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Are you using AI?

Alanta Lee

Hi everyone,

This is the first time i've ventured out of my 'Research Opportunities' area so, hello Wave

I'm curious to hear how people in the element14 community are using AI tools in everyday life, whether that’s at work, at home, while learning, or just experimenting.

A few prompts to get things going:

  • What do you mainly use AI for?
  • Has AI changed how you work or solve problems?
  • What do you find most useful about AI?
  • What still feels frustrating, risky, or unclear?
  • Are there any AI tools or use cases you think are especially useful?

Feel free to answer one question or all of them!

Thanks!

 

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  • Certainly not using AI.

    I keep reading about how wonderful it is and how it will design all my circuits, write all my code etc.

    And then I try it (again) ........

    Last attempt was the AI help engine available with Maple (paid for software for doing Maths).

    It (like always with AI) wrote  a nice looking chunk of code that didn't work.

    It was moderately useful as a help engine for explaining commands but not very good.

    I read about wonderful results but never see any of them published - I wonder why.

    MK

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  • Certainly not using AI.

    I keep reading about how wonderful it is and how it will design all my circuits, write all my code etc.

    And then I try it (again) ........

    Last attempt was the AI help engine available with Maple (paid for software for doing Maths).

    It (like always with AI) wrote  a nice looking chunk of code that didn't work.

    It was moderately useful as a help engine for explaining commands but not very good.

    I read about wonderful results but never see any of them published - I wonder why.

    MK

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  • in reply to michaelkellett

    Thanks. There’s a lot of hype around AI being able to design circuits or write code, but your example shows the gap between something that looks convincing and something that actually works.

    It’s interesting that it was more useful for explaining commands than generating working code. That distinction feels important, AI might be helpful as a support or help tool, but not something you can rely on to produce usable output on its own.

  • in reply to michaelkellett

    Maple is ancient. The chemists I used to work with a million years ago used Maple. 
    I can hardly believe that AI hasn't found enough training data for Maple. But legit, 
    if its proprietary AI don't know nothing. 

    Im especially amused when IDK, like android studio has an AI agent in side of it now, , and that AI doesn't know anything about google, or android, so it cant do anything specifically helpful.  AI is generically helpful at best. I kinda suspect that IP holds humanity back in terms of learning. The educational bits are not published, or behind licensing, or paywalls. Which is fine, if the goal is to protect a profit. Therese all this Knowledge that will die the moment it stops being profitable. 

    Humans Have that problem, and AI will as well. On the flip side, old AF projects could get revitalized relevance from the AI hype train, but will miss out, having not provided enough training data. These products, garner use, by having been used. XYZ research group uses XYZ software, and they got a 35million $ grant. Next thing you know everyone in that space is using XYZ software.  .. 

  • in reply to michaelkellett

    So far AI is hopeless at designing circuits.