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

OneWheelPeel said:
Let us know if you do that, buy an already monetized channel and the whole process. I know its possible but a first hand account would be interesting.
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This morning I'm following up to implement my Recurring Monthly Revenue (RMR) plans I'm working with Grok to get ideas for and then launch.
First thing was to setup a new Gmail account dedicated to all of these projects and to use to sign in at multiple sites for social media, free web services that Ai can use to develop them, and so on.
I applied to get an invitation code for ManusAi using the info Grok suggested to maximize the chances of being approved, and quickly. FYI ManusAi has a rare capability to automate development of all kinds of "digital stuff" like YouTube shorts videos, digital manuals to sell online, and on and on.
I also setup new social media accounts on X and TikTok (for now) strictly for the purposes of driving web traffic to whatever products I launch (again, YouTube videos, shorts, digital "How To ___" manuals, and so on). I did that before I completed the ManusAi form because it's a question it asks.

Look, I've already found Ai helpful for my business of 9+ years, but while Ai is still relatively new and has FREE access, and before more and more people catch on and these ways of making money have exponential numbers of others crowding the field, I have a specific goal that I want desperately to meet, and if I can you will all know that I succeeded.
Besides, I'm tired of watching the hours and days go by with me wasting time doing stuff like watching TV as a diversion to "relax". I find this Ai stuff fascinating and if it adds to my bank account, I will worry less, and quite possibly, hopefully, be able to once again do things with my free time that I'll have more of, things like spending time with my lifelong best friends all doing stuff we've enjoyed since we were teenagers.
 
This may come as no surprise to anyone on the forum, but at least if you have been reading the posts in this thread I started you either:
Are a forum friend or someone who is following my posts
Or
You have an interest in the topic.
The "no surprise" part is finding anyone I know well to talk to about my progress.
For example, I have already been approved for access to ManusAi! There are people who had to wait days, and some who were never approved.
One thing I'm sure of:
If my goals are met or exceeded the results are going to be appreciated, no tech background required!
 
biomedtechguy said:
This morning I'm following up to implement my Recurring Monthly Revenue (RMR) plans I'm working with Grok to get ideas for and then launch.
First thing was to setup a new Gmail account dedicated to all of these projects and to use to sign in at multiple sites for social media, free web services that Ai can use to develop them, and so on.
I applied to get an invitation code for ManusAi using the info Grok suggested to maximize the chances of being approved, and quickly. FYI ManusAi has a rare capability to automate development of all kinds of "digital stuff" like YouTube shorts videos, digital manuals to sell online, and on and on.
I also setup new social media accounts on X and TikTok (for now) strictly for the purposes of driving web traffic to whatever products I launch (again, YouTube videos, shorts, digital "How To ___" manuals, and so on). I did that before I completed the ManusAi form because it's a question it asks.

Look, I've already found Ai helpful for my business of 9+ years, but while Ai is still relatively new and has FREE access, and before more and more people catch on and these ways of making money have exponential numbers of others crowding the field, I have a specific goal that I want desperately to meet, and if I can you will all know that I succeeded.
Besides, I'm tired of watching the hours and days go by with me wasting time doing stuff like watching TV as a diversion to "relax". I find this Ai stuff fascinating and if it adds to my bank account, I will worry less, and quite possibly, hopefully, be able to once again do things with my free time that I'll have more of, things like spending time with my lifelong best friends all doing stuff we've enjoyed since we were teenagers.
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The section I bolded pretty much always described me. Yes I watch TV but even as a kid I rarely just watched TV, I also would read something at the same time or work on some computer related thing. That primed me to fall into a tech career at around 29 (in my 50s now) and I always learned new tricks, last couple of years AI has helped me bridge the gap to some extent where while I am highly technical but I am a talentless developer. I've made things at work with it that gave real dev's a quick oh **** moment because they never thought to build it.

Also a properly educated dev may not have the skills to duct tape and bubble gum different technologies together to make something work, I do and think to ask AI about that approach and the taping begins.

