Re: How have you used AI outside of programming?

There's a person on the IBM Community trying to foist himself as Mr. AI and
he keeps responding to questions with AI generated material. Some has
value, but it is fraught with errors. Tends to really vex people who have
already done due diligence and searched the web and just want real world
experience they've come to expect from forums.

I consider it like a really bad spell checker who replaces your good
intentions with something extremely foul and nasty, but spelled correctly.

On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Bob,

Am 09.01.2025 um 00:24 schrieb Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

As an aside, I'm also curious how your users are utilizing these tools

in their jobs outside of the ERP systems? I see a lot of promise for
assisted coding, creating digital art, summarizing YouTube videos, and
analyzing data to a certain degree. But what more useful things can these
things do that we can help our users utilize them to their full potential?

Many people apparently use ML as a mere toy, to generate funny images,
internet memes or play with it to see how "intelligent" it is.

Having started testing ChatGPT only fairly recently, my experience is:
- Garbage in, garbage out. It has been trained from stuff on the internet
and the internet is full of sh*t.
- You can't just trust what it comes up with. Example: I've asked it what
MULIC and FULIC means and it made up "multi-volume interactive cartridge",
and "full interactive cartridge". Always do secondary checking. Depending
on what you want to achieve, the extra time asking ChatGPT in the first
place might be completely wasted.
- The output heavily depends on topic. The more stuff the net has about
something, the more the generated output might be correctly derived. For
now and the foreseeable future, checking is mandatory.

Because of the mandatory checking part, I largely question ML's real world
value. Blindly trust a YouTube video summary until you find it's subtly
wrong? Cursing because the proposed code snipped doesn't work as
copy-pasted? Wrong conclusions from data analyzation leading to losing
money? Six fingered hands?

I assert, the technology is still in its infancy and has nevertheless been
released to the public, fostering the next hype in the IT industry, always
seeking new opportunities to feed their shareholders. Media fed the hype
with untenable promises, creating an almost perfect feedback loop with the
moneymakers. And people sit in between, are fascinated about how human-like
the output seems and reflect their own desires into "AI", including those
who firmly believe they're chatting to an intelligent digital animate being.

I refuse to call what we currently have AI, because it's very artificial,
and all but intelligent. It's ML, and to me, real world use cases are
fairly limited because you just can't trust the output for factual
correctness. ML is — somewhat simplified — a program having been written by
a program being fed by inconceivably large amounts of "example data".

Yet, there are actually helpful use cases. Such as code snippet proposals
as a starting point. That might help for not starting from 0. But then, the
same can be found on the net with ordinary searches. It must, because
that's where ChatGPT got its input data from.

:wq! PoC

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