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Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

#21

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…

RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

#22

A 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.

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

#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…

Thanks for your response. Yeah, I don't see why to beat around the bush - I'm looking for ideas! And I figure people can dump something they'd like built but maybe don't have the time/effort to do. Doesn't need to be anything huge or important, just some starting point that ideally does something useful for someone.

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.

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

#25
Here's a fun project that you could try. Use TTS to transcribe books but make the transcriptions feel more realistic. Give each character in the book a unique voice. Leading characters should have voices based on their personalities. Use quote extraction and character attributtion to tie characters to lines. Try to do convey the human qualities with EmotionML, SSML, or some kind of semantic analysis.

The 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! :)

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

#26

An 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.

anyone who creates this, and scales it, will take over the world

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)?

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

#27
Simple 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?

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

#28

Simple 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?

Just asking a question, what you didn't like with templating design tool like Canva ?

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

#29

A 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.

Obsidian does the same and much much more.

I want to convert handwritten notes to text - smoothly.

Re: Ask HN: What AI Software Product/Software Do You Need?

#30

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…

There are few companies working on this like Inkeep, Kapa AI etc
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