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Hello, and welcome to any of the other latinos who attack my name is Hugo Castellano.

In this episode, I wanted to have a different format than I wanted to share some use cases

for a chat GPT.

I'm actually going to be in Europe for a few weeks, and I didn't want to rush, and

and make an interview episode at the last minute.

Because I have a couple episodes that I'll ready record it,

but I really want to take the time to edit them

and really make sure that they're formatting away

that we're gonna have value to you.

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So if, unless you've been living under a rock,

you've probably heard of Chaggipiti and all these LLMs, large language models that are around

like bar then claw then claw this actually a nice one you can actually attach files to it

and ask the machine questions about the files but I wanted to showcase some of the five use cases

that I actually take advantage of every week, not every day, but at least once a week, things

that I do. And again, looking at what I do, so I'm an engineer, I'm getting my Masters

in Computer Science and my host, two podcasts about Tech Careers. I also do Stand Up Comedy

for fun and run meetups. Those are, that's like a good overview of what I'm about and the

things that I do. And when it comes to how I use these applications, it's all tied up to my

ADHD. For those that don't know, ADHD is this condition where you, um, yeah, what is ADHD?

It's hard to define it in a single sentence. But it's basically a disorder. So it's a

attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. When it comes to adult, it's this fact that

that your intentions are a bit disconnected from your actual actions, I'm motivations.

So when it comes to actually doing things, you get distracted and it's hard to get focused.

There's this idea of the shiny object that gets you distracted.

And he has some very real consequences in your work life and your personal life.

like interrupting people when they speak things like difficulty focusing on a task if I don't

find it interesting things like memory issues when it comes to following up and short term

memory, staying on the task at hand and just several ways of dealing with it with therapy and

also medication and mainly systems. So the way that you do things or mainly things that you can

do you're in the environment? Things like keeping your study or work area as free from

distraction as possible, things like noise-councing headphones, things like training,

your blocking websites, that is attractive. Things like that. When it comes to chat

GPTA and things that I do with it is that it's fantastic because it helps me get things

started. I need to show that people would

indeed have and that I have is that it can be

very easy for me to start things if they're

interesting to me. Not so easy to finish them.

And likewise things that I find annoying or not

interesting or not engaging, I don't start

I procrastinate on them. So those are the two instances

were we're chatty with the he helps me first the finishing the things that I start and then

starting and finishing things that I don't I don't particularly care to do so it comes to

so it's the biggest use case you know defeating that blank page that's use case number one

how do you overcome the the the blank page so when it comes to writing emails so writing

emails that I've been putting off because I want to ask somebody a favor or a text message

and something that is really annoying. Okay, like I need to book an appointment with my doctor

or things like that or I need to request my doctor for refilling a medication or something like that.

Actually, I just in the beginning, I just asked you a GPT right an email to asking for this.

And once the machine did it, I just copy paste it, put it in my notes app.

So I just copy-based it every time I have to text my doctor for something like that.

So that's the biggest, not the biggest, but that's one of the use cases.

So drafting emails and messages, that's a big one.

Because what happens is that, sure, you're computing your to-do-lice that, oh yeah, book a doctor's

appointment. And that thing is so annoying. Like, for people with ADHD because, yeah, because it's

a drag is just a drag is for some reason is something that you should do but just because

you should do it doesn't mean that you're going to do it. Another one is looking at and within

the same use case of overcoming the blank page is coming up with with title ideas. So what I mean by

this is not only the episodes that I do but also when I have a presentation or when I'm

brainstorming topics to talk about. I get invited all the time to give workshops on productivity

and networking, career development, how to find your dream career. And the audiences are always

different. Sometimes our college students, sometimes our professionals with years of experience,

sometimes I get high schoolers. So I have to modulate my message and make sure that, hey,

I come up with the interesting examples. And I have a database of examples, I have a database of

worships that I've done, but when it comes to titles, it's a struggle of it. Coming up with titles that are

Informative, catchy, but not clickbaiting.

So I will ask, chagipiti, hey, I want a title that it's classy and

ticing, but not clickbait. And give me 10 ideas. So the machine will give me 10 ideas.

