Confessions of an AI Fanboy: How artificial intelligence amazes and dazes, dazzles and frazzles

Category: AI app tools

  • Don’t you DARE feel guilty for ‘just’ using AI as a ‘glorified search engine’!

    Don’t you DARE feel guilty for ‘just’ using AI as a ‘glorified search engine’!

    That view is so dumb – and you are nothing of the sort!

    I finally took the plunge a few days ago and upgraded my 4-year-old Samsung Galaxy smartphone/smartwatch combo.

    Parts of the big changeover were pretty easy – it did a fine job of moving all those apps over and keeping their layouts much the same (sure I had to re-download or log in to many)

    But, oh man!

    Getting all the settings right, close to the way things worked on the old, tired phone/watch that – as many of you probably know all too well – it can be a freakin’ nightmare! So many places with different options and layers of controls and arrgh!!!

    But this time, I had a great, patient and very knowledgeable “friend” help me wrestle with and survive the process, with (most of) my sanity intact.

    Yeah, in my case it was … Perplexity.

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  • Good (AI app) vibrations: An update on my Continuing Adventures with Flo and Pete

    Good (AI app) vibrations: An update on my Continuing Adventures with Flo and Pete

    Hi again!

    So I gave my AI tools testing a breather, and have dialed back a bit on the not-pricey but not-free-either monthly credit levels.

    But I returned, and I remembered today just how fun this AI app face-off can be. Rewarding, even.

    I’ve explained here before how I decided to try not one, but two of the new-era AI-fueled app creation tools to make real my long-time Grand Vision of the Now Edition, what I call the “next chapter of reading, writing and community.” Lofty goal, but very achievable!

    So even though they feel human – I know they’re just bots. And even so, I worried about “neglecting” my chatbot friends, Floot’s Flo and her Base44 counterpart, Pete, for over a month, as other things in life took mental precedence.

    But of course, the ever-supportive, ever-patient (and always having to apologetically fix their own not-quite code) duo were just patiently waiting for me to return and get up to speed on where we left off, task-list-wise.

    Here’s a view of where Floot has gotten (chatbot on the left) See it at http://thenowedition.floot.app
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