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Generative A.I. Made All My Decisions for a Week. Here's What Happened. - The New York Times

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Kashmir Hill does first-person experiments to better understand where a technology sits on the spectrum from wonderful to awful. Generative A.I. took over my life. For one week, it told me what to eat, what to wear and what to do with my kids. It chose my haircut and what color to paint my office. It told my husband that it was OK to go golfing, in a lovey-dovey text that he immediately knew I had not written. Generative A.I., which can spin up research reports, draft emails and converse like a human being based on patterns learned from enormous data sets, is being widely adopted by industries from medicine to business consulting as a timesaving tool. It’s popping up in widely used consumer apps, including Siri and Alexa. I conducted this admittedly ridiculous experiment to see how its spread might affect the largest work force of them all: harried parents. One expert called the stunt a “decision holiday.” Another compared it to hiring a butler to handle household logistics. But these

ChatGPT What can I help you with? How should I cut my hair? What should I do about my mother-in-law? What should I read? Can my daughter watch TV before breakfast? What toilet paper should I buy? Where should I take my family on vacation? What color looks best on me? What’s wrong with my shower? Words by Kashmir Hill Design by Hang Do Thi Duc Kashmir Hill does first-person experiments to better understand where a technology sits on the spectrum from wonderful to awful. Nov. 1, 2024 Generative A.I. took over my life. For one week, it told me what to eat, what to wear and what to do with my kids

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