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[–] peto@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Hey, you know that thing you use? What if it had a button on it that opened an AI prompt?

Well my mum says it's a really smart idea from her special little innovator.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

My company now made mandatory copilot trainings. Nobody wants to use it, but a guy in a suit made them spend hundreds of thousands on it and now it’s our problem.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I get daily emails reminding me that the company paid for copilot and we should be using it.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago

You could use it to auto reply and delete said mails.

[–] peto@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Isn't the entire purpose of copilot that it shouldn't need much in the way of training? I think the extent of it at my employer is "this is the one you use."

I've tried it a few times, the only thing it seems remotely good for is when your recollection of a source is too fuzzy to form a traditional search query around. "What's that book series I read in the early 2000s about kids who traveled to another world and the things they brought back from it just looked like junk." Kind of questions.

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

That's my favorite use of ai, remembering old ass movies I have fragments of memories about from my childhood

[–] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

This was our company too. They struck some sort of deal with chat gpt that we use their base code, but aren't connected to their machine learning. Feels like a pretty reasonable approach in my opinion.

So our training was, "use ours. Don't use anyone else's because we don't want our proprietary information out there to never be able to be scrubbed from the internet"

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's pretty decent at unimportant optimisation tasks with limited options. Like "I'm driving from X to Y, my friend travels by train from Z, what are good places to pick them up?"

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[–] mcforest@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago

Are you talking about Github Copilot or Microsoft Copilot? Because I really think the 1st one is pretty useful, although I don't think it needs any training. The 2nd one one the other side is complete bullshit.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Dude, they flubbed this so damn hard by over reaching. A few years ago, when they mentioned there would be a button in word that you could use to make a slide deck of your word dock, I was so excited. The teams meeting part where it will summarize meetings is honestly fantastic in doing Roberts rules of order type stuff. My response was "I hate what this means in terms of privacy, but godamn that sounds useful".

In turning into an everything all or nothing they massively screwed up. I have a self hosted instance of llama-gpt that I use to solve the "blank page" problem that AI was actually great at.

I have a lot of issues with AI on principle, like a lot of folks. But it blows my mind how hard they screwed up delivery (and I don't just mean the startups, that's to be expected). There's plenty to be said about uber at a principle level, but it's still bloody convenient. The entire roll out of a AI-ecosystem reeks of this meme: "but we made plans!".

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope this comment finds you well,

This meme perfectly captures the desperate plea of tech companies trying to get users to embrace their AI features. It's like they're saying, "We promise it's worth it—just look at that gradient!" 😅

I am an person

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I'm sorry, but I don't feel comfortable writing a reply to this comment because the only possible intelligent replies involve profanity or hate speech. Would you prefer a nice cookie recipe instead?

[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fucking Adobe PDF is becoming damn near unusable because of this. Frustrating because I absolutely have to use it all day every day.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

PDF X-change has entered the chat

[–] ThePJN@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The ability to filter comments actively as you mark them off as completed is magnificent.

You mark a comment, it hides itself. Neat and tidy, fantastic.

Why doesn’t Adobe do this, you ask? Who the fuck knows. Especially since you used to be able to in Acrobat.

Why? Were people complaining it was too helpful?

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago

I'm still learning it. It has a ton of capabilities, but haven't got to it yet. It's OCR is kind of meh, even at highest setting

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 0 points 2 months ago
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (6 children)

"It has a gradient so you know it's AI." <- Uh, what does this mean?

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

I thought they meant gradient descent

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

What are you talking about asking questions? It's AI ... it's all we need to know

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ai logos and buttons tend to be "shiny" with gradient color scheme.

[–] Delta_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

This is the actual answer, the other replies are over thinking it. There’s a gradient on his face ffs

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"gradient descent" is a jargon word for one kind of training method.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Gradient descent" ≈ on a "hilly" (mathematical) surface, try to find the lowest point by finding the lowest point near an initial guess. Hopefully, the lowest point near your initial guess is low enough to pass as a solution to your problem.

