AI Stuff
Created Wednesday 01 April 2026
This is brand new and a million miles an hour but:
First and foremost, I find it *essential* to highlight the following: We are effectively in an Open Source AI world, and we are lucky to be here for that. Robust competition to the "defaults" has been here from the beginning. Roughly, the USA is not the only creator of these things, and a strong argument could be made that China is actually the leader here; perhaps partly due to the fact that their more "university based" development creates more transparency.
Regardless, no one forget: You can do this at home. Tools like Ollama (LLama, courtesy of Meta, surprisingly) mean that it is possible to do Generative AI while you're not connected to the internet if you have a graphics card. These of course generally underperform the online services, but it's good they exist, and I use mine often for "low priority/low overhead/low accuracy required" tasks – automatically tagging web bookmarks is a good use case here.
ChatGPT is of course the first out the gate, but I avoid it because they seem a bit desparate.
Broadly, I'm finding that Google is a good all around place to look. NotebookLM, AIStudio, Antigravity, are all interesting tools. I generally do default to gemini these days for most things.
Microsoft Copilot I'm finding generally useless by comparison to the above. Note, for FSU students, both of these are available to you to be used in a FERPA compliant way, which is perhaps an added bonus of "your stuff doesn't get slurped back in"
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