Which AI do you use?

[CaffeineAddict]

Curious which one do people here use?
I'm sure there are those who don't use AI at all.

I just started with duck.ai, here are terms that look fine:

Duck.ai Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

duckduckgo.com

duck.ai acts as proxy and uses multiple AI providers.
If you've tried it, what do you think about it?

Duck.ai - DuckDuckGo Help Pages

Duck.ai allows you to chat anonymously with 3rd-party AI chat models for free.

duckduckgo.com

 

[Brickwizard]

None

 

[CaffeineAddict]

None

Have you ever tried to use it?
What is it that you don't like about using AI?

I don't use it for principal reasons, however find it very useful non the less, for instance I'm currently really bored and find the AI useful to help direct me to some new stuff or activities.

I'd never use it to try fix system issues or for coding ofc.

 

[Brickwizard]

I have said it before and will say it again, there is no such thing
A= Artificial +false or fake
I = intelligence = the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving
computers have no emotion no self awareness and cannot reason, they are not capable of lateral thinking they are dumb machines running number crunching programs, what are being called AI are mainly screen scrapers that are plagiaristic.
they dont/wont make life easy just lazy

 

[CaffeineAddict]

@Brickwizard
Maybe you're expecting too much from AI, it is certainly not as smart as humans but it's much faster than manual googling.

For instance a while ago I was searching for 10 most rare and most expensive books of some genre, AI was way better at listing them then I was able to google out.
The list was not totally new to me however it did give me some new entries that I would have hard time to find out by googling myself.

what are being called AI are mainly screen scrapers that are plagiaristic

Yes, if one is judging honestly, but there are no laws that restrict it,
so... a user that wants info doesn't care.

 

[craigevil]

I have gemini-desktop and perplexity-desktop installed using snap. I think I have used both combined maybe a handful of times, mostly for help creating Bible studies. I did have Newelle a flatpak that let you use different ones.

 

[Alexzee]

If I have to I use Perplexity. Gives me the answers I need w/o hours of doing research.

I trust but always verify as AI can get things wrong.

 

[KGIII]

I don't use it much, other than what pops up when searching. If I do, it's generally Gemini. It has so far demonstrated (to me) that it is better with mathematics.

"AI" is "real", except not everyone agrees with the definition. Generalized "AI" on-par with humans isn't here yet, and it may never be here. That's why I tend to use quotes. A computer doesn't do those things, it mimicks those things. That's why it's artificial.

And no, they're not really Markov chains. Though, those are still useful. They're surprisingly useful when they're not chatbots.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Generalized "AI" on-par with humans isn't here yet, and it may never be here.

I wouldn't say, the pace at which technology advances it's only a matter of time until we see capable machines around.
The tech only in last 100 years has advanced more than what is did since human existence.

 

[Brickwizard]

"AI" is "real", except not everyone agrees with the definition. Generalized "AI" on-par with humans isn't here yet, and it may never be here. That's why I tend to use quotes. A computer doesn't do those things, it mimicks those things. That's why it's artificial.

There is already a far more accurate term, CA, computer Aided

 

[Trynna3]

Mostly I use the gpt bot, but tried others in the browsers, which often advised me better. All free versions. Without AI I probably wouldn't be on this forum and still be on Windoze like an oblivous and obedient consumer.

 

[f33dm3bits]

I use this one

Ouija Board Online

Discover the mysteries of the spirit world with an online virtual spirit board

ouijaboard.us

 

[KGIII]

I wouldn't say, the pace at which technology advances it's only a matter of time until we see capable machines around.
The tech only in last 100 years has advanced more than what is did since human existence.

There's always progress. Well, generally there is. It's quite amazing how far we've come.

 

[GatorsFan]

Grok

 

[osprey]

Curious which one do people here use?
I'm sure there are those who don't use AI at all.

I just started with duck.ai, here are terms that look fine:

Duck.ai Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

duckduckgo.com

duck.ai acts as proxy and uses multiple AI providers.
If you've tried it, what do you think about it?

Duck.ai - DuckDuckGo Help Pages

Duck.ai allows you to chat anonymously with 3rd-party AI chat models for free.

duckduckgo.com

Used here are: ChatGPT, Gemini, perplexity, Copilot, in that order. When using ChatGPT I always log in and use their latest AI offering. It's used mainly for linux system issues that I'm either interested in or trying to come to grips with, or with some coding conundrum that has arisen, or general help for sundry concerns that arise from time to time. I'll often check one AI's output against another and also take into account ordinary search results.

AI has advanced significantly beyond the plagiaristic and "non-creative" charges that have been made against it. For example, AI can create absolutely new elements and perspectives in many fields and disciplines, and work with what it has created, also in previously unknown ways. That doesn't mean it's always "good", but it is what it is, and it's developing apace.

 

[Alexzee]

Grok

Tried it a few minutes ago.
Fast and good results.-

How's recovery from surgery going?
Better now, I hope-

 

[KGIII]

For example, AI can create absolutely new elements and perspectives in many fields and disciplines, and work with what it has created, also in previously unknown ways.

I'm excited to see AI in mathematics. I'd like to see it come up with something truly novel in the art. Right now, AI has done some work on knot theory, which is impressive. It can also be used in some evaluation aspects.

Alas, I'm old and retired. If I was a young student in the field, I'd be working on that, even if just in my free time.

 

[Thunderpants]

Not knowingly succumbed to the hype yet but might in the future.

 

[wizardfromoz]

I take it the maker of Grok was a fan of Robert Heinlein.

I am a fan of Robert Heinlein but not a fan of AI.

 

[MikeWalsh]

No time for it. Never will have. If y'all want to use it, be my guest. I shan't bother, though.....

(shrug...)


Mike.