I don't understand AI despite using it for nearly one year. To me "AI" is just going to a website (aistudio.google.com for example) and asking questions to the model (or agent or whatever you want to call it.) I also have a Claude (claude.ai website) account too, tho it's a bit weird, it doesn't require a password and I've been using it freely.Are there other ways of using AI? I've never paid for it btw, does paying make a huge difference? What can I even ask to the AI that is so important that would require me to pay? Btw, I'm using "Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview" nowadays.
>>108700861You can use this thing called AI agents, but you need to pay for that shit to get the API key access.
>>108700861yes, I'm using AI to play video games for me by processing what's on the screen and then deciding what to do and then it does it.
>>108701320Python programming?
>>108700861Have you tried asking gemini this question
>>108700861AI agents like Claude run on your computer. Instead of copy pasting your code into the website, you just start Claude Code in your project folder and it will read the files. Then he can run the software, and if it prints some error he sees it right away and can fix it.Or start him in an image folder and tell him to sort or rename them, or start him in a folder with invoices and tell him to create a tax return etc.
>>108701692I've already asked and not satisfied with the answer. Because when you observe AI communities it's like something super exciting is going on right now. Everybody doing something super nerdy, useful etc. a similar vibe to the Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency stuff up until 2017. Honestly, my personal experience hasn't been anything special. So I started wondering if I'm missing something or doing something wrong.
From my understanding there are these stuff:Online LLMs (Chatbots like Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude)Offline and open source LLMs (LLama by Facebook and Deepseek from China)Coding agents (Local but online & closed source automation apps like Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex)"Plugin agents" (Things that you install as a plugin for an app)Image and Video generation models (open source and local stuff leading the field)
I'm not in a much different position than you OP.When I look up AI shit there's a lot more than just chatbots. People are already running 20 billion different things. I don't know what a gemma is or does. I tried claude and asked some questions. Some people cannot live without claude code. At best all I would like to have is a few CSS tweaks. I've used claude for free, the website, I used sonnet, and it helped me.I recently got this machine, a mac mini m4. Turns out, a lot of people are (probably being a little bit deceived into) buying the thing and it's sold out in a few places because it can run some of these models pretty well while just having a very low TDP.I'm thinking "well, if I could have something similar to this claude thing, maybe not so advanced, since that would require a lot of VRAM I would assume, running on this little shit over my local network without worrying about hitting limits, it'd be nice".But I don't know where to start. I followed Claude on this and it told me to install ollama and docker and this webui thing. I try to access and macOS has this tendency to not know what the fuck to do with anything related to network apparently. I can't even connect to localhost. Is this even worth it in the end? This is to run some fucking chatbot. I've seem some people online going on about how they had fucking "workers". They leave these machines doing shit automatically. There's people using some of these to circumvent token usage or reduce it somehow, like a translation tool that simplifies shit. There's people just running this shit in their own machine and losing their files. All I want is to ask 3 fucking questions a day without these annoying limits if the AI is incorrect and I have to ask 2 more.
>>108701944There are only two exciting aspects1. Either you work for a company that lets you just ask AI how to do your job so instead of having to think you just have to decide if the AI said something right or not, but it's expensive and they are losing money doing this, so that's why it's "fun" it's like being able to drive a sports car that you can't afford2. Or you are doing AI as a hobby using models that you download on the internet. This will always have worse output than the models you pay for, but it sort of lets you emulate what the other guys are doing who pay for it, and it feels like it's cheaper because instead of signing up online you get to buy expensive PC hardware and tweak it. It's like putting a turbo charger in your honda civic instead of buying ferrari.
>>108700861What kind of questions were you asking AI? If you're trying to do anything useful with AI, it won't give you any meaningful output.
Should I ask claude or gemini on how to set up this AI bullshit locally?
>>108704281Honestly not sure if that'll be enough for you. It's hard to believe but there's even a local model general on this very board over at >>108702912 which has resources and everything.
>>108703943>All I want is to ask 3 fucking questions a day without these annoying limits if the AI is incorrect and I have to ask 2 more.google ai mode has been fine for that in my experience ("ai mode" appears to be just gemini 3 with pretty good web search abilities)
>>108703943Just go to aistudio.google.com with your Google account. AI Studio is the unfiltered version of Gemini. It's the best you can get without paying.For simple stuff and warming up the topic use Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview, for heavy work select Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. Both are free. With Gemini 2.5 and 3.0 it was like 20 questions a day, but now with 3.1 Pro it's like 10 questions, kind of annoying. iirc limit resets everyday at UTC 09:00 or 08:00.Your question is so much important btw, AI will always punish you for low effort prompts. You need to spend like one hour preparing your prompt, well-thought prompts will produce nice outputs. If you keep asking couple of sentences long low-effort stuff AI will answer in same way.
>>108700861The main usecase for AI is erotic role play in the form of chats or text adventures.
>>108701147thisyou can let the AI directly modify your filesso then you remove one step instead of asking it in a boxso instead of applying the changes yourselfyou instead get to fix its retarded changes directlyits called an "agent", retard
>>108707940Is this better than claude?Usually my questions are elaborate enough. Think of the post you responded to, that's basically the length of my fucking questions sometimes. I try to give as much context as I can (and ask multiple questions in a single prompt).
