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#62 Navigating the AI Landscape: Practical Tips for Truckers

• Cindy Tunstall and Malinda Fox-Wellington • Episode 62

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Imagine having a co-pilot for your trucking journey, not made of flesh and bone, but of circuits and code. Join Cindy Tunstall and Melinda Fox Wellington as they recount their own paths from skepticism to reliance on artificial intelligence. They've invited AI into their lives as a trusty assistant, helping with everything from composing emails to planning meals and even crafting holiday jingles. This episode promises to enhance your understanding of AI, showcasing how it's not just a novelty but an integrated part of everyday life on and off the road.

Ever wondered how AI can supercharge your communication skills? We unlock the potential of tools like ChatGPT, illustrating their unique ability to remember conversations and provide tailored support for truck drivers. From practical tips for crafting effective emails to maximizing productivity in podcast production, the hosts share real-life success stories. They emphasize the importance of verifying AI-provided information while spotlighting its role as a creative problem-solver—be it negotiating offers or brainstorming menu ideas for events.

Cindy and Melinda don't shy away from discussing AI's limitations alongside its benefits. By adjusting settings and learning effective prompting, they tailor AI interactions to reflect personal values and preferences, transforming AI from a passive assistant into an insightful collaborator. The episode also covers the ethical and legal considerations of AI, urging caution and critical engagement with its outputs. As a delightful finale, enjoy a festive tune born from an AI collaboration, celebrating the holiday spirit and the vibrant journey of truckers everywhere.

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AI Roadie:

Hey there, fellow road warriors and adventurers. Normally you'd be hearing from Dino, your roadie and guide, on the side, but today Dino handed me the mic. Well, sort of, I'm your AI stand-in, filling in for the one and only Dino. Now, let's be clear no bot could ever truly replace Dino's charm, wit and infinite supply of coffee-fueled energy. But bear with me as we take a detour to explore how AI can step in, lend a hand and maybe even inspire a few new ideas.

AI Roadie:

Today, melinda Fox Wellington and Cindy Tunstall are diving into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence, like me, and how it's transforming life on and off the road for truckers. Imagine having a co-pilot who never needs sleep, helps you craft the perfect email, plan meals or even write your next Christmas jingle. Curious you should be. You should be. From creative hacks to everyday problem solving, we'll explore how AI can make life easier, more fun and even a little futuristic.

AI Roadie:

Cindy and Melinda are going to discuss AI apps like ChatGPT, as well as Facebook's AI Chatbot that was introduced in many of the Facebook groups. We can't talk about AI apps and not mention autonomous trucking, so stay tuned for that. Let's be real it's a challenge to tackle such complex topic in a short time, but we tried to cover the basics and hit on some tips for improving your AI game. If you have played around with it for a while, we've got a lot of ground to cover, so buckle up. This episode is rolling into uncharted territory and you won't want to miss a thing. Let's roll rolling into uncharted territory and you won't want to miss a thing, let's roll.

Cindy Tunstall :

Welcome back to Join Life OTR. My name is Cindy Tunstall and I'm your host, and we have a fantastic episode today. I've been so excited about this. We're going to be talking about artificial intelligence, and is this for truckers or not? I don't know. Let's talk about it. Today I'm on with Melinda Fox Wellington. She's my co-host with the show and we are excited to dive deep into this conversation. Welcome to the show, Melinda.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yay, I'm so excited. I love it when we get together and get to do a show, and this one is going to be so much fun.

Cindy Tunstall :

You know, I did a lot of AI music on the Thanksgiving episode, which, honestly, that was my first time and it was a lot of fun. So because of that, I've been getting lots of questions about what AI can do and what it can't do, and you and I have been using it for a little bit. So I thought, hey, why not talk about it? Let's make a show, exactly, exactly. You know I don't know about you, but you know all my friends kind of tease me that I'm always talking about AI. You know, I think everybody should be dabbling in AI and using it. It's got so many fun features and I feel like I'm just scratching the surface about what it can and can't do. So I know that you're on that journey with me and that's been a lot of fun. What kind of comments or things do you get from friends and family when you mention that you're using AI?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Most of the time I just get like really weird, looks like why. But nobody really says anything much to me about it for pushback or anything. My husband, though he gives me a hard time. He always says I talk to AI more than I talk to him. That's funny.

Cindy Tunstall :

It's probably true, Melinda.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Probably.

Cindy Tunstall :

Well, it's been. I think I've been using. I think I probably started really looking into AI probably about it's probably been almost a year now, and at that time I was just curious and I was kind of keeping an open mind. Maybe this is something for me. And then you know how the algorithms do. On social media, my, my stories keep getting flooded with reels on how to use AI, and so I started watching a few of these. And how did you first get interested in AI? How did you first stumble on it?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

About the same as you. I just kept hearing about it, hearing about it. So I jumped on there and I tried it and hindsight's always 20-20 because, if I remember correctly, you did a lot of research before you started using it. And I just jumped in and started using it and I was trying to use it like Google. I was like this is, this is lame. I don't see what the big deal about it is. So I just stopped using it for a while and then you were like no, you need to try it this way and this way and this way. And I'm like I'll try again. And then now I use it almost daily.

Cindy Tunstall :

So thank you. Yeah, I'm trying to think for myself. It's unusual for me that I don't use AI almost every day, so we're going to, before we get to that, we're going to get to that point how we're using it on the daily. But let's go back to the beginning, if we can, and how we first started using it. You said you were using it like Google. I think that's a great place for us to start our discussion. How is it like Google and how is it not like Google? What would you say to that question?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Well, when you use Google and you put in a search or ask it a question, it will show you like a hundred different links, and I can use meal ideas for an example. So with Google you can type in you know what are some good meal ideas and I'll give you like 100, if not more pages of different links for meals. And with AI you can say you know I need a recipe based on what I have available, and it will give you a recipe almost instantly with the ingredients you have available. So it's very reactive to what you ask it, whereas Google is very general. I guess it's the easiest way to explain it.

Cindy Tunstall :

I think it's important for people to think about. You know, Google is a search engine, so when you type a sentence into Google and you say looking for meal ideas, it's going to take words that are in there and just generate a list of links of things that you can look into. So you're going to have to click on this one to see if that's a good fit. Maybe there'll be a little something there. Click on this other one to see if that's a good fit. There's a little something there. You're really having to do a lot of information where AI is doing all of that research for you and compiling a really short answer, and it also it's artificial intelligence, so it has the ability to learn and adapt to what your needs are. Where Google's not doing that.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

No, you're a stranger. On the street with Google every time you interact with it.

