Episode 234: understanding AI - part 3 - AI as a creative toolÂ
Episode 234: understanding AI - part 3 - AI as a creative toolÂ
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Understanding AI - Part 3 - AI as a creative tool -Â episode 234
Understanding AI - Part 3 - AI as a creative tool -Â episode 234
 “[Artificial Intelligences] AI are connection machines - which is why they can seem so creative.”  As part 3 of learning more about AI we explore what it can do as a creative tool. I begin by giving you a little update on my life - and some biggish news for me. I then spend the rest of the time talking about AI as a creative tool. I mention how good ChatGPT is at making connections and the strengths it has in this department. I also mention some of the drawbacks when using Chat in this way. I then share the process I went through using chat to help me design and plan the front yard garden beds so they go from the deer’s salad bar to a beautiful landscape that is deer resistant. It was so fun and I am excited to remake my front landscape. Â
Show Notes: Hi Friends! I hope you enjoyed listening to this episode. Below are all the references.Â
Quote From the Episode
Quote From the Episode
“Humans are going to be necessary as we go forward, but this new technology can enhance us — it can be like this extra little intern.”
Key Topics
Key Topics
Life updates: being sustained as Stake Relief Society President
Voiceover lessons and maintaining human creativity
AI as a “connection machine”
How ChatGPT helps with brainstorming and first drafts
Upsides and downsides of relying on AI for creative work
Importance of specificity, personas, and constraints
Detailed walkthrough of designing a deer-resistant landscape with ChatGPT
The balance between human expertise and AI assistance
Using AI to enhance productivity without replacing meaningful effort
How Camille Used AI in This Episode
How Camille Used AI in This Episode
Took photos and measurements of her garden beds
Gave ChatGPT a persona: landscape designer with expertise in deer-resistant plants
Uploaded images, sketches, and an article for reference
Iterated through questions, clarifications, and corrections
Received plant lists, planting timelines, and shopping suggestions
Refined the design through top-down mockups and back-and-forth prompting
Sources
Sources
Sources & Mentions
Sources & Mentions
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI — Ethan Mollick
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion — Beth Brower
Deer-resistant landscaping article (uploaded to ChatGPT during Camille’s design process)
Transcript
Transcript
I am Camille Johnson, and this is Finding the Floor.
Stories and reflections of midlife motherhood, family, and finding meaning in it all.
Join me as I share a little piece of my life and figure out what I want to be when I grow up.
Hey friends, welcome to Finding the Board.
And today I'm going to talk about using AI as a creative tool.
And I'm going to talk about how it went as I designed my front landscape with ChatGPT.
I did that today, which was kind of fun.
Okay, so how is everybody doing today?
But first, I wanted to just share that I have been listening to the most delightful book.
It's called The Unselected Journals of Emma M.
Lion, and it's by Beth Brower.
And the audiobook narrator is just so good.
And it's this English accented woman.
She's delightful to listen to.
I feel like after I'm done listening, I try to talk even more proper.
Anyway, and the stories are fun.
It takes place in like the 1880s.
There are some sad parts, but most of the time she's just like this upbeat young adult.
So if you need something to read or listen to, I would suggest the Unselected Journals of Emma M.
I don't think that was a great accent, but anyway, so there you have that.
So this past Sunday, we had our stake conference.
And then there's a group of those wards that are called a stake.
And in our stake, we have 10 congregations that are part of the stake.
So for over 15 years, he's been serving in the stake.
And I have not been serving in the stake.
And we would just be able to talk about scriptures.
And I just loved spending time in my scriptures and preparing for those lessons.
And that was only like twice a month.
At one point, I was the only teacher, but then they added a second teacher.
So then it was just like once a month.
Then I also play the organ, serve in the temple.
It's not like I'm not doing anything, but it was just been a delight, like not super stressful.
I enjoyed preparing and having my class.
Anyway, so I got called as the Stake Relief Society president this past Sunday.
Or I got sustained this past Sunday.
I got called the week before and I've sort of been like in this like shock and awe state.
also got called as an Area Seventy and he's traveling a lot, at least twice a month.
Anyway, apparently that's not the case.
And I just have been feeling a little bit overwhelmed.
as we were asked to come see the stake president.
And I was just like, no, that's, I don't want to do that.
Because I knew that my husband wasn't getting a calling.
Anyway, it was just like, what?
And then just helping the ward relief society presidents.
And yeah, luckily I have counselors and a secretary and all those good things.
And if I do something or don't do something, no one's really going to die.
a big thing that I've been grappling with.
And my brain's kind of been all over the place.
And so I'm just kind of taking it like a week at a time.
Like what do I have to do this week?
And then maybe plan out a month at a time.
And then, so anyway, that's just been a crazy thing that is now happening in my life.
So I'm sure you'll be hearing all about all the things I will be doing.
and how it's even going to work on the Sundays when my husband's traveling.
My dad doesn't have her license and getting her to church if I have to go to another building.
The other thing I just, I know this is sort of like half sharing my life and then half about AI, but
I started my voiceover lessons again.
And so started back up and I finally just had like a really good lesson.
Like my teacher was like, wow.
And I was like, okay, maybe this is something I actually can do.
And I have been practicing more, which has been good.
