I think RAG are the sweet spot of current tech. I've got a client with a 50 year repository of technical reports and while my memory is great, the organization logic is abysmal. Something that can locate files, excerpts, timelines and basic QA from just a point and shoot capacity would kill so many small-medium orgs. it's basically plugnplay search to bright engineers, scientists, technical staff, etc up to speed. ad…
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#22A very smooth, no-BS app that does handwritten text -> Markdown. It should do headings, pictures (as local files), and other kinds of formatting as well.
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#23> perhaps some inspiration for something to build. First off, thank you for stating this explicitly. I get annoyed by the posts clearly fishing for ideas while acting like they have no specific motive for the questions. So I like your transparency! Honestly, I have a desire for an AI digital art product that has nothing to do with LLMs, but would instead be akin to what "style transfer" work was heading towards a few…
Regarding yours, I think that's really cool but probably not within my purview :) Still appreciated though. Doing some basic research I played around with Dall E and Midjourney, but found them very hard to "guide" in such a way. Though I'm sure something more relevant and powerful is on the horizon.
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#25The best would be a TTS system at the level of OpenAI's but with voice selection like GCP TTS so you can get quality and a range of voices.
Copyright would probably spike any monetization effort but you could try. It would be nice to have an open source tool for this though! :)
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#26An AI that is local and can tap into (either though fine tuning or RAG) the complete context of what I see, hear, think, ingest, and excrete so that I can get a better understanding of who I am and how I can improve. I want to see trends about myself that could only be discovered by an AI that knows more about me than I know myself.
me too, I want this to be a real product
should it be a new device from a new player? or should it be from the big players (apple, google, etc), and on current devices (phones, comp, etc)?
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#27Not all that complicated junk out there, but just something simple - take photo or two, ask me to describe the thumbnail and text to put on top, that’s it.
Yet no product is out there that can produce at least mediocre result.
Which makes me think… isn’t this wave of hype is yet another scam?..
Anyone remembers the bitcoin 5 years ago?
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#28Simple youtube thumbnail generator would be great, thank you. Not all that complicated junk out there, but just something simple - take photo or two, ask me to describe the thumbnail and text to put on top, that’s it. Yet no product is out there that can produce at least mediocre result. Which makes me think… isn’t this wave of hype is yet another scam?.. Anyone remembers the bitcoin 5 years ago?
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#29A very smooth, no-BS app that does handwritten text -> Markdown. It should do headings, pictures (as local files), and other kinds of formatting as well.
I'd recommend Typora. No frills markdown editor with WYSIWIG support. It has a nice feature where if you copy paste media such as images into the document it can optionally create a subfolder at the same level as the markdown file to organize the doc's associated media.
I want to convert handwritten notes to text - smoothly.
Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?
#30I think RAG are the sweet spot of current tech. I've got a client with a 50 year repository of technical reports and while my memory is great, the organization logic is abysmal. Something that can locate files, excerpts, timelines and basic QA from just a point and shoot capacity would kill so many small-medium orgs. it's basically plugnplay search to bright engineers, scientists, technical staff, etc up to speed. ad…