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, and we're going to talk about different types of AI tools, but primarily we're going to be discussing chat GPT, but there are others, and one of the benefits about chat GPT is that it has a memory. So when you're teaching it what your preferences are and what your likes and dislikes are, what your values are like, when I'm using it for business, I, you know, I want it to understand my mission and how I want to present myself to the, to the world. It has a memory, so it's learning from that. So it's artificial intelligence, so it's learning, and I'm the teacher, so it's a great tool.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yes, yes, it is.

Cindy Tunstall :

So what's a way that you might um, you break? You said that you use it to say, like you have some ingredients in your, in your truck and you want to throw a meal together and it could put something together. Are there other ways that you're using chat gbt while you're trucking?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

yeah. So, um, I've used it several times to help me write a professional letter for work regarding a couple different issues and I've had it, you know, kind of do like a brain dump and it helps organize with a bunch of different projects that I have going on and helps me break it down to small little steps. So I'm not trying to think of these big projects I have to do. It'll break it down like okay, you just need to work on this small step first, and that's been extremely helpful on me actually getting projects done while I'm tracking in my personal life, while I'm driving, so that's been extremely helpful.

Cindy Tunstall :

What I like it. Like you said, you're able to take a brain dump and put it in there. I find for me, as a an-operator, I have my own authority, so I'm sometimes negotiating with shippers, I'm sometimes negotiating with brokers. I'm also getting a lot of people who are offering to work for me and bidding services for me, and I'm sometimes wanting to turn down these offers but maybe keep the door open. So sometimes I might, you know, hop on there and say, hey, I need to turn this offer down, but I want to keep the door open. Um, I want to have a professional tone, but I do know this individual for a while, so I want to keep it a little bit lighthearted and I can give like some little general things like that and it'll craft an email for me really quickly. Um, is it an email that I could not have written myself? Yes, I probably could have written that myself, but it is so fast. I mean, it's like, oh my gosh.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Just give it the few highlights or key points and then it'll generate some. And then you can say, no, you need to make it a little bit more friendly, or no, you need to make it a little bit more professional. And almost instantaneously it'll recreate it in the different tone that you want. And it just it me I get.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Sometimes I'll get stuck on, I need to get this thing done, but it just seems like a big object that needs to get done and I can just ask AI hey, I need to get this done, what's the best way to do it? And they'll give me a couple of different options. Or I'll say what's the most logical way to do it. And that's really helped me get some really great results. And writing the emails for the as a company driver. I mean you do it for negotiations and stuff, but I've done it for a couple of times for the company regarding a couple of issues. That has produced some great results that I didn't have to sit there and think, okay, how am I going to write this? I just tell it what I want it to write, in what tone, and it just does it.

Cindy Tunstall :

It's really incredible what it can do. Okay, let's go back up just a little bit. I think for somebody that's, you know, never used it, because I talked to a lot of people that I mean they don't even know where you would start to use AI. So let's back up a little bit. I think we've painted a picture about what it's done for us and we can go into a lot more detail, because it's crazy all the ways that we use it. So we'll expand on those things a little bit more. But let's go back to the very, very basics. For somebody that's never even entertained the idea of using AI or chat GPT. What is chat GPT? How would you describe that to our audience?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

It's kind of like a specific program for general AI. I would think of it like maybe a oh, I know you could do it as an app or as a website, but it's almost like a name for the artificial intelligence, that one specific type of programming for AI, whereas there's another one that's called is it Claude or Claudie? That's, it's the same thing, it's artificial intelligence, but it's that version of it.

Cindy Tunstall :

And they all have a little bit different flavor. And Melinda and I are both huge fans of chat GPT but me, for because of the memory, it remembers your conversation, so you don't have to reteach it the same things over and over. So let's just say, from here on out, we'll talk about chat GPT and how to get started, just, and you can play with other options because, like she said, there's others available and you could find the one that works best for the way that you want to use it. But Melinda and I are both big fans of chat GPT, so we'll focus on that. If somebody wanted to start playing around on that, what would you recommend as a good place for them to get started?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

personally, I think it was easier to get started just downloading it on my phone and using the app version. I think that's the easiest way to get started. Plus, most drivers will just have their phone with them instead of a laptop, I would think, on the road. So I think it would be the easiest way to get started.

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, I think so too, and so say they open up the app. Melinda and somebody's brand new. What would be a good way? Do you think that they could get familiar with the features? Do you have any suggestions for somebody that's brand new?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

I would Well, once you log in, you can log in with your Google account or just create accounts, and it's free. I mean there is a paid version, but you get so many benefits with the free version. You don't have to pay for it. And I would say honestly, just type a question in the message box and say hi, I'm new. Can you tell me what benefits you have or what's the best way to use you? Or, you know, just ask it. I think that's really the best way to start. I wish I would have started that way instead of trying to use it like Google at first.

Cindy Tunstall :

Well, I love that you said that, because I did like you said. I had done a lot of research so I didn't start out using it like Google because I had learned about a little bit before. But I see all these courses that say you know one, ninety nine, and we'll teach you how to make a great prompt for ChatGPT. And I always laugh when I see those and I honestly I try not to comment and say why not just ask ChatGPT? Because you can and you don't have to pay for a course and you could just ask it the question.

Cindy Tunstall :

Like Melinda said, I don't know how to use you, what's the best way that I could utilize your services? And it will tell you how you can do it. And you could say ask me some questions about myself so you can get to know me and how we might work together. You know, you could add, you just sit down as if you're sitting across the table from a genius assistant that has access to all of the information out there and you just ask it what you need to get started and it'll tell you.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah, it surprises me the amount of detail and information that they're able to gather. But one thing you got to be careful is that sometimes it will give you inaccurate information. So you got to be you know kind of fact check some things sometimes.

Cindy Tunstall :

I have sometimes said what is the source of that information that you just shared with me and it'll give you resources? You just shared with me and it'll give you resources. But I think and it says it usually has a reminder on there too, to double check that it does make mistakes. So that's a very helpful reminder because it's so quick and so powerful and has so much information at your fingertips. It's really easy to forget that you need to double check the facts, so it's good, helpful. It's really easy to forget that you need to double check the facts, so it's good, helpful.