I'll look forward to the updates, no idea if at some point I will copy anything but part of what made me a tech guy was just wanting to know things even if I don't apply them.
 
OneWheelPeel said:
I'll look forward to the updates
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Thanks. I figured you were still hanging in there on this thread.
I understand why there's little interest on this forum, but that's also a reason why what I'm doing is giving me an edge, in some areas more than others.
It may just be there are "basement dwelling 20-somethings" that are far better at doing the things I'll be trying because of the generation each of us are in.
I'm going to rely on:
¹God's Grace and Blessings
because He is the only reason I'm sucking air, and while it's been true since my first breath, I have had 63 years to appreciate our relationship.
²Entrepreneurial spirit
After having worked for others in Audio/Video and Home Theater for 13 years, I started my own A/V HT business in 2003, and ran with it for 6 solid years.
When it was tapering down I came across an article on Biomedical Tech jobs in US News and World Report and they tagged it as a solid career path. Referring back to my #1 reliance, there "just so happened" to be a 2 year Associate of Applied Science-Biomed Tech degree program at my local Community College, and it was a great school with great teachers and at 49 years old, I had a whole different outlook on being a student.
Again, I was blessed to learn quickly that landing a job with GE Healthcare, one of THE biggest biomed corporations on earth, that some would consider the "brass ring", only served to make me aware quickly that I was not a good match for the soul and life devouring monster that it, and many other corporations are. Still lining up with the miraculous path that I recognized but couldn't have orchestrated, the privately owned biomed company I did my schoolwork's mandatory internship with was my next employer after GE, and after only 3 years there what I learned and experienced would position me to start my own Biomed Tech business and here I am after 9+ years using Ai for growing it in ways I am not good at thinking up or implementing.
AND
Now I'm also leveraging Ai to develop independent no to low cost income streams.

And the Ai part of the story was all from one political personality suggesting his audience "check it out"...
 
Your jump to bio med reminds me a bit how I jumped into tech. I didn't have to do any additional education but I literally went from being a security guard standing in a dodge dealer parking lot all night to being a contractor at a big semiconductor company two weeks later. Quite a jump into a different world.

What made the jump was I played with web design back in 1999 and everyone felt they needed a page, either personal or a company needed an "intranet" page. I had an in at the company who I kept helping for free so they hired me, then 2 days later someone at that company asked if I could make a site for their parents business, from guarding Dodge Neons to having two clients for web design. Then two weeks later the semi company really liked my work ethic and asked if I would be interested in doing QA since they had zero QA in their division, I said yes not even knowing what it entailed.
Several companies later but still a SW QA, I liked to think being flexible and working hard paid off somewhat. It certainly wasn't because I had a career plan!
 
OneWheelPeel said:
I didn't have to do any additional education
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I'm being more accurate saying what I learned in my 2 years of "Trade School" added to or gave me greater understanding of what I already knew. I definitely learned more stuff. I haven't used much of it but I had to earn that degree to be "official".
 
Yeah make sense, and I should also say I had no FORMAL additional education. Always been self taught and just continued that, buts it neverending education.
 
