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Which AI Large Language Model are you using?

Justin Passing

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I'm surprised this hasn't come up much.
The potential for these things to completely change our lives is enormous, even at the humblest level.
I've only used them on the phone to chat to, rather than a desktop app.

If you tried ChatGPT2 and thought it was ok but with severe shortcomings, try the current one, ChatGPT4-turbo. It works well on my middle aged phone.
Grok is good too, tapping into posts on X. which seems odd, but provides a lot of info.
I've used CoPilot for constructing programs to manipulate Excel sheets. It gives you the code.

They do waffla a lot - "this would depend on" or "you would have to look at...". Sometimes their deeper modes, will look things up for you.

It's free for what I'm using. There are some subscription models; they're faster, and have file uploading code interpreters, and image generation. SOme things like using camera images are obviously more phone-friendly.

They have a long memory and get confused.
I was getting chat about US-EU trade,
Later I asked about the probablility of a quantum vortex creating a singularity in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
It remembered about tariffs :LOL:

Currently, of those, Grok is easier to chat to than Chatgpt because of having top tap to get spoken replies. I asked about it. Apparently it'll improve soon...


They will unfortunately be great Trolling tools.
 
Copilot. It's brilliant.
I sometimes have chats just for amusement.
I have a pixel phone and I swiped up to launch Gemini. I do that sometimes but it's miles behind some AIs
I just asked.

Hello. Can I ask. Do you know where I work

Gemini said I can't answer that.
I asked if you would remember if I told you and Gemini said no.
Gemini is good for searching internet and can create events and add them to your diary.
I prefer Copilot
That knew where I worked and what I did there. Also described me and my job then asked if I need any help with my job...

For help in writing email or searching internet or just chatting I recommend copilot

I cut and paste text in all the time and ask for it to be rewritten formal or funny.
 
For trades.
Ai will write job estimates.
Method statements
Risk assessments

The job estimates for a written estimate give the name and address. What you are doing and price.
You can ask for edits after to get it correct
 
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ReganAndCarter said:
I haven't the foggiest what all the above is about. It's another language.
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I think half the world has yet to meet it, but when you do, the world changes just a little bit.
Download CHatGPT to your phone. Once you find the right buttons on your phone to have an ongoing conversation, you can have a lot of fun.
Grok is good too.

If you ask it the right questions, you find where its political and other leanings are. It tries to back ot of making judgments though.

There's this voice on the phone, and you can ask it " what the f*** are you" and you get a civil answer.
Next you can ask it how many homosexual dogs there are in Poland, and you get a sensible answer.
( the object of a CIA study in the 70's by the way, I remember).

If you ask something daft, which happens when it miss-hears, that can be interesting. It thought I'd asked how to make a box in a microwave.....

Wayners said:
Ai will write job estimates.
Method statements
Risk assessments
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That's the desktop version, presumably??
I think it gets really clever if you have the $20/month paid version, it creates all sorts of stuff for you. Know anything about that??

There are youtubes explaining all the things you can do with the latest AI. HOURS of them!!.

Ordinary people will never know more than a small % of what it can do, I expect, especially as it learns more and gets to access more live information. It'll split society into strata - with various degrees of ignorance about wtf it all is.
 
@Justin Passing

Just use any of the free AI on phone. I just jot down a few notes and verbally ask for a estimate to be written.
You ask for edits after then email to yourself. View on pc to print in word and save as PDF to email..
Can do it all the phone if you want
 
Claude for code, Copilot for general purpose. They've got the analyst and researcher agents working now and they're incredibly useful.

I use Grok as an example of what not to do when I train companies on how to use AI responsibly. Their change management is awful and they're explicitly slanting the output, even more blatantly than Deep seek and the Chinese Government.

edit: Mid journey and Copilot for image generation and manipulation. And Azure AI services for specialist tasks.
 
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The problem with the Open LLMs is that people are trying to influence them and they themselves have shifted from "for the benefit of the mankind" to "lets make profit".
 
I don't have family of my own, unlikely to ever be.

If I'm lucky enough to reach old age, isolation is a very real threat. I'm also happy with my own company, although pre getting old this can be through ones own choice which of course puts a different perspective on it.

I quite like the idea of having an AI companion to converse with 20+ years from now, when the family and friends I do have will likely be decreasing in number.
 
motorbiking said:
The problem with the Open LLMs is that people are trying to influence them and they themselves have shifted from "for the benefit of the mankind" to "lets make profit".
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In the way that a student becomes a teacher, and a trainee becomes a boss, so LLMs eventually (through your asking questions and providing them with information) will eventually be capable of the same.
 
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