Rick Gouin

AI Humanizer Release

· Rick Gouin

AI Humanizer is a tool I created to make LLM generated content sound more natural by removing common indicators of AI created text.  The idea is that you can run your AI written documents through the humanizer, and it automatically gives you something that sounds more natural than what you started with. A few months back, in this project, I dove into the detection of AI generated text to see if I could discern LLM and Human created content.  The genesis of that tool was described here.  During that project, I learned a lot about what distinguishes human created text […]

Release: CondoTel WordPress Plugin

· Rick Gouin

Announcing the Release of Condotel A WordPress Plugin for Property & Unit Management I’m excited to announce the release of my first WordPress plugin: Condotel.  Condotel is a lightweight, open-source plugin built especially for homeowners associations (HOAs), condo/hotel hybrids, and rental-unit operators who want an easy way to track stays, check-ins/check-outs, occupancy rates and unit utilization. Many organizations like these are required by law to maintain a register of who is “on-property”.  Condotel provides a legal way to maintain those records while also getting some useful information from it.  The plugin can also be used by anyone who wants to […]

New WordPress Theme

· Rick Gouin
Logo for the Polar Wave wordpress theme

Its been almost 3 years since I updated the theme on this website.  You can see the article about that here.  At the time, I didn’t want to spend any time on it at all, so I just found the quickest and easiest theme to implement with minimal changes.  I never really liked the theme, it lacked some features I wanted, and had a lot of wasted space. Even though I am VERY MUCH a back-end sort of developer, I decided to create my own theme from scratch, which is what you are looking at now!  I call it “Polar […]

OutOfTheLoopAI Release

· Rick Gouin

Everyone who has used an AI chatbot knows that it can be a very iterative process.  One approach to integrating AI into workflows is called “Human In The Loop”, which describes an approach that uses a human as part of the process to achieve better outcomes.  What if we could take the human out of the loop?  Why not replace the human in the loop with another AI? To test out this theory, OutOfTheLoopAI was born. What does it do? OutOfTheLoopAI is a PHP script that creates a standalone webpage where you can setup conversations between different AI systems.  You […]

AI Writing Style Detector Release

· Rick Gouin

AI has a certain style of writing.  We can’t always put our fingers on it, but we can often spot the influence of AI in written communication. I recently had a discussion with a friend who is an engineering professor, and I can see their concern as it relates to AI.  On the one hand, you want students to develop certain skills.  On the other hand, you don’t want to create another “You’ll never have a calculator in your pocket” scenario that everyone will call up as a failure of your course for years to come. How to find the […]