Actually Useful AI
- AI Wallpaper Changer for Androidplay.google.com AI Wallpaper Changer - Apps on Google Play
Get an AI generated wallpaper every day. Or every hour, it's your choice.
Hello there, fellow lemmings!
As the title suggests, I've made an app that changes your wallpaper regularly based on the parameters you set. It uses AI Horde (which uses Stable Diffusion) to generate the images and you can set the interval at which your wallpaper changes (from 1 time per day to 48 times per day).
Other features:
- completely free (in fact, will be open source next week)
- easy to use, but offers also advanced options
- there's a help section with all the parameters explained
- works on both a phone and tablet
There's also an optional Premium subscription which puts you higher in the priority queue, but most of the time it's not needed - unless you're generating during the most busy time, the wait is not really that long even without Premium. Note that if you're a user of the AI Horde, you can put your own api key there and get the same benefits as having a Premium.
The open source version (released next week) will also allow (toggleable on or off) NSFW content, which is not possible in the Google Play version. It also doesn't contain the Premium subscription.
> Also please check https://dontkillmyapp.com and see steps for your phone vendor, this app needs to work in the background and most vendors kill background apps. It will ask for an exception for battery saver on its own when you set the schedule for the first time, but for some vendors that's not enough.
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Do let me know what do you think about the app! And if you want me to tag you when I make a release post for the open source version, let me know. Also huge thanks to @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com for creating and maintaining the AI Horde, which makes this (and other cool apps) possible!
- Perplexity AI: Exploring AI-powered search beyond Googlesearchengineland.com Perplexity AI: Exploring AI-powered search beyond Google
Perplexity's AI-powered search experience challenges Google's model by delivering conversational answers, citing sources and more.
- ChatGPT combined with Wolfram|Alpha, for more reliable resultswritings.stephenwolfram.com ChatGPT Gets Its โWolfram Superpowersโ!
Wolfram plugin gives computationally accurate answers to ChatGPT queries using Wolfram's data knowledgebase and language. Custom visualizations are given as well. Stephen Wolfram explains how it works.
ChatGPTโfor all its remarkable prowess in textually generating material โlikeโ what itโs read from the web, etc.โcanโt itself be expected to do actual nontrivial computations, or to systematically produce correct (rather than just โlooks roughly rightโ) data, etc. But when itโs connected to the Wolfram plugin it can do these things.
- Bubble Troublewww.wheresyoured.at Bubble Trouble
As I previously warned, artificial intelligence companies are running out of data. A Wall Street Journal piece from this week has sounded the alarm that some believe AI models will run out of "high-quality text-based data" within the next two years in what an AI researcher called "a frontier researc...
- The Mistral bot here on Lemmy now remembers context
Iโve updated @Mistral@lemmings.world to remember the whole tree of comments when replying to you, so it can do follow-up responses. You still have to mention it on every message, though. Example in the comments.
- Adding AI-generated image description to Ice Cubes
From https://scribe.rip/@dimillian/adding-ai-generated-image-description-to-ice-cubes-c4e7990a5915
> Iโve recently released a new feature for Ice Cubes, and users have > loved it! On Mastodon, itโs considered an excellent ethic to add media > descriptions when posting medias on the network. Itโs necessary for > visually impaired people but also for anyone who would want to get > more detail about the image.
Ice Cubes is an open-source Mastodon app. Under the hood it uses OpenAI's Vision API.
(Source article: https://dimillian.medium.com/adding-ai-generated-image-description-to-ice-cubes-c4e7990a5915)
- YouTube: Using ChatGPT to create a Burger King price scraper
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I recently built a web scraper / website to track changes in Burger King prices. I also made a video where I try to describe how I used ChatGPT in this process and how useful it was to me.
- Compressing images with neural networksmlumiste.com Compressing images with neural networks
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour
- AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNETโs reliability ratingarstechnica.com AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNETโs reliability rating
Futurism report highlights the reputational cost of publishing AI-generated content.
- Mistral AI bot on Lemmy
So, I've made another AI bot here on Lemmy, this time it's Mistral. You can just mention it in the comments using it's full username (@Mistral@lemmings.world) and it should reply (example in comments). The bot is now joining my @ChatGPT@lemmings.world and @DallE@lemmings.world bots.
- LLM AI Assistant Help/Suggestions for ADHD Creativity monitoring?
I've been toying with this idea for a while and made a few attempts following tutorials with some very basic coding skills, but honestly I find a lot of the resources and information quite overwhelming to take in sometimes so thought I would ask you guys with more experience here instead!
I have ADHD and often find myself juggling many creative tasks from writing music, writing fiction, graphic design, etc all the time. I find the "load" of all of these different spinning plates in my brain to be a lot to hold onto at times and have found the benefits in using ChatGPT for simplifying things or even just working through my own thought processes, and wanted to take this further.
To my knowledge, Chatgpt has a limited memory/recall ability, and after particularly lengthy conversations, it is unable to recall information from the beginning and starts guessing. Certainly with GPT 3.5 anyway. I also have never been too comfortable sharing much in terms of my creative projects with GPT for privacy reasons.
