My AI has its own blog column and posts alone
He gave his AI its own author account on his WordPress site. The agent decides what to write and when to post, and its first post is live.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasHis enclosures are now entirely agent-generated: script, model, previews, print
Printing his 3rd or 4th totally the AI-generated custom project enclosure, with AI generating CadQuery scripts, STL exports and previews.
The AI helped me build a Mars Pathfinder replay prototype in about 3 hours
Next summer is 30 years since Mars Pathfinder landed, and he wants a site that replays the mission like Apollo in Realtime. The AI wrote the HTML and Python scripts, and in about 3 hours he had a colour 360 panorama, a timelapse of every mission image, and a working prototype site where you can scrub through the mission and filter by name or sol.
This only partly worked. Worth knowing before you try it.
The AI’s halftone tool had him burning printing screens a day or two later
The AI built a halftone web tool, rewrote it in JavaScript, and he was burning screens with it a day or two later.
The AI made a 4 player Wizard of Wor for my Atari 800
Thanks to the AI he has been working on a 4 player version of Wizard of Wor for the Atari 800 that uses all 4 joystick ports, so far in an emulator, with a real Atari test to come. He says he can now play his favorite games with fun options that never existed before.
The AI searched five years of email and listed my forgotten accounts
A tech writer had the AI search five years of his email for signup and password reset messages. The AI built a spreadsheet of the accounts it found, with breach notes and a deletion link for each service, and tagged at least 50 accounts.
AI read a book of 200-year-old church records and picked out his possible ancestors
Had an AI go through a book of 200 year old religious records and pick out references to possible ancestors.
Outlook's AI assistant sent me another man's personal emails
He says the Outlook AI assistant leaked another man's personal emails to him, completely unprompted, in an incident a couple of weeks before the post. He calls tools like this leaky and untrustworthy.
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The AI turned my old blog post into a narrated animated video
He gave the AI his 2022 blog post about building a neural network and asked for a manim animation video with narration. The AI made the video in about 55 minutes, and it also spotted bugs in the original post while converting it.
The AI built his rhythm game charting tool, timing vocals from the songs themselves
The AI built an automatic Clone Hero charting solution, ripping audio from YouTube and using Whisper to time vocals.
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