Maybe the issue is figuring out a good work flow for getting AI assistance when answering a question. My assumption is that the point is to use AI to help answer other people’s questions, not to have people visit a forum to just chat with its AI bot.
Say I’ve gotten this far in responding to a topic and would like to use AI as a sounding board. I’m not seeing an obvious way of doing that:
Clicking any of the other header buttons works, but clicking the AI button doesn’t do anything.
What I normally do in this situation is go to ChatGPT, and start a conversation by telling it that I’m trying to help someone with a problem they’ve reported on a forum. I then incorporate the results of that conversation into my answer. I think Discourse could provide similar functionality.
It might be worth noting that I’m also reluctant to use AI on a forum because I’d prefer my chats to be private. One of the values of chatting with AI is that there’s no shame, and lots of utility, in admitting to what you don’t know.
Edit: if clicking the “start AI conversation” button opened a chat window instead of started a new PM, I’d be all for keeping it where it is. That way I could keep doing whatever I was doing on the forum, but with AI assistance.