Easy way to start playing with ChatGPT, and why it's important.

A lot of people are scared, "Artificial Intelligence is going to rule the world." But fear always comes when there is a lack of understanding. AI isn't going away, but that doesn't mean it's going to ruin anything...in fact, there is a good chance that AI can help you if you're open to it.

The following is a little story about how I used AI (#chatgpt specifically) to help me get rid of an unwanted garden curb and make some money in the process. We even did a quick podcast talking about it. (You can watch the episode on youtube at https://youtu.be/HdbFdPHLLkw.)

This is something anyone can do with the free version of ChatGPT and a Facebook (Meta) account.

I had some really ugly concrete garden curbs, well, at least they're ugly to me. They've been sitting in front of my dead garden since I moved in and we've been debating on wether or not we should use them to create a new garden space. We tried to clean them up, but overall we had a different vision in mind for what we wanted to do. So we called a few people to come give us estimates on putting something nice together for us, and everyone was going to charge us extra to remove and haul the concrete borders away. I even talked to a few kids in the neighborhood and tried to pay them to get rid of them, but simply put, they were buried in the ground, heavy as hell, and really not that pretty.

My wife suggested that I put them on Facebook Marketplace. "Who knows, maybe someone will want them." As usual, she was right...beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

This is where ChatGPT comes in. As I took the pictures and started my post, I really wasn't feeling very confident in describing this huge burden that was buried in my front yard. "I don't want them because they're ugly, and hard to remove" wasn't going to move the product. So instead I opened up ChatGPT and wrote, "Write a colorful description of a concrete garden curb." This was the only prompt I gave it. What came back was hilarious without trying to be hilarious. It was too good not to post. I honestly didn't think the description was going to move the merchandise, but I did think it was going to make my friends laugh.

Almost immediately I had several people ask when they could come get them. Within 2 days of posting, someone drove almost 2 hours, dug up the curbs, and paid me $100 dollars all with a huge smile on his face.

So to recap, I went from what would have been at least a $200 loss to a satisfied customer and $100 in my pocket. Chat GPT won the day.