Just an emerging tech that folks are trying to wrap their heads around. No need to kill the thread, LLMs have thier purposes and understanding what that is will continue to evolve just as the tech does.
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You can’t. Only bossman and jeffe.
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It’s really hard to read my tone from my text. But I am not offended and not bothered by the subject at all.
I feel pretty strongly that I don’t want people to answer questions here by just prompting AI. Mostly because it feels too similar to “let me google that for you” or “read the F-in manual”. If someone wants to ask AI, they can already without the forum.
However, I am not bothered by you posting about it or the discussion so far. I’m reading your tone and you seem to be walking carefully, trying not to offend me. I just want to make it clear I am not offended and I’m sorry if I made it seem like I was.
I can close it if you want. But I like seeing the discussion and I like to use the close topic carefully.
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I also like seeing the discussion, and I vote to keep the thread open.
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Thanks, Jeff. We’re good. I think my original title was a bit too general about asking AI questions… and making it more specific to what I actually asked it was probably a step in the right direction IMO.
I think we’re all in agreement that we should always be skeptical of what AI tells us… and that there are times/topics when using it might be helpful. It appears most think I was using it in my first post in a way that could be useful. Certainly I thought it was/is and just wanted to share my excitement… thinking others who might have tried these programs and tried to do v-carve inlays could benefit from the information also. For me it was the terminology and settings differences that caused me some uncertainty and confusion… and I thought Gemini did a pretty good job of helping to clear my confusion.
I guess I’d like to see more discussion of where AI could be used in a way that might be helpful… rather than a continual string of responses about the dangers of AI and how we must always be skeptical and untrusting of what it tells us. I think asking AI specific questions about how to do something a $$$ program can do – using particular programs/products that might be free/cheap and/or that we might already have on hand – might be a particularly attractive use of AI. In other words, I’d love to see more ideas about the judicious use of AI and how we might use the information it provides to help get us get jump-started on some fun projects.
And since the consensus seems to be to keep the thread going… I’m good with that.
Thanks, all.
– David
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I had to write a 45 second speech about myself for a nomination video the other day. I tried adlibbing it and one of my guys suggested AI. They ran some on whatever they use, and I tried Microsoft Copilot. Gave it the parameters and some background and it did a way better job than I could have in the time it took. I would have spent hours writing and rewriting.
I have used it to help me with some Arduino code to control my solar panels. I already had a working program but the solution that was presented by ChatGTP was way more elegant, and I LEARNED something in the process.
As long as it can’t make a body for itself…
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