“It’s a knick-knack, Patty Wack. Give the frog a loan. His old man’s a Rolling Stone.”
Read the word after “rib”.
Microslop is rebranding Office in order to trick investors into giving them more money for their AI that nobody wants.
And yet, the article never actually quotes the report in question, nor even links to the text of it. What kind of journalism is that?
I use MS365 (I have reasons), and the first thing I do when opening one of the applications for the first time is go into the options and turn the sucker off. I can make enough mistakes on my own without help from a brain-damaged “assistant.”
It looks like you’re trying to turn off AI features! Would you like help with that?
That struck me as well. I went over that article before and I was sure I was just not finding the link, that it was my failure.
One day AI will surely be revolutionary, but relying on it now would be like flying on one of the first airplanes or exploring the ocean in one of the first submarines. One of the first things I learned in my IT career was to not be an early adopter if you can help it.
I use AI as an entertaining novelty. It has been great for generating images for characters in tabletop RPGs. And AI Dungeon has been amusing as an app at times. I do not use it for anything serious. I don’t doubt that it will be amazing after it matures (and after the inevitable bubble bursts) but that isn’t today.
“Just say no to x-dot-oh”
It has its uses but it’s like any tool. People need to be taught how to use it, and even then, they’ll screw it up much of the time.
I’ve got a co-worker who uses AI tools frequently because English is not his first language, and he’s bought into it.
The good part: his written communications are now pretty clear because the tools do the purty English word stuff really well.
The bad part: he’s often blunt and borderline arrogant and a (smart) human editor would have told him to take a different tack entirely in dealing with other people rather than just clean up the grammar and formatting like he has the LLMs do, which often worsens the tone as it now looks like he’s being a professional jackass with the prettied up wording and formatting of a blunt, borderline rude message.
I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a… fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer.
I can still feel the chill of seeing / hearing that scene in a theater at the initial release of 2001 in 1968.
Yeah, I get that way about The Good Place.
Later on there’s a montage where she’s doing six or eight face-plants in a different outfit each time. I remember thinking, “That must have been a grueling day at work.”
Yeah, I wanted that one, but couldn’t find a Youtube clip.
I could be wrong, but I feel like that shows up in one of the ‘every reboot’ montages. IIRC, at some point they sorta conflated Janet being killed with the neighborhood rebooting.
Edit, this one has a bunch starting around 9:56
Generated by AI?
It’s an article written by AI about a report that was generated by AI, and that article is probably being shared by AI as bots comment on it.
Dead Internet Theory being proven true.
And every misinterpretation, misatranslation, misunderstanding &c&c&c is incorporated back into the LLM*. It’s mistakes all the way down.
* Yes, I know that strictly speaking I’m misusing the term. But I hope the point is clear.
Great news for those fearful and angry about “chemtrails” - those lines in the sky that can’t possibly be jet plane contrails, but are part of a secret and sinister plan to spray us with toxic chemicals to do everything from weather modification to sickening and depopulating the planet.
Chicago lawyers, the Blake Horwitz Law Firm are advertising their services for people who want to fight geoengineering in our communal skies. Hard to tell who they will be suing, but someone must pay for spewing barium, strontium, graphene, liquefied auto parts and ground-up fetal remains onto the helpless populace.
Not to worry. Almost 2 years ago the Tennessee legislature was all over this case. From upthread …