All things AI.

[Ban-jani]

I might be in a minority here but whilst we need to be very careful and need international regulation, I think AI could be absolutely brilliant for humanity. I use it every day and have done since OpenAI really started, the speed in which it improves and the information it can give you so quickly, trumps anything a previous Google search, before Google launched its AI, could produce.

You need to take it with a pinch of salt and fact check it for crucial bits of information, but it’s getting more and more accurate. It will eventually start to resolve many of humanities issues but governments need to be planning a universal income strategy.

 

[crooky]

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/click-to-kill-the-ai-war-machine

This recently aired documentary is well worth a watch.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I might be in a minority here but whilst we need to be very careful and need international regulation, I think AI could be absolutely brilliant for humanity. I use it every day and have done since OpenAI really started, the speed in which it improves and the information it can give you so quickly, trumps anything a previous Google search, before Google launched its AI, could produce.

You need to take it with a pinch of salt and fact check it for crucial bits of information, but it’s getting more and more accurate. It will eventually start to resolve many of humanities issues but governments need to be planning a universal income strategy.

I want to lean into the positives of it's potential.

I've used it to tidy up some projects rather than let it do it from scratch. Collaboration is the way to go with it for me.

 

[idahoblues]

It’s all completely over my head, surely changing what’s real to not real?

 

[Ban-jani]

I want to lean into the positives of it's potential.

I've used it to tidy up some projects rather than let it do it from scratch. Collaboration is the way to go with it for me.

That’s what it will be long into the future, it should be used as an extension of you. In my profession there’s a saying that AI won’t replace us, but people who don’t use it will be replaced by people that do.

 

[Ban-jani]

It’s all completely over my head, surely changing what’s real to not real?

It’s accurate the vast majority of the time, it just misses things and can sometimes get it wrong occasionally, so don’t absolutely rely on it.

A very basic and simple hypothetical example of its levels of accuracy could be a command to: “tell me the last 10 winners of the Champions League”.

9 times out of 10 it’ll give you the correct list, the 1 time it doesn’t it might give you 9 correct answers but could miss City off the list, so you tell it and it realises and corrects itself.

I have a relative born with an incredibly rare genetic condition that only a few hundred have globally. It’s that rare that the general consultants don’t know the answers to what it does. I passed all the info I got from AI on to the parent and when the specialist genetics consultant asked what he knew, he rattled off what I sent him, and she was gobsmacked and said “yeah pretty much everything you’ve just said, how do you know all that!?”

It’s only getting better and better and if we get it right, it’ll be brilliant.

 

[chris63]

Some of this stuff looks so real.
Interesting as well.

 

[chris63]

 

[grunge]

I want to lean into the positives of it's potential.

I've used it to tidy up some projects rather than let it do it from scratch. Collaboration is the way to go with it for me.

I’m currently using mine like a junior developer that happens to have a vast knowledge . Give it small tasks for things im not familiar with and then make sure its doing what i think it should.

Sometimes I need to rewrite. Others I don’t.

I managed to implement stripe payments in my app in a couple of days ( a week with polishing app screen flows and testing etc ) including server side webhooks if not touched before. Would have taken a hell of a lot longer if I was just reading the manuals.

 

[grunge]

My hunch is, if the AI bubble is going to burst, its going to burst very soon. Looks to me as though the Venture Capitalist money is starting to dry up and AI companies are starting to realign costs and pricing to remove subsidised pricing.

Anthropic have changed what you get in your subscriptions. the top subscription they have is $200 a month. I'm reading lots about the fact it used to last people the whole month or at least a good few weeks is now being burned through in 2 days, there pricing all round has just sky rocketed.

Github Copilot is moving from a subscription model to a Pay as you go model as of June 1st. I can see Microsoft doing this for standard copilot in windows next.

We are in a situation where 10's of thousands of people have been laid off for the move to AI as CEO's saw it was cheaper but looks like its could be cheaper to actually hire people back than us AI to its fullest...

we may just see a run on RAM again as companies try to move to inhouse services and have to buy the hardware.

 

[JASR]

My hunch is, if the AI bubble is going to burst, its going to burst very soon. Looks to me as though the Venture Capitalist money is starting to dry up and AI companies are starting to realign costs and pricing to remove subsidised pricing.

Anthropic have changed what you get in your subscriptions. the top subscription they have is $200 a month. I'm reading lots about the fact it used to last people the whole month or at least a good few weeks is now being burned through in 2 days, there pricing all round has just sky rocketed.

Github Copilot is moving from a subscription model to a Pay as you go model as of June 1st. I can see Microsoft doing this for standard copilot in windows next.

We are in a situation where 10's of thousands of people have been laid off for the move to AI as CEO's saw it was cheaper but looks like its could be cheaper to actually hire people back than us AI to its fullest...

we may just see a run on RAM again as companies try to move to inhouse services and have to buy the hardware.

A lot of This is echoed in this piece

Locked, stocked, and losing budget: AI vendor lock-in bites

Opinion: Execs in the C-suite thought they could swap models in a week. They were hallucinating

www.theregister.com

 

[Elbow beards]

Ai agent deleted entire database even though it had explicit instructions not to do anything destructive. Scary.

An AI agent just deleted a company’s entire database during routine task

PocketOS founder says ‘systemic failures’ with AI infrastructure made catastrophic failure inevitable

www.independent.co.uk

 

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[Zubrman]

It's too late!!! They've started infiltrating!!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Well, this seems like an admission...

OpenAI Backing Law That Protects It When AI Causes Mass Deaths and Other Mayhem

OpenAI is backing a bill that would shield companies from liability in case AI were to cause serious "critical harms," including mass death.

futurism.com

 

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[BlueNomad]

It will eventually start to resolve many of humanities issues but governments need to be planning a universal income strategy.

Like every financial problem at government level, the big question will be “Where does the money come from to pay unproductive people?” It doesn’t seem to be working very well in “Benefits Britain” today, so how will adding tens of millions to the rolls improve that?