It's high time I mention large language models here.
I'm sure you're aware, or have heard of them, however large language models are a transformer based approach of using Machine Learning, trained on large large corpuses of text, (think all of reddit, or all of youtube captions,etc). Which now are able to answer a considerable number of questions. (Including coding/etc).
Ignoring all the ethical concerns (which of course there are lots, and we can talk about them later).
Here's where things get fun. I wanted to talk about unusual (to me) cases of LLM's I've used. So here goes!
1. I have asked LLM's to build me a playlist of songs that are popular for various times. (And subsequently asked it to write code to search my library for songs, which it failed to find well, I may try again with a local LLM and pass the song names in as groups, and see if that does better).
2. Upload a picture of my shirt, ask it to give me ideas how to tweak it with cricut iron-on's to make it unique, but also fit the theme.
3. Plan out stops or recommend places to visit for a trip. (Basically a trip advisor)
4. I used ChatGPT to figure out what airports to fly out of for various universities. (As part of my Conferenceships Chair Role for acsac.org)
5. Make lots of little apps. Ever googled QR code generator? How about extracting audio from a video? Yep pretty easy with ChatGPT to create a basic server and front end.
6. Rewrite Christmas songs to be silly?
7. Double Check doctor diagnosis/supplemental questions for doctors visit!
8. Aid in making a commercial detection algo using ffmpeg
9. Copy/Pasted a schedule into ChatGPT and asked for a ics (calendar) file....and surprise it worked great!
10. Asked it to plan out my lawn care activities for the year, and make a calendar file to load to my phone so I know when to do what!
What else do you use it for?
