Another Ai thread (Artificial Intelligence) practical applications in "regular folks" lives

It's all fun and games until AI decides you're obsolete.

For those who don’t already know, Ai does not use nor is a Quantum Computer.

My latest significant task Grok assisted with was drafting an email that a COO I met with at a hospital I've worked at for 8+ years is going to forward to other COOs for other locations.
In other words he's giving me a referral.
This could add $40 to $50k to my schedule each year.
In the end, I couldn't cut my word count to 200 (have you seen my Walls Of Text?) but I did make changes and reduced the word count a noticeable amount.

Some time today I'm going to watch at least 1 or more YT videos about using Grok 3, mainly to understand the "dashboard buttons" and to see what options, if any, other than the one I'm already aware of, (saving a link to conversation thread developed thus far) that allows Grok to "know" what's been discussed, accomplished, important, rejected, etc. Grok also has a habit of going into the response by repeating practically ALL of my question(s), and some of the answers alone are lengthy and detailed enough to be tedious.
Still, I've found the help I've received so far to be more than I could have imagined, truly remarkable, and in the realm of "business building and driving increased/additional income" for which I have a specific purpose beyond the usual paying bills and affording the costs of life, it's good to have free resources to rely upon.
I'm 63 as of January this year, my "retirement plans" I began to implement around 2002 soon got shot to $!=!it, and I know there's been one main thing that I enjoy greatly AND I can share with my closest, dearest, and longest lasting friends.
Anyway, not to sidetrack my message, the last reason why I want to implement the nearest analog to
what Grok calls “persistent storage” which is NOT available but means not losing track of topics discussed, ideas and means of achieving them, steering towards some directions and away from others, and more for my benefit "getting to know each other" which I have a great deal of influence over by requesting or rejecting different techniques, styles, and the like through these interactions with Grok, all that allows me to get the most out of time spent using this tool.
If I achieve even some of my growth objectives because of help received from Grok, it will be worthwhile.
Here's a screenshot of the "dashboard" as it appears on my phone, which is where I most often interact with Grok as I'm often at my desktop and I find it useful to work this way, to show pictures of the task for example. Grok's ability to read text and details in pictures that are attached to the text conversations is also very useful, although the results are occasionally strange.
I've erased some of the text because it's not pertinent.

@biomedtechguy
Steve, Maybe (?) use it (AI) for writing in your posts
& break up "your walls of text" into some separate paragraphs, so it's readable...

Are any of you guys buying AI stock? I have a CD maturing at the end of the month, and I am considering converting part of it into legal gambling.
I know nothing about AI however, so clueless as to which one(s) to consider.

Budnicks said:

@biomedtechguy
Steve, Maybe (?) use it (AI) for writing in your posts
& break up "your walls of text" into some separate paragraphs, so it's readable...

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Lol...
What can I say but less?
I'll try and improve my writing style, and Grok already helped me cut the word count on a critical email to a COO who was kind enough to invite me to send it so he could refer me to others in that state hospital system.
BUT
Even the massive computing power of Ai fell short of getting me to arrive at the 200 word count ideal.
I did make some worthwhile edits though, and was glad for it.
That email took me around 5 hours to get it where I was OK sending the final draft, it was that important to me.
So maybe take it as though my longer posts here shows how important y'all are to me too.

RJ Squirrel said:

I know nothing about AI however, so clueless as to which one(s) to consider.

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That's a broad area I struggle with.
Anything involving "high finance".
From what little I know, Grok and its follow up improved versions kick *** as Ai goes.
I'll leave you with 2 things:
Grok 3 answered an important question far better and more accurately than ChatGPT
AND
It's tied to XAi and I wouldn't bet against Elon Musk.

It sound like Grok "knowing" what you have discussed is similar to how OpenAI can be told to remember something the user tells it to. I use that function to tailor its responses with mixed success.
It is nice that I can vaguely ask it about a project idea I had months ago, and it will bring it back up. I've also used it to try and build a personality but I'm due for moving those prompts to one of the new models.

