Me neither! It’s tainted my subscription. Good ol’ Cunty Jack gets everywhere
Two large megacorp clients of mine have both signed contracts for an AI provider to start doing a chunk of their internal content generation (endless cryptic slide decks)`and then move onto brand commercial materials, whilst completely coincidentally slashing their agency budget and putting a significant proportion of their head office staff at risk.
Last year they strapped an AI app onto their sales reps calls with customers…
De Montfort, Leicester, 1976 I think. Or maybe it was 2007 ?
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I just watched this. I enjoyed it.
The message I’ve taken home is that AI might sometimes be useful for speeding up dull stuff. But if we start to mistake it for real intelligence (or for anything real at all TBH), particularly if we are ourselves vulnerable/sad/isolated, then real harm can result. At best it might just detach us even more from reality. At worst it might lead us to do something very harmful indeed. Slight spoiler: one of the programme’s example ‘victims’ has been sentenced to 9 years in prison, but that won’t take place until he gets out of Broadmoor.
As is so often the case, the problem isn’t that AI shows signs of intelligence. It’s that AI is way, way too shallow to be depended upon.
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Did you wat h all 3 progs?
No. I just caught up with the first one that I’d missed. I’m usually not a binge watcher of stuff, although I’m sure the BBC wanted me to 
. There’s not much on on Monday nights. I’ll catch the next one (driverless cars ?) tomorrow.
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Thanks for letting me know.
I will keep my powder dry, I didn’t want to post any spoilers if you hadn’t seen all three.
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Barclays have just done this - fired about 20 branding/marketing staff and replaced with an offshore team using GenAI.
What’s just as upsetting is the fact that it’s still pretty easy to spot AI generated content. I work wiht a lot of non native English speakers and can immediately tell when they’ve used GenAI. You still need to have strong English language skills to work with it and produce well written results (I’m sure this will change, but as of now). So the fact that people don’t care if they’re churning out AI slop is just as upsetting as the loss of jobs itself - frankly probably worse in the long term vision of where we’re heading.
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It’s going great 
Jesus, presumably that’s all verifiable and the resulting damages are going to a bit more than pocket change?
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Presumably Google updates it Terms of Service with ‘chatbot - danger of death’ 
and gathers the most expensive legal team ever assembled to try to make this go away.
Yet another ‘product’ released in beta stage for the population to QA at their own risk.
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BBC News - Armed robots take to the battlefield in Ukraine war
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Bad news for a few of us: looks like snippy know-it-alls are getting upgraded…
Aside from the meat of the article, I really, really fucking hate the way people are anthropomorphising these things. It gives them a sense of identity and agency that simply isn’t there.
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Tl;dr: slop makes Pi faff more difficult/expensive. I was wondering why the retailers had empty shelves.
It’s really fucked up quite a lot of things. GPUs were already at a premium, due to Crypto Currency mining, but the AI companies have made the GPU situation even worse, and fucked with both Memory availability AND storage availability. A lot of this is also based on stated plans to build data centers that look increasingly unlikely to happen, as there’s simply not the captial to build them. What’s particularly bad is that OpenAI forced a huge shift in the market on the promise to buy future products, which they had no intention of buying, they just wanted to block competitors from acquiring the hardware.