The SFSSCON conference 2023 in Bolzano devoted to Free Software had one track about artificial intelligence. I liked the presentation on Exploring the Possibilities with Free and Open Source AI Tools. I list the sites again here, and sometimes there are some extra notes from my own trials.
Development tools Link to heading
Codeium, here the AI assists on the task at hand, it may even suggest an algorithm to your initial description. Python generation seems quite good, better than the java one. Here an example on generating a permutation algorithm.
Uizard for User Interface design directly from text prompts.
Reserarch tools: Link to heading
- https://heuristi.ca: mind maping. selects a topic, generates information …
- https://chatpdf.com: drop academic article pdf, ask questions directly about the contents of the article.
- https://forefront.ai: a way to run & fine-tune open-source models on your data.
- https://gamma.app/: ai generator for presentations from a single prompt
Image tools Link to heading
- https://ideogram.ai: alternative to midjourney, generates image from textual description, the generated image can not be downloaded.
- https://vectorizer.ai: enhances your image
Speech and Audio tools Link to heading
- https://elevenlabs.io/: generates speech from text.
- https://vocalremover.org/: separates vocals from music.
Fun tools Link to heading
- https://autodraw.com/: sketch, further drawings provided
- https://sketch.metademolab.com/: animations out of a drawing
- https://flair.ai/ AI design for product photoshoots
- https://runwayml.com/ gen-2 synthesizes videos from text
- https://gptexcel.uk/ generates Spreadsheet Formulas, sql, regex, VBA using AI
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/distil-whisper-web ML-powered speech recognition directly in the browser
- ProPainter: transformer for video inpainting
Last, links to important fully Open Source Tools involving models, and fine tunning were provided.
ChatPDF Analysis Link to heading
I decided to do a trial on ChatPDF by reading the Global Meteor Network article on Methodology and First Results. The free option allows reading 2 PDFs per day. The original article taken directly from Arxiv was sort of rejected, as the upgrade account service appeared. The cause might be a protection against big PDF files, in case someone would concatenate several small documents in one big. I decide to reduce the pdf size using the Goshcript utility:
$ gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS="/printer" -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=
$ ls -l *pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pablo pablo 16399352 Aug 2 2021 2107.12335.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pablo pablo 6655652 Feb 11 16:41 gmn.pdf
This time ChatPDF read the reduced article OK.
ChatPDF offers explanations and reductions on the texts selected by the user. One part that required clarification for me was the section regarding the calibration and esprectral sensitivity of the IMX291 sensor. I could get explanations of terms that were not known to me.