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This one is for subscribers only and is in a test mode so it's limited in use - there's a cost to us that we need to monitor.
AI powered search is now available. This doesn't use any of our server resources and it's context aware so you can use phrases rather than just keywords. The system is still learning from past forum posts and topics. So far it's indexed the last 10k topics, which takes us back to something like 2023. As the system develops it will 'absorb' more forum posts from the past.
Search also covers our editorial content too, from reviews to news stories. That's experimental at this stage - it's all experimental to be honest. We can't know how useful it is until it gets used by you guys.
There's also a chat assistant that we've called Stan, for reasons.
All these new tools are available to subscribers only and as this is a very soft launch and there are costs attached we've initially limited ithere use to an individual daily quota per user. This is just so we can judge the worth and usefulness of the various tools. We'll loosen up those quotas as we learn along the way.
NOTE: As this is still very new and experimental we may need to deactivate some or all of it as we go. The goal is to work out what is useful, fun of value to subscribers and what is not and balance that against costs, so consider this very much in the BETA stage. But have fun with it and see what it can do 🙂
Summary:
You can get summaries of topics longer than 6 replies
You can search the last few years of the forum using keywords and phrases
You can translate any reply in to a big long list of languages
As you type a new topic title the system will suggest any existing topics that would answer your query
Other related topics will be suggested to you on each topic thread.
Stan is a our AI chat assistant that can answer your questions based on the forum and editorial (It still has a lot of learning to do - so be gentle with him).