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Re: AI tools I wish existed

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

charcircuit wrote: post #16
coolThingsFirst wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn’t trust a random app with my browser history and majority of population wouldn’t either.

Chrome, Brave, and Firefox already have your browser history.

As do your ISP and DNS provider (at the domain level).

As do ad networks, in part (although the browser fingerprint might not be correlated with your actual identity).

As do Five Eyes, depending where you live (again, domain level, plus some metadata; page size can peak through https to some extent).

As do CloudFlare in part.

Or, potentially as does your VPN provider ... or anyone capable of correlating traffic across TOR (NSA?).

Re: AI tools I wish existed

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Post by raghavtoshniwal »

gyomu wrote: post #15

There's some sort of fundamental category mistake going on with thinking like this. Most of the items in this list fall prey to it, but it is maybe best exemplified by this one: > A writing app that lets you “request a critique” from a bunch of famous writers. What would Hemingway say about this blog post? What did he find confusing? What did he like? Any app that ever claimed to tell you what "Hemingway would say ab…

I think you're correct but your bar is too high, I think this app would be useful even if it was a lossy approximation Hemingway from his writings. As a thought experiment - I would value what a PhD who dedicated her career to studying one author and their works to tell me what she thinks about a piece of writing from that author's lens. (It's not too far from it)

> Anything else is like trying to eat a picture of a sandwich to satisfy your hunger.

I think it's more akin to you trying to recreate a different sandwich after reading a couple of their cook-books.

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Post by elitan »

I'm building #4:

> A hybrid of Strong (the lifting app) and ChatGPT where the model has access to my workouts, can suggest improvements, and coach me. I mainly just want to be able to chat with the model knowing it has detailed context for each of my workouts (down to the time in between each set).

here: https://j4.coach/

Still early, have ~30 min per day to work on it but it's usable and improving every week :)

Re: AI tools I wish existed

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Post by Gigachad »

onion2k wrote: post #14

A recommendation engine that looks at my browsing history, sees what blog posts or articles I spent the most time on, then searches the web every night for things I should be reading that I’m not. This kind of exists in the form of ChatGPT Pulse. It uses your ChatGPT history rather than your browser history, but that's probably just as good a source for people interested in using it (e.g. people who use ChatGPT enoug…

It's also essentially every social media platform with an algorithm selected feed.

Re: AI tools I wish existed

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Post by striking »

gyomu wrote: post #15

There's some sort of fundamental category mistake going on with thinking like this. Most of the items in this list fall prey to it, but it is maybe best exemplified by this one: > A writing app that lets you “request a critique” from a bunch of famous writers. What would Hemingway say about this blog post? What did he find confusing? What did he like? Any app that ever claimed to tell you what "Hemingway would say ab…

I have a more straightforward rebuttal of the need for an AI Hemingway. Someone already implemented a decent interactive guide to writing like Hemingway at least a decade ago, before all this LLM stuff: https://hemingwayapp.com/

It uses some simple heuristics to identify grammar that could be simpler and prompts you to do better. It might actually be better than an LLM specifically because it isn't able to do the rewriting for you. Maybe that might help a user learn.

Re: AI tools I wish existed

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Post by Animats »

> A paint-by-number filmmaking app. I want to be able to brainstorm an idea for a short film in the app, have the model create a detailed storyboard, and then I just need to use my phone to film each of the storyboarded shots. Kind of like training wheels for making movies.

There are at least half a dozen apps for that.[1][2]

There are other apps for creating the shots, too. Those are still not that great, but it's getting there. You could probably previz a whole movie right now.

[1] https://ltx.studio/platform/ai-storyboard-generator

[2] https://ezboard.ai/

Re: AI tools I wish existed

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Post by mhl47 »

Currently trying to build #6. Just for private use. My hope is that by throwing a bunch of highly personalized information in a VLM it will provide reasonably first estimates. (E.g. if you see a bowl lentils I will probably have rice below etc.). And then iterate on the main ingredients -> fetch the macros of main ingredients from a DB. If its within 20% that would be enough for me.

I have tried some off-the-shelfe solutions and they currently do not seem to cut it, or are too complex for my use case.

Re: AI tools I wish existed

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Post by christoph123 »

On your request 12

> A local screen recording app but it uses local models to create detailed semantic summaries of what I’m doing each day on my computer. This should then be provided as context for a chat app. I want to ask things like “Who did I forget to respond to yesterday?” I've been using Rewind for a year now, and it's nowhere near as useful as it should be.

I am building something like this but unfortunately not local because for most people's machines local LLMs are just not powerful enough or would take too much drain on battery. Work in progress, always curious for feedback! https://donethat.ai

If you want fully local, somebody did a post on HN on something related recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361268

Re: AI tools I wish existed

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Post by sixtyj »

gyomu wrote: post #15

There's some sort of fundamental category mistake going on with thinking like this. Most of the items in this list fall prey to it, but it is maybe best exemplified by this one: > A writing app that lets you “request a critique” from a bunch of famous writers. What would Hemingway say about this blog post? What did he find confusing? What did he like? Any app that ever claimed to tell you what "Hemingway would say ab…

Hemingway was just an example imho. But yes, LLM is just a very clever text composer that tries to understand our inputs and statistically is right in some per cent of answers. And it is clever enough to fool people to think that they communicate with intelligence.
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