它是不断给予的礼物。
现在，人工智能已经成为一种家庭用品，这个节日季的购物者将首先受益于机器学习，以帮助简化送礼。
去年的这个时候，著名的语言学习模型ChatGPT还处于起步阶段，但已经发展成为一种关键工具，可以在一年中最紧张的时候为用户减轻急需的压力。
它可以激发送礼的灵感，组织假期财务，甚至可以减轻假期信件的负担。今年12月，就连圣诞老人自己也求助于人工智能来写信。
最好的部分是，像ChatGPT这样的程序是为任何人设计的，不管用户是否精通技术。当然，知道某些短语或提示总是有帮助的，这些短语或提示可以最大限度地利用这些数字精灵——《华盛顿邮报》可以告诉你怎么做。
以下是人工智能可能在这个假期减轻巨大负担的方式。
每个家庭都有这样一个人，你不可能为他买礼物。不管根本原因是什么，像BingAI这样的互动程序——它的母公司微软拥有OpenAI, ChatGPT的制造商——可以挽救局面。
必应的互动程序以ChatGPT为基础，但比这个标志性的应用程序更进一步。
这个版本是直接连接到互联网，而标准的ChatGPT不是。用户在必应上可以与人工智能进行实时对话，它会根据用户的书面提示，建议并链接出特定的产品。
如果你是在为这位记者买东西，一个很好的提示可能是:“我需要为一位喜欢纽约岛民和《黑道家族》(Sopranos)的男士买圣诞礼物，有哪些不错的选择?”
另外要记住的是，即使是相同的措辞也可能产生略有不同的反应。
一开始的答案也可能出现在更广泛的方面，但随着你与项目的沟通，继续深入研究细节是值得的。把它想象成与销售人员交谈——不要害怕提及细节，比如你为之购物的人是否已经有某种产品或喜欢某种颜色。
对答案提供反馈，如果需要的话，开始新的对话也是获得更高质量结果的替代方法。
与此同时，人工智能圣诞老人也在帮助父母了解孩子的圣诞愿望。HandwryttenBySanta.com网站可以代表你的孩子们替圣诞老人说几句好话，起草定制的祝词，然后按照父母的指示制作并邮寄给孩子们。
OpenAI的骄傲和喜悦可能是组织假期预算的关键。
用户可以向它提出提示，比如“我需要帮助整理圣诞购物的资产负债表。”请提供一个人给10个人买10件礼物的模板。”
这样做之后，ChatGPT将呈现一个事实上的下拉电子表格，其中包含用户可以修改和调整的填充空间。所述工作表的代码或纯文本也可以复制到其他程序中。为了计算这些数字，用户可以使用ChatGPT来检查他们的数学——或者直接在第一时间做。
就像汤姆·汉克斯(Tom Hanks)在《极地快车》(the Polar Express)中饰演的列车长一样，我们都有自己的假期安排。像ChatGPT这样的程序也可以帮助你管理时间，尤其是在圣诞节。
A prompt such as "I need advice on creating a schedule for Christmas Day festivities beginning with opening gifts, preparing dinner, and fielding phone calls with loved ones" will fetch a laundry list of recommendations on the order of operations to begin, enjoy, and conclude the holiday.
ChatGPT recommends starting with a treat like pastries and hot cocoa before gathering around the tree to open gifts with loved ones.
The AI stresses capturing memories, writing thank you notes, and not losing track of time by mid-morning as that’s when cooking should likely commence. Later in the day comes phone calls with family and friends, food, and the expression of gratitude for a wonderful holiday.
Those with set plans can work the tech for much clearer and precise specifics that can include the days ahead of Christmas as well. It’s also perfectly fine to use GPT’s version 3.5 in place of the more current 4.
The latter has a restriction of 40 messages per three hours and these festive tasks are comparatively easy for the app to compute.
While auto-writing technology might be frowned upon in academia, it’s certainly not getting a lump of coal from busy folks who need to write their Christmas letters this year.
A program such as Google’s NotebookLM — advertised as an AI tool "that helps you do your best thinking" — is the ideal helping hand to fire out personalized messages to loved ones at only a fraction of the effort.
NotebookLM is designed to redraft and summarize uploaded documents while also producing key points from the text it scans. Newer features also allow it to "offer tools to polish or refine your prose, or suggest related ideas from your sources based on what you’ve just written."
In other words, a person can quickly write up a few bullet points they wish to include in their holiday messages and allow NotebookLM to do the heavy lifting — plus format it as well.
Users can also harness AI to make a unique image for their Christmas cards this year.
Generative AI programs like Bing AI, ChatGPT, and Google’s Bard are all designed for people to type in descriptive prompts that become rendered into images. A simple command like "A Christmas card with Santa and a tree" can yield results that have Hallmark trembling.
Still, feel free to have fun with this by having the computer make multiple versions with lots of tweaks.
If you’re looking to have the best family Christmas card in the bunch this year, Adobe Firefly can also modify existing images such as removing and replacing backgrounds with AI via worded prompt.
However, do be aware this often takes a great deal of back-and-forth plus specific wording with the machine to get something worthy of hanging in Santa’s workshop.
