So I was trying out another PDF reader just for the hell of it, and was confused about highlighting (There was a tool in the ribbon bar that I was too stupid to use).

Instead of looking through documentation, I actually tried to use the built-in AI to see what wisdom it could offer a peasant like me.

On the same subject, are there any open source PDF readers you can recommend?

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I feel like an AI that can say “I don’t know.” plainly is a great step.
    For AI that is, but does not make the product any more desirable.

    There used to be F1 to help. Now there’s F1 to AI?
    Oh of course not. The F# keys are all gone. Now there is the AI button.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
      11·
      2 days ago

      OMG you just nailed what I have been trying to articulate for a while now…

      AI is basically the old Help file! It’s about as useful too!

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        I only remember Microsoft applications’ Help files being as useless as AI.
        Other were good.

        3DsMAX help files were good (yes I learnt it back when I didn’t know Blender was a thing)
        Qt Framework help files are great. They even tell me which way of using a thing is desirable and why.
        cppreference.com , I have been considering scraping the site and making it available locally as a help file. Maybe they even provide such a thing to download.

        Either way. all AI would be doing is reading those help files and making more verbose answers.