Ways I’m Using AI

Arejay shares ways she's using AI based on recent interactions with others and ways she's helped them solve their challenges leveraging AI. She focuses particularly on ChatGPT and Otter.ai

Episode Transcript

Arejay (00:08):
So I have been having conversations around AI lately,
and I wanted to bring them here,because one of the things I'm
seeing is I've actually beenhelping some people troubleshoot
some things using AI, and as I'mhaving these conversations with

(00:29):
people, I'm realizing that someof the ways that I'm using AI
that are quite normal for me arenew concepts to some people, and
I think that They can help you.So one of the things, you know,
I was speaking to a woman, andshe was testing Canva code, and

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which is a new tool that theyreleased, and it's based on its
AI based, but it helps codethings right? It literally
creates the code for it. And shehad tried to get the output to
be the way she wanted it, and,like, change the colors and
change this. And she was finetuning, and she was having some
trouble, because no matter whatshe did, it wasn't really like
listening to her on this onelittle detail. So I had, you

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know, she was like, I've triedeverything. So I asked. I was
like, Hey, did you have Did youwork with chatgpt and tell it
like you're working with Canvacode? Here's what it's doing,
here's what I'm trying to get itto do. Like, what's the best
instruction to give Canva code?And she hadn't, so she did, and
it fixed the issue, right?Because sometimes tech will talk

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to tech better than we can. So Iam no stranger to hopping on
chat, G, p, t, when I'm having,like, a problem with another,
you know, software or piece oftechnology and going, Hey, this
is what's going on. This is whatI want it to do, like,
troubleshoot this. Or what wouldyou suggest I use as an input to

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get a better output? I The nextway I use AI otter. AI is
another tool that I like to use,and it's a transcription tool.
And what I use that for is oneit actually does the
transcription for my podcastepisodes, so that I don't have

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to worry about, like, going backand trying to do that. But I
also like to use it, like, as abrain dump, which can be pretty
good, especially for people wholike to verbally process. So
I'll just turn it on and I'lljust talk right? And part of why
I like to do this is becauseit'll transcribe what I'm
talking but it'll also pull outlike, kind of key points and

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action items so as like, mybrain is just turning through
like, the to do list and havingthese weird ideas, right? Like,
I just talk it to otter so thatI can get it captured somewhere,
and then from there, like andcopy and pull it out of the
transcript and everything, andput it in its rightful place.
But instead of dumping it out onpaper and then needing to, like,

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go put it somewhere digital,like it's already digitized, I
also will use AI to help mewrite code if I need to. So I'm
not a big coder, like, I havesome basic HTML and, like, I can
read code better than I can tryto actually write code. But

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sometimes, you know, like, I dohave websites for the business,
I do have website for thepodcast, and sometimes the drag
and drop just isn't doing what Iwant it to do, and I need it to
appear a certain way, right? Soagain, I'll usually use chat GPT
for this and, like, tell itwhat's going on, have it write
the code, have it write thatlittle snippet and then embed

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that. And I also do the samething when I'm working with like
Google Sheets or in Excel and Idon't know the formula for
something like instead oflooking it up, because sometimes
I want it to do complex things,and I know it's capable, I just
don't know how to do it. Soagain, like, I'll let chat GPT

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know what I'm trying to do, whatI want to accomplish, and then
I'll have it write that formula.Now, sometimes when you're doing
the code and when you're doingthe formulas, yes, you will have
to go back and forth a littlebit, especially if you are not
like, if you don't have thatbackground, to have to know the
formulas and to know the code,you won't necessarily be able to
spot what's wrong with it untilyou actually try it, and then
just go ahead and give thefeedback back to whatever AI you

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were using and say, Hey, like,it didn't quite do that. It made
it do this, and it normallyadjusts pretty well. I so I also
use AI to help me see what Imight be missing, especially
when it comes to a software soone of my favorite things to do

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as of late is to look at thedifferent software programs and
things I have access to. AndI'll ask chat GPT like I'll tell
it what I'm using it for. I'lltell it like the features that I
do use and like the plan levelthat I have. And then I ask it,
what are some features or usecases that you see based on what

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I do, right? And it'll normallytell me and give me little
features, and then I can golearn more about them, right?
Because we don't know what wedon't know. So sometimes I just
ask it, because I'm sure I'm notusing all of my tech to like,
the maximum capacity that it canbe used for, right? I also like

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to use it to sometimes, like asoftware program comes out, and
instead of paying 50 millionsubscriptions, right, take a
minute to understand what thesoftware does, because sometimes
you already have things that canbe leveraged to recreate that.

