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Ask HN: Have advancements in AI given you ideas for new side projects?

23 pointsby arcadeparadealmost 2 years ago
Given the massive advancements of late, have you had any ideas for improving software you currently use? Or ideas for new projects?

10 comments

RecycledElealmost 2 years ago
Before ChatGPT, I was not good enough at some things to earn certification in them. Cisco and Adobe Creative Cloud come to mind.<p>Now when I run into a certification objective that baffles me, I ask ChatGPT. It gives me (typically) a full-page that explains what I need to know (theory) and where to click in the program (practice) to make it work. In the full-page, there is usually 1 omitted partial-step. It might say &quot;click on X&quot; without saying that X is under the Y sub-menu.<p>Keep in mind that before ChatGPT, I would have been totally lost on what that objective even meant.<p>ChatGPT has helped me earn 3 Adobe CC certifications this year, and will soon help me earn a 4th.<p>Then I might go back and take another crack at Cisco certification.
keskivalalmost 2 years ago
I have started several:<p>- A small example of how to use behavior trees in structuring LLM chatbot applications: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keskival&#x2F;behavior-trees-for-llm-chatbots">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keskival&#x2F;behavior-trees-for-llm-chatbots</a><p>- A project for extracting meta-learned reinforcement learning algorithms out of a large language model: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keskival&#x2F;king-algorithm-manifesto">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keskival&#x2F;king-algorithm-manifesto</a><p>- A proof-of-concept of embodying an LLM chatbot into a Gym PoleCart environment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keskival&#x2F;embodied-emulated-personas">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keskival&#x2F;embodied-emulated-personas</a>
mechagodzillaalmost 2 years ago
I tried to make a llama-based “inner monologue” for a robot, and man does that thing want to kill all humans. Like…it took me at least half a dozen tries to not have it turn on its creator or turn suicidal by the second sentence.
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salukialmost 2 years ago
A few the Open AI api opens up new opportunities for existing software and new projects.<p>I think there are lots of low hanging fruit SaaS apps that could be built right now leveraging ChatGPT.<p>The competition will grow and grow of course.
rpastuszakalmost 2 years ago
Yes! A bunch of quick spikes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;butter.sonnet.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;butter.sonnet.io</a> as well as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tidings.potato.horse" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tidings.potato.horse</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meat-gpt.sonnet.io" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meat-gpt.sonnet.io</a><p>(Every page as a detailed about&#x2F;why page)
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dserbanalmost 2 years ago
The custom search engine space is absolutely ripe for disruption.<p>Whenever you need to add a search experience to your SaaS project, you don&#x27;t really think of building it yourself, however the established companies in the search engine space are lazy, retrograde and corrupt, and they absolutely don&#x27;t deserve your money. (I know because I work for one of them.)<p>OpenAI has recently announced it will slash the cost of calls to its embeddings API by a whopping 75%. This is a huge opportunity for a startup to disrupt the search engine space.<p>With access to OpenAI&#x27;s now-affordable embeddings API and to a vector database, one mid-level engineer can build a highly scalable custom search engine for ecommerce and retail, in a few weeks.<p>And yet nobody is talking about this.
hoofheartedalmost 2 years ago
Nope lol.<p>I followed Patrick Collisons advice and started scouring through the research that generations past have done.<p>I was reading PG’s schlep blindness essay for inspiration, and the idea was right there in front of everyone, and thousands of people had passed over it; just as his essay suggested.<p>His essay also suggested ideas that help other startups like myself; and grow together with them.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;schlep.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;schlep.html</a>
mattbgatesalmost 2 years ago
I often use it to write simple code but also give me ideas for new projects. It built the structure of this website for me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artsy.sh" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artsy.sh</a><p>Since it uses logic, its answers are more likely to be right than the subjectiveness of essays and things like that. Can&#x27;t go wrong with logic! ;)
fookeralmost 2 years ago
Remember that ideas are dime a dozen, the execution is what really matters.<p>There&#x27;s unlikely to be a gold rush of quickly monetizing half baked stuff this time.
Buttons840almost 2 years ago
I&#x27;ve been having GPT4 tutor me in math, it&#x27;s good enough. I&#x27;d like to tell the LLM to quiz me on certain concepts later, similar to spaced repetition.<p>There&#x27;s endless ideas to shake up learning with LLMs.