Page 25 - Masala Lite Issue 161 May 2024

AMIT JAY JAGANNATHAN
Group Transformation Manager Other Community AdvAIce

MAI Perspective • Planning themed birthday
People, including myself, turn to AI parties is much easier after
applications for convenience and efficiency asking ChatGPT for themed,
in their daily lives. However, there are age-appropriate activities.
downsides, such as concerns about privacy It’ll even give relevant menu
and the potential for over-reliance on recommendations according
technology. In my day-to-day, I rely on AI to dietary, time and budgetary
in two domains: work and leisure. requirements!

How AI Use It • ChatGPT can provide recipe

Within the work domain: recommendations based on

what ingredients you would
• Data Crunching: AI helps me analyse like to highlight in a meal, while
large sets of data, e.g. loan books and considering what is in your
business performance. Spotting trends pantry. One community member
is crucial for decision-making. needed to feature spinach more
frequently in her toddler’s meals due to health reasons, and found age-
• Customer Insights: AI helps me
appropriate suggestions via the platform. Another parent was encouraged
understand customer behaviour and to feature the vegetables that were discussed in school in a meal within a
preferences, vital for crafting effective
particular time frame, so that there would be a connection between school
strategies.
and home. Another parent of a newborn did not like traditional Thai food,
• I use a variety of AI apps and platforms, including Tableau and Power BI for data analysis, so they found alternative ways to incorporate allegedly ‘milk-producing’
and Chat GPT to assist with general tasks like emails, quick excel formulas etc. ingredients rather than in just Thai-style soups and stir-fries.

Within my personal life: • Parents have shared that they have used ChatGPT to explain tangible and

intangible concepts in developmentally appropriate ways to their kids. For
• AI-powered assistants like Siri and Google Assistant help with tasks like setting example, the app provides ideas for explaining the concept of day-after-
reminders, playing music, and answering questions. tomorrow or outer space, with little tips on what to avoid as well.
• Health and Fitness: I use apps on my apple watch to track and monitor activity levels • Bedtime stories, highlighting a principle or a lesson, can be created in an
and calories, and provide personalised workout recommendations. instant. Just be sure to put in your requirements for the length of story,
age of audience, and any characters you want to feature!
• Travelling a lot for work means using navigation GPS apps to provide real-time traffic
updates and optimal route suggestions. • Some community members have been assigned tasks within the education
system to utilise AI apps to help them create novel images. For example,
• The cool thing with AI is that you’ll also get movie, TV show, and music recommendations
one community member had to blend two separate brands (such as Hunger
based on preferences from your viewing habits.
Games (2008) and Desperate Housewives (2004-2012) to create one cover
AdvAIce image that spoke to both audiences. It took eight hours of instruction for
Embrace AI as a tool to enhance efficiency and decision-making. Stay curious and the app to generate the desired image, but it got there in the end!
continuously explore new AI applications to stay ahead in both professional and personal
endeavours.

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