What AI tools have you found useful?
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I know the reputation that AI has on Lemmy, however I've found that some users (like myself) have found that LLMs can be useful tools.
What are fellow AI users using these tools for? Furthermore, what models are you using that find the most useful?
I chat with llm's to help me remember shit I already know, or to change the tone of stuff I write but thats about it.
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You say in your post 'BTW, if you wonder about the downvotes, it’s because [email protected] isn’t a safe space for AI related discussions. '
A safe space is where we can debate, disagree or downvote each other. If you receive death threats, harrassment, stalking and so on, this is definitely not a safe space.
People disliking Generative stuff have their reasons for it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, that's a fair point. Bad wording on my part. Carry on downvoting as usual.
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Have you heard the stuff from the new v4 model? The vocals are so much clearer and the instrumentation gets pretty varied (ymmv depending on how specific you get with the styles though)
I have -- I had high hopes for it, but the vocals are still pretty bad. They all have this metallic, tinny quality, liked they're subtly vocoded or being sung into those little toy spring microphones for kids. It's a constant reminder that it's artificial and just completely takes me out if it.
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I know the reputation that AI has on Lemmy, however I've found that some users (like myself) have found that LLMs can be useful tools.
What are fellow AI users using these tools for? Furthermore, what models are you using that find the most useful?
My CRM system at work has what called "Genius AI" integrated into it. When customer service reps receive calls that require site visits the AI auto fills the work ticket using the phone conversation adds in contact name and numbers and even puts a brief description of what service they require. The AI also transcribes our calls into text to be able to refer back to or get caught up on a job when someone is out sick. It wasnt Iife changing it wasnt forced but as a simple aid it makes life a bit easier.
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Shit. Where I come from, people don't need AI for that. They just hang a Trump flag in the back of their truck and roll coal through town.
Why not both ¯\(ツ)/¯ ?
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Thank you for the response, and I can totally relate.
I like that GPT can help me brainstorm and then I take the reigns from there. Not everything in my career is crystal clear and more often than not, my boss is asking me for solutions because he doesn't already have answers.
I find that things like GPT really help as jumping off points that help to get the conversation started in real life situations.
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I use NovelAI to play dynamic RPG stories for my personal use, and have several world settings all prepped with characters, items, some basic rolling rules (which don't always work). Whatever mood I am in there is a setting to explore or a plot line to develop. I don't plan on publishing them or profiting off of them in any way other than my own amusement. NovelAI also has an image generator explicitly not trained on licensed material that I use to make images to focus on while playing the RPGs
I use copilot to walk me through quests in MMOs where the guides are vague or expecting a certain degree of game familiarity, as well as to estimate cooking time for meats, and reorganizing my resume to match AI screeners
I used to use DungeonAI for the same RPG purposes but they violated customer privacy so they can eat all the dicks
I like this. It's a fun use situation that can enhance creativity as well as perform as an entertainment platform.
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I know the reputation that AI has on Lemmy, however I've found that some users (like myself) have found that LLMs can be useful tools.
What are fellow AI users using these tools for? Furthermore, what models are you using that find the most useful?
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Do you enjoy providing data companies with your personal porn preferences?
To browse Pornhub with cookies on or with cookies off? That is the question
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If we are talking chatbots I see them as another level of abstraction to search and is useful but I have concerns on the energy use. Other uses I have encountered is just sorta a convenience thing. Where it can do a bunch of things that individual software can do but at a one stop shop. I have not directly been involved in other aspects but im aware how they are baked into things like facial recognition and tracking and such.
Dont use AI chat as a replacement for search except on popular subjects with broad consensus. Which unfortunately is when you generally don't need it.
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Dont use AI chat as a replacement for search except on popular subjects with broad consensus. Which unfortunately is when you generally don't need it.
its fine as long as it gives references to check out. I mean its not fine because of the energy usage but if that is solved I would use it for search. again as long as it tells me sources.
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I've found LLMs in general helpful for coding specifically when I have to use tools or languages that I only have a passing familiarity with.
In my life I've used Gemini for some fitness coaching alongside other sources of information and it has been quite helpful and motivating.
What type of device do you use Gemini on for fitness?
...and I'm sorry, so sorry, but "can Gemini fitness dick"?
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I know the reputation that AI has on Lemmy, however I've found that some users (like myself) have found that LLMs can be useful tools.
What are fellow AI users using these tools for? Furthermore, what models are you using that find the most useful?
Honestly I'm part of the problem a little bit.
In my hobby project I used GitHub copilot, to help me ramp up on unfamiliar tech. I was integrating three unfamiliar platforms in an unfamiliar program language, and it helped expose the APIs and language features I didn't know about. It was almost like a tutorial; it'd make some code that was kinda broken, but fixing it would introduce me to new language features and API resources that would help me. Which was nice because I struggle to just read API specs.
