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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

  • in reply to michaelkellett

    So far AI is hopeless at designing circuits.

  • in reply to dougw

    In what way. I'm curious.

    I recall this glib remark which has stuck with me... The quality of the answer starts with the quality of the question.

    AI certainly won't do the work for you (as in, produce a wonderful set of gerbers), but it does make design decision making quicker, especially if you view AI as a sounding board. E.g. I needed to include an microSD card holder on a PCB. It's not something I would do often. I couldn't quite remember how the card detect pin works for the part I wanted to use as it usually differs depending on the manufacturer. Choose an unknown oem part and risk escalates. Asking AI saved me 10's of minutes searching for the answer. As such, it's an accelerator.

  • in reply to shabaz

    This is the part of AI, I don't find helpful. Investors and founders who think they've found the next unicorn.  As for fl*x trying to flex... Good luck to them. Let them burn their cash...

  • in reply to dougw

    I find AI does help with sub-circuits (text, I don't ask it to draw circuits since I don't believe that capability is there yet), and also to compare specs and to suggest parts so I can dig deeper.

    Just saw this unfortunate thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368121

    No idea what it's about, but the theory there seems to be Adafruit may have tried a tool, and a firm doesn't seem to be happy about something. I do feel sorry for Adafruit.. personally I can't imagine they deserve legal threats over perhaps an AI tool but as mentioned I don't know the detail (and wouldn't be wise speculating much here, just leaving the link there in case anyone wishes to follow it there).

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  • in reply to dougw

    I find AI does help with sub-circuits (text, I don't ask it to draw circuits since I don't believe that capability is there yet), and also to compare specs and to suggest parts so I can dig deeper.

    Just saw this unfortunate thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368121

    No idea what it's about, but the theory there seems to be Adafruit may have tried a tool, and a firm doesn't seem to be happy about something. I do feel sorry for Adafruit.. personally I can't imagine they deserve legal threats over perhaps an AI tool but as mentioned I don't know the detail (and wouldn't be wise speculating much here, just leaving the link there in case anyone wishes to follow it there).

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