TechTakes

I will not go into ethics.

AI as in the current LLMs is useful. But it has to be used for the right things. It is not a search engine. It is not perfect at extracting information from text.

I am not a fan of AI "art", but I do actually find some AI music tolerable.

AI "art" has gotten worse in my opinion. It's more "correct", but has this nasty glow to it. I liked it better with the jank and seven fingers. It did not have the same AI slop glowy filter.

Development It helps speed up development, not by giving me code I can use necessarily. But because it shows me a path forward. I don't get stuck on tasks that should be easy anymore. I don't have to think long for it to suggest me a way to map x object to y datatype.

It's also useful for writing unit tests.

Summarization I use it to summarize articles with a custom prompt. While not perfect, it helps me decide if this is clickbait/interesting or not. I use the summaries to decide if I want to read the article or not.

Do you see any obvious issues with this? Give it a plan or something and ask if it sees any issues. It will come up with tons of bullshit and a few useful issues sometimes. It is like a sparring partner.

AI Dungeon AI Dungeon is fun, it was even fun when GPT2 was a thing, but now it's a lot better.

Low effort image recognition Set up a camera, send a picture regularly and ask "Is X in photo? Yes/No"

(I know there is better ways of doing this, and even great pretrained machine learning APIs for it)

HomeAssistant I have these sensors (give list of sensors). I want an automation that does x, y, z. It writes a working one in seconds.

Math Yes, it is fairly good at math. You can't trust it, but if you know a fair bit of math and know how to verify, it can help you use the right formulas. If you are stuck it can help you move forward.