AI Section in forums

Penfold101 said:
How else would you do it?
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New posts in the sections I want to read new posts in, but to be honest, i usually start with my watched threads for new replies, and then if time, go to sub sections.

Reading every single new post from every single sections seems terrible.

So I will see new posts from monitors, gpu, apple, photography, motors, all stuff I have zero interest in right now. Seems odd to want to view the forum that way.

Figured it was only mods that used that feature as its easier to see every thread that was when monitoring the site.
 
unwashed potato! said:
New posts in the sections I want to read new posts in, but to be honest, i usually start with my watched threads for new replies, and then if time, go to sub sections.

Reading every single new post from every single sections seems terrible.

So I will see new posts from monitors, gpu, apple, photography, motors, all stuff I have zero interest in right now. Seems odd to want to view the forum that way.

Figured it was only mods that used that feature as its easier to see every thread that was when monitoring the site.
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Sounds like far too much work if you ask me - longest notification for any replies to watched threads, and a quick skim of the ‘new posts’ page will show me everything which I can then go into if it sounds interesting, whatever the subject.

Going through each section one by one feels like it would be a nause :D

There was a shop (possibly iwoot, or one of the similar ones) that had a ‘show me everything’ button, and it was so handy for just seeing everything they had for sale in one go, so I didn’t have to go through each category one by one.
 
I'm not sure there's really a need for a specific section for AI here, but I suppose that there's a myriad of "AI" uses out there, so I suppose you could have a launching ground section that helps in that regard.

Personally, I don't use the ChatGPT normally, but I do occasionally use them to query something totally unknown to me as they would be able to identify it than what a simple search could reveal.

Otherwise, I utilise AI for Photo and Video restoration work, especially in stuff that Photoshopping alone, no matter the skill level, would be unable to properly restore. Which doesn't really need it's own section, since the photo and GD can already request such work.
 
I’ve turned on copilot in outlook the other week, and I’m like a rabbit in headlights.

An email would normally take me 5 minutes to write and now it takes me double the time, as I sit there and look at what the next word it suggests, then refuse to use it. Lol

Such a waste of computing power…

I normally get frustrated when the lexical analysis of a coding interface starts putting in additional additional changes while I type, coming from a BASIC, C, C++ path in the late 90s/2000s.. if you don’t enter it in yourself, then you don’t have it in the code.

Coding is way different now a days, mainly recycling snippets of code and whole functions rather than having to type out every character… what maybe better if people used AI to check their code instead of having it to co-write it. But back in “the days”, some compilers would highlight errors and refuse to run without the errors being corrected.

I sat technical CAB for a massive change I did this weekend… one of the points that was brought up that I didn’t enter in the command syntax for certain tasks. I just fired back with the response that, if the person doing the task doesn’t know the command to do it; there’s a level of assumed knowledge, then they shouldn’t be doing the change.

AI is a great intellect and experience leveller, but so google; AI spoon feeds the information to you.

I used to work at a research institute and we lost internet connection for the day. It was quite scary but understandable that so many people just sat around doing nothing as they couldn’t do their work without the internet as they didn’t have access to their resource library. It will get to the point where people won’t be able to work without AI, I just hope I’ve retired by then.

Incidentally, I just sat a load of re-certifications for an industry qualifications. The company have written their scenario questions in a manner where you can’t just hang them into ‘AI’ to get the answer, they tested the questions on multiple AI systems to ensure that they gave the wrong answer. But they did spend an hour explaining what the questions where asking before the exam, as they where written in an obscure and un-natural manner.
 
There are AI threads scattered across various forums, some in careers, some in coding, some here, one in SC I think?

It's undeniably useful for programming. Just this weekend I was trialling a new source control provider (Diversion, very good if you're building games btw), and integrating it into my TeamCity CI/CD server. They don't have a plugin for TeamCity yet....

I was able to build one in a few hours. Despite not having used Java in 15+ years. I gave it the Git plugin source as a reference, told it to crawl and summarise the Diversion API docs, then get to it. After a few hours of trial and error I've got a working VCS plugin. Absolutely no chance I'd have bothered writing it from scratch myself (not least because I've rather claw my own eyes out than write another line of Java).

