March 3, 20241 yr 6 hours ago, MC Fresh Breath said: I quote that as someone who uses ChatGPT from time to time. Mainly to help format code or find an answer that I don't have to read through various Stack Oveflow answers on now. It also handily comes w/o the derision and arguing that can be present on Stack Overflow. Doesn't always get things right, but it is usually close. I also know when I do this I'm helping to train it. Ah well. You should use a coding specific tool like GitHub copilot or AWS codewhisperer, those LLMs are fine tuned for code and usually give better results than a generalist foundational model
March 3, 20241 yr Facebook just announced them going all in on AI. Those AI servers are power intensive.
March 3, 20241 yr On 3/2/2024 at 8:58 PM, Captainant said: You should use a coding specific tool like GitHub copilot or AWS codewhisperer, those LLMs are fine tuned for code and usually give better results than a generalist foundational model yep. have copilot at work. i still often find the chatgpt engagement a bit better edit: for random tasks. for sure copilot when i have code in flight is quite a bit more direct. however i enjoy sometimes 'engaging' with chatgpt for more of the 'why.' Edited March 4, 20241 yr by MC Fresh Breath
March 4, 20241 yr My team at work just got security approval for a new set of in-house built tools that are pretty sweet. If we record a meeting, we can throw the .mp4 at a slack bot and it'll transcribe the call and then author a summary that gives stakeholders in the call, key details, decisions made, and action items for each stakeholder identified. Saves me a good 15 to 20 minutes of cleaning up my notes from a call, and my customers LOVE it! It's not replacing me, but it's making me a hell of a lot more efficient and better documented
March 4, 20241 yr 22 minutes ago, Captainant said: My team at work just got security approval for a new set of in-house built tools that are pretty sweet. If we record a meeting, we can throw the .mp4 at a slack bot and it'll transcribe the call and then author a summary that gives stakeholders in the call, key details, decisions made, and action items for each stakeholder identified. Saves me a good 15 to 20 minutes of cleaning up my notes from a call, and my customers LOVE it! It's not replacing me, but it's making me a hell of a lot more efficient and better documented This gives you more time to spend on Surly.
March 4, 20241 yr On 2/21/2024 at 1:27 PM, Goredho said: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-lost-mind Uh oh. As The Independent reports, ChatGPT users have spent the last 24 hours or so flocking to social media to share screenshots and anecdotes of bizarre interactions with the OpenAI chatbot — which, well, appears to be losing its mind. Screenshots show the AI's responses to seemingly normal queries devolving into total gibberish, or simply generating way too much content. In one case highlighted by the Independent, a Redditor shared that the AI — when asked a question about coding, mind you — provided a garrulous and mostly illogical answer that included the statement: "let's keep the line as if AI in the room." more in the link ChatLobo/Cruiser/YGIFS?
March 5, 20241 yr 43 minutes ago, BeardIP said: This? https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2024/02/27/einstein-copilot-news/ Nope, but that looks pretty similar to Amazon's Q or Azure's AI Language where you can integrate it with your knowledge sources (confluence, sharepoint, ServiceNow, etc) and it can help answer contextual questions - but it's tied into that one system. We've got an in-house built system that started as a tech learning project and grew into an nice little internal tool, but under the covers it's just interfaces and API's so new intents and functionality is coming every month or so as more folks contribute to it Edited March 5, 20241 yr by Captainant
March 19, 20241 yr Is there anything stopping people from putting out albums that sound like famous singers/bands? I mean like if you cranked out an album of cover songs from various famous singers/bands, would you be sued, like the song below. Asking for a friend.
April 5, 20241 yr On 1/29/2024 at 2:36 PM, Captainant said: It's not chatGPT, but is another great example of the "AI' really being offshore humans via a very elaborate Mechanical Turk https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/amazons-ai-based-just-walk-out-checkout-tech-was-powered-by-1000-indian-workers-manually-11712196827721.html
April 5, 20241 yr On 3/4/2024 at 1:50 PM, Captainant said: and better documented **Surly plantiff's lawyer licks chops.
June 14, 20241 yr Competitor for ChatGPT et al: https://venice.ai/chat Info: https://moneyandstate.com/blog/the-separation-of-mind-and-state
July 23, 20241 yr On 3/2/2024 at 3:41 PM, thunderlounge said: Really could be a problem in the wrong hands. And it’s already there. I don’t think the tech itself is the scary part, but if people believe the falsehoods created. I think we need to show the people who are gullible to this stuff, this video from 1984 because Stewart and Herb knew what was up on Computer Chronicles.
