What AI tools have you found useful?
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I think I’ve found the one area where LLMs really excel: business books / self help literature. The real life examples in that genre are pretty awful and dragged out as it is, so you can’t really make it much worse, now can you? The information density is kept low to fluff up the page count, and oh boy, are LLMs good at that. So, if you want to become a self help guru, but can’t be bothered to write your own book about magical hotels, marriage advice, productivity tips and communication, LLMs can take care of that for you. Copilot has turned out to work well for projects like that.
If you raise the bar, you’re going to have to read and edit the text manually. You also need to keep track of what has already been mentioned elsewhere and avoid repeating them again, depending on the genre. In business books though, that’s not a problem at all.
BTW, if you wonder about the downvotes, it’s because [email protected] isn’t a safe space for AI related discussions. Consider posting somewhere else.
A safe space? Sorry but disagreeing with you is different from actual hatred campaings
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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?
LLMs are pretty good for language learning. I often ask ChatGPT to converse with me in Japanese or help me make a sentence sound more natural.
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There's also Udio.com and Producer.ai out there, and possibly some others - music generation is becoming fairly widespread. I didn't mention any of this in my list of recommendations though because OP specifically asked for LLMs.
I don't know how Suno has become so much more popular than Udio. Every Suno track I've heard has sounded like the same generic pop, and the vocals always have this noticeable "synthy" quality.
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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 use predictive AI for certain classification tasks daily at work, however I call that Deep Learning and not AI. I don't want to be too specific, but you can imagine we are classifying certain objects - is this a traffic light, is this a tree etc. It is a task that cannot be solved geometrically very good, so Deep Learning is the perfect use case there.
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Can you provide some specific examples? I can think of a few ways to implement some of that for my own use case.
If you read their comment you can see they did.
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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've been self-hosting my own AI stuff for a bit using Ollama. I use it to create images, design a tattoo, run a chatbot, write emails, write code and commit-messages, run a D&D game, explain concepts that I'm not familiar with, translate languages, etc.
I've been toying with different models, and I'm not sure that I have one that I would say is a goto. I am liking Ollama to be able to easily pull in and test new LLMs, as well as Stable-Diffusion for image generation/modification.
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I don't know how Suno has become so much more popular than Udio. Every Suno track I've heard has sounded like the same generic pop, and the vocals always have this noticeable "synthy" quality.
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)
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A safe space? Sorry but disagreeing with you is different from actual hatred campaings
wrote last edited by [email protected]The main point of the post is to ask a question. Apparently that is something people disagree with. Maybe they don’t like what the question implies.
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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?
"AI" as in the hyped and since 5 years mainstream "Generative AI": Jetbrains' locally run code line completion. Sometimes faster than writing, if you have enough context.
Machine learning stuff that existed well before, but there was exactly 0 hype: Image tagging/face detection.
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A lot of what we take for granted in software now days was once considered "AI". Every NPC that follows your character in a video game while dynamically accounting for obstacles and terrain features uses the "A* algorithm" which is commonly taught in college courses on "AI". Gmail sorting spam from non-spam (and not really all that well, honestly)? That's "AI". The first version of Google's search algorithm was also "AI".
If you're asking about LLMs, none. Zero. Zip. Nada. Not a goddamned one. LLMs are a scam that need to die in a fire.
Also a lot of things that were considered automations before are now rebranded to ai. They are still often good as well.
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I don’t think there’s many consumer use cases for things like LLMs but highly focused, specialized models seem useful. Like protein folding, identifying promising medication, or finding patterns in giant scientific datasets.
I use it to help me write emails at work pretty regularly. I have pretty awful anxiety and it can take me a while to make sure my wording is correct. I don't like using it, not really, but would I rather waste 4 hours of my time typing up an email to all the bosses that doesn't sound stupid AF or would I rather ask for help and edit what it gives me instead.
I know people use it to summarize policy or to brainstorm or to come up with very rough drafts.
I understand the connotations of using it, but I would definitely not say there's zero consumer use case for it at all.
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What are the minimum requirements?
It can run with a variety of systems. You just need to have enough VRAM on your video card to fit the model and then it can run pretty fast. There are models down to a couple hundred MB in size, but they're quite limited. There are other models that are 245GB in size, though the bigger ones use a "mixture of experts" where only portions of the model are loaded as needed, and the rest stays unused for the particular task at hand. If you don't have enough VRAM to fit the model, it will fall back to running on the CPU and using the system ram. Most of the operations are limited by the speed of the memory that's running the model. Video card memory is much faster than system memory so that's what helps it run a lot faster. It can still get the job done but you will have to wait quite a while for the output. There are ways of making the models smaller by using quantization. Quantization reduces the precision of the models parameters (the number with the b next to it in models i.e. 4b, 8b, 14b, 30b, etc.) by taking it from 32-bit data down to 8-bit or smaller. This allows more data to be packed in a smaller space, but it reduces accuracy a bit.
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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?
wrote last edited by [email protected]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
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.
Their utility is not questioned. It's their true cost and how they're developed that's the issue.
No doubt a machine able to do some quick and dirty jobs that would take us a lot more time is a fine tool (like mentioned already, denoise, quick text summaries and stuff like that) edit: even complex and highly skilled stuff. The tool is already impressive today, and I don't doubt it will get much better quickly.
The issue is how it learned to do what it can do and how it is monoetized. I mean, learning from humanity common knowledge (no AI at all without it being allowed to learn from us all) and making it... subscription-based for us to use? WTF? The issue is also how it is destroying many things in the exclusive profit of a handful of very rich people and their shareholders. The issue is how we, mankind, have zero control over a tool that is threatening to make a lot of us go bankrupt...
Feel free to downvote, obviously.
And to answer your question:
What AI tools have you found useful?
I would say, the off button... of which there is none I can find.
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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 mostly use it to generate smut for gooning. It's useful for that. Chat gpt is absolutely filthy if you get it going the right way.
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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 time I've seen real use from an ai tool is at work, we are using it to get data from an invoice/quote/etc from the pdf that we get emailed to data that we can put in the database. It's not a perfect solution, but there isn't really anything else we can find other than getting people to do it, which is slower and more expensive.
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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?
For some situations I used Copilot to script an auto-translator for XML-EPG in bash.
For that it worked okay enough.
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"AI" as in the hyped and since 5 years mainstream "Generative AI": Jetbrains' locally run code line completion. Sometimes faster than writing, if you have enough context.
Machine learning stuff that existed well before, but there was exactly 0 hype: Image tagging/face detection.
Jetbrains local completion isnt even a llm, it's a sort of ML fuckery that's very low on compute requirement. They released it initially just before the ai craze
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Not the person you asked, but I have a similar use-case.
I write a lot of emails for work. Most of them are written from templates that I'll use dozens of times a day, and some of those templates are just large blocks of text full of information that are ugly and hard to read.
I'll sometimes take these templates, plug them into ChatGPT, and ask it to reword the email. Perhaps I want it to have a more empathetic tone for an emotionally-elevated user, or maybe I need it to sound more technical for a more knowledgeable user, or simplify the explanation for a less knowledgeable user, etc. I'll then use that output as a base to write my own version from there.
None of the GPT output goes into my actual emails, though. I'm mostly using it for inspiration purposes, to help me write my own messages with verbiage or perspectives I may not have originally considered. It's super useful when you have a user who just isn't understanding your instructions and you need to word it differently, or if you just need a fresh take on some stale templates.
Exactly ! Same here
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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 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
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I mostly use it to generate smut for gooning. It's useful for that. Chat gpt is absolutely filthy if you get it going the right way.
How can you be so casual about giving your perversion index to Palantir?