And I'm calling it the machine in purpose because I want to remember that it is a machine.

So yeah, and again, I don't use them right of the bat like I will modify them according to what I need.

But again, it's in the same theme of the feeding the blank page.

Another use case that I find very useful is an idea generator, and especially for gift ideas.

Now when I maybe this happens to you, maybe it doesn't, but my circle of friends are not very

materialistic people, like a lot of my friends, they don't care about physical gifts.

It's more of experience people, quality time people, like, oh, let's all go out and do

this new thing or let's all get together hang out and cook together for barbecue when play

board games, I kind of think like most of my friends, like they're into those kinds of

activities. So when it comes to GIF ideas for people that actually like gifts or for

outing ideas, it's great. So give me 10 things that I can do in a rainy day with a group of

five friends and actually give me some ideas because what happens is that when you're in the moment

Like sure, you can have ideas, but are they good ideas?

Only you can tell.

So when you're in stock, when you're stuck, I find that

Chagipiti is great for that.

So defeating that blank page.

Another use case that I really like,

So third use case is processing data.

So I'm part of a lot of WhatsApp groups,

groups and maybe you are too on your Latino Latina and I'm a part of a lot of what's

up groups and discord chats and things like that and what happens in a lot of these

chats is that maybe there's a site conversations maybe you disconnected for a couple

days or maybe your invocation or what have you and that there's I don't

recommend you recommend you to just turn off all the notifications all together

But what happens when you go back to a chat and 300 messages?

What's a better use of your time?

Actually, reading each message by each message or selecting all the text,

dropping it and charging it in asking the machine,

"Hey, can you summarize this conversation for me?"

And if there are any action items with my name on them.

And the machine will do that.

I have a particular chat that I'm a part of.

There's two people that they like to argue and they are very vocal in the way they argue.

And it's not uncommon for them to have a 80 or 90 back and forth.

So I will ask the machine to, or it will nominate the people in this conversation and the tone of the conversation.

And I will tell me that oh it's adversarial, it's a debate, it's an summarized anything you want with it.

So it's great because again it's a machine, it's fast.

But you need to ask it the right questions.

And the fort use case that I particularly enjoy it's Google in steroids.

So basically I will ask it, I'm going to Barcelona for 10 days and I'm really into

archeology, live music and history museums, not art museums.

write me up a 10-day dinner area.

And it will do that.

And it will give you a starting point.

Day by day with morning, afternoon, evening activities,

and you can copy pages this into a Google Docs and just

trim it and take what actually resonates with you and what

doesn't.

So if I give the verse a long example,

but if it's a place that you've never been and you can actually, and it depends how you like to travel

because a lot of people they like to travel scheduling stuff and actually saying, "Hey, we're going to do this from 1 to 3

and then this from 5 to 6 or other people are just, "Hey, we're going to be there, they won.

We only have to do this thing at 2 and then the rest of the day is free."

The pencil on how you travel, the pencil on how you like, but as far as ideas for the trip,

things that you can only do in that spot, a "Chagipity" is great.

I do remember that we're going to use "Chagipity" for this is that the last instance

when it was connected directly to the internet was in September 2021.

So maybe it's not great as far as restaurants come and things that have open and close

then but when it comes to generic sites things to do.

Not like the statue of liberty has been there for a while.

The generic places like they don't change.

And it's also great for road trips.

I find that hey, I'm driving from my house into this place.

It's a make me an scenic route where I stop at least at one roadside diner.

And it will do that. It will give you directions, things to do.

It will write out the directions through the scenic route.

So I find that for planning, pinnaries and trips and things like that nature.

I find that it's a great first touch resource.

Because again, you can...

