Where do you get your AI?

This is great. Thank you!

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Tell me about Grok. I’ve never used it. It is better than paid ChatGPT for helping with editing?

I signed up for the paid ChatGPT Plus recently as well, partially to use more of the voice chat feature while driving and part because of Apple’s integration.

As mentioned above, the macOS app is fantastic and I’m using it extensively. I will start conversations with it on my phone while driving and ask questions, bounce ideas off it, and do light research.

Not to derail the conversation, but I was hoping the ChatGPT integration with Apple Intelligence would be better. I still find myself using the ChatGPT app for most functions. While Siri will give me some of the responses from it, the presentation window and ability to copy/paste and use the data is far more limited.

Now that AirPod Pro voice isolation works so well, I often go for bike rides and chat away with ChatGPT in advanced voice mode. I did that this morning, and it’s a really helpful way of solving problems. It’s my version of journaling, I guess.

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This thread made me dive down a half-remembered rabbit hole about the “Eliza effect” and particularly Sherry Turkle’s explorations of the psychology of interacting with computers - all long before LLMs.

As she often suggested, there are dangers in our innate tendency to respond to anything complex (like computer interaction) as if it is a person (with empathy, understanding and shared experience) - it may lead us to decisions, emotions and behaviours based on what is ultimately a delusion or even worse, is set up to work on us psychologically to lower our resistance to advertising or propaganda.

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OK I have to say it, from my veterinarian or vet. tech. I’ve been reading up on the latest research and protocols and so AI to me right now only means artificial insemination.

:grinning: :sheep: :ram:

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Tried many, rarely use any. My most common interactions are those foisted on me by Google Search results. Summaries are often useful, but also often inaccurate.

OpenRouter.ai for the win: pay as you go and you can task multiple models with the same job and compare / compile results. Honestly, I’ve sent in some somewhat large tasks, and it’s just pennies to have the work done. And the list of available models is impressive.

That noted, while getting started is very easy, tweaking settings is not readily apparent.

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Earlier I was using chatgpt but now i mostly use perplexity, i feel that perplexity is more factually accurate. I had some encounters of false fact with chatgpt. Also i like spaces in perplexity which helps you to organise you threads according to your topic or group. You can try with different AI platforms to find good one for you.

Another vote for OpenRouter, cheap as hell.

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