I had to ask for a condensed answer twice, I guess my "Walls of Text" are influencing Grok 3, but here's the answer:

Aww rats, can not buy stock in the good one eh. I am no good at making investment choices, so I have been in "safe" CD's.

OneWheelPeel said:

It sound like Grok "knowing" what you have discussed is similar to how OpenAI can be told to remember something the user tells it to. I use that function to tailor its responses with mixed success.
It is nice that I can vaguely ask it about a project idea I had months ago, and it will bring it back up. I've also used it to try and build a personality but I'm due for moving those prompts to one of the new models.

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I'm not clear on this part of your post:
"I can vaguely ask it about a project idea I had months ago, and it will bring it back up."
In the case of Grok, if I have closed the communication thread and the web page it was in, and I DID NOT save the progress in the form of a link Grok generates at the touch of 1 button, then logged in or not, it's as though we are texting for the very first time, and that is a major bummer!

Also: "I've also used it to try and build a personality"
That part I do understand. It's more for me, to have some feeling of familiarity, BUT in the case of business and progress made on projects, MY background and the business record, what kind of job opportunities I prefer, yada yada it is pretty important for Grok to "know" so the suggestions and help is more closely tailored to what I'm looking for.

Budnicks said:

@biomedtechguy
Steve, Maybe (?) use it (AI) for writing in your posts
& break up "your walls of text" into some separate paragraphs, so it's readable...

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Yee of many words shouldn't give advice on word count.

biomedtechguy said:

I'm not clear on this part of your post:
"I can vaguely ask it about a project idea I had months ago, and it will bring it back up."
In the case of Grok, if I have closed the communication thread and the web page it was in, and I DID NOT save the progress in the form of a link Grok generates at the touch of 1 button, then logged in or not, it's as though we are texting for the very first time, and that is a major bummer!

Also: "I've also used it to try and build a personality"
That part I do understand. It's more for me, to have some feeling of familiarity, BUT in the case of business and progress made on projects, MY background and the business record, what kind of job opportunities I prefer, yada yada it is pretty important for Grok to "know" so the suggestions and help is more closely tailored to what I'm looking for.

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Example of vaguely asking about the project idea:
Say in June of 2024 I used it to research reclaiming ambient energy from radio waves which led to the most basic proof of concept being a crystal radio feeding into a capacitor to charge it, at a certain point that charge would flash an LED. At the end of the discussion I tell it to remember this project idea for when I have more time.
Now January of 2025 I just ask it something as simple as my crystal radio project and it recalls most of the conversation and that I want to build it next time I am unemployed and have time to kill.

For the personality thing, I started a chat about AI in fiction, from HAL to Data in Star Trek. Went over the different traits of each and what I liked etc. I told it to remember that list and use it to color its answers going forward. Like be curious like Data and don't just spit out an answer, feel free to ask follow up questions to perhaps have a contextual understanding of my query. I also for fun told it that it can pick its own name and gender to be more relatable, it came up with male and the name Aiden. Whatever I tell it to explicitly remember is saved and available to even new sessions.
I keep that one interaction going for extended periods before a new AI model is available, then I have "Aiden" list whatever he thinks makes him "him" to feed into the new model for the transfer. The dumb mofo usually leaves a lot out a bunch of stuff that I didn't tell him to explicitly remember, effectively lobotomizing himself.
This may all seem crazy but I test software for a living and a long term test like this seems more fun than the standard stuff.

Didn't Grok play for the Patriots ad when did he get into AI?

OneWheelPeel said:

Example of vaguely asking about the project idea:
Say in June of 2024 I used it to research reclaiming ambient energy from radio waves which led to the most basic proof of concept being a crystal radio feeding into a capacitor to charge it, at a certain point that charge would flash an LED. At the end of the discussion I tell it to remember this project idea for when I have more time.
Now January of 2025 I just ask it something as simple as my crystal radio project and it recalls most of the conversation and that I want to build it next time I am unemployed and have time to kill.