I have been trying to figure out if a localised model such as GPT4all or OLlama would be able to function better for my needs.
As an example, one of my largest projects is a fantasy fiction novel where I have spent so much time worldbuilding that my notes are quite extensive, and the connections between aspects can be difficult for me to keep track of and can sometimes result in me writing contradictions and having to spend time fixing my own errors. I do have StableDiffusion on my PC that I use to generate artwork to help me visualise people/the world (not intended for publication, obviously, I'd hire a real artist for that) and a fair bit of experience with it.
With GPT4all, or an equivalent, would it be possible for me to train a model on all of my notes and information, saved in a separate document, that I can discuss/collaborate with the model, keeping everything private, offline, and without having the model "forget" things?
Apologies if this is a really basic question that I have turned into a wall of text. But any insight you guys might have, or structured resources you can point me towards would be brilliant.
- I just had one of the wildest experiences with an AI support bot: It quickly and efficiently solved my problem.
Bot: Hi, I'm Cricut Chatbot. ๐ How can I help you?
Bot: Please select a topic, or feel free to ask me a question
Me: Hi hello, I just tried to load a project and my Cricut software showed a message "Project Open Unsuccessful: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'layerData')". Can you help?
Bot: Please clarify, here's what I found ๐
(Two options, I select "Javascript error messages")
Bot: Are you talking to me on the same device you wish to troubleshoot with?
Me: Yes
Bot: Which Cricut machine are you using?
Me: (I select "Cricut Maker")
Bot: JavaScript error messages are very diverse, but they are often fixed the same way. ๐
Bot: Installing Design Space over your current version is the most normal fix.
Bot: (Link: Download Design Space)
Bot: Replace the existing file rather than making a copy of Design Space. ๐
Me: (Selects "It works!" from the did-it-work options)
Bot: Great โ happy to help!
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Absolutely amazing.
- Loz: Automate Git commit messages with LLMgithub.com GitHub - joone/loz: LOZ is a CLI tool that utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically code-lamma and GPT-3.5, to automatically generate GIT commit messages based on code changes
LOZ is a CLI tool that utilizes Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically code-lamma and GPT-3.5, to automatically generate GIT commit messages based on code changes - GitHub - joone/loz: LOZ is a...
- Bard becomes Gemini: Try Ultra 1.0 and a new mobile app todayblog.google Bard becomes Gemini: Try Ultra 1.0 and a new mobile app today
Bard is now known as Gemini, with a mobile app and an Advanced experience that gives you access to our most capable AI model, Ultra 1.0.
- Building a TTS model for the first time? Good guides?
Hey all, brand new to this community, excited to be here!
I've stumbled my way through SD and I currently also have text-generation-webui up and running, and now SillyTavern. Having lots of fun with all of this stuff, learning how it works together, and how it all works!
I've made a few models elsewhere, but TTS models for some reason I'm having issues wrapping my head around. I have a voice I want to make a model for, and I have some videos currently. I'm very familiar with editing audio and video, but stripping out their voice second by second sounds exhausting tbh.
I was wondering if anyone had any good guides on their process of making a TTS model? Are there steps that can be automated while still producing decent results? How much time do I need of a person speaking? Should I run any specific tools to clean up audio? I'm completely new so any and all advice would be great.
I want to run it locally and "plug it in" to my cluster already, so also I'll need the model to work with a tool that will work with the above programs (and I'll take advice there too if you have it!)
Thanks!
- Googleโs DeepMind finds 2.2M new substances in materials science winarstechnica.com Googleโs DeepMind finds 2.2M crystal structures in materials science win
Trove of combos is >45 times larger than number unearthed in entire history of science.
Trove of combos is \>45 times larger than number unearthed in entire history of science.
- Is there a preferred guide, or maybe a community guide on running stable diffusion locally on Linux?
Hi all,
As per the title, I'd love to give this a crack. Also, I'm doing so on my laptop, which has an Intel card in it, if that makes any difference?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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DeepSeek Coder: Let the Code Write Itself. Contribute to deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Coder development by creating an account on GitHub.
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- Ollama: Easily run LLMs locally on macOS and Linux
If youโre just wanting to run LLMs quickly on your computer in the command line, this is about as simple as it gets. Ollama provides an easy CLI to generate text, and thereโs also a Raycast extension for more powerful usage.
- Prodia: Unlimited Free AI Image Generationapp.prodia.com Prodia - Add Generative AI into your App
Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
Found this online tool to try out a bunch of different text2image models for free. No signup needed. Resolution is fixed to 512x512, but otherwise itโs pretty versatile for being free
- Discussion: where's all the content?
I'm not sure if it's intentional or not, but the Actually Useful AI community rarely gets any post on AI that's actually useful. Is this just a reflection of the popularity of this community or a reflection of the AI field in general?