So last week I had too many days fall victim to "Time Vampires", a term I saw today that perfectly describes about 3 days last week. It all involved packing up 5 ESUs that are heavy, bulky, yet susceptible to shipping damage if not packed well. I made a deal w/another biomed company I've used before to trade 4 of them I was given by a client in exchange for all shipping, repairing and doing a PM on the 5th one for another client rather than me having to pay for those services to be performed. The 4 "redonated" units all require some level of repair, and all 4 need PMs (Planned Maintenance). They weigh about 20 pounds each. I rarely ship OUT anything, and I was trying to use boxes and packing materials I've saved. I still had to buy 1 large box, a roll of bubble wrap, and clear packing tape from Home Depot and just that was $40!!
So before posting this turns into another Time Vampire I'll get to my point: I wanted to at least start to develop and then launch an app last week, but later today I'll finally get to start. I missed the peak of my app riding the tail coats of the "dire wolf" rebirth social media and web search frenzy, although I will still hashtag it and get some additional exposure from it, but if I could have gotten my app built and launched within a week of having the idea, it literally could have gone viral because of the timing and how its features relate.
Instead of hearing the same 30 minutes of crap repeated over and over again on the "news" this morning, I watched some YouTube videos about leveraging Ai for the broad purposes I have planned.
I have realized that this thread isn't just going to be about Ai and how it impacts my life and also all of YOURS whether you take an active or passive role, but it's organically going to have some entrepreneurial and time management aspects to it, including lifestyle facets as well.
I'm still using Ai to generate ways to grow my medical equipment repair and service business, which was the focus that quickly developed once I first began to interact with Ai, but a major part of my future interactions will be utilizing Ai to generate recurring revenue through other means that Ai is uniquely or exclusively adept at doing.
Any one of you who don't have concerns about your financial status may not relate to that, but I learned one of my hardest life lessons in being caught in a vulnerable situation because of being relatively content in just getting by, riding high when I had one or a string of high paying jobs that gave me more resources, aka money, to draw on for recurring bills as well as leisure activities, but then having to grind it out, stressing over making my payments and covering basic necessities when I'd hit a dip in income or have an unusual problem develop, like my AC condenser go out and needing to buy a new one.
I know I'm opening myself up to scrutiny and that some may judge me irresponsible, but I'm working on improving that in as many ways that I can, as quickly as possible, without destroying my soul or love of life by becoming some worn out, beat down slave to the rigors of income generation in the form of trading what hours I may have left in my life for the things that money can buy.
Besides, not many people are likely to read this thread on a regular basis, but for those who do I hope it helps you in the ways you need the most.
One last note or I'll forget: I got some ideas on how to get more and better productivity out of my interactions with Ai by describing the role(s) I need it to play whether it's just for one or several responses or over the course of an entire project, and by making adjustments to its function for specific "texts" that I send. Whether it's "project manager" or "research specialist" and when giving it extra time to do its task will result in an equally better outcome. That is a step beyond my already having recognized early on that when I make some effort to carefully word or structure my questions or requests for actions of the Ai that I'm working with I get a much better result.
 
biomedtechguy said:
So last week I had too many days fall victim to "Time Vampires", a term I saw today that perfectly describes about 3 days last week. It all involved packing up 5 ESUs that are heavy, bulky, yet susceptible to shipping damage if not packed well. I made a deal w/another biomed company I've used before to trade 4 of them I was given by a client in exchange for all shipping, repairing and doing a PM on the 5th one for another client rather than me having to pay for those services to be performed. The 4 "redonated" units all require some level of repair, and all 4 need PMs (Planned Maintenance). They weigh about 20 pounds each. I rarely ship OUT anything, and I was trying to use boxes and packing materials I've saved. I still had to buy 1 large box, a roll of bubble wrap, and clear packing tape from Home Depot and just that was $40!!
So before posting this turns into another Time Vampire I'll get to my point: I wanted to at least start to develop and then launch an app last week, but later today I'll finally get to start. I missed the peak of my app riding the tail coats of the "dire wolf" rebirth social media and web search frenzy, although I will still hashtag it and get some additional exposure from it, but if I could have gotten my app built and launched within a week of having the idea, it literally could have gone viral because of the timing and how its features relate.
Instead of hearing the same 30 minutes of crap repeated over and over again on the "news" this morning, I watched some YouTube videos about leveraging Ai for the broad purposes I have planned.
I have realized that this thread isn't just going to be about Ai and how it impacts my life and also all of YOURS whether you take an active or passive role, but it's organically going to have some entrepreneurial and time management aspects to it, including lifestyle facets as well.
I'm still using Ai to generate ways to grow my medical equipment repair and service business, which was the focus that quickly developed once I first began to interact with Ai, but a major part of my future interactions will be utilizing Ai to generate recurring revenue through other means that Ai is uniquely or exclusively adept at doing.
Any one of you who don't have concerns about your financial status may not relate to that, but I learned one of my hardest life lessons in being caught in a vulnerable situation because of being relatively content in just getting by, riding high when I had one or a string of high paying jobs that gave me more resources, aka money, to draw on for recurring bills as well as leisure activities, but then having to grind it out, stressing over making my payments and covering basic necessities when I'd hit a dip in income or have an unusual problem develop, like my AC condenser go out and needing to buy a new one.
I know I'm opening myself up to scrutiny and that some may judge me irresponsible, but I'm working on improving that in as many ways that I can, as quickly as possible, without destroying my soul or love of life by becoming some worn out, beat down slave to the rigors of income generation in the form of trading what hours I may have left in my life for the things that money can buy.
Besides, not many people are likely to read this thread on a regular basis, but for those who do I hope it helps you in the ways you need the most.
One last note or I'll forget: I got some ideas on how to get more and better productivity out of my interactions with Ai by describing the role(s) I need it to play whether it's just for one or several responses or over the course of an entire project, and by making adjustments to its function for specific "texts" that I send. Whether it's "project manager" or "research specialist" and when giving it extra time to do its task will result in an equally better outcome. That is a step beyond my already having recognized early on that when I make some effort to carefully word or structure my questions or requests for actions of the Ai that I'm working with I get a much better result.
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Hit the enter button every so often, shift it to another paragraph
so all of the sentences don't, all run into each other,
so much...
And can you break these up into paragraphs, so it's "more" readable
or inform your AI to do it better, :blah: it's bad penmanship, structure...
Especially if someone was on a phone, it'd be near impossible,
to even read...
I'm on a 19" PC screen & it's hard to read, without getting 'glassed over' eyes
& it may help the readers too, maybe even draw in a few more...

