Computational Fluid Dynamics run on quantum computers might be capable of handling a few of the enormous number of variables involved.
Honestly, its relatively young so Ive got many ideas not implemented but need to go a step at a time with it out. I am trying to keep it useable in some capacity as I make changes. An upcoming one will add more nuance to the post interview analysis and improvements to the user interface. I did a few yesterday. Changes can be minor (button move) and significant (a restructuring to apply changes like save protocol, user saved profiles and boards in memory). These take hours to run, test and see where things get messed up…and then fix them. So all will need to be patient. I am one guy. (On cell phone now driving to FL on I95 to go surf).
I started using AI after a brother in law told me how he saved 10 grand on a legal issue. He explained he used Grok. Grok did 3 months worth of research and spit out an approach and guide that walked him through the hurdles,citing legal references, law etc in about 20 seconds. It also gave him the exact things he needed to avoid fees he’d pay someone else. (Good for him but bad for whoever lost the work…right) So I played with it, recognizing the limts but also the power. I now use it to summarize reports, identify risks, review contracts and perform evaluations of very large and complicated documents. For this its an 80-90% solution to identify things I absolutely would not have the time for. Sure, I could pay for the 100% solution to the tune of a team for a month(example) or go with it and get the brief and free the team to move on. Its all about how critical the project is, risk impacts etc. For anyone not familiar, upload your house plan (picture or pdf) or a Chiltons 68 Camaro maintenance manual and tell Grok to spit out a realtors home value assessment and instruction to change your spark plugs in a single document. It’ll just do it and verify via millions of sources simultaneosly. Of course it’ll make mistakes and its not human. It is a solution for many time consuming tasks requiring research, code, math, physics etc. BTW each model has its own twist and this is why the App gives you 4AI models to choose from for the design and build tutorials. The last thing I will say is this…Try some real inquiries. Upload docs and pics and have the AI analyze and answer questions. Keep the chat going. Come up with a project like a career plan, investment plan, legal situation, education or whatever. You’ll see the project will remain for re-engagement as long as you are signed up. (Like an advisor who remembers and reasons through all past conversations and considers them as you add to the engagement.) You review, correct assumptions and guide the project, telling AI to correct. (Where the input and experience become essential)
Im sure you and others who actually try AI will see the good and we’ll all recognize the other side of the coin that none of us can change. Thats the scarier part. More on that later.
All the best.
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Thats fine. No offense taken. Theres some significant changes going on. Come back later if you are curious how things shape up. (Plan anyway) I posted here to get inputs. Not to advertise. Note…it aint anywhere else.
How do you tell somebody what a strawberry tastes like?
The only way to know what a strawberry tastes like is to eat one.
Much of current AI summarizes and regurgitates “subjective input” based on probabilistic occurrence/patterns (math ellipsis)…
I don’t think AI is a problem, it could probably be a solution for many things. Problem is how human use it !
Again human is the problem of humanity, look the way he organised his evolution, more he “progress” more he destructed all around him !
Perhaps AI could answer to “how can we save the world” but he don’t care what he ask “how can i make money, and a gun to protect it”.
Yves Paccalet wrote in 2006 " l’humanité disparaîtra, bon débarras" literaly “humanity will disappear, good riddance”, really funny if it was not so right.
Artificial Intelligence is, and always will be, the interface between human mind and computer.
Data output is only as as good as data input…
All so true. BTW, removed term AI from app in most places to settle folks down. We need a term more along the lines of “Human led” or “Experience led” signifying the input side of things. It just helps get what you tell it you want. If I want crap, I get it. As a wildlife photographer Im very sensitive to the BS I see in AI generated pics and vids.
I’m working significant tailoring of analysis, bringing in more to get nuances and GUI improved. As I work this stuff in, please be patient. Far from done. Appreciate everyone’s inputs (positive and negative) It’s certainly a challenge but worth the time.
well ok, i think this part of copy paste the code is a bit of a mess and imho a bit far away from my skills, i have never used any ai apart from the google search bar awnsers.
can you make it simpler?
cheers and good waves
Yes, I will see if I can make it easier. I’ll experiment. I consolidated the home page and drop down and created FAQ’s this a.m… I also played with the analysis and focused on the primary goal. (Get the users goals and let the app do the analysis and recommend ALL build and spec characteristics). Anyway, still working many things but will work this tonight for you. Thanks again.
For you and anyone else until I change it (Make it more easy) here’s a basic explanation:
I did create a paid option which keeps the interface within the App to not require any cut and pasting of code. The In App process creates the tutorial for step 1 through 7 in the App itself. This process utilizes a paid AI service with more power (Chat GPT 4 or Grok 4 for example) By using these services, I get charged. So, In order to make this free, I had the program create the code for you so you could cut and paste it outside the App and into an AI model of your choosing. Technically, you could paste it to a word document or directly into whatever you want. BTW, when you select the blue button “Generate Free AI Question” , the code will automatically be made ready (on your “clipboard”), loaded in memory and ready to be pasted. Simultaneously you will see this box popup with 4 different AI models. (Chat GPT works well for a test. Grok lands you on the XAi site where you’ll need to click the GROK link)
When you select one of the services, you will navigate directly to it. In Chat GPT Mouse click in the the “ask anything” block and right click (PC) or hold your finger down on your phone screen until the “paste” option comes up.