AI is just incredibly good at certain tasks, mainly trawling vast amounts of text and analysing it far faster than a human could read and comprehend it, so when it comes to scouring source code, analysing logs etc, you are really at a handicap if you're not using LLMs these days.
 
mid_gen said:
There are AI threads scattered across various forums, some in careers, some in coding, some here, one in SC I think?

It's undeniably useful for programming. Just this weekend I was trialling a new source control provider (Diversion, very good if you're building games btw), and integrating it into my TeamCity CI/CD server. They don't have a plugin for TeamCity yet....

I was able to build one in a few hours. Despite not having used Java in 15+ years. I gave it the Git plugin source as a reference, told it to crawl and summarise the Diversion API docs, then get to it. After a few hours of trial and error I've got a working VCS plugin. Absolutely no chance I'd have bothered writing it from scratch myself (not least because I've rather claw my own eyes out than write another line of Java).

AI is just incredibly good at certain tasks, mainly trawling vast amounts of text and analysing it far faster than a human could read and comprehend it, so when it comes to scouring source code, analysing logs etc, you are really at a handicap if you're not using LLMs these days.
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Not sure about how good it actually is (productivity). I was attempting to get it to optimise the shape of an acoustic guitar, it optimised it but not one that can be played! Looking at the python and it's beautiful gibberish in terms of the actual logical maths it's doing.
 
NickK said:
Not sure about how good it actually is (productivity). I was attempting to get it to optimise the shape of an acoustic guitar, it optimised it but not one that can be played! Looking at the python and it's beautiful gibberish in terms of the actual logical maths it's doing.
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It depends what you're trying to do with it. Doing complex reasoning about things that aren't text (like guitar acoustics) isn't going to be a strong point. Not really a 'productivity' task, more a complex reasoning and analysis one.

Productivity is what it's best at, automating and streamlining execution of simple tasks.
 
Asking for an AI section kind of assumes that the forum is based on BI (Biological intelligence).

Not proven m'lud.
 
In all seriousness, I find chatgpt useful for bash scripting. Stuff that would have taken me ages to work out, it can do quickly, but it needs checking and a lot of nudging to get it right because it doesn't take into account things that may or may not happen, or other effects of some of the things it does.
 
Hagar said:
Asking for an AI section kind of assumes that the forum is based on BI (Biological intelligence).

Not proven m'lud.
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Maybe everyone interacts with their own personal version of the internet, where everyone else on it is purely artificial…
 
don't forget the anodyne Amazon reviews.

children / genz already not confident to make phone calls/meet people, and using chatgpt to formulate social media replies ... and Starmers bought the snake-oil too.
 
It's not hard to see how certain forms of AI will accelerate a trend toward laziness and social isolation even more. By the time AGI arrives, humans might be fully ready for plugging into the Matrix.
 
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jpaul said:
don't forget the anodyne Amazon reviews.

children / genz already not confident to make phone calls/meet people, and using chatgpt to formulate social media replies ... and Starmers bought the snake-oil too.
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Sam the man will soon be selling sex guru model replies to help couples too - he's already gearing up models to giving a metaphoric helping hand.
 
I also quite enjoy the idea/speculation that AI will only get worse from here, because it originally trained on actual human content, but as the AI slop reaches saturation, the new LLM models are being trained on AI slop :cry:

I think inevitably, the 'yooth' will have to adapt and learn to get the confidence to actually talk to each other again.... or we just completely cede matchmaking to algorithms and end up in a techno-feudal era where they don't interact at all and just pair up with who they're pointed to, which will almost immediately be pay-to-play (as dating apps already are).
Or further, we have our needs met by AI empowered robots and reproduction is synthetic... ****, we're done for as a species
 
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Emails from old colleagues & uni friends have been escalating recently - I was always their go-to proofreader. One positive aspect of my particular flavour of autism - I can spot every typo/syntax error on a page, at a glance. Like a hyper-nitpicking photographic memory (but only for ****-ups).

AI in the legal profession is certainly a tool - mainly for highlighting those who haven't actually done their homework, or forgotten to renew their subscription to LexisNexis...
 
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