Employing AI: Use your Imagination

There’s no doubt that an AI program like ChatGPT can save you a ton of time. A few days ago I was working on a web page that included a list of 30 Songs. These were part of a course I was working on for new Ukulele players. I decided I wanted to modify the list to put the songs in alphabetical order, and to number them 1 to 30.

The list involved not only song names, but also each name was linked to the actual location of the song. We’re talking about html code here. And in this case the code had to include the song name, link, and number. At the suggestion of ChatGPT the numbers were made smaller and grey in colour.

To make these changes manually would take quite a while, so I thought, “Why not see if Chat can do this job.” So after copying the original code and entering it in the prompt area of ChatGPT I entered my instructions. “Adjust this code so the titles are in alphabetical order. Be sure to include the links. Number the songs from 1 to 30.”

The result took about 15 seconds and was perfect. Chat even made a couple of suggestions that I adopted.

This experience made me aware that there are many tasks like this that can be off-loaded to AI. Until this time I had primarily been using AI to create new material: images with special characters (male, female, kids, seniors), logos and identifying graphics, ads for Facebook and Instagram, the writing of descriptions for new products and longer articles. But this opened new opportunities.