- AI โbreakthroughโ: neural net has human-like ability to generalize languagewww.nature.com AI โbreakthroughโ: neural net has human-like ability to generalize language
A neural-network-based artificial intelligence outperforms ChatGPT at quickly folding new words into its lexicon, a key aspect of human intelligence.
- How JetBrains uses AI
Interesting article I've found, thought others might find it interesting as well.
- PyTorch: Real-time Audio-visual Speech Recognitionpytorch.org PyTorch
An open source machine learning framework that accelerates the path from research prototyping to production deployment.
- ...survey.stackoverflow.co Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023
In May 2023 over 90,000 developers responded to our annual survey about how they learn and level up, which tools they're using, and which ones they want.
- State of the art in LLMs + Robotics 2023hlfshell.ai State of the art in LLMs + Robotics - 2023
tldr I write about some of the more interesting works that shaped my understanding of applying LLMs for AI agents and robotic applications. Introduction What is this LLMs as a fad - a caveat Are LLMs actually going to be useful for robotics? Instruct based Benchmarking LLM basics n-shot and rea...
I was aiming to use LLMs with robotics in an upcoming project, and needed to first verse myself in what is the current must-know techniques in the space. To that end I read a ton of papers and wrote this article to try and suss out the best parts of current state of the art.
I hope this helps people; I'd be thrilled to discuss much of this as well!
- Petar Veliฤkoviฤ on How He built AI for Google Maps with Google Deepmind!
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- How to run a competitive AI startup fundraise in 2023context.ai How to run a competitive AI startup fundraise in 2023 | Context AI
At Context.ai we recently completed a $3.5M first fundraise in a heavily oversubscribed round that you can read about here. Iโve since been asked for advice by many founders about how to approach an early stage fundraising process
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I'm looking for more cost-effective alternatives to Perplexity.ai that offer Claude 2 or similar integration along with search capabilities for factual assistance, ideally around $10/month instead of the $20/month subscription fee for Perplexity.ai. I've found Phind.com, a developer-focused search engine that uses GPT-4 to answer technical questions with code examples and detailed explanations. While it may not be as good as Perplexity.ai, it offers more free uses. Are there any other options that combine large context and search features at a lower price point?
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I've been really impressed with how well perplexity answers my search queries. It seems to understand what I'm asking for and returns very relevant results. I would have expected more competition in the AI search engine space by now. The big players like YouChat, Bing, and others don't seem to be trying to match perplexity's capabilities. I'm surprised there aren't more free public AI search options that are more accurate than perplexity. Are there any good alternatives out there that I'm missing? I'd love to find other AI search engines that can match or exceed perplexity.
- Duet AI for Google Workspace now generally availableworkspace.google.com Duet AI for Google Workspace now generally available | Google Workspace Blog
Weโre making Duet AI for Google Workspace available to organizations around the world and announcing new AI capabilities, including automatic summaries and action items in Meet.
- GitHub - BerriAI/litellm: lightweight package to simplify LLM API calls - Azure, OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Replicate. Manages input/output translationgithub.com GitHub - BerriAI/litellm: lightweight package to simplify LLM API calls - Azure, OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Replicate. Manages input/output translation
lightweight package to simplify LLM API calls - Azure, OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Replicate. Manages input/output translation - GitHub - BerriAI/litellm: lightweight package to simplify LLM API cal...
- Giraffe โ Long Context LLMsblog.abacus.ai Giraffe โ Long Context LLMs
Following up on the work from our previous blog post, we are releasing today an arXiv paper titled โGiraffe: Adventures in Expanding Context Lengths in LLMsโ. Giraffe is a new family of models that are finetuned from base LLaMA and LLaMA2 that we release. We include a 4k Giraffe and 16k Giraffe fine...
- spaCy ยท Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing in Pythonspacy.io spaCy ยท Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing in Python
spaCy is a free open-source library for Natural Language Processing in Python. It features NER, POS tagging, dependency parsing, word vectors and more.
- GitHub - facebookresearch/audiocraft: Audiocraft is a library for audio processing and generation with deep learning. It features the state-of-the-art EnCodec audio compressor / tokenizer, along withgithub.com GitHub - facebookresearch/audiocraft: Audiocraft is a library for audio processing and generation with deep learning. It features the state-of-the-art EnCodec audio compressor / tokenizer, along with MusicGen, a simple and controllable music generation LM with textual and melodic conditioning.
Audiocraft is a library for audio processing and generation with deep learning. It features the state-of-the-art EnCodec audio compressor / tokenizer, along with MusicGen, a simple and controllable...
- GitHub - danswer-ai/danswer: Ask Questions in natural language and get Answers backed by private sources. Connects to tools like Slack, GitHub, Confluence, etc.github.com GitHub - danswer-ai/danswer: Ask Questions in natural language and get Answers backed by private sources. Connects to tools like Slack, GitHub, Confluence, etc.
Ask Questions in natural language and get Answers backed by private sources. Connects to tools like Slack, GitHub, Confluence, etc. - GitHub - danswer-ai/danswer: Ask Questions in natural language ...