July 23, 20241 yr I think we need to show the people who are gullible to this stuff, this video from 1984 because Stewart and Herb knew what was up on Computer Chronicles. +1 for that blast from the past.And +1 for Lady Ada Lovelace, we’ve been at this AI thing a very very long time.
July 23, 20241 yr On 3/4/2024 at 4:13 PM, Nice Guy Eddie said: This gives you more time to spend on Surly. This and reduces he said she said non-sense or horrible interpretation. The team and AI agree that the client/contact said X, George. You're the only one who thinks they were talking about shrimp the entire time.
July 23, 20241 yr the problem with ai is that it is reductive, because it has to be, but it is beng advertised as "generative" all it's generating is a response indexed from the internet or a knowledge base. to the effect that it is creating something "new" it is doing so out of used parts, if you will. as such, it can not actually be generative or creative in any real sense.
July 23, 20241 yr the problem with ai is that it is reductive, because it has to be, but it is beng advertised as "generative" all it's generating is a response indexed from the internet or a knowledge base. to the effect that it is creating something "new" it is doing so out of used parts, if you will. as such, it can not actually be generative or creative in any real sense.Sounds like something a robot would say
July 23, 20241 yr 9 hours ago, General Specific said: +1 for that blast from the past. And +1 for Lady Ada Lovelace, we’ve been at this AI thing a very very long time. There's like around 500 or so episodes up on Youtube - Stewart had kept all of the archives of the original studio reels, so even though they weren't quite 35mm or even 16mm, they still look pretty good for what was basically a weekly PBS show starting in the 80s. He released them all to the Internet Archive and YouTube. And the fascinating thing about that show is that the SRI International that the co-host Herb is a part of, as are some of the interviewees, is Stanford Research Institute, which had an AI lab in 1966. At the point that show taped, that lab had been humming along for 18 years. I've been working my way through the shows as they pop up (it's on my bucket list to finish all of them) and AI got a lot of mention in the earlier shows, and then in the later 80s it stopped being talked about, which mirrors the industry as a whole. I haven't watched a lot of 90s episodes, so I don't know if it gets a mention that much (I'm focusing on the Gary Kildall era first). Edited July 23, 20241 yr by atomheartbevo
July 23, 20241 yr Rich Heimann wrote a really good book called Doing AI. It's great for the layidiots like me to understand the weird world of AI, both in business and in academics. Edited July 23, 20241 yr by BurntEyes
December 1, 20241 yr I see commercials from these companies (Google mostly I think) advertising AI as your "new friend." Like one that shows how AI can coach you through an ice bath. Is there REALLY a market for fake friends? Am I out of touch because that's sad, scary and stupid.
December 1, 20241 yr 4 hours ago, Parliament said: I see commercials from these companies (Google mostly I think) advertising AI as your "new friend." Like one that shows how AI can coach you through an ice bath. Is there REALLY a market for fake friends? Am I out of touch because that's sad, scary and stupid. Let me introduce you to the concept of an AI girlfriend Haven't read this specific article but will get the concept across https://apnews.com/article/ai-girlfriend-boyfriend-replika-paradot-113df1b9ed069ed56162793b50f3a9fa It's BIG money
December 9, 20241 yr Oh ho ho, shitty AI driven copyright takedowns are coming to domain registrars now. Neat. They've been able to restore the site now, but holy what the fuck. It's wild there were zero humans in the loop to safeguard against an abuse like this. Well actually, it's not surprising. But it is still outrageous
December 10, 20241 yr 15 hours ago, Captainant said: Oh ho ho, shitty AI driven copyright takedowns are coming to domain registrars now. Neat. They've been able to restore the site now, but holy what the fuck. It's wild there were zero humans in the loop to safeguard against an abuse like this. Well actually, it's not surprising. But it is still outrageous This happens consistently at my job. AI thinks it sees some violation and sends out a warning to the client to cease and desist. Client is like, um, yeah, what you are concerned about isn’t actually happening. Learn some nuance. And then us humans have to come in and clean up the mess. But let’s just keep laying people off and outsource to AI and India. What could go wrong.
