Artificial Intelligence or A.I. is with us whether we like it or not. We can choose to ignore it and hope we never need it, or we can embrace it and find out what it can do for us. I’m very much on the fence on this subject, but I thought it might be interesting to learn if people are using it and how.
So I’ve had some fun using it to try out some mods on my MX-5. Here’s some examples…
Love to hear if others have tried using AI for similar purposes.
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I am guessing CORGI home plan Chat is probably AI sadly when I tried to use it, it told me it is only working 9 - 5. How the other half live while my 90 y.o. man freezes his dangly bits off 
While it has its uses I find the associated environmental load concerning.
… and we haven’t even got started on a proper Dyson Sphere yet
True, it is of concern. But could not AI be used to promote energy savings through improving efficiency?
I recently had a very long and productive chat with ChatGPT about how much malic acid I would need to add to my very hard Cotswold tap water to neutralise the calcium carbonate and how that would affect the pH of the water. This was for the final rinse when washing the car to mitigate drying marks.
ChatGPT did all the molar calculations for me that I left behind decades ago at A level chemistry and the upshot was 5g of malic acid in 10 litres of water was a good compromise. It appears to work.
(Malic acid because I bought a canister of it ages ago for home brewing, but have only used a little bit. The figures for citric acid worked out about the same)
Professionally I’ve been using it to map a supply chain for about 80,000 products. I use it every day in my job as a workflow solution. If the supply chain idea comes off (so far looking good), I have a £1m product. Without AI, I think the concept would be impossible to achieve. AI Hallucinations are still a problem though, which you tackle by restricting the sources.
2 years ago, we had a thread running of AI generated MX5s; a bit a fun. It showed how much things have progressed. Those of us who dabble have become used to prompts
(ignore the perjorative AI-generated tagline that the forum software I think generated).
And now.
That was easy to achieve, with a simple prompt.
Not quite there;
From this
To this, give it a 4 out of 10.
Recently used it to plan a roadtrip round Ireland. Did a great job as a starting point for planning the trip.
Just home from a US road trip- we hired a RAV4.
The dash display told me the pre-collision system was defective and to clean the ‘radar sensor’.
Chat GPT told me that the Toyota badge on the front grille is in fact the radar sensor ‘window’ and I was then able to clean it thoroughly.
Didn’t sort out the issue- but at least it told me where the radar sensor was located 
Might be wrong but I have a feeling AI was/is used to enhance MRI scans? I had 2 scans same day 3 weeks back and was knocked off the Remission status as a 3d scan cluster of rogue cancer cells were spotted in the back of my pelvis for which I’m getting the Beatson Clinic’s favourite sport of 5 days Tazer the wee Sh*ts by Radiography next week. It works by hunting out the bad cells, leaves everythimg else, and destroying the cancer’s DNA It’s a brand new machine…was under it for 40 mins. There’s a cracking new MacDonalds across the road so that’s my next stop.
Sod it! Now the Big Battle begins. Bring it on!
You mean you ordered the Big Mac? 
(good luck with the treatment though, hope it does its job).
Almost all of these AI things seem to want nVidia GPUs since they rely on cuda (in terms of running them locally on your own PC) and I don’t tend to want to register etc. with most of the sites.
So these days my AI interactions are just whatever the search engines decide to give as an answer, even when I’m not even asking a question but just looking for a specific site (in fact at one point recently the answer it gave was spectacularly wrong - can’t even remember my search now just that I was site searching not looking for a specific bit of info).
Onwards and upwards! 
Hope so!
the woman sitting in the back seat of the NB MX-5 pretty much sums up how useless AI can be lol.
She may have reduced leg room, but she got off more lightly than the poor man who got turned into a seat back cushion 
No idea what I am doing, but I have something on my phone called Pixel studio, I guess thats AI?
Asked it for a MX-5 ND made of lego, thats about my creative limit.
Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery 
Whatever spotted it then well done it … now it’s up to the new zap machine! I know your mental strength is good for it 
Nevertheless positive wishes from the North East.