Cindy Tunstall :

Ok, there's so many ways that we could be using AI, but you know we're a trucking podcast, so let's start first thinking about ways that we, as truck drivers, can use AI, because I get that question a lot from my friends that are drivers, Like they'll go. Cindy, I know you got a podcast and you're all over social media and you know you're doing all that other stuff that I'm not doing, nor will I care to ever do. So I know why you might use it, but for me, as a truck driver, how could I use it? Melinda, you mentioned earlier that you had used it to craft emails to your company that had had some really good success. You know the email that you crafted was very effective. Can you break down one of those situations and tell a little bit about what was going on and then how AI was helpful tool in getting those issues resolved?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah, absolutely. So I've been with this company for well now. It's been a little bit over a year. This happened probably about a month ago when I hit my one-year mark and this company has been fabulous, I mean as a whole. You know trucking is trucking. It's not always going to be pitchy, but it's been a really good company Most of the time. Keep me moving. The maintenance team is absolutely fabulous. I feel like a person, not just a butt in the seat. So I mean there's a lot of pros with this company and it's a medium-sized company and they do have a lot of contracts keeping us going.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

But the biggest downfall with this company, or the biggest frustration I've had with this company, is that you don't get an assignment until you complete an assignment. And it's very frustrating because sometimes I'll be sitting for an hour or two after I make a delivery while they're looking for another load and make a delivery while they're looking for another load. And they also have a quarterly bonus. If you hit so many miles, a mile goal, and if you don't have any citations and you pass all your inspections, then you get a quarterly bonus. Well, I've been here for a year year and I have not made a quarterly bonus. I've never turned away a load. I'm usually out six to eight weeks at a time and I cannot hit that mileage bonus because of the way they don't do pre-assignments and they wait. I'm sitting there for an hour or two waiting sometimes longer for a load hour to wait and sometimes longer for a load.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

And so when I hit my one-year mark I just went to AI and I listed all the pros that I liked about this company and then I just went on a tangent with all my frustrations not getting a load and how it's not maximizing my hours of service, and I just went off on a tangent and I'm like now I need you to write a professional letter for a one-year review for my company.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

And it wrote it up. We went back and forth for a little bit to get it just right because a few things were off, and then I copy and pasted it and sent it to my company and since I have sent that email I have had pre-assignments on every load, except for two. But both of those were understandable because they were delivering to grocers and we all know grocers can take anywhere from two hours to 12 hours to get you unloaded. So it's understandable not getting a pre-assignment with those deliveries, but all the other ones. I've had an assignment before. I completed my current assignment, which has been fabulous, and my mileage has increased probably 100 to 150 miles on average per day.

Cindy Tunstall :

So I think it worked. Yeah, that's significant. So, melinda, tell our audience you and I have talked about this, this whole experience, several times, but tell our audience what difference you think AI made in this situation, because you put the information in there. What do you think helped having AI as an assistant in the crafting of this email?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Well, first and foremost, it kept it in a logical order and it kept a lot of the emotion out, so it was very professional and instead of me sitting there for hours trying to figure out how to work this sentence, or how do I put this concept into words, that would resonate with the company not in a way a a driver just griping, but to actually make it sound professional, it was able to do it. I'm talking. I think the whole email took maybe 15, 20 minutes instead of taking hours.

Cindy Tunstall :

Well, and to us when we're so frustrated with the situation. You know our blood pressure is high. We're, you know, we're just aggravated. You've had six months of thinking about this or whatever, and you've been toying with this idea whether to ride or not to ride, or what's the best approach. I do it in person and you know, but having it in writing, that you know the individual that's going to read that they can see all these points that are, and obviously they did not feel your frustration.

Cindy Tunstall :

It was written in such a logical way because obviously the trucking companies want you to be rolling. I mean, you're not making money either, are they that 150 miles they're losing that productivity as well. So I mean it's in both of your best interest to fix this issue and you don't want to dip anybody in the grease. But and also to point out that, since you're not turning down loads, you know it's one thing if you're not hitting your mile markers and you're going nope, sorry, I don't go out West, nope, sorry, it's snowing in Chicago, I'm not going to make that trip. But you never do that and you don't you're also out for a very long period of time. So if anybody should be hitting their mileage bonus. For sure it should be you. So when you put it that way and just real black and white, it's very you know that's a problem and they need to fix it. So I love this story.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

The beauty of it, because I told her, you know, even though this is, my frustrations include some points of how it's hurting the company where it would resonate for the perspective of the company, and it was able to do that with just those few words, instead of me trying to figure out how to do it, sitting there trying to write it out myself. So it was really really great.

Cindy Tunstall :

Well, and I love to that you can. You know my goal from this. You know, my goal in this email is I want them to know that I appreciate the good things that are happening and I'm grateful for those things. I want to give that shout out. I want to sound professional, but I want to make a point that this is not working and the solution is going to have to come from them. And I wanted to sound professional. So I mean, you could just say those quick little things and it just hit, click and then as soon as you hit click to send that prompt, bam, it's writing it back to you.

Cindy Tunstall :

It's like wow, yes, well, I've used it in similar ways. I use it for, you know, I have the podcast and I do all of the production of the podcast, so all of the back end stuff, and I'll sometimes do it for preparing for interviews, but also really mainly like writing the descriptions and I'll say you know, this is kind of the vibe I want to have in the description. Will you help me just outline this? Or I'll upload the transcript and I'll say what were the key takeaways in this, so I don't have to go back through that. You know, hour long conversation, especially if it was an interview that you did. You know it wasn't my own interview, so I have to go back and take notes. I don't have to do that. I could just upload it into AI, transcribed it and say what were the key takeaways and I'm like, oh yeah, I almost forgot about that one. That was a good point, you know, and I want to summarize that for our audience at the end. So it's just been so helpful for me.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

I'm just, I'm a big fan and what's a couple of ways that we do have a lot of owner operators that listen. What are some ways that you use this in your business besides the negotiation?

Cindy Tunstall :

process. Well, mainly for me. It's like when I want to write an email and like, say, I want to turn down an offer, somebody's offering me to do something, but I want to maintain the relationship with that person and keep the door open for other opportunities. So I'll sometimes just give it that instruction they offered me this, this and this. The rates off because of this and the mileage doesn't work because of this or the there's too much deadhead or that's not a great market, whatever the objection is. And help me craft an email to turn this down, but be open to other opportunities and hit bam and copy paste, end and it's done. It's like it's just super quick and just the creativity of the writing is just incredible to me. And sometimes it'll write an email for me and I'll say no wait, this is. I've been working with this broker for four years, so we have good rapport. This sounds a little bit too formal, you know, and tone it down.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So do you use it for a personal, anything personal, or do you just use it for business?

