AI Section in forums

[Penfold101]

Yeah, he always does.

I checked with some weed - it’s refusing to take responsibility for this…

 

[Tykey]

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.

 

[unwashed potato!]

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 curious what it is ai helped you do as a self employed person?

 

[Tykey]

I'm curious what it is ai helped you do as a self employed person?

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.

 

[Droolinggimp]

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.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

From about 3 months ago i don't Google Search any more but CoPilot instead.
I think it's wonderful.

 

[unwashed potato!]

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.

 

[RxR]

I use duckduckgo, but haven't used their AI feature at all.

 

[Penfold101]

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.

Isn’t hindsight wonderful? I should’ve mined some bitcoin when it was the new thing to do!

 

[unwashed potato!]

Isn’t hindsight wonderful? I should’ve mined some bitcoin when it was the new thing to do!

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

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Got this today, I'm not missing out and crying like a baby.

 

[OspreyO]

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

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.

 

[RxR]

Wasn't sure where to put this:

AI is changing after-school parenting for many Chinese families

AI is becoming a regular presence at homework time in many Chinese households. Experts say where families draw the line matters more than the technology itself.

www.abc.net.au

Parents in China, millions of them, are using chatbot tutors on their kids, and the chatbot also monitors their behaviour. Will ChatGPT and others copycat this moneymaking business, I wonder.

 

[Grim5]

Wasn't sure where to put this:

AI is changing after-school parenting for many Chinese families

AI is becoming a regular presence at homework time in many Chinese households. Experts say where families draw the line matters more than the technology itself.

www.abc.net.au

Parents in China, millions of them, are using chatbot tutors on their kids, and the chatbot also monitors their behaviour. Will ChatGPT and others copycat this moneymaking business, I wonder.

That's brilliant, using CCP AI to keep the kids entertained with propaganda

 

[Grim5]

This is why I quit LinkedIn - every post on my home page these days is about one of these topics

AI: 70% of all posts
Female empowerment: 10% of all posts
Elon Musk: 10% of all posts
Donald Trump: 10% of all posts

 

[Rroff]

I tried to use AI last night to locate one of my Grandad's old photos - first using descriptive text from the few hints in the filename and in the photo itself and it suggested Combe Martin in Devon - which is actually wrong but not a bad guess given what turned out to be the actual location. I then tried to get it to locate it using the image itself and it very confidently told me it was a place near Chillingham in Northumberland and refused to believe it was wrong - wish I'd kept the results as it actually started to get angry with me for suggesting it was wrong - the image match was close but clearly not the same. I eventually located it manually after an hour or so of detective work to near Castlemartin in Pembrokeshire.

 

[bazaarboy]

I find it astonishing to hear how many people being dismissive of AI, and relegating it to just a fad only useful for making some terrible YouTube shorts.
I'm a GP and with very little effort it has helped me: get a domain, set up PfSense plus tools like HAProxy and Cloudflare to self host a site that uses LangChain plus a very modest use of the OpenAI API service to deliver up-to-date medical journal papers and local / national guidelines to a groups of several hundred clinicians in my area. My colleagues can simply upload the latest knowledge, the system ingests and then stores the info in a vectorised database - which uses a mobile friendly UI to answer clinical questions submitted by others. We can now access thousands of papers and guidelines in seconds. All because of AI, and without AI this would have not been possible. I guess what you get out of it is a reflection of what you put into it.

 

[Armageus]

All because of AI, and without AI this would have not been possible.

All of which is achievable without "AI"

 

[Diddums]

I guess what you get out of it is a reflection of what you put into it.

Nail meet head.

I think the honeymoon period of AI is slowly coming to an end, diminishing returns are kicking in and people are coming to the realisation that it's not going to take over the world like we've been told for the last few years. Ultimately it's a fantastic tool to help streamline things, but it's fallibility means it'll never truly take over.

 

[unwashed potato!]

All of which is achievable without "AI"

To those with the skills, but those without it's a god send.