1041: What are normies using AI for?

Wes Bos (0:00)

What is your favorite movie? AIs apparently love the pursuit of happiness inception in The Martian. Holy crap, is it so difficult of a question to have to farm it out to AI? Unbelievable. And I feel for people applying to jobs as well, because you hear people being like, yeah, I applied to 20,000 jobs. Of course, I'm gonna try to automate this thing, so now I'm just spraying and praying. But it's unbelievable that everybody's just using the same answers. Like, you can stand out so easily by just like not doing that.

Past coders and past spreadsheets are normies using AI, and what are they using it for, right? Is it just a glorified search engine where people are just typing their query into chat GBT, or are there actual regular people outside of like developers that are using agents and actually getting work done outside of building websites or like automating some sort of spreadsheet? So today, what we're going to do is we're going to go through a whole bunch of different instances. I asked the people in my life, I asked on Twitter what people in their lives are using AI for in their day to day tasks, and we're going to kind of go through them, as well like things like I don't think are going to hold up like automation marketing, you know, like, oh, wow, you sent 6,000 emails to everybody. Like that's that's going to not work in like three weeks. My name is Wes. With me as always is Scott. How are you doing, Scott?

Scott Tolinski (1:28)

Oh, it's so cold in the day today. I am freezing, man. Holy cow.

I don't know what happened. We woke up this morning. It's chilly, chilly. So, yes, I'm all bundled up.

Wes Bos (1:38)

Cold D. All right. We can hopefully warm up a little later.

Let's get in to it. I'll link up the tweet as well in the replies for what everybody says. But first one here is just simply just parts finding. So we have a broken seat buckle in our van. And I absolutely hate finding parts for automotive stuff because we have to do is you have to find the exact year and you have to use a stupid little drop down where you have to filter every single car that's ever been made. And then you need to go through all of the different parts. And then there's like seven different trim levels of it.

And then there's an eight seater and a seven seater. And it's just so frustrating. But finding parts is very easy now. I just type into the box or dictate it. We have a gray 2015 Toyota Sienna. And we need a new buckle for the left side. That's the other thing is I never remember what is the left and right side of a car. Is it when you're looking at it or is it when you're sitting in it?

Scott Tolinski (2:37)

Well, it's a driver's side or passenger side.

Wes Bos (2:40)

But but that's that's no, that's because passenger side is different around the world. Right. So they don't use that in in parts world. So I just said what the seat behind me and then it found the actual part. It drafted up the email and sent it to the Toyota dealership. 100 percent did it all for me. And all I had to do is actually pay for it. I just absolutely love it. Also, I have another one. We'll throw up the screenshot of it right now, which is when you're trying to find a specific bolt or bearing or roller, there's often like three different dimensions that you need to do with length height. And these data sheets, if you've been on like McMaster car or any single website like this, there's like bazillion combinations of it.

And one thing which is Taobao, a website that I used to find like specific little parts.

They have this new AI button that you click, and it breaks it down into width, length, height. It will sort of just analyze all the options there. Ideally, you wouldn't even need AI for this, because that data should be in the system. But when sellers have messy data that's been loaded into like a sales platform, it's not always that easy. And this does a great job of taking messy data and distilling it down for you.

Scott Tolinski (3:59)

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