I've also used it when on my d&d campaign to create images of new settings. It just a 3 player weekly game so it's hard to justify paying an artist for a rush job. Not great, I know. I hope the furry community has more backbone than I do, because they're singlehandedly keeping the illustration industry afloat at this point.
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I use ChatGPT every single day, and I find it both extremely useful and entertaining.
I mainly use it to help edit longer messages, bounce ideas around, and share random thoughts I know my friends wouldn’t be interested in. Honestly, it also has pretty much replaced Google for me.
I basically think of it as a friend who’s really knowledgeable across a wide range of topics, excellent at writing, and far more civil than most people I run into online - but who’s also a bit delusional at times and occasionally talks out of their ass, which is why I can’t ever fully trust it. That said, it’s still a great first stop when I’m trying to solve a problem.
I think that pretty much describes my own perceived relationship. I know it's a tool, but it's a conversational tool that can produce results faster than I can, even though I need to proof read it's work before I accept it.
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its fine as long as it gives references to check out. I mean its not fine because of the energy usage but if that is solved I would use it for search. again as long as it tells me sources.
If what you want is sources, a regular Google search will do a better job if it's a popular subject.
Chatgpt and it's kin will be inexplicably creative in its choice of sources, and in its summary thereof. And in the sources themselves sometimes.
If it's something you care to get right, just skip AI.
If it's meaningless, then it's harmless in its potential inaccuracy -
If what you want is sources, a regular Google search will do a better job if it's a popular subject.
Chatgpt and it's kin will be inexplicably creative in its choice of sources, and in its summary thereof. And in the sources themselves sometimes.
If it's something you care to get right, just skip AI.
If it's meaningless, then it's harmless in its potential inaccuracySee just like a normal search its up to you to evaluate it. ai search wise is as I said another abstraction. Not using it is like turning off the little snipets search engines do nowadays and going back to just clicking an each and every link. The problem is people just taking the response as gospel with no critical thought.
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I know the reputation that AI has on Lemmy, however I've found that some users (like myself) have found that LLMs can be useful tools.
What are fellow AI users using these tools for? Furthermore, what models are you using that find the most useful?
The only thing that comes to mind is I wanted to make a shell script that moved every file in a directory to another directory, but one at a time, slowly, and I didn't want to learn sh from scratch, so I asked an LLM for a script that would do it.
The script didn't work, but I was able to figure out how to fix it better than write it from scratch.
I felt bad for the environment I was destroying, and I would never pay for this shit.
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I used GPT to help me plan a 2 week long road trip with my family. It was pretty fucking awesome at finding cool places to stop and activities for my kids to do.
It definitely made some stupid ass suggestions that would have routed us far off our course, or suggested stopping at places 15 minutes into our trip, but sifting through the slop was still a lot quicker than doing all of the research myself.
I also use GPT to make birthday cards. Have it generate an image of some kind of inside joke etc. I used to do these by hand, and this makes it way quicker.
I also use it at work for sending out communications and stuff. It can take the information I have and format it and professionalize it really quick.
I also use it for Powershell scripting here and there, but it does some really wacky stuff sometimes that I have to go in and fix. Or it halucinates entire modules that don't exist and when I point it out it's like "good catch! That doesn't exist!" and it always gives me a little chuckle. My rule with AI and Powershell is that I don't ask it to do things that I don't already know how to do. I like to learn things and be good at my job, but I don't mind using GPT to help with some of the busy work.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I got an email once from HR that said I got a bike commuter benefit I didn't know about, and couldn't find more information about in the attachment, so I emailed HR and it turns out they used AI to write the email, and wouldn't be giving out any corrections or bike commuter benefits. Bullshit.
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See just like a normal search its up to you to evaluate it. ai search wise is as I said another abstraction. Not using it is like turning off the little snipets search engines do nowadays and going back to just clicking an each and every link. The problem is people just taking the response as gospel with no critical thought.
Like a normal search, except it only provides like 4 links, it's choice of links is even worse than Google SEO, and it provides inaccurate summaries of them rather than relevant text snippets.
So yes, people just taking the response as gospel is bad. But also it's just worse than search if you're using it as a search.
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Like a normal search, except it only provides like 4 links, it's choice of links is even worse than Google SEO, and it provides inaccurate summaries of them rather than relevant text snippets.
So yes, people just taking the response as gospel is bad. But also it's just worse than search if you're using it as a search.
You go to the sites just like you would with the snippets and if they don't pan out you can rephrase or just go back to a normal search. This is what I meant by a level of abstraction. You can skip the scroll and check what it gives you and if its good you save time (much like the snippets saved time) and if not you are no worse and you correct or go slightly older school. As much as I agree the chatbots can be wrong I don't find them to usually be off base. They generally find pretty decent resources. Now when they are wrong they can be really wrong but its no different from someone searching and just using the first return without going through the results and evaluating each link. It reminds me when a neighbor in the dorms was explaining html to me as he was making a site and I was like. Why? Just use gopher.