December 13, 20241 yr On 12/1/2024 at 11:16 AM, Parliament said: I see commercials from these companies (Google mostly I think) advertising AI as your "new friend." Like one that shows how AI can coach you through an ice bath. Is there REALLY a market for fake friends? Am I out of touch because that's sad, scary and stupid. Yes there is a market for fake AI friends who can take social media comments posted to some singer’s YouTube channel and turn them into music videos Not safe for work at all Spoiler
December 14, 20241 yr 3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said: What a fucking shitshow this has turned out to be. It really is incredible how much money openAI (and pretty much every other foundational model author) is going to make by ignoring copyright and IP laws while feeding their models. I don't think that bell is gonna get unrung, but it's another salient example of having a completely different set of rules if you're rich enough
December 14, 20241 yr 5 hours ago, Captainant said: It really is incredible how much money openAI (and pretty much every other foundational model author) is going to make by ignoring copyright and IP laws while feeding their models. I don't think that bell is gonna get unrung, but it's another salient example of having a completely different set of rules if you're rich enough Some shit is starting to go down. Photobucket is a shadow of its former glory and it may have just gotten itself sued out of existence. https://petapixel.com/2024/12/13/photobucket-sued-for-licensing-billions-of-users-images-to-train-ai/
December 15, 20241 yr Geocities guy is really kicking himself in the nuts over not saving all that data.
December 15, 20241 yr 23 minutes ago, Ted Lange said: Geocities guy is really kicking himself in the nuts over not saving all that data. 2 hours ago, Ted Lange said: Photobucket
December 15, 20241 yr 11 hours ago, Captainant said: It really is incredible how much money openAI (and pretty much every other foundational model author) is going to make by ignoring copyright and IP laws while feeding their models. I don't think that bell is gonna get unrung, but it's another salient example of having a completely different set of rules if you're rich enough I think it's very likely copyright infringement, but there may need to be some kind of compulsory licensing scheme that makes it easy and economical to train AI. I mean, we cornhole musicians on the reg, so why not everyone and at least AI doesn't output things similar to copyright works. But, I was told repeatedly that lawyers would be put out of business by AI, but it seems that the output of most LLM is just wrong enough to be very dangerous for lawdogs, so I won't get anywhere near it other than as a novelty. I saw this reported as scandalous somehow: https://www.wired.com/story/us-patent-trademark-office-internally-banned-generative-ai/ "The agency dedicated to protecting new innovations prohibited almost all internal use of GenAI tools, though employees can still participate in controlled experiments." Well, yeah, the software that outputs three- or six-fingered bullshit has no place in the USPTO.
December 17, 20241 yr Is this where we bitch about all of the spam robocalls about government benefits? It can be amusing to have a conversation with the bots.
December 17, 20241 yr On 12/14/2024 at 7:34 PM, TwiceHorn said: But, I was told repeatedly that lawyers would be put out of business by AI, but it seems that the output of most LLM is just wrong enough to be very dangerous for lawdogs, so I won't get anywhere near it other than as a novelty. I saw this reported as scandalous somehow: https://www.wired.com/story/us-patent-trademark-office-internally-banned-generative-ai/ "The agency dedicated to protecting new innovations prohibited almost all internal use of GenAI tools, though employees can still participate in controlled experiments." Well, yeah, the software that outputs three- or six-fingered bullshit has no place in the USPTO. I think this is missing a big opportunity in linguistic data science. Parents are thick, complex documents that are hard to parse through. If the USPTO were to do a feature extraction (which uses genAI mechanisms and models) on its corpus of patents that would greatly simplify the process of checking for prior examples when processing new applications. Transformers are still being explored and learned about, but they already have great use as a tool for processing large and disparate sets of data - like patents. Retrieval augmented generation and feature searching through documents is going to be very transformative. A customer of mine is exploring a similar technique for getting their arms around their huge fleet of contracts where every region has their own way of doing things and nobody in their central governance wants to take the time to read hundreds of thousands of contracts. It's allowed them to get hard, verifiable data out of their paper and start using it at scale to inform future decisions making They're absolutely NOT using it to originate contracts though. That would be lunacy. Edited December 17, 20241 yr by Captainant
January 2Jan 2 This is a really excellent video that explains how LLM's encode, store, and retrieve facts from a knowledge store. If you're into the underlying math and computational sciecne behind deep learning, the whole series is excellent.
January 2Jan 2 1 hour ago, Captainant said: This is a really excellent video that explains how LLM's encode, store, and retrieve facts from a knowledge store. If you're into the underlying math and computational sciecne behind deep learning, the whole series is excellent. Wow. That was really interesting. I have an engineering degree, so I took matrix analysis and vector calculus. Without that knowledge and an understanding of multidimensional space and vectors, that would be total gibberish.
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