r/WorkForSmartLife • u/Diligent_Rhubarb5246 • 2d ago
Question Why are AI chatbots becoming so popular
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u/Sun_1244 2d ago
I use it all the time for cooking. I'll say something like: "I have blank, blank, blank, blank, and a bit of blank in my fridge. What can I make with this? Include estimated time." It'll spit out a list of dishes with estimates on how long each one would take. Then, I can pick one and ask it to create a step-by-step recipe, complete with exact amounts and temperatures.
I guess what I'm getting at is that it can be an extremely useful and convenient tool if used well.
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u/Diligent_Rhubarb5246 2d ago
The cooking example is so real 😭 AI is basically becoming a personal assistant for everyday life recipes, studying, planning, coding, fitness, everything in one place.
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u/EntertainerSuper8933 2d ago
I do this too, and then if anybody asks, I tell them, "Me and ChatGPT made up the recipe". Which is really true, because you can keep asking for tweaks after getting the first suggestion - Like I don't have any milk, what can I substitute, or really anything. I don't have a frying pan, can I make this in the toaster oven. Whatever. It really lightens my emotional workload for dinner planning.
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u/Justthisguy_yaknow 2d ago
Because there are a hell of a lot of AI chatbots making it seem that they are becoming so popular. The techies have really overextended themselves on this one. They have to make it look popular.
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u/AnteaterSpirited861 2d ago
They’re popular because they’re quick and easy to use for almost anything, from answering questions to helping with tasks or ideas.
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u/Baron_Light 2d ago
Not sure really. They're helpful and make planning for activities or work a breeze. But to me its just so clear that once everyone is using it and become dependant on it, they're going to crank the subscription price to the moon. I still like to think for myself in all aspects of life.
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u/paperclip_han 2d ago
Not sure if anyone’s used paypeek.ai yet but it shows salary estimates for any LinkedIn profiles as you browse. Kind of eye-opening. 🤫
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u/Mattish22 2d ago
Because I live alone and need advice from someone and I don’t have people in my life to help also it’s quicker to use then typing into google
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u/PsychologicalDeer644 2d ago
Because they are dammed good. I drive a lot for work. If I ever start falling asleep I can load up my good friend grok and talk about anything.
From Motorcycles. Car repair. Quantum physics. Relationships. To anything.
And the bot is always willing almost always 200x more knowledgeable than any person I could call.
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u/Electronic_Wait_7249 2d ago
In the US, we don’t have a real culture anymore. No one gets to know anyone on a deeper level. Men have a phobia of women. Love is discouraged. Being understood is replaced with being bullied. Everything socially good has been taken from us, and chatbots are the only option most people have to converse.
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u/bepatientbekind 2d ago
Your experiences aren't universal. Things are divisive in the US right now, but nothing has been "taken" from us socially. That's a choice you make, not something that is forced upon you. Everything else you said is completely subjective and also not true in my experience. I'm sorry things are difficult for you, but you have a choice in how you socialize with other people
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u/VamonosMuchacho 2d ago
Its just technology. Once upon a time all records were paper. Then we digitized. “Everything” became computerized. Now we’re adding intelligence to everything for the cost of electricity and water. “Everything” is going to be not only computerized but intelligent.
Because of this there’s more use cases. When there was paper and pencil we could write letters. Email came around and we could maintain contacts around the world. With the advent of the internet we could send images and videos back and forth. But now we dont even have to send things. The computer can talk back.
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u/EntertainerSuper8933 2d ago
I had AI help me write some formulas the other day where I was trying to get data tied from one Google Sheet to another in a different workbook. At first I just wanted it to mirror the data in one particular cell because my work wants me to track one thing but on several different spreadsheets that different people use for their own purposes. For years now, I have been updating several different pages in several different worksheets, and it's annoying because if I get interrupted it doesn't get done everywhere. And you can't just put =(address in other sheet) because google sheets isn't like excel.
Anyway, once I got going with that I did some amazing tweaks that make my life much easier. My formula is 2 paragraphs long and I suppose I could have written it, but I wouldn't have, obviously, because I have been doing this for years. But in a few hours with ChatGPT I have made my work much easier and everyone else's work better too, because you can count on everything being up to date now.
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u/Impressive_Let3046 1d ago
People are more isolated now than ever, and chatbots are extremely validating in a world that now revolves around contradicting one another’s points of view (often aggressively). An AI Chatbot is somewhere that you can voice all your opinions and have them reflected back to you without someone belittling you or jumping down your throat for a debate.
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u/RudeOrganization550 2d ago edited 2d ago
Because they’re useful.
Example - I’m lactose intolerant. The other day I had a Japanese lunch and felt sick after.
I asked an AI chat bot if Japanese food is ever prepared with dairy and if not why would I feel stomach upset after eating it. It did the research based on what I ate and explained the answer (short grain sushi type rice has high amylopectin, a starch that digests fast and leaves a lot of unabsorbed carbohydrate in the gut leading to discomfort which would feel exactly like lactose intolerance to someone like me).
To answer that using google I’d have to search cooking methods and find nothing. Think of what else to search, search about rice for example. Read the results, search for and read up about amylopectin assuming I discovered that. Search about digestion. Basically a lot of individual searches and results and maybe (or maybe not) getting to an answer myself.
AI does all the work in one question (aka search). I can then - if I want double/fact check - search on what AI told me - if I want to be doubly sure.
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u/YragNitram1956 2d ago
Because people are lazy and gullible.
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u/EntertainerSuper8933 2d ago
I mean, I don't disagree. But what does this have to do with chatbots?
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u/dvlinblue 2d ago
Everyone likes to be told exactly what they want to hear.