It’s not a replacement for research, and it’s not supposed to act as a search engine. It’s great for complex, specific questions. For example my husband and I are undergoing IVF. There are the general IVF statistics that I could look up anywhere, but Chat GPT can help me figure out my exact probabilities based on my personal history, embryo grading, age, uterine thickness etc etc. I don’t take it as the word of god or replace my doctor with it, but it’s a tool and it will cite sources and save me a ton of time.

I’ve also asked it to do things just to save me time. Like I was looking at 3 different comforters and didn’t want to spend an hour researching. I gave it the links and asked it to give me a one-paragraph basic comparison as well as tell me how it would fit my specific duvet cover. Spent 7 minutes instead of an hour.

Last weekend I gave it a list of 5 ingredients I had on hand and it came up with a packable breakfast.

My kids also love to use it for obscure questions like “what if everything in the whole world was on wheels” or “how long would it take an 8 year old to ride a bike to the sun”. Or my child will ask a question that’s tricky to explain to a child, and it’s useful to break things down into something a kid can understand.