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Artificial Intelligence Developments (ChatGPT etc)

A reminder that computing evangelists have been predicting the dawn of real AI as a few months away for about 50 years now.
 
Re wishful thinking, there is a lot of that. There are voices within academia that have been saying from the start that the various problems of hallucination, etc, can't be fixed. Unsurprisingly with the amount of money invested in this stuff, they're ignored in favour of the person who is upbeat. 'Can Do' attitude and all that.
Got to have a growth mindset!
 
A reminder that computing evangelists have been predicting the dawn of real AI as a few months away for about 50 years now.

I don’t remember the proclamations in 1974.

But tbf I had more prosaic concerns at the time.
 
Upgraded DuckDuckGo earlier and was met with this blurb about DuckDuckGo Ai Chat

Anyone used it yet?


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No, but I love LLMs so I'll give it a try.

Been using some of the new voice ones as a revision aid when driving. Gemini is pretty good at more natural conversation, but really lacks the awareness of earlier conversation which makes ChatGPT. It's what most of the normal LLMs seem to lack as well.

I tried the voice ChatGPT and it's as good as Gemini in terms of conversation, but you only get ten mins free a month on the good one and the free one is awful.
 
I was just shown this advert.

Can anyone explain what it is trying to say?



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It's saying that his CEO couldn't afford to hire anybody else, but luckily they were able to work with "Motion AI" and the magic robot did all the work for them. (As a project manager, which, you know, is hard to believe). Their Whatsapp also seems to work in reverse for some reason.
 
a) a new employee (presumably a project manager)
b) the number of people on a team. If you "increase your headcount" then you add somebody new to the team.
But the CEO says "we weren't approved for your 2025 headcount". I don't understand who "we" is. And who is doing the approving?
 
But the CEO says "we weren't approved for your 2025 headcount". I don't understand who "we" is. And who is doing the approving?
I suppose maybe the Board might have had to approve the budget. But it mostly sounds like he is trying to distance himself from the consequences of a decision he took. Which would be appropriate for a company that thinks shoddy AI tools can replace human imagination and inventiveness.
 
Ok, so what it should actually say is "we didn't get approval for your 2025 headcount".

And the third message, which has escaped from the Whatsapp screen is also from the CEO.

And the first message saying "ok" is entirely irrelevant.

And the handwritten green tick is an unexplained mystery.

And it is supposed to be written from the perspective of the employee, who has been refused extra staff on their team, because the CEO has decided to use AI instead.

Are we supposed to suppose that the employee, in whose shoes we are being placed as reader of the advert, is pleased because their boss is pleased? Or are we supposed to be viewing the advert from the perspective of the CEO?

I think this must be the worst advert I've ever seen.
 
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