"Gradient" is basically the steepness, or rate that the thing you're trying to optimize changes as you move through "space". The gradient tells you mathematically which direction you need to go to reach the bottom. "Descent" means "try to find the minimum".

I'm glossing over a lot of details, particularly what a "surface" actually means in the high dimensional spaces that AI uses, but a lot of problems in mathematical optimization are solved like this. And one of the steps in training an AI agent is to do an optimization, which often does use a gradient descent algorithm. That being said, not every process that uses gradient descent is necessarily AI or even machine learning. I'm actually taking a course this semester where a bunch of my professor's research is in optimization algorithms that don't use a gradient descent!

[–] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago

This is a decent explanation of gradient descent but I'm pretty sure the meme is referencing the color gradients often used to highlight when something is AI generated haha

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gradient descent is a common algorithm in machine learning (AI* is a subset of machine learning algorithms). It refers to using math to determine how wrong an answer is in a particular direction and adjusting the algorithm to be less wrong using that information.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The way your phrased that perfectly illustrates the current problem AI has: In a problem space as large as natural language, there are nearly an infinite number of ways it can be wrong. So no matter how much data we feed it, there will always be some "brand new sentence" someone asks that breaks it and causes a wrong answer.

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Absolutely. It's why asking it for facts is inherently bad. It can't retain information, it is trained to give output shaped like an answer. It's pretty good at things that don't have a specific answer (I'll never write another cover letter thank blob).

Now, if someone were to have the good sense to have some kind of lookup to inject correct information between the prompt and the output, we'd be cooking with gas. But that's really human labor intensive and all the tech bros are trying to avoid that.

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought it meant that all the icons/interfaces for AI seem to have a graphical gradient between colors, usually cool colors like blue/purple/pink. (Like the face in the meme)

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No. Not at all. It's about gradient descent, an optimization technique.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

No. Nobody uses gradient descent anymore, it’s just the technique you learn about in beginner level machine learning courses. It’s about the color gradient in all the AI logos.

[–] monsterpiece42@reddthat.com 0 points 2 months ago

Yes this is the correct answer. The words in the meme are written to a hypothetical end user. They would not reference technology like the other person said.

[–] frcl@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You can ask it anything bro

Ask it to fuck off.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

And it'll tell you it can't respond to that because of its rules (censorship) and then say that using glue is a good way to off yourself.

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

I actually like it when these code helpers guess from one line what the rest should be and suggest it. It's even more fun when it keeps guessing and the suggestions get progressively more whacky. Then they just start making completely unrelated shit up.

Once you say no, it goes back to the beginning and meekly repeats the very first suggestion, like a scolded puppy.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

??? Most of the AI creators are more like "PAYWALL!!! PAAAAYYYWALLLL!!!"

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I had to change WhatsApp language to Fr*nch for it's facebook AI button to disappear.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

first good thing the French have done

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago
[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

You could also just not use the button though right? Lol

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In my country we don't have an AI button either. What it's supposed to do?? It's the AI talking for you? Or it's just another chatbot trying to get your data?

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[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fucking google messages now has "AI"

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And Proton Mail as of today. JFC JUST GIVE ME A LINUX DRIVE CLIENT FOR FUCKS SAKE.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Proton Mail also has AI? Just opened the app and found nothing

[–] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

No bro, you didn't use enough ✨✨✨✨ emoji

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Please bro please let me generate a few sentences of garbled sentences for you please bro I fucking love to say stuff like "delve" please

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

If the amount of money spent equalled the amount of utility in the stuff it would be more popular than it is

[–] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I have never once found an "AI" feature integrated by a corporation useful.

I have only ever found "AI" useful when it's unobtrusive, and something I chose to use manually. Sometimes an LLM is useful to use, but I don't need it shilled to me inside a search bar or in a support chat that won't solve my problem until I bypass the LLM.

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[–] hawdini@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago

Kagi’s AI summariser is pretty good. It cites its sources and, by default, it only kicks in when you search with a ? on the end.

To be fair, I’m pretty impressed with Kagi Search overall. But that’s a topic for a different thread, I think.

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