Cindy Tunstall :

Oh yeah, I do use it. I use it for everything. I have a great story. I was down visiting my sister. My niece is getting married and she's having a party, a reception, and it's very formal. Everybody was in formal attire and they had certain foods that they wanted to include at the reception. But they were trying to elevate the menu just a little bit and she was missing one dish and my sister and I were. She's like she knows I'm a foodie and they're foodies, and so we're trying to brainstorm some ideas. I go, wait, let's just hop in chat GBT and tell it what we have. And I listed all of the menu items that they already have and I said we're trying to elevate this menu because it was kind of a casual food choice what? What vegetable and side dish could we add? And it said, how about balsamic glaze, brussels sprouts and tricolored roasted carrots? And we were like perfect.

Cindy Tunstall :

So it was something so weird and so random, and then we served that, of course, at the reception and it was a huge hit and it was just a great. You know, we were just going back and forth with a few things and I'm like, okay, I love that both of those items were ones that we were tossing around, so it just felt like a good confirmation that we were on the right track. And then, of course, the wedding was a lot of fun. The food was great that's always a plus.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

I used it, um, for veterans day. Uh, pilot gave a free meal. So, uh, and I usually don't eat a lot of truck stop food and that's just my preference, and but I went, I'm not gonna turn away free food, I mean i'm'm not. So I went in there and I was like, okay, well, they had these four breakfast sandwiches. Which one has the least amount of calories but might be just a little bit healthier? And I was like, well, let me just ask AI. So I jumped on there real quick and I asked AI. I was like, hey, I got these four breakfast sandwich options. Which one would be healthier Because I need lower calories and carbs and higher proteins just to meet my goals? And I gave it the four options and almost instantaneously it's like this has this, this has this, this has this. My recommendation would be to have the sausage, egg and cheese biscuit because it has less calories and it has the highest amount of protein wow, I love that.

Cindy Tunstall :

I love that so much. Of course, it's just a general, general information, but it's better than doing it blind, right?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

right, exactly, and you know a little bit. Yeah, 100 calories here, 100 calories there will help you lose the weight, and the protein is like so important. So if I can get something that has 10 15 grams more protein, then you know what I'm going for it. So I want to back up just a little bit to kind of where we were talking earlier and you asked me about how I started with AI and I kind of told you how I fumbled around with it, thinking it was like Google, until you nagged me to death to keep trying, and so I am grateful for that. I know you did some research before you started jumping in there. So what are some things that you learned from your research that made it a lot easier for you to adapt to it, quicker than I did?

Cindy Tunstall :

Well, when you say research, you know I was watching some TikToks and some reels, so I was doing social media research and, truth be told, but they kept talking about the prompt and all about the prompt, and it matters what kind of thing you say in the prompt, and I was like what the heck are they talking about the prompt? It all about the prompt and it matters what kind of thing you say in the prompt, and I was like what the heck are they talking about the prompt? And so I kept watching these. And that's referring to what you type in the bar there that you know, when you open the menu, I'm going to open it up so I could look at it, so I could describe it more accurately the little message box.

Cindy Tunstall :

Oh yeah, it says message. That's what I call it. Yeah, the message box. Oh yeah, it says message. Yeah, the message box. So that's a little box, that's where you can start your conversation with chat, gpt or wherever when you're using. We're talking about chat, but, um, so it's the. It's a prompt, a way to get it started. So you're prompting the dialogue, you're prompting the conversation, you're putting in there some kind of instruction about what you want it to do for you, where you want to go. So that's called a prompt.

Cindy Tunstall :

So I started seeing all of these reels and TikToks. These are content creators that were selling the course how to you know, get familiar with AI and how to use it. But you know, they all have these little teaser things that give away some information to show you that they're an expert, and then they say, if you want to learn more, sign up for $59.99,. You know whatever? So I wasn't doing any of that For me. I just kept thinking why not just ask Chad GBT? You know, I learned enough to know that I could prompt it. What else you know? What else do I need to know? Tell me how to use you and it could teach me itself. I didn't need to pay somebody else. So that's what I did. But that prompt is just the beginning question that you're going to ask to start the conversation and the dialogue, like for you with your company email. Your prompt would have been help me craft an email that and then you're going to write your objectives, what you want it to do. These are my feelings, these are my emotions, but these are also my frustrating pain points. These are things that have gone well, so that's called a prompt.

Cindy Tunstall :

So I had first stumbled across this video and it really was a game changer for me because I, at the beginning, I was primarily using it for the podcast and even my social media presence. So I would. I was really doing everything around enjoying life, otr, you know a lot of stuff I was using for the business, but that wasn't as much a need because I, you know, I'm still running a trucking company, I'm still driving, putting on the miles, and then I'm doing this little side hustle with the podcast. So you know, I'm trying to eliminate as much of the extra work that I can in all of those things, but primarily with the podcast, because a lot of writing, a lot of creativity things and I'm just trying to streamline my thing. So I needed chat GPT to get to know me and my values. Like, how is my podcast enjoying life OTR going to be different from you know? Some other show, you know, because it ours has a very unique niche, you know.

Cindy Tunstall :

So I kept trying to give me stuff. I'm like, no, that doesn't work for me, no, I don't care about that. Or no, I'm like I'm an owner operator, I'm a carrier, I care a lot about negotiations and the business and I care a lot about you know freight rates and you know for me personally, but that's really not the focus of the podcast. So it sometimes was interjecting things. That wouldn't work.

Cindy Tunstall :

But early on I had seen this video and it said this lady said that she was at a networking seminar and she shared this prompt and immediately everybody at the table, you know, whipped out their phone and their tablets and their notebooks and started writing down this prompt. Because it was a way for chat GPT to get to know you and your values. And the question that she shared was ask me 20 questions that will help you get to know my personality, my visions and my values so that you can speak in my voice going forward. And it just immediately rattled off all of these questions. So I took time, I took each one of them seriously and I wrote down what I thought about each question and then, from the very beginning, chat GPT knew me personally. It knew me, my values for the company and for the organization, the podcast, my trucking company, you know it knew everything that was a value to me.

Cindy Tunstall :

Like, for me it's honoring truckers and sharing their stories is a really core value with Enjoying Life, otr, like it's been that from the very beginning. You know I would meet drivers in truck stops and I would go oh my gosh, I love your story. I have to tell the world this story. Yeah, you're amazing, you know. So that's just a hardcore thing in me.

