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Jon - thanks very much for eBILDE! I've dabbled a bit with MS CoPilot to get it to find information on the web about a few subjects I was researching; used MS Designer to create some illustrations for an amateur magazine; and used Chat-GPT to do some photo editing, but have never felt particularly confident in using such tools. So I was a bit wary of how to use EN's new AI Assistant. However, the eBILDE framework looks very useful. I haven't had the opportunity to apply it in earnest yet, but your framework will be a great help in directing me along the path to usefully using EN's AI. Much appreciated.
Thanks. Glad its useful. Its also very good at finding out how to do things with complicated software. I use Reaper audio editor every now and then and use EN Assistant to web search for how to's or find out which of the million settings I need to look at.
Thank you for providing this--I'm saving it for later reference.
However, in my use of the EN AI, I've found it to be inconsistent. For example, it found one note I needed right away, but when I went back and asked for the same note again using the same description I had used the first time, it couldn't find it and it took me down a rabbit hole. As I kept on asking clarifying questions, it told me at one point that it cannot search inside attachments! What? That didn't make sense and I think it was an AI hallucination.
Eventually, it got tired of my persistence and told me that I had exceeded the number of questions I could ask one topic and deleted the thread. What? What AI assistant limits the questions you can ask? What kind of boloney is this...
I haven't tried the Assistants organizational features, as I've not gotten warm and fuzzy feelings about the way it works. Those of us who have been using AI for a while (I use Perplexity and now ChatGPT since Apple added an app for iOS and iPadOS) know that these AI apps work a lot smoother and are much more polished. I wish Bending Spoons had chosen an established external AI app and figured out a way to give it access to our EN database instead of building their own clumsy or buggy (?) Assistant inside EN.
Interesting, I saved this for later reference and to try it. Would this work both on Mac and iPhone?
Just Mac PC and web. Mobile is coming late.
Jon - thanks very much for eBILDE! I've dabbled a bit with MS CoPilot to get it to find information on the web about a few subjects I was researching; used MS Designer to create some illustrations for an amateur magazine; and used Chat-GPT to do some photo editing, but have never felt particularly confident in using such tools. So I was a bit wary of how to use EN's new AI Assistant. However, the eBILDE framework looks very useful. I haven't had the opportunity to apply it in earnest yet, but your framework will be a great help in directing me along the path to usefully using EN's AI. Much appreciated.
Thanks. Glad its useful. Its also very good at finding out how to do things with complicated software. I use Reaper audio editor every now and then and use EN Assistant to web search for how to's or find out which of the million settings I need to look at.
This is fantastic. Just the detail I was looking for!
Thanks Susan. Hope it helps.
Thank you for providing this--I'm saving it for later reference.
However, in my use of the EN AI, I've found it to be inconsistent. For example, it found one note I needed right away, but when I went back and asked for the same note again using the same description I had used the first time, it couldn't find it and it took me down a rabbit hole. As I kept on asking clarifying questions, it told me at one point that it cannot search inside attachments! What? That didn't make sense and I think it was an AI hallucination.
Eventually, it got tired of my persistence and told me that I had exceeded the number of questions I could ask one topic and deleted the thread. What? What AI assistant limits the questions you can ask? What kind of boloney is this...
I haven't tried the Assistants organizational features, as I've not gotten warm and fuzzy feelings about the way it works. Those of us who have been using AI for a while (I use Perplexity and now ChatGPT since Apple added an app for iOS and iPadOS) know that these AI apps work a lot smoother and are much more polished. I wish Bending Spoons had chosen an established external AI app and figured out a way to give it access to our EN database instead of building their own clumsy or buggy (?) Assistant inside EN.