Local AI Assistant

[MichSwampbuck]

Well, even with using a single file, DeepSeek was coming up with some crazy stuff. I'm almost believing that there are built in biases that interfere with how the app works and responds. I'm going to try other models too and ask the same questions to see how weird this gets.

[Byrd]

Why is it so hard to find an AI application that is like the computer from Star Trek? I guess I'm looking for one that can handle file and context management. I'm not really sure what I technically want in a local AI assistant.

I'd like an AI assistant that can monitor and operate my programs for one. I'd like the Assistant to pull up files and merge them or find information in my files and display it, and tell me where it came from. I want an AI Assistant that will monitor my security, remind me of appointments, do research on my files, find pictures, and things like that, all without going online unless I tell it to. If it goes online, I'd like it to monitor news feeds and send me reports and retrieve emails, and other messages.

A chatbot is cool if it does speech recognition and has a synthesized voice to respond with, but that seems like something I'd have to integrate outside of the AI app. It seems like I'd have to totally customize my computer to get it working like the computer on the Starship Enterprise does. I obviously need to do more research to find what I want and it may not be available or even exist.

Part of the problem is that the questions you're asking are too generalized.  You have to think of the program as a very autistic individual (and I say this as someone who's on the autism spectrum.)

Instead of "tell me about panning for gold", drill down to a specific narrow question:  "What is the right way to swish water when panning for gold?"  "what size pan is best?" "Where's the best locations?"  "Do I have to have a license?"  "are there sites for beginners?" or "define gold panning."

Make it as specific and narrow as possible.

[MichSwampbuck]

Part of the problem is that the questions you're asking are too generalized.  You have to think of the program as a very autistic individual (and I say this as someone who's on the autism spectrum.)

Instead of "tell me about panning for gold", drill down to a specific narrow question:  "What is the right way to swish water when panning for gold?"  "what size pan is best?" "Where's the best locations?"  "Do I have to have a license?"  "are there sites for beginners?" or "define gold panning."

Make it as specific and narrow as possible.

That seems to help. By keeping the questions very specific and narrow, the AI can't go off on some crazy tangent so easily. It doesn't actually seem to understand any words really, just mostly sentence structure. It seems to know the rules of language without understanding any of it. It is like the AI knows the definition of words and how to use them, but doesn't understand the meaning of words or sentences, no comprehension, zero.

That would be great if you were going into a conversation with no idea about the language other than how to use the words to put sentences together. You might be able to have a conversation that way, but wouldn't know what the hell you were saying or what the replies were.

Actually, I love the unexpected conclusions it can make. As crazy as these AI assumptions are, it can take you some place you'd never have thought up alone. This can be great for writing fiction and making plot twists, esp. when you have run out of ideas to move forward. It could get you out of the box with those kind of "errors" in common sense comprehension. I can use that kind of lunacy for certain creative applications and I hope they don't "fix" the problem entirely, or at least make it an option for some crazy conversations.

[putnam6]

Ive got a few ads to do.

Im tempted to get an AI image program to help, but I waited too late and Im against a deadline. If I couldn't master it in time, I'd have to go back and do it the old-fashioned way. 

NGL, I found one that puts images in motion, and it blew me away how realistic it looked.