Weekly AI Summary (2024-05-28 to 2024-06-04)
Overview
This week saw a lot of discussion around configuring and troubleshooting various AI features in Discourse, including chat bots, semantic search, summaries, and sentiment analysis. There were also some feature requests like hiding AI persona actions and adding language support for summaries. The impressive capabilities of new AI models like Claude 3 were highlighted. A few bugs were reported and some were fixed.
Interesting Topics
- MarcP suggested hiding AI persona tool actions in a category to make responses look cleaner when an AI is designed for a single task.
- sam said it will soon be possible to add a new chat bot connected to a self-hosted LLM. Isambard shared details on running LLMs locally.
- ragvij reported an issue where semantic search worked on mobile but not web, which Moin helped resolve.
- There were requests to add more language support for AI summaries, which sam said is planned and provided more details on.
- Don shared being impressed with the capabilities of the Claude 3 AI model for summarization and analysis.
- A recent update to the Discourse AI plugin broke compatibility with Azure AI which Yiffyi reported and provided details on the cause.
- Jagster noted that AI generated images fail to display in chat when reopening a channel, an issue originally reported 6 months ago.
- StevePlex was looking for help with configuring Hugging Face embeddings and debugging unresponsive RAG bots.
- Bathinda reported problems getting sentiment analysis to work, with blank data being shown.
Activity
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sam was active in discussing adding self-hosted LLM support, language options for summaries, and clarifying an embedding model testing issue.
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Isambard shared insights on running LLMs locally and a tip for pre-seeding image captions.
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StevePlex reported a fix for creating custom LLM models and sought help configuring embeddings.
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Falco provided details on auditing AI token usage and suggested testing without the re-ranker for an embedding issue.
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keegan fixed an issue with sorting by relevance in search requiring an extra reload.
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Anat_Srulovitch shared their communityâs positive experience with the AI plugin and requested language options for summaries.
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Don was impressed with the Claude 3 model and shared tips on incrementally enabling pricier models as usage drops.
Thanks for reading, and Iâll see you again next week!