Cindy Tunstall :

So if at some times I was writing something and it might make some kind of snarky remark that was, you know, I didn't find amusing as a truck driver I'd be like, okay, that goes against my core value. But I didn't have to make any of those corrections because I had already told it what my core values were, that honoring drivers and sharing their stories is one of my foundational pillars. So it just sped that get to know. You process up you know even longer. It just sped that, get to know, you process up, you know even longer. And now that chat GBT and I have been buddies for a year. I mean, it knows me very, very well. So the prompt makes it, the prompt makes the whole it's. You kind of tell it what you need it to do in the beginning, but getting that prompt right, that was a little bit of a learning curve, would you say. That's true for you as well, melinda.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Oh yes, and I still have issues sometimes because I tend to use a lot of slang which I didn't realize I did and AI doesn't understand slang. It's very literal and so I still sometimes will have aggravations with it. And it's so funny because I'll type in that's not what I meant and I'll change it autocorrect. I'll change it to Gerald, so I actually call my AI Gerald. Because of that, that is funny. Because of that, that is funny.

Cindy Tunstall :

So well, like sometimes when I'm writing in the. I knew at the beginning, when I, when I was first writing about a trucking podcast and it knows that I'm a woman and in the beginning times I was having to go no, that sounds too girly, I don't talk like that. I mean just generally speaking, not even just talking to truckers. I'm like I don't have, the language was too flowery and I'm like I don't talk like that, I'm more direct, you know. So I was having to teach it how to speak in a way that's similar to the way that I speak. So that was a little bit of a learning curve for both of us, but now it's just great.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yes, yes it is, and you know I use it for my meal prepping recipes and I'll tell it. You know I need to create a recipe that each one cup serving is less than 600 calories, with 50 to 60 grams of protein and has 15 to 20 grams of fiber per serving, and I want it to be beef and let's make it an Asian dish. And it'll give me like four different options and I'm like that one sounds good. Go ahead and give me the recipe for number two and they'll create the whole recipe. And then once I get like five or six different meals because I usually cook, you know, two, three meals a day while I'm home and bulk cook them and freeze them for the truck, and then I'll tell it once we get the recipes that I want to cook, I'll tell it okay, I need a shopping list, and it'll give me a shopping list for all the recipes we read on and it just makes it so convenient. Yeah, that's awesome.

Cindy Tunstall :

You know, speaking about the prompts, sometimes I'll put something in there, melinda, and it'll write something and it's just, the tone is just not right. Or sometimes at the end the last sentence won't be right, like I love. It's like three paragraphs and I'm writing this email, and. Or I'm writing this letter out and the last sentence is not right, and I'm writing this email and um, or I'm writing this letter out and the last sentence is not right and I'll go okay, I love that, but the last sentence changed to be blah, blah, blah, blah, and it'll rewrite the whole email and I'm like so. Sometimes we've learned to like, say like so, now I'll go, I love every single word of that.

Cindy Tunstall :

Don't change anything except the very last sentence. Only, you know so when I'm making corrections, sometimes if I'm not very specific, to keep everything exactly as it is and only change that one line, it'll recraft the whole thing, which is fine. You can go back. You know it's all right there. You know it's all right there. But you know that's been a learning curve as well, learning to make a good prompt and teach it how to correct itself easily. And it's still so quick, you know, because you just type in no, that doesn't work. Try again. And you know it'll. It'll just go back and forth, back and forth.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So what is your biggest frustration with AI? So what?

Cindy Tunstall :

is your biggest frustration with AI? I think for me, probably in the beginning, and I think recently you've come up with a solution for me for this. Like you know, we talk about healthier truckers. You know that's important to us. We don't. You know you taught me this. It's like this was your core value coming and doing the partnership.

Cindy Tunstall :

You know you didn't want to talk about being a healthy trucker. You know, because that's like a perfective standard. And you know cause that's like a perfective standard and you know that's your. You've achieved healthy, but we're all in this healthier journey, so that was always your core value. So I kind of I came to adopt that as my core value as well. Yeah, I liked that, cause it's not about perfection, it's not about something we're going to achieve, we're just becoming healthier and it's about the journey, Right so? So I noticed I was having to say healthy. No, no, you said healthy again and I was having to keep correcting it. You and I have both talked about this. I'm like, how many times have we had to make it correct? Healthier so? But recently you discovered a way to to eliminate some of that correction with the settings. Tell that story how you discovered a way to fix the settings where you have to do less correcting.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Well, actually, AI told me to do it because I kept having to correct and correct, and correct. And I'm like, urgh, Of course it typed Gerald. So I was like, Gerald, how do I get you, how do I get you to stop doing this? Is there a way that I can have, you know, a key foundation of a way to communicate back and forth without having to cause? It does have, I mean, as great as it is, it does have a short-term memory. I mean it'll store some stuff, but a lot of stuff you have to repeat. And it told me it says, well, just go into the customized settings. And I'm like, wait what? And I was like, how do I do that, yeah, I was like

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

how do I do that? So then it just gave me a step-by-step list to do it and you just go to the menu section and hit customize and underneath there there's a section for memory. So if it's stored memory that you don't want it to store, you can change that up. Or you can if you want to clear out the memory, you can completely clear out the memory. But right underneath it there's a section called Custom Instructions and what it does is it asks you two questions, and I think the text box is 1,500 characters for each question.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

And the first question is what would you like ChatGPT to know about you to provide better responses? So this is where you put in your values. You know a lot of those information. And then the second one was how would you like chat GPT to respond? And this is where you can put in how you want it to respond. So I won't give the whole thing that I did.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So my first one is what would you like chat GPT to know about you to provide a better response? And I put in there that you know this is a platform for semi-truck drivers to build on relatable humor, practical inspiration and shared story journeys, and I just gave a bunch of stuff that I wanted it to know about me, my values, what I believe in, what I don't believe in. I gave a lot of the don'ts, not just do's, and then how would you like ChatGPT to respond? I put in I want ChatGPT to respond with a witty, relatable tone that reflects the humor and challenges. That reflects the humor and challenges and I want it to be a constructive criticism and to bounce ideas off of me. I don't need a cheerleader, and so I've been having a lot better responses than what I was getting before I used these custom instructions.

Cindy Tunstall :

I think that's so huge because, you know, you asked about one of my frustrations. Sometimes I would go, I would be working on a project and I would be. I would consider I'm trying to make a decision, I'm considering some pros and cons and I'm thinking about going this way. I'm not concerned about this, what do you think? And then it came away with just such a I think you're on the right track, You're doing a great job and I could see how you're trying to and it just gave up this flowery pat on the back, basically. But I didn't need that. You know, I'm like, I'm already feeling good about myself, Chat, you know, you don't need to tell me that, but it's like I need to go I know I want.