And hopefully AI won't just overtake this industry.
You might need humans to say things for you.
At least in podcasts, you want a human.
You don't want an AI talking and having experience.
and then put them together and somehow it works.
Or that willingness to just try crazy ideas.
But one of his, I thought was a really interesting giftedness of him was his creativity.
And part of that is I think he kind of
And so all of those little things kind of add up.
So I think it's kind of fun to use AI in this way.
And I think especially as humans, we kind of get into the flow of our same thought processes.
Or for instance, my husband helped me use it as we talked about podcast topic ideas.
And I came up with a bunch and it does it really fast.
It can also just give you good prompts or in like find ways to just enhance your creative juices.
So like, let's say you're kind of tired
I'm sure it could do it with like lesson planning or creating.
ideas for a business or ways to market.
I've used those different things like for ideas for ChatGPT.
connection to make another connection.
Like, oh, this idea prompted this idea or whatever.
And it was actually really fun to do it.
Before I get into the process of what I did,
And then if we're using it to like make pictures, we don't really know what type of stuff that
And also, one of the downsides is it's super easy.
It's like pressing that easy button when sometimes you might need to work through it.
My daughter was working on a paper and I knew she was stuck.
And I was very impressed with her.
She's like, no, I want to work through this in my brain.
about AI in her, this college level English class that she's taking.
So we've been talking about it, which has been kind of fun.
And I don't necessarily think that's bad, but just
So I'm going to tell you what happened
And there's nothing there except weeds now.
And why don't the deer eat the weeds?
Okay, so first I had to do some groundwork.
So I took some pictures of my house and the specific beds I wanted help with.
Then I also made some measurement.
like gave that to ChatGPT with an article about deer-resistant plants.
So the prompt I gave ChatGPT was, hey chat, can we start a new project?
Things like what zone are you in?
How much sun does the garden get?
And then how often the deer frequent your yard, maintenance preference, and kind of my style.
And then it said, okay, I gave him all that information.
it would gave me a list of the plans that it thought would look pretty good.
And then it asked me if I wanted a picture.
So I said, yes, I'd love a picture.
And the picture it initially drew up was very pretty, but it disregarded my walkway.
It like had my steps facing the wrong
There were plants just like covering my steps.
I mean, I like those plants, but I think we need to rethink where everything's going.
Just despite, I mean, I had a bunch of pictures.
I had probably 5 or 6 pictures of the beds in my house.
And I did have measurements, but it still didn't quite.
So the next prompt I gave it was we were just going to start with one specific part of my house.
And I gave the dimensions of the bed and the depth and what I liked.
And then it started creating a mock-up of like the landscaper's view.
So that was okay, but I don't think it had the whole dimension of the bed.
And so there was just a lot of back and forth and here's what's going to work.
Do you want this type of plant?
part of the bed, that there was a deeper corner that might be able to handle something tall.
And so then it would give me choices of, oh, do you want this type of thing or this type of thing?
Do you want me to put, then present a little mock-up?
So that's what it did, kind of this, what it calls a top-down landscape plan view.
And that was all super helpful.
And then the best part I think about this was like, I asked chat, when can I plant these?
Well, I just basically asked, well, when would a good time be to plant?
And the great thing was she's like, or he or whatever.
It was saying that I could plant it now in the fall.
Actually, it's a good time to plant your beds because then like the soil is still warm.
And the roots will have time to get settled before everything freezes.
And then it'll be all ready for spring.
And I was like, oh, that sounds amazing.
So then I asked chat, like, what would be the best place to get these?
Can I get them at Home Depot or Lowe's?
Or do I have to go to a specific garden center?
Then it told me what plants I could probably find at Home Depot and Lowe's pretty easily.
And those might be a little bit cheaper than going to a garden center.
So that is actually really helpful to me.
And it was fun to go back and forth with chat trying to figure out what works.
I could tell the landscaper, hey, I don't want to change anything structurally.
Can you help me design something that stays within these bounds?
So I don't have to make new beds or like I have a border around the beds.
I want to keep that all the same.
I just don't want it to be a salad bar for deer.
because you're just giving chat these pictures.
An extra intern to help us get to a place where we may not get to.
It was kind of nice because I was ready to do it then.
And then I can get moving because, I mean, we're almost in the middle of October.
I probably need to plant these things this weekend if I really want to do it.
Otherwise, I have to wait till spring.
And it's not something that like I have to worry about being done super correctly.
having chat design your house and building your house.
Like there's a bit of a difference in that regard.
So I'll be interested to see where that goes.
Anyway, it's just been kind of fun.
So I think that's one really fun way to use chat is to be creative with it.
a couple weeks to figure that out.
And then it just took me an hour and a half working with chat to come up with a plan.
So there's just an example that I used of how ChatGPT can work as a creative.
So if you want to try that yourself, I definitely recommend it.
which is another reminder, like give a good prompt.
What type of person do you want ChatGPT?
What are parameters you want it to follow?
And I think it can really be a helpful, a helpful like intern.
Okay, guys, that is all for this week.
I will talk to you next week and we're going to talk a little bit more about AI and should be good.
I hope you enjoyed today's episode.
Special thanks to Seth Johnson for creating and performing the theme music.
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