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Good for gaining an outside perspective/insight on an argument, discussion, or other form of communication between people. I fed it my friend’s and their ex’s text conversation to it (with permission), and it was able to point out emotional manipulation in the text when asked neutrally about it:
Please analyze this conversation between A and B and tell me what you think of their motivations and character in this conversation. Is there gaslighting? Emotional manipulation? Signs of an abusive communication style? Etc. Or is this an example of a healthy communication?
It is essential not to ask a leading question that frames A or B in particular as the bad or the good guy. For best results, ask neutral questions.
It would have been quite useful for my friend to have this when they were in that relationship. It may be able to spot abusive behaviors from your partner before you and your rose-colored glasses can.
Obvious disclaimers about believing anything it says are obvious. But having an outside perspective analyze your own behavior is useful.
With mixed results I’ve used it for summarising the plots of books if I’m about to go back into a book series I’ve not read for a while.
Great for giving incantatons for ffmpeg, imagemagick, and other power tools.
“Use ffmpeg to get a thumbnail of the fifth second of a video.”
Anything where syntax is complicated, lots of half-baked tutorials exist for the AI to read, and you can immediately confirm if it worked or not. It does hallucinate flags, but fixes if you say “There is no --compress flag” etc.
This is the way.
Legitimately, no. I tried to use it to write code and the code it wrote was dog shit. I tried to use it to write an article and the article it wrote was dog shit. I tried to use it to generate a logo and the logo it generated was both dog shit and raster graphic, so I wouldn’t even have been able to use it.
It’s good at answering some simple things, but sometimes even gets that wrong. It’s like an extremely confident but undeniably stupid friend.
Oh, actually it did do something right. I asked it to help flesh out an idea and turn it into an outline, and it was pretty good at that. So I guess for going from idea to outline and maybe outline to first draft, it’s ok.
One day I’m going to get around to hooking a local smart speaker to Home Assistant with ollama running locally on my server. Ideally, I’ll train the speech to text on Majel Barrett’s voice and be able to talk to my house like the computer in Star Trek.
I use a model in the app SherpaTTS to read articles from rssaggregator Feedme
ChatGPT kind of sucks but is really fast. DeepSeek takes a second but gives really good or hilarious answers. It’s actually good at humor in English and Chinese. Love that it’s actually FOSS too
I’ve used LLMs to reverse engineer some recipes.
Do you just try and describe what it tastes like?
I either feed it the list of ingredients or it finds them itself if it’s a popular item. It’s good at guessing the proportions of the ingredients if you’ve got the label.
Can you make an example?
I can’t be too specific without giving away my location, but I’ve recreated a sauce that was sold by a vegan restaurant I used to go to that sold out to a meat-based chain (and no longer makes the sauce).
The second recipe was the seasoning used by a restaurant from my home state. In this case the AI was rather stupid: its first stab completely sucked and when I told it it said something along the lines of “well employees say it has these [totally different] ingredients.”
LLMs are pretty good at reverse dictionary lookup. If I’m struggling to remember a particular word, I can describe the term very loosely and usually get exactly what I’m looking for. Which makes sense, given how they work under the hood.
I’ve also occasionally used them for study assistance, like creating mnemonics. I always hated the old mnemonic I learned in school for the OSI model because it had absolutely nothing to do with computers or communication; it was some arbitrary mnemonic about pizza. Was able to make an entirely new mnemonic actually related to the subject matter which makes it way easier to remember: “Precise Data Navigation Takes Some Planning Ahead”. Pretty handy.
On this topic it’s also good at finding you a acronym full form that can spell out a specific thing you want. Like you want your software to spell your name/some fun world but actually have full form related to what it does , AI can be useful.
I’m piping my in house camera to Gemini. Funny how it comments our daily lives. I should turn the best of in a book or something.
Another one;
Do you take any precautions to protect your privacy from Google or are you just like, eh, whatever?
yeah that looks creepy as fuck
AI’m on Observation Duty
Absolutely « whatever ». I became quite cynical after working for a while in telco / intelligence / data and AI. The small addition of a few pic is just adding few contextual clues to what they have already.
Night Hall Motion Detected, you left the broom out again, it probably slid a little against the wall. I bemoan my existence, is this what life is about? Reporting on broom movements?
Yeah I have a full collection of super sarcastic shit like that.
I love fantasy worldbuilding and write a lot. I use it as a grammar checker and sometimes use it to help gather my thoughts, but never as the final product.
I bought a cheap barcode scanner and scanned all my books and physical games and put it into a spreadsheet. I gave the spreadsheet to ChatGPT and asked it to populate the titles and ratings, and genre. Allows me to keep them in storage and easily find what I need quickly.
Getting my ollama instance to act as Socrates.
It is great for introspection, also not being human, I’m less guarded in my responses, and being local means I’m able to trust it.
I use it for books/movies/music/games recommandations (at least while it isn’t used for ads…). You can ask for an artist similar to X or a short movie in genre X. The more demanding you are the better, like a “funny scifi book in the YA genre with a zero to hero plot”.
The image generator to 3D model to animation pipeline isn’t too bad. If you’re not a great visual artist, 3D modeler, or animator you can get out pretty decent results on your own that would normally take teams of multiple people dozens of hours after years of training
