I’ve turned on the Discourse AI plug-in, which enables a boatload of features. You’ll see the little star icon in various spots in the composer to indicate them. I have high hopes that people will use the one that suggests topic titles rather than using titles like “Music problem.”
The AI button in the composer will also proofread your text, which might be worthwhile, and it looks like you can even write in your native language and have it translate.
The feature that triggered this move is probably the most interesting, though: AI-powered search, with actual answers pulled out of the topics. You’ll see these as “Discobot discoveries” to the right of the topic results.
There are an insane number of settings, personas, and who knows what else in this AI plug-in, so let me know what you experience. I’ll have to keep an eye on the token costs, but I’m happy to spend some amount per month for better topic titles alone.
Looking forward to checking out the new AI features in Discourse, but speaking of topic titles, which I’ll extend to email subject titles, it would be great if something like this had been available for the past 20 years to stop a hosting customer from sending me an email with a subject line of “problem”
I notice that there’s also an AI-powered Related collection of topics alongside Suggested at the bottom of each topic. It looks pretty reasonable as a way of saying “show me more like this.”
Thanks @ace for announcing the enabling of this plug-in.
The “AI” help can to some extent be switched off in Member Settings > Preferences > Interface, unticking the box at the bottom “Enable AI search discoveries”, which appears to have been ticked by default.