Because if you have the time and you like YouTube and things like that, sure,

sure you can search, we have top 10 things to do in Madrid or top 20 things to not do in

Paris or whatever and you can watch a 20 minute video if you want but I find that if I want

to just get a quick overview in five minutes something that I can read at my own pace and

and I don't have to withstand the antiques of travel to tours like a welcome guys to my

channel subscribe. No thanks I don't need that. And yeah so for use cases so far so the first one is

defeating the blank page at rewriting emails, scripts, titles, daily generator for gifts and experiences

you have the drafting emails and messages from the beginning and some rising articles, some

summarizing chats. That's something that I do quite often. And the last but not least is translating.

And not translating, although you could use it for that translating from Spanish to English or

French to English or whatever, when it comes to coding. So when when I have an assignment or a

problem that I'm facing and I look at the code and I read it and I give myself some time

let's say that okay I'm going to read this code for 15 minutes and see if I understand it

and if I'm still struggling if it's not crystal clear to me what is this code supposed to do

I will drop it in, I will ask the machine, "Hey, explain to me, live online, what does this module do?"

And so it's basically like a stack overflow replacement in that sense, where I'm actually,

I'm not asking the machine to summarize the code for me or to translate this from JavaScript to Python.

You could do that if you have to do that. But when it comes to a learning environment,

I like to give myself a designated amount of time where I'm actually going to try myself,

the human carbon-based lifeform that I am, to actually figure out myself before I ask my

or next machine overlords. Hey, explain this to me. Hey, silicon-based lifeform, explain this to the

I just explained this to the monkey.

(laughs)

Just because, hey, it's,

and again, it takes discipline to do it that way

because, again, if I'm doing it for a class,

it's like, I actually wanna learn the material

like getting the ride or wrong answer on a test

that's in the large scheme of things

is in consequential, it's the you understand the material,

the answer no, can you play it?

If again, you're professionally employee working on something and you just need the machine

to give you something quick, there are other resources, right?

Like there's co-pilot that can write significant chunks of code for you.

But again, it's useful for templates and things like that.

But again, I wouldn't use it if I was just starting out and learning.

I want to make sure you have a strong foundation.

So I find that using it as a tutor, it's helpful.

It's helpful to actually prove read stuff.

And again, explain to me what does this code do?

That's a valid use case.

And when it comes to, and since we're talking about careers and a bonus use case, so I

give you five use cases.

A bonus use case is to review your resume.

So actually, if you have a resume and you want to actually see if how good of a match you

are to a job, you can copy paste the job description and copy paste your resume and ask

it.

Of the in my resume in a way that better matches my skill set for this job, that better

highlights my skill set for this job.

And it will actually modify your sentences.

So you actually use some of the verbs that are in the job description.

Of course, is your job to prove with it and make sure that, hey, it's not the exciting

things.

It's just formatting them in a different way.

But it's very useful.

It's very useful because if you're applying for a job, you want to make sure that you're

experienced because we all have translatable experience.

When it comes to project management,

you can talk about stakeholder management

and the results you've driven and communications kills

and all those things,

but they translate differently across industries.

So when it comes to actually using keywords,

they're gonna resonate in a different job

that you're applying for.

Why not use a machine to help you do that?

And save you some time.

you're actually applying for a large app.

I also, I don't personally do this,

but I've done it a couple times,

but I don't do it often,

is that I will, when I generate a draft of my resume,

I will ask it to go over my resume

and create a list of five roles

that are best suited for this person.

And in my case, it will speed out product marketing manager, competitive intelligence analyst,

data analyst, and all these things that match my experience.

So it's a way of actually doing the opposite.

Instead of making sure that your resume matches the job description is to go the other way around

and ask, "Okay, which job description matches the specimen?"

So you can take, and again, so you can take a look at your experience and actually decide.

Listen, like I'm too close to it, it's hard for me to tell which job should I apply for

because I have all these experience, so which job titles actually match the experiences

that I have.

You guys will have a bias because you know what you've done and you know what you've done.

And that sounds a bit creepy.

So you're on experience. You know your own story.

So it's a great way of actually separating yourself, giving some distance from your experience

your own bias to what's actually on the paper was actually on black and white.

So you could ask a friend or you could ask, "Touch a bity, good for you, quickly."

quickly. So there we go. Different format, try to make it more casual, try to make it more

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Thanks so much.

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