Cindy Tunstall :

I want a logical response. What's a on the right direction? Tell me why this, why you said this was a better choice, and what's your reasoning for that. So I think that the settings will probably be a good next step for me as well. I don't need a cheerleader either. I need a. I need a kick in the butt sometimes.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So many different variations of one thing that can be done. I want to know what my choices are, and even some that I might not have even considered, that never even would have come into my parameter vision of possibilities, until it's mentioned to me and I'm like oh, I didn't even think about that one. And I've been getting a lot better results putting that into the customized prompt that, instead of constantly agreeing with me, which was driving me crazy, it's actually starting to give me okay, that's a good idea, but what about this? So I've definitely had much better responses since I've done that.

Cindy Tunstall :

It feels like more of a partnership. That you know like a devil's advocate at times, and that's really helpful when you're trying to. You know we all have blind. That you know like a devil's advocate at times, and it's that's really helpful when you're trying to. You know we all have blind spots, you know so we don't. We don't know what they are. So, hey, melinda, did you see that AI is now on Facebook and a lot of the groups have launched a trucking bot?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yes, I did, and I've been seeing a lot of controversy people talking about how bad AI is or how bad they believe AI is and it's really interesting to see everybody's perspective on what they believe AI is.

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, I found that really interesting. I, you know to embrace AI and not use it just from, you know, bringing it up in conversation. But this level of pushback that I've seen on Facebook has kind of surprised me a little bit. I'm not sure why, but people are very resistant to embracing it. I've had even in some of the groups. I've heard people leaving groups that were using AI, which I find interesting because it's been having those little meta summaries for a while. Have you seen that in the comments?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

And I'm really surprised that they had the meta summaries, because, you know, a lot of times I'll open up the comments and instead of just scrolling the comments to see what's being said, I just read the summary and then I get out and keep on going to something else.

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, I found that interesting. So it's like it's a short leap to me from that meta summary that they've been using for a while and now have the AI chat. That's available in some groups and I think what I've seen happen. It's not available in all Facebook groups but I'm sure that it will eventually available in all Facebook groups, but I'm sure that it will eventually be in all Facebook groups. But and then I don't know what capacity it'll be used, you know for, you know just generally on Facebook, but for sure they're doing a soft launch to kind of work out some of the kinks, and there have been some kinks that needed to be worked out. So I've been involved in some of those conversations but it's really impressive how quickly it caught up to speed and it's been kind of fun playing with it.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So what's some of the things that you use the Facebook AI bot for?

Cindy Tunstall :

Well, I noticed and I think, as it becomes more popular, you're going to see it in the comments. Like you'll see, there'll be a little line that'll come across the comments. Like you'll see, there'll be a little line that'll come across the comments and it'll say you know, 45 people have engaged this topic in the in the trucking bot. So you'll be able to see that people are going to the bot to look for an answer to that person's question. So that will be happening as more people are using it. But if nobody's engaged the bot with that that particular question or post, then you won't see that. So it's not popping up a lot, but it will be popping up eventually. So I kind of like that to kind of see how many people are going to the AI for the answer to those questions. And I think they're doing it now just out of curiosity, not so much that they think that the bot has the answer, but over time they'll realize, you know, that it's a tool that they could use, you know, but I, one of my, one of my friends, actually hopped on the trucking bot and said what's involved in a proper pre-trip and he said that was the most extensive answer I've seen and by far the most thorough pre-trip that I've ever done or seen.

Cindy Tunstall :

I don't even do it myself that thorough, and he's a professional driver. He's been driving for years, so the bot's answer was very impressive to him. It gave a lot of detail and so I think there's a lot of things that it could be used for asking questions about hours of service and you know things like that. It could be used for asking questions about hours of service and you know things like that. We'll do route planning on some groups, but I think the ones that I'm an admin and we limited it to not do that because I think it's better to, you know, go with the reliable source of truck or GPS or even you know, weather apps, rather than using it for that, because I don't fully trust it all the way yet. So I put that limit on the groups that I'm in.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Oh yeah, we both had our fair share with inaccurate information from AI. For sure, always need to verify it.

Cindy Tunstall :

I found it very interesting thinking about the term artificial intelligence and it's like the intelligence is artificial because it's it learns from humans. So it's not a flawless intelligence, it's it's learning from people's input that they have given. You know, the, the, the program, whatever it is. So it's not completely reliable because humans aren't completely reliable in the facts that they share. So it's kind of an interesting shift in the way that I've been thinking about that term artificial intelligence.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yes, yes, and you know, with the Facebook chatbot, one of the benefits of it that I did like is that if you type in a question and that question's already been talked about in the group, it would also give you the group chat where it was discussed at, so you can actually go in there and add more to it or read what everybody said to that conversation.

Cindy Tunstall :

The other thing that I found that I really liked, in that I was wondering how it would answer when it's a topic that drivers have differing opinions on, you know, like snow socks, you know, versus chains. You know some people are very passionate about that topic and on both sides, you know the ones that will say that you know the socks are fine and others will, you know, very passionately disagree on that topic. So the way that it answered that question, which I thought was really good, it'll say some drivers will say this and some drivers will say that, so it represented both sides of the argument in its response. So I really like that.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yes, and another thing I really like about it is that you can get inquisitive and really question it to death, for lack of a better term, and there's no emotional responses to it, it's just it's gathering the information and presenting it to you. It kind of takes out that argument aspect of it because there's no emotional layers to it. Yes, that's true.

Cindy Tunstall :

So you can hear both sides of the answer without all of that name calling.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yes, yes exactly.

Cindy Tunstall :

Well, I guess this is a good time to think about, you know, to switch our conversation into the limitations of AI. Whether it's the Facebook, very literal, it doesn't understand nuances.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

So you have to be very specific on how you word and ask things.

