AI Section in forums

I love AI, it's helped me go from being a p/t cleaner on about £70 p/w to being self employed earning about 2.5-3k per month which I know is still not a lot compared to some of you but I hadn't worked for 15 years up until June 2024 due to ill health.

I'm self employed now and have been told I'll be officially discharged as a patient next month. I'd love an AI forum tbh. AI not only helps me in my work, it is my work, my product is an AI chatbot in mixed reality on Quest 3 headsets basically. It helped me with the documentation in becoming self employed. It helped identify a great styling product for my hair lol. It helped sort out a good skin routine for looking after myself now I'm getting older. Lots of stuff.

Love it or hate it, it's going nowhere and its involvement in our lives will only increase. I'm choosing to embrace it, I've always been an optimistic / glass half full type of person.

Fun fact - I learnt the other day that even the creators of LLM's aren't actually sure exactly how they work, they are black boxes. LLM's show what are called 'emergent properties' which means they can do things that weren't a result of any particular component or weren't even intended by its creators. Emergent properties may result from the interaction of many many (millions and upwards) simpler components interacting in a very complex system. An analogy some people use is how the brain at its most basic level is neurons, neurons are very well understood, all its inputs and outputs are known. But there's billions of them in the brain with trillions of connections, from these simple building blocks human consciousness somehow arises which is an emergent property.
 
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Tykey said:
love AI, it's helped me go from being a p/t cleaner on about £70 p/w to being self employed earning about 2.5-3k per month which I know is still not a lot compared to some of you but I hadn't worked for 15 years up until June 2024 due to ill health
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I'm curious what it is ai helped you do as a self employed person?
 
unwashed potato! said:
I'm curious what it is ai helped you do as a self employed person?
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Front end, back end, database, Unity know how (had a significant amount of human help with this too), scripts (I've just started using OpenAI's Codex integrated with my GitHub repo, before that was just using the web interface).

I was a developer years ago so understand what's happening. I'm not a vibe coder but I do let the LLM code quite a lot for me so not a pure software developer, I'm somewhere inbetween (although I think most devs nowadays are AI assisted).

AI told me how to fill in the forms to the DWP and HRMC, all been checked as ok by humans at those departments. I don't have great organizational skills, getting AI to break things down into discrete easy to folow steps has been a great help.
 
I don’t mind an AI section, but let’s be honest — it’ll end up like the Linux one: three people debating semantics while everyone else pops in to say they don’t use it.
Thing is, AI’s already creeping into everything from GPU threads to homebrew projects. I’ve even been using it to help design a World of Warcraft–style tabletop game — and it’s actually been brilliant for testing balance ideas and mechanics.

So yeah, maybe an AI subforum makes sense… but pretending it’s some separate topic feels a bit like trying to quarantine the internet. Might as well let it spread — it’s doing that anyway.
 
I always was so annoyed at my parents for not investing every penny they had into amazon. This new company that everyone was talking about. All of sudden they were no longer going into towns but buying everything form amazon. How on earth did they not invest their entire savings into a company like that.

Now I look at ai. Isn't it the same thing? To stop using Google but use ai instead is a massive change of habits.
 
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I always was so annoyed at my parents for not investing every penny they had into amazon. This new company that everyone was talking about. All of sudden they were no longer going into towns but buying everything form amazon. How on earth did they not invest their entire savings into a company like that.

Now I look at ai. Isn't it the same thing? To stop using Google but use ai instead is a massive change of habits.
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Isn’t hindsight wonderful? I should’ve mined some bitcoin when it was the new thing to do!
 
Penfold101 said:
Isn’t hindsight wonderful? I should’ve mined some bitcoin when it was the new thing to do!
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But that's totally different imo. There was a clear huge change in the way people shopped. Not just swapping from tesco to sainsbury, but stopping going into town entirely. Buying absolutely everything for Christmas from amazon. And this wasn't just a personal experience. Every one was doing it. One day you would just see nothing but amazon boxes filling the recycle bins.

I get someone being concerned with say investing in Facebook because perhaps like all the other social networks, it's use fades, which I'd say it has already. It's not important in the world like it once seemed to be at it's "peak" importance.

But essentially shifting your entire shopping from shopping, especially around Christmas. This is huge and was clearly a stock that people should have invested in 15 years ago.

Seeing people all over say what that user said "I don't use Google search any more I use ai", this is a huge shift. One that is unlikely to go back any time soon, especially now that Google search is just so freaking ugly and filled with advertising junk.

One day my 9 month old will turn to me and say "you had the chance to invest in ai before it had taken over the world and you didn't!"

The trouble is which companies are worth investing in, as unlike with Amazon, there's a variety of ai offerings, and most are owned by the already big tech companies
 
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Got this today, I'm not missing out and crying like a baby.


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unwashed potato! said:
But that's totally different imo. There was a clear huge change in the way people shopped. Not just swapping from tesco to sainsbury, but stopping going into town entirely. Buying absolutely everything for Christmas from amazon. And this wasn't just a personal experience. Every one was doing it. One day you would just see nothing but amazon boxes filling the recycle bins.

I get someone being concerned with say investing in Facebook because perhaps like all the other social networks, it's use fades, which I'd say it has already. It's not important in the world like it once seemed to be at it's "peak" importance.

But essentially shifting your entire shopping from shopping, especially around Christmas. This is huge and was clearly a stock that people should have invested in 15 years ago.

Seeing people all over say what that user said "I don't use Google search any more I use ai", this is a huge shift. One that is unlikely to go back any time soon, especially now that Google search is just so freaking ugly and filled with advertising junk.

One day my 9 month old will turn to me and say "you had the chance to invest in ai before it had taken over the world and you didn't!"

The trouble is which companies are worth investing in, as unlike with Amazon, there's a variety of ai offerings, and most are owned by the already big tech companies
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When I first used AI as search it was very bad. So much incorrect and invented information. So I turned it off.

About a year later and I've been dragged into AI at work, testing, experimenting and implementing. I'm just constantly finding new things it can do. It's not perfect and takes a bit of effort to get what you want out of it.

So I'm all for a new forum.
 
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