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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’ve done lots of cool things with AI. Image manipulation, sound manipulation, some simple videogames.
I’ve never found anything cool to do with an LLM.
Care to expand on sound manipulation? Are you talking about for removing background noise from recordings or something else?
Some speech recognition work, some selective gain adjustments –not just amplifying certain bands of frequencies, but trying to write a robot that can identify a specific instrument and amplify or mute just that. Also fun with throwing cellular automata at sound files. And with throwing cellular automata at image files to turn them into sound files.
That all sounds pretty neat. Do you do these things locally or is there a cloud service for that?
It’s helping me understand how I think so that I can create frameworks for learning, problem solving, decision making etc. I’m neurodivergent.
Apart from avoiding it?
Makes a good litmus test
Indeed. I can proudly say that I managed to renew my unfortunately required M365 without the unfortunately included CoPilot trash. And that’s no mean feat, it is a veritable quest through an everchanging maze of clickables to get it this way.
Pasting code and error messages in saves time in debugging stupid mistakes.
It’s good at paraphrasing paragraphs to contain no ‘fifth glyphs’
That’s a big bound forward from last I was looking at it! Avoiding that nasty glyph was notably not in its portfolio of tricks. It would say it was avoiding the fifth, but still slip many through.
Assuming that this discussion is about LLMs, anyway.
I had to instruct it to consult a script to know how many words did contain fifth glyphs, but it did work with that.
Sounds as though your script did all important work, not your AI.
It was vital to call on my LLM, it couldn’t do it on its own, and my script can just count glyphs, not anything to do with words.
What’s a “fifth glyph?”
That glyph post D in our ABC
Why would you want to avoid it? Is it some kind of religios thing?
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.
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.
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.
The output is only as good as the model being used. If you want to write code then use a model designed for code. Over the weekend I wrote an Android app to be able to connect my phone to my Ollama instance from off my network. I’ve never done any coding beyond scripts, and the AI walked me through setting up the IDE and a git repository before we even got started on the code. 3 hours after I had the idea I had the app installed and working on my phone.
I didn’t say the code didn’t work. I said it was dog shit. Dog shit code can still work, but it will have problems. What it produced looks like an intern wrote it. Nothing against interns, they’re just not gonna be able to write production quality code.
It’s also really unsettling to ask it about my own libraries and have it answer questions about them. It was trained on my code, and I just feel disgusted about that. Like, whatever, they’re not breaking the rules of the license, but it’s still disconcerting to know that they could plagiarize a bunch of my code if someone asked the right prompt.
(And for anyone thinking it, yes, I see the joke about how it was my bad code that it trained on. Funny enough, some of the code I know was in its training data is code I wrote when I was 19, and yeah, it is bad code.)
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 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.
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
Nope. Any use case I have tried with it, I usually find that either a python script, database, book, or piece of paper can always accomplish the same job but usually with a better end result and with a more reliably reproducible outcome.
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”.
Tailored boilerplate code
I can write code, but it’s only a skill I’ve picked up out of necessity and I hate doing it. I am not familiar with deep programming concepts or specific language quirks and many projects live or die by how much time I have to invest in learning a language I’ll never use again.
Even self-hosted LLMs are good enough at spitting out boilerplate code in popular languages that I can skip the deep-dive and hit the ground running- you know, be productive.
I do this as well—I’m currently automating a repetitive workflow for work using python. What’s the latest project you’ve generated boilerplate code for?