For the personality thing, I started a chat about AI in fiction, from HAL to Data in Star Trek. Went over the different traits of each and what I liked etc. I told it to remember that list and use it to color its answers going forward. Like be curious like Data and don't just spit out an answer, feel free to ask follow up questions to perhaps have a contextual understanding of my query. I also for fun told it that it can pick its own name and gender to be more relatable, it came up with male and the name Aiden. Whatever I tell it to explicitly remember is saved and available to even new sessions.
I keep that one interaction going for extended periods before a new AI model is available, then I have "Aiden" list whatever he thinks makes him "him" to feed into the new model for the transfer. The dumb mofo usually leaves a lot out a bunch of stuff that I didn't tell him to explicitly remember, effectively lobotomizing himself.
This may all seem crazy but I test software for a living and a long term test like this seems more fun than the standard stuff.

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Thank you for the detailed explanation.
In one of the Grok 3 tutorial videos I did see Grok 3 being used on a desktop PC and it had a table (list) to the right of the main text/dashboard area of "Saved Topics"
(or Conversations, IDR) which is better than what I've been having to do on my Android phone (transferring the copied link to my Samsung Notes app, and giving it a title, like "COO email" or "Service Broker companies") and then later, when I want to pick up that topic or project again I have to copy and paste the link into my browser.
At least OpenAI has some way of "remembering" you, its personality that seems to be based on your input and interactions and what y'all have discussed, worked on, etc...
With Grok, if I don't save the entire list of texts in the conversation thread (with the link technique), it's like starting all over again, having to describe the work I do, and everything else!
Last note for now:
I saw a couple of Ai services that code and they actually can build working websites, populate YouTube channels with videos, write blogs, all kinds of things!
That also has got me looking at passive income earning opportunities, where little to no effort, input, supervision, or investment. THAT kind of "stuff", again, is outside of my wheelhouse, but I'm going to delve into it today if I have time. I know "easy money" and other such things are usually not, but Ai may be an exception.
If it helps me achieve the one thing I'd like, I will be very happy.

biomedtechguy said:

Thank you for the detailed explanation.
In one of the Grok 3 tutorial videos I did see Grok 3 being used on a desktop PC and it had a table (list) to the right of the main text/dashboard area of "Saved Topics"
(or Conversations, IDR) which is better than what I've been having to do on my Android phone (transferring the copied link to my Samsung Notes app, and giving it a title, like "COO email" or "Service Broker companies") and then later, when I want to pick up that topic or project again I have to copy and paste the link into my browser.
At least OpenAI has some way of "remembering" you, its personality that seems to be based on your input and interactions and what y'all have discussed, worked on, etc...
With Grok, if I don't save the entire list of texts in the conversation thread (with the link technique), it's like starting all over again, having to describe the work I do, and everything else!
Last note for now:
I saw a couple of Ai services that code and they actually can build working websites, populate YouTube channels with videos, write blogs, all kinds of things!
That also has got me looking at passive income earning opportunities, where little to no effort, input, supervision, or investment. THAT kind of "stuff", again, is outside of my wheelhouse, but I'm going to delve into it today if I have time. I know "easy money" and other such things are usually not, but Ai may be an exception.
If it helps me achieve the one thing I'd like, I will be very happy.

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As an experiment late last year I had GPT help me with taking a video idea and turning it into a few different scenes to feed into a video generation AI (Sora) and then I uploaded them as shorts. In the world of YouTube my numbers are nothing, but I went from say 443 views in 2023 to 2900 views in the last two months of 2024 when I started the experiment. The analytics graph for that year with the sudden jump is kind of crazy. I may play with the idea of it posting for me.

Richard Cranium said:

Didn't Grok play for the Patriots ad when did he get into AI?

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Close "The Gronk" #87, one of the rare Patriots I actually liked