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I've just had a mixed result in asking AI questions about my project. (
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For the last couple of weeks, I have been casting around for some engineering advice on my idea of using stage trusses as a mast for a rotating Flettner Rotor without much luck.
As an experiment, I called on Google AI for suggestions. I was amazed at how in depth and comprehensive the "discussion" was. It provided technical advice that I would never have imagined it capable of.
I will post the full transcript on my project pages soon, but this is the trick I found to safely save the important results.
If you just "Print to a Pdf", a huge part of the "conversation" is overwritten by formatting.
eg. The original "conversation" shows like this
This sample shows the previous advice, and has my FULL response displayed.
BUT
If you merely "Print as PDF" to save the information, you get a lot of words obscured by page elements
eg
where the "question box" obscures the content.
After a lot of experimenting with "Print as" options", I finally tried "Save as - Web Page complete", to an HTML file.
That worked much better, and I had a "live" page to navigate the whole session.
BUT
The AI conversation generally minimises the operator input "box". So you cant easily see what you were talking about to the AI. And the saved HTML file "loses" the content of the operator input.
So. what I had to do, was go through the ENTIRE discussion, and manually EXPAND the Operator Questions and Input BEFORE the "Save as - Web Page complete", to an HTML file.
That way you can keep ALL the text, including the original questions, as a reference for future use.
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All in all though, it was a valuable exercise. Despite the horror stories of using AI, I was surprised to get technical information like
with an authoritative reference I couldn't have found in a week on my own.
It will be interesting to see how AI starts to feature in Naval Architecture in the future.
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For the last couple of weeks, I have been casting around for some engineering advice on my idea of using stage trusses as a mast for a rotating Flettner Rotor without much luck.
As an experiment, I called on Google AI for suggestions. I was amazed at how in depth and comprehensive the "discussion" was. It provided technical advice that I would never have imagined it capable of.
I will post the full transcript on my project pages soon, but this is the trick I found to safely save the important results.
If you just "Print to a Pdf", a huge part of the "conversation" is overwritten by formatting.
eg. The original "conversation" shows like this
This sample shows the previous advice, and has my FULL response displayed.
BUT
If you merely "Print as PDF" to save the information, you get a lot of words obscured by page elements
eg
where the "question box" obscures the content.
After a lot of experimenting with "Print as" options", I finally tried "Save as - Web Page complete", to an HTML file.
That worked much better, and I had a "live" page to navigate the whole session.
BUT
The AI conversation generally minimises the operator input "box". So you cant easily see what you were talking about to the AI. And the saved HTML file "loses" the content of the operator input.
So. what I had to do, was go through the ENTIRE discussion, and manually EXPAND the Operator Questions and Input BEFORE the "Save as - Web Page complete", to an HTML file.
That way you can keep ALL the text, including the original questions, as a reference for future use.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All in all though, it was a valuable exercise. Despite the horror stories of using AI, I was surprised to get technical information like
with an authoritative reference I couldn't have found in a week on my own.
It will be interesting to see how AI starts to feature in Naval Architecture in the future.