I find it really hard to read, when it's all bunched up like that...
At least in changes of thoughts, in the middle of a post,
maybe do another paragraph...
So it all doesn't just 'run altogether'...

Sorry Bio just a slight critique...
I'm no Eng-Lit 101 professor or a spelling Nazi either...

anyway good luck

Wall of text -holy wall of text Batman-.jpg
 
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Hey @OneWheelPeel
You seem to be the only forum member interested in this thread which I started with the intention of "being informative" vs the other thread on Ai which is more of a "for Ai/against Ai" theme.
But then again this IS "the internet" AND an open forum, so as time goes by it may get more views and may serve as somewhat of a "time capsule"...

Anyway, the Ai I am still using the most is the Ai I used first, Grok 3, mainly because:
¹ I am using the FREE access version, no "free token" allotment like ManusAi has, and while they're two completely different kinds of Ai
² I am familiar with how it works and just as important I know more about how to "work IT" meaning I have a handle on its flaws (Grok LIES about some things, in particular if I mention 'attachments' but either I forget to attach them and send the query or request for something, OR when what I type refers to attachments that I'm about to send, but Grok assumes I attached them, LIES about having reviewed them, and worse still firehoses me with a Wall of Text about how to proceed based on attachments it never got but says it has)....

Anyway I started very early today (early for anyone except @Richard Cranium) trying to get ahead on my Ai leveraged project and I saw right away a new feature of the dashboard that I asked Grok about, although my experience and intuition of what it is was correct. It's called "Workspaces" and there's two key advantages in using it:
¹ It allows you to type in a TITLE that describes the subject or project or some other nomenclature to identify the conversation thread, instead of the thread having some phrase Grok auto-generates to describe it. Even though the auto-generated phrase hasn't been problematic, it still helps to use words or a phrase I have decided to use.
That organization also helps keep the Ai familiar with the subject matter, and as I've said in other posts, I don't have to waste time reintroducing myself, my capabilities, the project, the assets, parameters we have to work within, etc etc.
² In a new section within each Workspace, there's a textbox for "Instructions" which you define the ROLE(s) the Ai has within that particular project. As is the case for every Ai that I've used, if you take the time to define the ROLE(s) the Ai has in the collaborative process, the performance, responses, and actions it takes are more focused and useful, and less time is used by not having to keep it aligned with the task at hand. It's also useful in not having to "waste queries" to keep the project on track, because the FREE plan has a query limit that's time based, and it is counterproductive to have to take a break from using Ai when I find I have a few hours to continue working on an Ai leveraged project.

