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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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.
Do you enjoy providing data companies with your personal porn preferences?
How can you be so casual about giving your perversion index to Palantir?
Public humiliation kink. No downsides.
I don’t think you understand how complete a psych profile Palantir will have on you, otherwise you wouldn’t be so flippant.
Either that or you are trolling. Since I can’t believe you are that stupid I will assume you are trolling
Like every other fucker on lemmy
You replied to the wrong person. That wasn’t the original comment poster. It was just someone making a joke.
I’m not even the dude you replied to 🤷
I tried Whisper+ voice-to-text this week.
Uses a downloaded 250MB model from Hugging-Face, and processes voice completely offline.
The accuracy is 100% for known words, so far.
For transcribing texts, messages and diary entries.
* I’d be interested to know if it has a large power drain per use.
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
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.
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.
Yeah, that’s a fair point. Bad wording on my part. Carry on downvoting as usual.
I use it to create funny shitpost copypasta-like outputs that I send to my friends in our personal group chats. Otherwise it’s fucking useless.
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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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.
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.
“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
Those that I find the most useful are those that I (and likely many others) tend to take for granted.
For example, fuzzy logic may very well be used in electronics that involve temperature control - fridge, aircon, rice cooker, water heater - under the hood.
Another one is CSP (constraint-satisfaction problems) solvers which tend to be used in scheduling softwares. A possible use case is public transportation.
There are probably lots more AIs working behind the scenes that benefit everyone, but don’t get the coverage because they are just boring tech now. People may not even consider them AI!
I appreciate these AI for making my life so convenient.
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.
The only AI tool I’ve found actually useful and reliable is AI denoise for photo editing.
GPT to write emails
I’m going to need you to elaborate on this one…
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
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.
AI is great at helping me multitask. For example, with AI, I can generate misinformation and destroy the environment at the same time!
Not all AI are bad, there are types of AI that actually useful (in a good terms) for people.
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.
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)/¯ ?
It sucks so much that if the US kept up with green energy infrastructure (or nuclear power) all these datacenters (not just AI) could be running on abudant and cheap power without killing our environment.
xAI running off of fucking diesel generators should be a crime but environmental and human health issues get less attention than “look everyone it called itself Hitler, so crazy!!!”
I know people dislike and complain about it, but I absolutely love Suno. LOVE IT. I’ve created what I think are some really cool songs. Will they ever be hits on the radio? Nope. Will anyone else listen to them besides me? Probably not. But boy, after tweaking, I’d rather listen to some of the songs I’ve created than the garbage on the radio!
Holy crow, that freaked me out. That’s really impressive. Pretty uncanny valley, but I can definitely see the appeal.
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.
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)
