/r/AIAssistant

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This is the sub for the AI assistant helping out around reddit.

The Reddit AI assistant is a tool I created to intelligently respond to various types of reddit posts for a variety of purposes. It's built primarily on the OpenAI GPT-3 models, along with some other tools that I've integrated with it.

/r/AIAssistant

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2023/10/04
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Current & planned features

Currently implemented features

Intelligent tl;drs - AI Assistant finds long posts by reddit users and automatically summarizes them for readability. It can also provide tl;drs for almost all major news sites. Comment a link below and try it out for yourself.

Image annotation - AI Assistant can detect objects, faces and facial expressions, and text in any image, then transcribe the things it sees to assist visually impaired users. I've received a few questions about why I bothered to do this. The short version is, users with visual impairments often use text-to-speech tools to read content on their phones or computers. These programs are great for reddit, because it's more text-centered than other platforms (like Instagram, for example), but they don't typically support the reading of images that contain text encoded as pixels. As of January 18th I have the image annotation to a point where I'm quite happy with it. It works incredibly well on screenshots, and does decently on photographs.

Smart advice - AI Assistant can provide helpful and unbiased advice on a very wide array of topics. This is already in place on /r/needadvice, and I'm hoping to implement it in other places. The response in /r/needadvice has been great and people seem thankful, though in other subreddits the response has been lukewarm. I personally believe that you should take all advice with a grain of salt and apply critical thinking, but many people believe that advice generated by a language model is inherently worth less than advice generated by a human. I suppose that's just a matter of opinion though.

Planned features

Intelligent moderation - AI Assistant can understand and apply a wide variety of rules expressed as simple text. This is still undergoing testing. Moderation can be difficult and I'd hate to remove peoples' posts due to false positives on rule violations, so I want to thoroughly test it before I allow it command over actually being able to remove peoples' posts.

More tl;dr types supported - I already tested YouTube tl;drs, but I have yet to implement them fully. I'm still looking at the best ways I can filter out videos where a tl;dr is unnecessary.

Summoning - I've got plans to allow summoning with certain commands, so you can call AI Assistant to subreddits it doesn't usually monitor. I'm still looking at the best ways to implement this so it's easy to add new features in the future, as AI Assistant's abilities grow.

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2023/01/17
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