One last note that may be of particular interest: Yesterday I saw a YouTube video that shows a new "photo-to-animation" service that's free and pretty good for taking a still photo of just about anything and by typing in a well designed prompt, you can get up to a two minutes long animated version of the subject of the still photo moving in whatever manner the prompt describes. It's FREE and called "Framepack" that you download on your own computer and it doesn't take some "super duper" computer GPU to utilize, and one of the authors is legendary.
Here's the YouTube video I watched that shows a lot of examples:
 
Thanks, I may play with Framepack this weekend if it will actually run on my machine.

I've been in really boring training the last couple of days, so to stay awake I've been talking to GPT about my next practical SUV and which is quickest, Does Star Trek believe in souls since the transporter kills and clones you, and how to build a roomba type of robot interface for GPT and set up API calls for GPT to control it.
Not super practical but the responses are doing a better job of keeping me awake than the training is :D
 
OneWheelPeel said:
Oops never mind, I don't have any machines that can run Framepack. Still cool tho.
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I have only watched the video. I'm running Windows 10 on my desktop, and my Surface Pro 4 tablet, so what is the problem w/your 'puter running Framepack??
My tablet is probably better re: RAM and processor than my desktop...
 
biomedtechguy said:
they're two completely different kinds of Ai
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I forgot to expand on the difference.
Basically Grok is more of a LLM (LargeLanguageModel) like so MANY other Ai,
BUT ManusAi is a general Ai, and that's HUGE, because it actually DOES THINGS!
Just as an example, if I ask Grok "How do I _____" Grok will tell me how to do it or direct me to services that can, like Proxy Pro (@convergence.ai) which is the first and only (so far) Ai that I've paid for the upgrade. Watching Proxy Pro do up to 20 things at the same time by "spinning up" agents to accomplish their own individual tasks, or ManusAi DO things itself, THAT is where the real power of Ai lies.
 
biomedtechguy said:
I have only watched the video. I'm running Windows 10 on my desktop, and my Surface Pro 4 tablet, so what is the problem w/your 'puter running Framepack??
My tablet is probably better re: RAM and processor than my desktop...
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On the Git repo page it says which GPUs you need, everything I have has a lame built in Intel GPU which isn't on their list.
 
So I have been "at it" all day working on the first project using Ai that I've been planning with Grok for a few weeks now.
I admit the delays and holdups are mostly "on me" BUT it's also in the way Grok works.
One of the big differences today, other than me staying on the job at hand is that new Workspaces feature. Briefly, the "Instructions" text box part of the dashboard of Workspaces allowed me to make clear what Grok's ROLE is, what its various duties are.
Even though the ROLE description for Grok is somewhat broad, mainly due to my lack of skills in the digital creation domain which leaves a lot of hats for Grok to wear, I believe that led to better, more focused responses from Grok and its Instructions for me to follow after each step.
For example I signed up for the 2 week "free trial" advanced capabilities on Bubble, an app building and editing site. I will cancel the upgraded status before I have to pay. The thing is Bubble has an Ai tied to it for app building based on a plain English prompt, so after asking Grok about using the free trial Ai assisted app building feature, Grok wrote the prompt for Bubble and in less than 7 minutes I had an app that I could look at!

I deal with a lot of tech as part of my current regular job, I have dealt with a lot of menus and setup menus, and workflows that I established for me to program Universal Remotes in my previous career in Audio/Video. Even so, dealing with using Ai and all of these web based services like Proxy and Bubble is somewhat challenging, at least to work efficiently and effectively.
I have ZERO doubt that anyone who goes online or leaves their house is going to cross paths with Ai.
I will echo Glenn Beck's suggestion that first nudged me to try Grok:
Get some degree of familiarity with using Ai NOW, because you will be using it soon, whether you want to or not.
 
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