Generative AI is also a revolution for computer interfaces

Re:Generative AI is also a revolution for computer interfaces by Nihilartikel on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:59PM (#36365137)

I've had great luck with chatGPT assisted FFMPEG commands.

There is very little that FFMPEG can't do as far as video manipulation, but getting a good CLI invocation is a lot of work, documentation surfing, and piecing things together from stackoverflow and Reddit. I don't really feel like committing such things to memory.

With ChatGPT, I can ask for it to make a parameterized bash script that takes a path for video input and output, and any other parameters of consequence and make a "converter from x format to Y using Z codec and nvidia hw accelerated encoding at W bit rate" and most of the time, the bash script that it gives me just works and I move it into my tool-bin.

It's nice! There are probably a lot of other tedious pieces of automation that it can handle well even in its early state.

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Re:Generative AI is also a revolution for computer interfaces by andrei_says_ on Friday June 16, 2023 @07:05PM (#36365192)

What is your process of verifying it?

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Re:Generative AI is also a revolution for computer interfaces by scyzoryk_xyz on Friday June 16, 2023 @07:44PM (#36365500)

I also have had much success with FFMPEG and other bash commands - I just ask it to explain what the command does step by step as I want to learn a bit as well.

That being said - it is far from perfect.

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Re:Generative AI is also a revolution for computer interfaces by Infinity25 on Friday June 16, 2023 @07:55PM (#36365596)

I think a good way to verify that the commands are actually doing something instead of the LLM just generating non-existent parameters is to provide a dry run mode. The actual correctness of the generated command - granted it's valid - performing as it should however, is a whole different issue.

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Re:Generative AI is also a revolution for computer interfaces by ThrowawayTestr on Saturday June 17, 2023 @12:35AM (#36367319)

You run it. If it gives an error or the output isn't what you want, you tell Chatgpt to try again.

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Re:Generative AI is also a revolution for computer interfaces by starik36 on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:24PM (#36365784)

I've found ChatGPT very useful for tools that I use once in a very long while (like ffmpeg) and simply don't remember all the nuances of.

For example, I needed to use K6 to run a load test. It supports a million things, and it would have taken me a long while to figure out the right combo. With ChatGPT I had it running in 5 minutes.

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