WordPress Portsmouth Online Meetup - WordPress and Artificial Intelligence

The video recording of the WordPress Portsmouth Online meetup on 31st January 2024 entitled "WordPress and Artificial Intelligence", subtitled "What can I use AI for today? How much is it going to cost?"

Herb Miller @bobbingwide, co-organizer of WordUp Pompey!, discusses how Artifical Intelligence may help WordPress website owners.

The presentation is based on a website he's created over the past 5 months.

Timeline:
00:07 Welcome from Herb Miller @bobbingwide
00:49 Thanks to our sponsors RedIT and 34SP
01:27 Overview of the contents of the presentation
05:27 About me - as written by different ChatBots
05:59 AI generated image for my self bio.
06:26 About: Slides - the slides used in this presentation
06:50 What is AI?
08:54 What can I use AI for today?
09:50 Popular AI tools
11:08 WordPress and AI - a presentation written by ChatGPT 3.5
11:52 Which plugins to investigate - the currently covers 21 plugins
12:40 AI T's and C's
13:46 What intelligence is AI missing?
14:20 How much is it going to cost?
15:07 DALL·E 3 Image prompts
16:43 Legal implications?
17:05 AI tools for developers
17:31 Top 10 recommendations for using AI today
19:40 Some of the answers to this month's questions

Demonstration of AI using the live site

20:42 Website sitemap
21:10 Example excerpts, meta descriptions
21:35 AI Engine
22:10 AI Engine - speech to text
22:53 AI Power - speech to text
23:50 OpenAI and DALL·E
24:34 My OpenAI usage
26:10 Details for the AI Engine plugin's capabilities
27:10 Also some of AI Power's capabilities in the block editor
29:16 My cat ate my dog: An AI Engine generated post
31:44 Details for AI Power incl. chat bot
33:10 AI Power: chat bot with embedding
34:00 How much is it going to cost?
35:08 Briefly mentioning other plugins
37:00 Altis Accelerate - the plugin that surprised me by extending my chart data
39:00 the technique later enabled me to manipulate content
40:00 A/B testing - as written by AI
40:50 The annnoying plugins that only offer AI in their premium versions
42:20 Divi AI - Image upscaling

Q & A

45:00 Can it do programming?
45:21 Elementor AI - Custom CSS
46:09 oik-ai - the new - my AI tool
46:31 Custom CSS to improve table formatting
47:16 Create Custom code
49:45 Using my AI tool
49:58 Generate an image using DALL·E
50:48 History of my requests
51:06 Translation: from Chinese to English, "To a haggis" from Scottish to English
52:23 CSS to style a select box
53:33 Reducing sequential page numbers to ranges for an index. eg. 1,2,3,4 to 1-4

AI could deal with a small amount of data, but not a huge amount.
It didn't quite do what we wanted; the prompt wasn't explicit enough.

1:02:10 AI fails and successes
1:03:35 Don't forget to check the results that AI produces
1:05:40 You may be able to use the revised prompt from DALL-E image generation for alt text.
1:08:15 Training AI on website contents using AI Power's Embeddings and its ChatGPT
1:13:20 AI Power can be used to generate Embedding manually or configured with cron jobs.
1:14:00 Final WP-Pompey slides

Notes:

Some functionality inside the block editor didn't work due to the fact that plugins were being loaded dynamically in the block editor, but not for AJAX requests.

We didn't get a chance to look at custom GPTs.

My AI tool - oik-ai - is written in PHP using OpenAI PHP client.
No JavaScript. It's not actually using / integrated with WordPress.