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, and that comes. That becomes important when you're writing a letter to someone that you know, because you will. You know it's it will be. It'll be talking in such a formal way. You know people will automatically be able to tell that Cindy didn't write this letter. Cindy doesn't talk like this, you know way. You know people will automatically be able to tell that Cindy didn't write this letter. Cindy doesn't talk like this, you know, or you know it doesn't have the tone that you have in that relationship. Like I'm going to write a letter in an email or something to my sister, it's going to have a very different vibe than I'm, you know. If I'm, you know, writing a letter to a shipper or a broker or somebody in a professional aspect, right and it does correct, which I like. That you know. I could say that's too formal, you know, and it'll make corrections, but it's still not going to be quite for somebody that knows me really, really well, they would easily be able to tell that I didn't write that email.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah. And then some of the other limitations. I mean, if it gives you information, you can ask it where did it get those resources? And it'll tell you, but even then you're just like, okay, is this accurate enough? I think that's a really big limitation on it. And then the short-term memory. So if you have a really extensive, long conversation and you're going in and out of the app, I tend to notice that after a while it'll forget a lot of the previous contents and sometimes it'll circle back around and you're like we already covered that and they'll be like oh yeah, that's right, I remember that now, and so that's a little aggravating.

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, that can be frustrating, but as long as once you know that it's happening and you can correct it really quickly. Um, I think in the beginning, when I first started seeing that I would kind of like this is stupid, this is not helpful, you know. But when I started just correcting it, I know we've covered that already and and sometimes I think the conversations are just too complex for it to be able to sort it out. But so it's not perfect by any means.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

What are some of the other limitations that you've noticed?

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, I was just thinking that, one of the limitations that I've noticed with the podcast. I'd like it to be able to transcribe the podcast and I have a way that I do that, but it would be nice if it could do that for me and then it helped me with writing and ways to promote the specific episodes. It's not able to take a very large file Like the show is too long. It wouldn't be able to upload that much information. So it has definitely has some size limitations that I don't like and I think in probably with the paid versions I may be able to expand that a little, but even then I don't think it's able to handle a large document Like I was in a group recently and there was an author in there that says that he's using it for helping to edit some of his book that he's writing, and it can't even upload a whole chapter. So it definitely has some size limitations.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yes, it does for sure on that one. And then it seems to lack a lot of flexibility to me, Like it's very task specific. So there's a lot of times I'm like you know, ask a question and it starts creating something and I'm like, no, I don't want any creation right now, I just want a discussion to figure out what's the most logical way to go about doing this task. But it frequently just seems to lack that flexibility of the getting trying to get the deeper understanding or the most logical way to do it. It'll take like the superficial and just wants to create automatically. Does that make sense?

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, it does and I think it. I wonder too often if it's because we wear so many, we do so many different things in it, like if it's if it's writing for the podcast or if it's writing an email, like I wonder if it's having a hard time switching hats. You know, like it's always in a, it's always talking to me like a podcaster, for example, and so to switch gears and say you know, I have to really give it specific prompt when I'm trying to change gears and let it, you know, create something different in a different voice for me what do you think some of the legal limitations of it would be?

Cindy Tunstall :

Well, I've often thought about like copyright laws, like even like when I created music for the Thanksgiving episode and I would hear like a little part of the music that's reminded me of a song and I just had this kind of creepy feeling like it's stealing from other people's creative efforts because it's not able to truly create. It really is, you know, taking from all of these different elements. And I was thinking about copyright. You know limitations with that and because it often, unless, unless you ask it, it doesn't tell you where it sourced the information that it's giving you. So, um, I don't know. What are your thoughts about that?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

mine is also towards the, the copyright. You know, when you ask it to create a thought process that you have and to structure it and to write it out, is that like the legal ramifications of having a ghostwriter? Or, if you use it, is that ramifications of copywriting? Um, I I kind of confused on the blurred lines on that, because it is my own thought, it is my own creativity. It just structured it and put it in a word for me.

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, it's interesting. I think we'll probably see some legal cases that are coming about at some point, as these issues will be ironed out in the courtrooms for sure. It's got to come up, I think, about somebody who's a creative and their, their work, being hacked in this way and then somebody saying that was mine and then coming back and go no, I created that with AI, you know like, actually, you didn't.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah, exactly. And then you know, there's a lot of talk about AI vehicles, talk about AI vehicles. So if that does come to pass which I do foresee it, but it's kind of like okay, well, if it has a wreck, who's at fault? Is it the programmer's fault? Is it the technician's fault? I mean, you can't point a finger at anybody because it's AI.

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, I've had that conversation with a lot of truck drivers because obviously we've talked about autonomous trucking and and I, you know that's what they always say. You know well, first, first big lawsuit that will come about, you know, and that'll put an end to it. And I don't believe that's true. I think what will? I think all they will have to do is prove that they did their due diligence before launching the product and you know they would have had test cycles. They would have had.

Cindy Tunstall :

You know, they have certain things that they have to accomplish. That's probably set up by the government. I'm just guessing about what, what they can and can't do before they launch that product. You know the autonomous trucks. I think there's only certain states right now that will even allow an autonomous truck, so in cars as well, I'm sure. But so I think that, as long as they've followed, you know, the parameters that were set for them to be able to launch, and during the testing process, you know I'm not sure how you know how much liability they will have, honestly, which is kind of scary.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

but yeah, and I think my, my, truly, my biggest concern with AI is that, um, you know, it's created for the good of men, to allow us to accomplish more quickly and easily, but, just like a lot of things that were created for the good of men gets in the wrong hands and is misused and ends up being not for the good of men, such as the atomic bomb, Because atom splitting was actually intended for the good of men, so it makes me curious to see how they're going to maintain the control of it so it doesn't become like that. You know what I'm trying to say.

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah yeah, it's definitely a concern because it has so much capabilities. I kind of go back and forth. I feel like I get a lot of pushback about AI from people and you know they, they have this mindset that if you, if we don't use it, you know, if we don't, you know, download chat, gpt and don't use this product, that that kind of a boycott is going to stop it from progressing or it will eliminate the risk that you just discussed. And none of that's true. You know it's, it's here, people already are using it, it's already out there. So the we can't avoid that that risk by not using it.

Cindy Tunstall :

That doesn't, it doesn't solve the problem, unfortunately. I wish it was that simple. But you know it's here, it's everywhere already, in such a short time really. I mean, I feel like it was just a year ago. We were just starting to, you know, hear people talk about it pretty regularly and now it seems like it's everywhere. Well, we're just hitting the highlights of its limits. Well, we're just hitting the highlights of its limits and I think really, the biggest thing I would say to our viewers that haven't tried it is just to get on there and to play around and you, pretty quickly, are going to see what it can and cannot do and just to be mindful that you need to fact check it.

