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[steve1978]

Is anyone using Chatgpt or similar to ask questions around vehicles? 

 

I am finding it incredible!!

 

I have it running on my server at home and i have sent it a link to the forum, Now when i ask a question about a mini in conversational format it answers me in conversational format but the answers are based around the forum posts....

 

mind blown!

[DeadSquare]

Well, I'll take my hat off to it, if it knows how the "Search Feature" works on here.

[Avtovaz]

ive been using it for the last few weeks, it is absolutely amazing. I asked it about a problem im having with my mothers ill health, and first comment was " sorry to hear about your mothers condition " ;) But the first thing i asked it was about davis craig water pumps, i dont liek the controllers, and im thinking of doing my own on an arduino. The reply was amazing, not only a reply to the point, but it generated some code to run, and even how to wire it. 

 

it is a bit turning point for me, as in i struggle searching for things, or knowing how to ask for things, this chat is amazing...

[mini-mad-mark]

Hopefully I'm not the only person  who hasn't the faintest idea what you guys are talking about.....

[Avtovaz]

Hopefully I'm not the only person  who hasn't the faintest idea what you guys are talking about.....

 

 

 

https://chatgpt.com/

 

 

 

log in, there is no adds, there is nothing but ask it -->anything<-- it will be able to help you.

[Steam]

I thought rhat this forum did all that. No need to go to a third party to ask on this forum, just ask away.

[Avtovaz]

no it comes straight up with answers, you dont have to sift threw pages of people guessing, or the worst i find when people are post hunting. All forums should not have a post count imho.

[greenwheels]

If nobody uses the forum it will die.

[Spider]

I think it could be quite a trap taking the human element out of it. While it might take it;s answers from the forum, does it really know in intimate detail the quirks of your particular model mini and so is the answers it's giving even 1/2 way right ?

Withe posting the forum, little gets past 'the keeper' here as there's quite a lot of knowledgeable eyes, ears and heads working as a real world collective.

And then what happens in a short while when we all start using AI and the forum falls by the way side ?  Where do the answers - good or bad - come from there ?

 

The world is headed in the wrong direction.

[sonscar]

I'm with spider,useful tools soon can become terrible masters.How some people ridiculed the thought of "skynet"taking over the world?Without human element to police the rhetoric who is to say that it is factually correct?
Laugh at me if you like as I am in my late afternoon years,but I have concerns for the future of my grandchildren.
Sorry to go off topic.Steve..

[beardylondon]

I kinda agree with Spider re: human element….but the fact that as this forum exists in the first place, is how the AI can learn from all the information stored. So yes it’s important it continues to exist, however by employing Machine learning (Ai) it can trawl through the thousands / millions of pages of this forum and many others, and YouTube videos, comments and books etc, and find the information quicker than a manual search (we all know how bad the search function is, and that a google search of “theminiforum” followed by your query is far better for example) and try to interpret into a meaningful and helpful output. Granted at this stage sometimes it gets it wrong, but as has been said it above, it does work. It’s only going to get better and more helpful, as long as the inputs are worthwhile and correct.

30 years ago there were elements of society who were ******* scared of the internet, so I just see Ai as an extension to that really, albeit one that needs to be monitored so we don’t end up in Terminator 2. I’ll be back….

[stoneface]

I've not used it myself yet, and I'm in no hurry too.

 

Surely AI is only as good as the information it finds or is given. So how can you trust it's found or generated the correct answer. You certainly can't rely on the truth from the internet.

 

I've know of people using it to generate their university course work. And teachers using it to generate 40 different student school reports based on some set boundries entered.

[PoolGuy]

I had a brief look into it, and while it appears very clever on the surface, ask it a question about something that you know about in incredible detail, you’ll soon see the limitations. Then ask yourself what it really knows about the subject that you’re casually asking it about. Having said that, it obviously will improve with time.

[IronmanG]

Yes. I've been using it a lot in the last couple of months regarding port volumes , diameters and velocities. Relationships between torque and air speed, and valve diameters and port diameters. Very interesting stuff. To the point where this winter the cylinder head is coming off and I'm going to try and make a few adjustments

Edited by IronmanG, 03 August 2024 - 05:16 PM.

[floormanager]

I still use contact points, all this is way over my head