Posts by MyffyW 2028 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2013
I'm not sure AI really is great at replacing creatives. I think it's just about competent at sounding like a creative. I suspect an AI trained on the works of JK Rowling would be very good at writing books featuring wizards and getting into arguments with people about gender-identity, but wouldn't be capable of conceiving of an engaging new series of novels. Errr .... maybe I've just proved your point. Yikes!
I'd say keep it in the medicines cupboard, next to the broncho-buster cough syrup, but behind the pile ointment and the sudocrem, because let's face it AI seems to be a major pain in the ... Hello, I'm your version 2 commentard, you appear to be composing a critical response, please let me re-educate you
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On the magnitude - yes: They aren't worth worrying about when traversing Connecticut, they become appreciable when traversing a country the size of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to the extent that electricity is sent as DC to avoid inductive losses.
I'm really bored of explaining to people that AI is not exactly the same as LLMs. After an initial "oh wow" I've become rather cynical about the value LLMs really deliver. However, well chosen use cases for more established tech that might be described as "intelligent" have a huge amount of potential, yet risk being overlooked by pursuit of the latest fad.
[The above was written by my own fair hand, the only GPU involved was the single one attached to my monitor]
Tried it today - turning 12000 words of random notes into a PowerPoint deck. It basically just cut-and-pasted it into a pretty shit presentation. Not even particularly well formatted (not quite into additional limb or a missing finger territory).
Then asked it to compose an email thanking my co-worker for enrolling me in the trial. Was so fawning and gushing I actually blushed.
Deeply underwhelmed by Co-Pilot for office.
"Half life ranging from negligible amounts of time to 5,000 years"
If I had to swim in it right now, I'd take the 5000 years please. Less likely to give me that ruddy glow I'm not looking for.
If it was soaking into the soil, I've prefer it to tend towards the "negligible", so my great-great^10 grandkids don't have to worry about it.
It won't, he says, let untrained people perform skilled tasks like catheterization. Thank goodness for that. I would not want some AI-trained clutz trying to shove a tube up my mary-jane. But surely this only serves to illustrate the previous "train as a plumber" guidance?
I suspect it might have written the bit that said "Copilot generated more code, although the quality of software generated was worse than human-built software".
We don't necessarily want more. I can remember a time when just having more code was a bad thing. I would argue it still is.
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