The only thing, beyond laughing at it being dumb or making silly pictures that I don’t really care about, that I’ve found as an actual useful use for this wave of AIs is basically “pretend you’re an expert in whatever field you’re being asked about, and that you’re talking to a moderately less experienced professional, and give a very brief description of the topic, focusing on what the user can lookup on their own instead”.

As an example, I asked it about designing some gears for a project. It told me I used a word wrong and the more precise term would give me better search results, defined a handful of terms I’d run into, and told me to buy a machinery handbook or get a design table since the parameters are all standardized.

The current approach isn’t going to replace thinking for yourself, but pattern recognition can do a good job seeing that questions about X often end up relating to A, B, and C.

Oh, and I also got Google’s to only respond as though it’s broken and it made it really fun to try to figure out the news through it’s cryptic gibberish. A solid hour of amusement, and definitely worth several billion dollars of other people’s money.