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Now, granted, I will say yes, ifa software is created for a
specific purpose, the chancesare it's going to do it better.
It's going to do it faster thanhaving, like, multiple pieces of
software to compile the samecapability, right? However,

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sometimes that, likesubscription is just more than
what you have right now, right?And you just need to get it
done. So using AI to find out,like what the tool does, and how
much of what this new tool does,does your existing like
software, AI, whatever it is,what, how much that capacity

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already exists and what youhave, and what do you need to
use and how do you need to useit to most closely approximate
the new tool.
Another thing that I like to dois so especially with otter AI.

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So I am one of those people whomy speaking voice and my writing
voice are nowhere near thefucking same at all. Speaking,
you know, I can be verystraightforward. I can be blunt.

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It's just short and to thepoint, right? And when I write
for some reason, like I amnormally like the person who wax
is poetic and who becomes like acollege professor with like a
PhD and whatever, so thevocabulary changes, like the
whole vibe changes, which,depending upon what you're

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writing for, can be a greatthing, but when you're writing
for things like, you know,emails to people like, for your
mailing list, or you're writingfor social things like that, you
don't really want that switchthat can happen. Now, if you're
not that person, like, if youare that person that you write
exactly how you speak, great.Good for you. This tip is

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probably not going to help youout, but for those of you who
writing in your mind is the moreformal thing, because that's how
you were trained. And like, hey,we get longer words and we use a
different sentence structure,and things get way more complex,
right? Again, I use otter forthis, but to help compose the

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email, and I'm not talking like,hey, I need to draft it because
I don't know what I want to say.That's different, and that's
something that I would probablyuse, like chatgpt or Claude or
one of those for. But when it'slike, Hey, I know what I want to
say, I'll just speak it out tootter, because it's easier for
me to sound like I'm speaking toa human, when I envision

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speaking to a human and justspeak, as opposed to trying to
write, and then I just let it,transcribe it, and then I'll
copy that and paste it over intothe email. So those are some of
the main ways. Like the mostcommon, frequent ones, I do chat
GPT is probably the main AI thatI use. But even just like

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creating your own chat or yourown custom gpts, is something
that I find to be worthwhile,because it speaks to my
efficiency, like I literallyhave efficiency encoded in my
design. So if you follow HumanDesign at all right, efficiency
is one of my bigger giftswithin, like the human design

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system. So I like the customgpts. I love the projects. And
so if you're not really sure,like when you would use a
project versus a custom GPT. Soif you are going to be doing
something repetitively, youcreate the custom GPT, right?

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Like, figure out what thosesteps are that you want it to go
through every single time, andjust go ahead and create the
custom GPT so that it can runwhen you want to do this thing.
And you don't have to prompt itevery time, right? Like you
don't have to tell it what to doevery time. That's going to be a
custom GPT for the projects.It's going to be more of the

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things that you want to keeptogether. So there are multiple
steps in in what you're doing,and you want all the
conversations to stay together,then I would use a project,
right? You can also if, if youwant chat GPT to play a certain
role all the time, right? Like,you can also use a project to do

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that, where maybe the process isnot the same all the time, but I
do want you to remember the rolethat you're in, and I do want
you to respond like this all thetime. It's probably going to be
a project. You can do it as acustom GPT too, but you may not
need that level of depth also.With the custom GPT, you can
also change whether or not likeyou can kind of do it where

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you're creating a database,right? Because you can uncheck
the search the web, and then youcan just feed it all the
information that you want it tohave and all the information
that you want it to pull from.And then, when you're using that
custom GPT, you know that it'sonly pulling from that
information. It's not going outto the web and pulling in random
shit that may not be accurate,or for whatever reason you don't

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want in there. So those are someof the main ways. You know, I
have it extract highlights frommy podcast episode, so, like, I
have a workflow for that, sothat everything is really fairly
seamless and as automated aspossible for me, because I am

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the only one like doing thepodcast, doing the editing,
doing the social media, doingthe business stuff. So just to
make that easier, so I hope thathelped. I hope it gave you some
ideas. It also can make a reallygood brainstorming partner.
There are so many different waysto brainstorm. If you have a

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favorite technique, you canactually, again, create a custom
GPT that only responds usinglike that particular technique
that you want it to use and gothrough that. Like, take, have
it take you through that. Butyeah, those are some of the main
ways. Those are some of the mainconversations I've been having
lately around AI, again, I dolargely use chat GPT. I use some

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of the other ones too. But like,really, I'm in chat GPT, like,
all the time. So, hope thathelps. If you have questions,
feel free to ask me. Other thanthat, have a great day.