# Trial an AI Bot?

**URL:** <https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trial-an-ai-bot/1596>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Tags:** forum, feedback, ai, llm, bot\
**Created:** [14 November 2023 22:14 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trial-an-ai-bot/1596 "2023-11-14T22:14:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Aidan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/aidan/32/42_2.png) [@Aidan](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/Aidan)\
**Post date:** [14 November 2023 22:14 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trial-an-ai-bot/1596/1 "2023-11-14T22:14:36Z")

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# Background

Discourse hosted plans (which this forum is powered by) now support bots powered by LLMs like OpenAI

> **[Discourse AI - AI bot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-ai-bot/266012)**
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> 🔖 This guide explains how to enable and configure the AI bot feature of the Discourse AI plugin. 🙋 Required user level: Administrator The smart chatbot can answer all questions about your Discourse community and more. The AI Bot has the power...

It supports a number of “personas” designed for different applications, but the one that seems most appropriate would be

> - **Forum Helper** : General purpose AI bot capable of performing various tasks. Can search your current Discourse instance and use that information to build responses
> - i.e - What are the top posts for AI?

# Questions

## Do we want to trial a bot like this for the forum?

Some feedback suggests it can be difficult to locate the correct information. An ChatGPT style bot might improve this.

A downside would be if the ChatBot gave out incorrect information.

## What LLM is most appropriate?

OpenAI offer a number of different models at different price points. Given the constrained nature of the requests would a state of the art model be required?

[https://openai.com/pricing#language-models](https://openai.com/pricing#language-models)

Feedback is welcome.

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**Author:** ![clairecarouge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/clairecarouge/32/380_2.png) [@clairecarouge](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/clairecarouge)\
**Post date:** [15 November 2023 01:28 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trial-an-ai-bot/1596/2 "2023-11-15T01:28:44Z")

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I don’t have any feedback but thanks for posting this as I was wondering the same thing when I saw the Discourse update.

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**Author:** ![Aidan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.access-hive.org.au/aidan/32/42_2.png) [@Aidan](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/u/Aidan)\
**Post date:** [15 November 2023 01:31 UTC](https://forum.access-hive.org.au/t/trial-an-ai-bot/1596/3 "2023-11-15T01:31:58Z")

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I have just used a bot on [another site](https://grafana.com/products/cloud/) and it was quite useful.