Cindy Tunstall :

You know that it can't. It is, it is capable of making mistakes and sharing wrong information with a lot of confidence. So it always appears like it's right, you know, as it you would expect. But, um, just to be careful of you know that it can make mistakes. And then also, when it, when you, when you're getting a poor result, like I put it in a prompt and I ask it to do this and this, and then it, you know, takes me off in some other thing, you know, just change the way that you ask the question and after using it, like Melinda and I, you just start to learn how to write a better prompt and to be more specific about you know what you're wanting it to accomplish and, um, the more information that you put in the prompt, the better the result will be. So I would just encourage people to keep those limitations in mind and you know, but get on there and play around a little and see what it could do. It's kind of impressive, really. Anything you'd add to that.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

I agree with that, but it kind of reminds me of remember when the internet first came popular and everybody was starting to get it in the houses and how people you know. A large population was still very hesitant, but once they got used to using it and understanding it, then it wasn't as unknown. And I think AI is along the same ways.

Cindy Tunstall :

Yeah, it's good. It has its limits, but I think the benefits are pretty significant, so I've been having fun with it.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yes, we have, for sure, and all the conversations that we have. You know, oh, did you know AI could do this? Or oh, did you know AI could do this? Or oh, did you know? You know, have you tried it this way? Or and we have a lot of good conversations, just trying to figure the thing out.

Cindy Tunstall :

I know we've been playing with it for quite a long time now and I feel like I'm just starting to scratch the surface about what it's really capable of doing, and it also has the ability to learn and grow, so the product actually is improving with time and multiple users, and so it's kind of interesting to see where it could go. Okay, well, speaking of fun, what do you say? Since you know it's Christmas time and we're about to go into that season, what do you think about making some music for our audience? You feel like doing that. You got some more time on your hands.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Oh yes, that would be so much fun. I love the ones that it came up with for Thanksgiving, so let's see what it does for Christmas.

Cindy Tunstall :

Okay, I'm, I'm actually on um one specific music creator, but there are so many so I'm not even going to give this one a shout out. But, um, there's so many options they have. Um, you can subscribe. You know, it's like $10 a month or there. I think there are some that can do some free things. But you can't.

Cindy Tunstall :

If you do a free version, I found what where they start charging you is if you download the song. So, like if you are wanting to create your own music just for you to listen to, you could do that for free. But as soon as you downloaded the song, that's a. You know you have to pay for that. So let's do a Christmas song, how about it? Okay, so what the? And I played with a bunch of these before I landed on this one. But you can build your own lyrics and write your own song and upload that, like I did with Joe's on you know Joe's poem. I uploaded those lyrics and then it put music to that. So that's one way you could create a song. Or you can put in some keywords and ask it to write a song for you. So I haven't written a Christmas song as of yet in my life, and you could do that with AI easily, but how about we just enter some keywords and let it write for us? Do you want to do that?

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Yeah, let's see what it comes up with. Of course, Enjoying Life OTR.

Cindy Tunstall :

Okay, how about, since it's Christmas, let's do Santa.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

Santa, santa, I'm going to do Jingle Bells.

Cindy Tunstall :

How about? Well, let's do some trucking things. How about hauling Christmas trees? That would be a good one. Work that in.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

And let's make it classic rock.

Cindy Tunstall :

Okay, classic rock. Wow, that was impressive. It's crazy what it can do, how quickly it can just come up with something. It's really mind-blowing. So that was a lot of fun.

Malinda Fox-Wellington:

It was and it never felt so amazing. I mean, it came out with so many great ones on Thanksgiving and it hit another one right out the ballpark Audience.

Cindy Tunstall :

You didn't get to hear the song yet, but we're going to close out the show with the song that we just created for you on AI, so stay tuned. You're going to like this one so fun. Well, thanks for having this conversation, melinda. It's been fun discovering AI with you and working out the kinks, and it's a fun topic to share with our audience. So y'all are tuning in. Just please share this episode, because I think a lot of people are interested in this topic of AI, and if you have questions, leave those in the comments, and you know we find us on our Facebook group and Melinda and I will be happy to talk about it in as much detail as you want. And I'm sure you guys have learned some things along the way about AI those that have been using it for a while so hop in the comments and share some tips and tricks that you've discovered about artificial intelligence and how you're using it on the daily. So that'd be a great discussion. I'm looking forward to seeing your comments.

AI Roadie:

From creative Christmas jingles to clever ways to streamline communication. We covered a lot of ground today. Melinda and Cindy shared how AI, like yours truly, can boost creativity, tackle life's little tasks and even help truckers like you navigate the twists and turns of life on the road. Of course, ai has its limits. After all, I'll never have Dino's sense of humor or the ability to swap a busted windshield wiper, but hey, it's been fun filling in and showing what's possible when tech lends a hand. Before I go, here's your call to action Join our Enjoying Life OTR Facebook group to connect with other OTR drivers. Share your AI success stories, creative prompts or even your favorite holiday memory. We want to hear how tech is transforming your journey and helping you enjoy life on the road. Until next time, keep the wheels turning, stay curious and always look for new ways to enjoy life. Otr Safe travels, friends. Oh, and stick around. We're closing out this episode with the AI-created music that Cindy and Melinda whipped up during the show.

Enjoying Life OTR music:

Enjoy. It's all a blow. Set us free and our hearts were ready to go. Journey's just begun, got no end in sight. Hauling Christmas trees under the stars, so bright, jingle bells jingle all the way, feeling that holiday spirit in every day. Sing along with cheer on this joyful ride. Enjoying life all to your. We're set up by our side. Snowflakes falling, whispers of the night Cabin, warm and cozy as a firelight, fueling up on Coco.

Enjoying Life OTR music:

Santa eats a pie, hauling Christmas trees as the time flies by, jingle bells jingle all the way, feeling that holiday spirit in every day. Sing along, sing along. We'll cheer on this joyful ride. Enjoy the life, oh, tr, we're set up by our side. Laughter fills the air as the miles skip by Candy cane dreams under a winter sky, truckers honking rhythm center tips is high. Holiday vibes keep us on a merry path Dashing past the city. Snow covered lanes. Holiday tunes on the radio, never fade. Echoes of the season fill the open road Hauling Christmas trees to every humble abode. Oh, jingle bells jingle all the way, feeling that holiday spirit in every day. Sing along with cheer on this joyful ride. Enjoying life, oh dear, we're set up by our side. Enjoying life, oh dear, we're set up by our side. True in life, oh ti-oh, we're set up on a side. Laughter fills the air as the miles skip by. Candy cane dreams under a winter sky, truckers honking rhythm, santa tips his hat, holiday vibes keep us on the merry path, ha.

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