Select paste and hit enter. You will then see your tutorial for that step (Design, Shape, Laminate or whatever) be completely generated. Once generated, each AI model has different free options to download, create a .pdf file, print etc. You can also continue dialog with the Ai model to further refine things. The App analysis and code you loaded will have already created a substantial dialog based on your preferences, build details etc. The AI model can carry on, answering additional questions, doing research etc. I’d recommend you sign in and create an account with the service once you get a handle on what it offers (and doesn’t). The benefit of opening an account (especially in Grok) is that you will have more free dialog, tools and the service will save your conversation for future work/analysis etc. Good luck. John M.
I’m definitly old ! I understand nothing to modern net computer world : again, i have to paid to use a “free” service LOL.
Net world economic model is futuristic… But we have to live with our time.
Luckily i don’t need your computer AI assist to build my boards, i educated my human intelligence with 35 years of reading, searching, building, fun hobby for me but why not for people that want to go faster.
I bet develop this app is your fun hobby, so it’s cool, when human have fun they don’t thing wrong.
ok, very giod well done
I think that when a an old baker hands another old baker a free cookie, the old baker can certainly disagree with how he made it. If, on the other hand, the cookie is a really good cookie and the other baker shares his ingredients with all the other cookie lovers in his community for nothing, then a few cookie lovers will walk away happy because they can make their own cookies.
I hear you. Since a man must, at some point, push back on criticism, here’s a few considerations:
1.) The App is free
2.) You don’t have to use it to build your boards. Nobody does.
3.) I’ve spent my own money and time building it with a way to bypass us all having to pay for an outside Ai agent. The pay part (Not even active) is calculated to recover Ai model costs and a few cents for admin. A single board (All seven Ai generated tutorials) is under $1.00. I rounded it to $1 partly to keep the confusion factor down for people checking charges on their accounts. (What the hell is this 78 cent charge for…etc). I turned it off and won’t turn it on until everything else is 100%.
4.) Regarding experience, that’s good for you. You should continue sharing it.
5.) I have 40 years professional experience. (Aeronautical design and testing, aircraft fabrication, composites, building commercial aircraft, fighter jets and race cars)I will be happy to engage you in detail on any of it right here in public but it wastes peoples time. Fire away if you want to but it wont do more than show people I can hold my own. A better tactic would be addressing the specific AI issues you have so we can address them with a goal of benefitting the community.
I have been a member of Sways for almost 18 years. I have an extensive science-based education with several decades of professional experience. There are others with a wide range of experience(s) who have been members almost 27 years. All of us have been challenged and attacked, justly and unjustly, over the years. All of us have given freely, many times, regardless of the acceptance of our contributions.
Even pros have handed out hype, advertising and garbage on this forum.
Compared to the past, the tone and content at this new iteration of Sways has become civil, useful and tolerant — an opportunity to create a solid DIY forum.
As I told a recent newcomer, who revealed to me in PMs that he is a pro-shaper who has ghost shaped for a known brand for well over a decade; post credible, useful information and other members will notice.
Your current fee may be fair and justified. But this comes suddenly on the heels of “free.” It wouldn’t be the first time somebody came here to launch a commercial venture as free.
I did all of this just out the challenge and/or scientific curiosity. Very few have used it — at least those I know of. These blog posts came from my Sways posts. Like others, I have contributed a lot more than this in individual replies to threads. We all do it for “free,” sometimes thanklessly. We do it because we too have benefited from participating at Sways.
If you paddle out at a new spot, you will be challenged. It is both human nature and “surf culture.”
I think I got the step with copy and paste to AI, interesting. Sorry, I’m slow with these things . I put my board plan into chat gpt and the thing wrote up a something very sound.
Will there be a graphic interface at some point?
Beyond the theory and material lists someone who wants to shape a board will need rocker templates , outlines , railbands measurements, fin placements, all the stuff why people come to this site.
I tried to get chatgpt to make me some diagrams for railbands. It kindly made something unusable- which is not a problem , I didn’t expect it to be . I figure I could talk the AI into handing me some nice printable PDF files- but I feels wonky to talk that out ( oh no that’s not a smooth rail and a surfboard has not the same thickness at nose and center and so on.)
Could you walk me through an approach how you would use this ?
All the best
i posted the exact same question.
what the heck the software produces that can help you shape a surfboard???
templates, outlines, fin positioning, rail band marks???
tickness, dome deck marks where is the juice?
nose rocker mesures, tail rocker etc…and so on.
Just went back and read your reply, yes basically the same experience.
When I think about it , what would have been a great resource for me 15 years ago, when I really just wanted to make a board on my own, for myself, I think something like blending curves with additional railband cross sections and some commenting and cross-references would have been really helpful.
When I see free and then “pay” I don’t like it either. I got stuck on this - knowing potential of the power offered in the paid part but not wanting to swallow the bill for an unknown amount of users. (Kinda stuck there). Maybe I’ll test it to ultimately see how much better it really is and then delete the option if I don’t see magic. BTW, I’ve not charged for any hosting fees to maintain the App and keep it live.
The information you posted has a host of tutorials. For anyone, it does take some effort to compile and make the effort to provide (or remind) people where helpful info resides regardless of whether it’s used. Thanks again!