With all the potential money savings government could make with it, it's got to 'trickle down' down right..
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Chatgpt - Seriously good potential (or just some Internet fun)
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With all the potential money savings government could make with it, it's got to 'trickle down' down right..
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It can, but we’re in a cost of living crisis at the moment with CEOs making record bonuses, so it’s a bit of a pipe dream that the upper end will want to support the rest.
I don't believe it would, not for one minute.
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Pretty impressive - I've been using it for SQL queries and some small python automation tasks. Would not have been able to complete these little projects without it (I don't know any SQL or Python)
different slant(versus bbc alarmist article) on the BT AI application in Bloomberg report
Octopus use was reitersated on r4 this morning
after receiving maybe a chatgpt respinse from Clarks shoes the other week, which missed the point of the question, I just thought more crap service.
so non public facing roles impacted - where, like weather forecasting too, say, AI result in a better service.
Octopus use was reitersated on r4 this morning
like using trustpilot, do people really provide satisfaction feedback if they think emails responses are useless ?
after receiving maybe a chatgpt respinse from Clarks shoes the other week, which missed the point of the question, I just thought more crap service.
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I've had only 2 legitimate uses of this kind of tech, where I couldn't think of what best to write for a small event summary page. One being to describe Easter, without involving religion... :/
AI generated the text and I took the useful parts and re-wrote it.
Since doing this, I've become quite interested in the local models you can have running. My 2070 wasn't cutting it with the measly 8gb vram, so picked up a Tesla P40 (with a 1080ti cooler) for the equivalent of 120 quid, and swapped it out. I still don't really have a use for the technology, but it's pretty amazing what you can get running locally with no need for internet connection.
My desktop was seeing less and less use, since moving to handheld PC gaming, but now it's seeing some good use.
AI generated the text and I took the useful parts and re-wrote it.
Since doing this, I've become quite interested in the local models you can have running. My 2070 wasn't cutting it with the measly 8gb vram, so picked up a Tesla P40 (with a 1080ti cooler) for the equivalent of 120 quid, and swapped it out. I still don't really have a use for the technology, but it's pretty amazing what you can get running locally with no need for internet connection.
My desktop was seeing less and less use, since moving to handheld PC gaming, but now it's seeing some good use.
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Gives Google some incentive to better compete with ChatGPT
I kind of wonder, seeing more and more people using this kind of AI to refactor code or generate code frameworks, etc. whether down the line we might see entire applications where no one actually knows what the code does entirely (not an unusual situation now) but with the potential for more routines which no sane human would have created buried away in there, which might work as anticipated 99.999% of the time but with potential for some very bad outcomes. Obviously the same can kind of happen with bugs in human written code. I get the feeling some hard lessons are going to end up being learnt as people use it more and more as a lazy cheat lacking the foresight, or even caring, to see the potential issues.
Going to meet Sam Altman today at 2pm Bedford Way, lots of media will be there. That if I get out of bed today.
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I think you're right. A powerful tool used by lazy people, with lazier people failing to check what it's being used for. Snowballing in to doom.
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I asked ChatGpt:
Question) Are you a glorified search engine?
As an AI language model, I display qualities of intelligence by understanding and generating human-like text based on the input provided to me. While I can retrieve information from a wide range of sources, my responses are not simply regurgitated search results. Instead, I generate new, contextually relevant responses based on the patterns and knowledge I have been trained on.
I can engage in conversations, answer questions, provide explanations, offer suggestions, and assist with a variety of tasks. My responses are generated based on a combination of pre-existing knowledge and the ability to generate language. However, it's important to note that I don't possess personal experiences, emotions, or consciousness. My goal is to assist and provide helpful information to the best of my abilities using the vast amount of knowledge I have been trained on.
Question) Are you a glorified search engine?
As an AI language model, I display qualities of intelligence by understanding and generating human-like text based on the input provided to me. While I can retrieve information from a wide range of sources, my responses are not simply regurgitated search results. Instead, I generate new, contextually relevant responses based on the patterns and knowledge I have been trained on.
I can engage in conversations, answer questions, provide explanations, offer suggestions, and assist with a variety of tasks. My responses are generated based on a combination of pre-existing knowledge and the ability to generate language. However, it's important to note that I don't possess personal experiences, emotions, or consciousness. My goal is to assist and provide helpful information to the best of my abilities using the vast amount of knowledge I have been trained on.
More news (bbc) about AI causing our extinction.
I can easily see it.
Just like how anyone can learn IT because the barrier to entry is the Internet and a cheap pc, so the barrier to AI is similar.
To build a nuke you need a huge facility, many skilled people and expensive, hard to come by resources.
AI? A computer and some super nerds.
The speed in AI the last few years is astonishing. We certainly won't be able to keep up. For now it's going to slaughter the job market... Next decade? I personally can't comprehend.
Its not just a few crack pots saying this. It's prominent people in thier field.
I can easily see it.
Just like how anyone can learn IT because the barrier to entry is the Internet and a cheap pc, so the barrier to AI is similar.
To build a nuke you need a huge facility, many skilled people and expensive, hard to come by resources.
AI? A computer and some super nerds.
The speed in AI the last few years is astonishing. We certainly won't be able to keep up. For now it's going to slaughter the job market... Next decade? I personally can't comprehend.
Its not just a few crack pots saying this. It's prominent people in thier field.
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A.I are decades away. Chat GDP etc it is not A.I, just an advanced index category system just like google was back in 2000 with it is google index search engine.
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I think we'll see a doubling down on AI before the realisation it isn't all it is cracked up to be, as impressive as it can be, likely causing a flux in employment as companies adopt it and then start to realise it is a powerful tool but not a replacement for people.
As per my post above IMO the danger is that increasingly decision making and responsibility will be handed off to AI with less and less oversight and understanding of the full functionality of what the AI is involved in, rather than any kind of specific Skynet like scenario there will be functionality here and there, often quite obscure, which no human would have intentionally designed in resulting in accidents and so on before a broad understanding is developed and things rolled back to a more human touch.
We are still a long way off AI which can truly "think" for itself anyhow.
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Pretty sure a query I had was answered by AI with Razer. Language was odd, every question was 'is this what you mean', style. (whilst that's a valid technique, the conv just seemed a little, odd).
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This reminds me of someone who I used to work with who could not find a use for the internet.
Yep. It's uses are endless, I must use it everyday. If I'm looking for any information on a task I'm doing, it's normally my first call. It consolidates information much quicker than I can gather from Google etc.
I've even used it to map hiking routes out for me, and whilst not Incredible at it. It saves me a chunk of time.
I used it yesterday to do some quaternion maths I needed (game dev stuff). The sort of thing I would normally lug one of my big math textbooks out for, but it's easier to ask ChatGPT to 'write code that extracts a heading from a quaternion'. Job done.
If you work in tech and write any form of code, you need to start using it, or you'll get left behind.
Interesting, broadly speaking it could end up being another thing that fails to revolutionise the world in much the same way carbon nanotube, quantum computing, nuclear fusion hasn't, or atleast if you believed the hype. Once the devil in the detail comes out you see it's decades not year's away the media would have you believe.
Carbon nanotubes are difficult to construct on any kind of mass produced scale, so a construction steal replacement for skyscrapers and whatnot it hasn't. Quantum computing only useful in very specific circumstances, the sort of thing you' see billion dollar firms with it in basements but not home consumer products, it's not replacing traditional computer tech. Nuclear fusion is supremely difficult to sustain, we've still not worked out power transfer into form that can be inserted into the grid, eg steam turbine generator. Definitely won't be free to consumers or offer any kind of power revolution that means the world actually has unlimited energy.