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Weekly AI Activity Summary on meta.discourse.org
March 12 - March 19, 2024
Overview
This week saw a lot of activity and discussion around new AI features in Discourse, including the ability to share AI conversations via public links, a new GitHub helper persona for the AI Bot, and improvements to the AI image captioning feature. There were also questions and troubleshooting around configuring AI providers like OpenAI and Hugging Face’s LLaVa model. Overall, the Discourse team continues to rapidly iterate and expand the AI capabilities of the forum software.
Interesting Topics
- sam announced a new feature to share AI conversations via public links, with access controls announcements new-feature ai ai-bot
- A new GitHub helper persona was added to the AI Bot, allowing it to read pull requests, repository files, and perform repo searches announcements ai ai-bot
- Bathinda ran into issues configuring the AI image captioning feature to use the open-source LLaVa model instead of OpenAI’s paid offering support ai ai-helper
- sp-jordan-violet inquired about options for using alternative AI providers like self-hosted models or Mendable AI dev ai
- Oniel suggested allowing users to see token usage and create their own AI personas as potential new features plugin official ai
- RBoy encountered a rate limit error with Google Gemini after upgrading Discourse support ai
- peyrusse had API calls to OpenAI fail on an intranet Discourse install support ai
- Nadeem asked about adding a new custom chat bot using a self-hosted model endpoint support ai
Activity
- sam was very active, announcing sharing AI conversations publicly, a new GitHub AI helper, and commenting on AI moderation capabilities.
- Falco provided support and guidance on configuring LLaVa for image captioning, hitting API rate limits, and self-hosting open-source language models.
- Bathinda shared their troubleshooting process for enabling AI image captioning and eventually found a solution with help from the community.
- Jagster assisted Bathinda in resolving their image captioning configuration.
- pfaffman also helped Bathinda debug the AI image captioning setup.
- ecki suggested an AI feature to check for similar tags and recommend merging them.
- RBoy encountered and worked to resolve AI summarization failures and sentiment analysis errors after upgrading Discourse.
- Lilly pointed Bathinda to resources on generating API keys for Hugging Face to use with LLaVa.
- JammyDodger clarified which groups have access to topic summarization and how the AI search works.
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you again next week! 