Seriously though, I find it so difficult to understand why the largest website in the world can’t see that a new account whose only post is ‘daddy, I lonely tonight and need a strong man for company, DM me’ might be worthy of a temporary activity pause?
One of the most fascinating things about generative AI is the businesses and states that are using it are largely doing “we’ve sped up this lengthy process”, whereas the tech companies’ largely seem to be going “we made this thing you like worse”.
An eye-opener for me was a call with colleagues in... let's just call it "country with much worse work-life balance rules". I've been quite critical of gen AI tools we've been testing, because the output quality is unacceptable and cleaning it up is as much work as writing from scratch. But...
Difficult (for me at least) to resist the conclusion they kind of need to start again by which I mean train on much more tightly defined bodies of information. Ofc that implies a more limited product but c’est la vie.
This is what my (uninformed, largely ignorant) brain has kind of dwelled on now and again - more controlled, specialist, legally safe models seem like… something? But I guess they’ll never get the trillion dollar cash-grab valuations.
There might be a problem with saying “we only use verified data” because [goose meme] who verified it, motherfucker? If you say “it’ll search all of human writing” you can wash your hands of copyright laws to a certain degree - it just reads the web!
And i suppose leading on from Stephen’s point about Lowe’s - the Telegraph or Times or FT have large, proprietary data sets that could be used to train eg the automatic application of the style guide. But that’s not as sexy to investors.
My huh hunch is that the best application for it is not answering yes / no ‘truth’ questions but in powering believable virtual reality / gaming environments.
I think the thing it can speed up is turning an address written in text in an email into a database entry, no matter where people have put commas or line breaks. But also: i could have written you a programme to that in 1998.
Eh, my experience is GitHub copilot is decent. The autocompletes can be helpful if you know what you’re doing. Also good for writing throwaway scripts faster.
It speeds up the brain to code process a bit. Though most devs don’t spend that much time doing that overall. Dunno how worthwhile a corporate licence is just to do that.
