Friday OT #1 - Faking It

[Angie]

I was just at a work conference this week that was almost entirely about the use of AI, with specific applications in certain industries. It was really interesting to hear some of the biggest technical minds of our generation, including a former CEO of Google, talk about how they use generative AI today and how they think it should be used going forward.

Do you use AI in your day-to-day? Yesterday I used it to:

- Help me write an empathetic business thank you note
- Seed the beginning wording of a personal bio
- Help me write a pun from an acronym

Those are pretty disparate uses - do you use it at all?

 

[Cyclonepride]

I haven't really discovered anything that I need it for. Most of the skills I regularly use have become developed to the point where I don't feel the need for the help, and honestly, I think my skills would decline if I leaned on something to do it for me.

 

[KnappShack]

I ask it stupid questions

It thinks farting and blaming the dog is unethical and rude to the dog.

 

[cycloneG]

My development team is using AI for image analysis on medical images. We use it to detect anomalies, measure various objects, and texture analysis. Pretty cool stuff!!

 

[Angie]

I ask it stupid questions

It thinks farting and blaming the dog is unethical and rude to the dog.

I think my first question to ChatGPT ever was, “please tell me about the smallest breed of dog, but make it a haiku.”

 

[Angie]

My development team is using AI for image analysis on medical images. We use it to detect anomalies, measure various objects, and texture analysis. Pretty cool stuff!!

Oh my gosh, one of the speakers was full on a company who is working on exactly that technology!

 

[mj4cy]

I like that it can get you down the path of something you want to do but it lacks in on the spot problem solving (at least in my engineering world).

For example, I could have AI design a steel building frame, but what would happen if the contractor makes a huge error ect.

 

[somecyguy]

Reading the subject title, I thought this was coming from my wife.

I do a fair amount of small business consulting and I find that AI helps me get started on an idea or help laying out plans.

 

[NWICY]

I'm just waiting for it to send out the robots from Boston Dynamic to kill us all.

 

[OscarBerkshire]

I think AI initially will be most useful to do things we can't already do ourselves. Like spotting cancer really early on or (this one its already good at) pricing products properly; things that are really complicated but have clearly defined objectives. I don't really use it in my day to day as I write code and make powerpoint slides

 

[Angie]

I think AI initially will be most useful to do things we can't already do ourselves. Like spotting cancer really early on or (this one its already good at) pricing products properly; things that are really complicated but have clearly defined objectives. I don't really use it in my day to day as I write code and make powerpoint slides

Its application as a supplemental tool in medicine and business is honestly nothing short of amazing.

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

Does listening to an AI generated DJ on Spotify count?

 

[JP4CY]

I feel like the only times I use it are for something like an instant chat about an online order.

 

[CYdTracked]

One of our senior IT leaders tried to demo Microsoft Copilot the other month during a presentation and his demo turned out to be a huge failure so that was comical to watch him sweat a bit after hyping up what he was about to show everyone. I don't see us rolling out that product for awhile until they test it in our environment thoroughly plus probably will have to run it through through our risk department to make sure its use is within regulation compliance.

Replica has a neat NPC AI demo out right now that I've tinkered with. It's pretty cool to try to interact with the NPCs that have AI bots behind them and see what kind of conversations and reactions you can get. Just like humans they have a variety of personalities and different takes on life so 1 NPC can sound depressed and everything is doom and gloom with everything you ask them then the next one have a positive outlook and give some optimistic responses. AI definitely will change the future of gaming when you can interact with NPCs and they don't give predictable or scripted responses.

 

[CYdTracked]

I guess another fun use of AI is finding videos on YouTube where someone used AI voices to make content. I've found videos of Hank Hill singing songs or POTUS playing video games that are funny.

 

[Angie]

One of our senior IT leaders tried to demo Microsoft Copilot the other month during a presentation and his demo turned out to be a huge failure so that was comical to watch him sweat a bit after hyping up what he was about to show everyone. I don't see us rolling out that product for awhile until they test it in our environment thoroughly plus probably will have to run it through through our risk department to make sure its use is within regulation compliance.

Replica has a neat NPC AI demo out right now that I've tinkered with. It's pretty cool to try to interact with the NPCs that have AI bots behind them and see what kind of conversations and reactions you can get. Just like humans they have a variety of personalities and different takes on life so 1 NPC can sound depressed and everything is doom and gloom with everything you ask them then the next one have a positive outlook and give some optimistic responses. AI definitely will change the future of gaming when you can interact with NPCs and they don't give predictable or scripted responses.

I found it really interesting to hear all of these industry leaders talking about how they largely use it for email in their day-to-day lives currently even when they are building apps and programs off of it for their work lives.

 

[CYdTracked]

I found it really interesting to hear all of these industry leaders talking about how they largely use it for email in their day-to-day lives currently even when they are building apps and programs off of it for their work lives.

I can see some good uses for it to make you more efficient with managing your inbox or creating presentations but it comes with a caveat that you still need to review everything before you use it as AI isn't perfect either. I can see some lazy manager just using it to fire off a quick response without actually reviewing the content carefully and that winds up coming back to bite them when what was sent was not accurate or led someone in the wrong direction that results in a costly mistake. With MS Copilot I think the biggest time saver will be those who make a lot of powerpoint presentations to be able to have it setup a good template to just need to tweak the content and look a bit as building a deck from scratch is the most time consuming part of creating a powerpoint presentation.