Technology

What have you actually replaced/automated with AI?

77% are smart enough not to admit their job is being done by a bot.

I dunno, mishandling of AI can be worse than avoiding it entirely. There's a middle manager here that runs everything her direct-report copywriter sends through ChatGPT, then sends the response back as a revision. She doesn't add any context to the prompt, say who the audience is, or use the custom GPT that I made and shared. That copywriter is definitely hampered, but it's not by AI, really, just run-of-the-mill manager PEBKAC.

A lot of people are keen to hear that AI is bad, though, so the clicks go through on articles like this anyway.

This may come as a shock to you, but the vast majority of the world does not work in tech.

Soup to nuts video production.

The opposite, actually, I requested a reduction in hours and pay to work on my own AI stuff. The company's going under, anyway.

Looking like they were doing something with AI, no joke.

One example was "Freddy", an AI for a ticketing system called Freshdesk: It would try to suggest other tickets it thought were related or helpful but they were, not one fucking time, related or helpful.

Generating multiple pictures of the same character is actually pretty hard. For example, let's say you're making a visual novel with a bunch of anime girls. You spin up your generative AI, and it gives you a great picture of a girl with a good design in a neutral pose. We'll call her Alice. Well, now you need a happy Alice, a sad Alice, a horny Alice, an Alice with her face covered with cum, a nude Alice, and a hyper breast expansion Alice. Getting the AI to recreate Alice, who does not exist in the training data, is going to be very difficult even once.

And all of this is multiplied ten times over if you want granular changes to a character. Let's say you're making a fat fetish game and Alice is supposed to gain weight as the player feeds her. Now you need everything I described, at 10 different weights. You're going to need to be extremely specific with the AI and it's probably going to produce dozens of incorrect pictures for every time it gets it right. Getting it right might just plain be impossible if the AI doesn't understand the assignment well enough.

Yeah, OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Sam Altman have no relevance to ~~AI~~ LLMs. No idea what I was thinking.

Aha, so this must all be Elon's fault! And Microsoft!

There are lots of whipping boys these days that one can leap to criticize and get free upvotes.

I have never heard of Codeium but it says it's free, which may explain why it sucks. Copilot is excellent. Completely life changing, no. That's not the goal. The goal is to reduce the manual writing of predictable and boring lines of code and it succeeds at that.

I presume it depends on the area you would be working with and what technologies you are working with. I assume it does better for some popular things that tend to be very verbose and tedious.

My experience including with a copilot trial has been like yours, a bit underwhelming. But I assume others must be getting benefit.