2143]

The ics trick — thanks!

Although I'm of the opinion that in most places where they put up a schedule they ought to provide an ics file or a link or something like that.

[ryanwaggoner]

I just tried the .ics trick, but with a photo of my kid’s school schedule. Thanks!

[blankx32]

Tried the ics trick ChatGPT tells me it cannot read or write files

[rswerve]

I asked it for the file contents and copied those into a file manually.

[blankx32]

wouldn’t do it for me, must be some subtle difference in approach which itself is disconcerting