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peto ,

Hey, you know that thing you use? What if it had a button on it that opened an AI prompt?

Well my mum says it’s a really smart idea from her special little innovator.

riodoro1 ,

My company now made mandatory copilot trainings. Nobody wants to use it, but a guy in a suit made them spend hundreds of thousands on it and now it’s our problem.

mipadaitu ,

I get daily emails reminding me that the company paid for copilot and we should be using it.

leisesprecher ,

You could use it to auto reply and delete said mails.

peto ,

Isn’t the entire purpose of copilot that it shouldn’t need much in the way of training? I think the extent of it at my employer is “this is the one you use.”

I’ve tried it a few times, the only thing it seems remotely good for is when your recollection of a source is too fuzzy to form a traditional search query around. “What’s that book series I read in the early 2000s about kids who traveled to another world and the things they brought back from it just looked like junk.” Kind of questions.

Amanduh ,

That’s my favorite use of ai, remembering old ass movies I have fragments of memories about from my childhood

Sc00ter ,

This was our company too. They struck some sort of deal with chat gpt that we use their base code, but aren’t connected to their machine learning. Feels like a pretty reasonable approach in my opinion.

So our training was, “use ours. Don’t use anyone else’s because we don’t want our proprietary information out there to never be able to be scrubbed from the internet”

Tar_alcaran ,

It’s pretty decent at unimportant optimisation tasks with limited options. Like “I’m driving from X to Y, my friend travels by train from Z, what are good places to pick them up?”

mcforest ,

Are you talking about Github Copilot or Microsoft Copilot? Because I really think the 1st one is pretty useful, although I don’t think it needs any training. The 2nd one one the other side is complete bullshit.

batmaniam ,

Dude, they flubbed this so damn hard by over reaching. A few years ago, when they mentioned there would be a button in word that you could use to make a slide deck of your word dock, I was so excited. The teams meeting part where it will summarize meetings is honestly fantastic in doing Roberts rules of order type stuff. My response was “I hate what this means in terms of privacy, but godamn that sounds useful”.

In turning into an everything all or nothing they massively screwed up. I have a self hosted instance of llama-gpt that I use to solve the “blank page” problem that AI was actually great at.

I have a lot of issues with AI on principle, like a lot of folks. But it blows my mind how hard they screwed up delivery (and I don’t just mean the startups, that’s to be expected). There’s plenty to be said about uber at a principle level, but it’s still bloody convenient. The entire roll out of a AI-ecosystem reeks of this meme: “but we made plans!”.

onlooker ,
@onlooker@lemmy.ml avatar

“It has a gradient so you know it’s AI.” <- Uh, what does this mean?

MentalEdge , (edited )
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

AI logos and buttons tend to be “shiny” with a gradient color scheme.

ininewcrow ,
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

What are you talking about asking questions? It’s AI … it’s all we need to know

fossphi ,

I thought they meant gradient descent

mkwt ,

“gradient descent” is a jargon word for one kind of training method.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

“Gradient descent” ≈ on a “hilly” (mathematical) surface, try to find the lowest point by finding the lowest point near an initial guess. “Gradient” is basically the steepness, or rate that the thing you’re trying to optimize changes as you move through “space”. The gradient tells you mathematically which direction you need to go to reach the bottom. “Descent” means “try to find the minimum”.

I’m glossing over a lot of details, particularly what a “surface” actually means in the high dimensional spaces that AI uses, but a lot of problems in mathematical optimization are solved like this. And one of the steps in training an AI agent is to do an optimization, which often does use a gradient descent algorithm. That being said, not every process that uses gradient descent is necessarily AI or even machine learning. I’m actually taking a course this semester where a bunch of my professor’s research is in optimization algorithms that don’t use a gradient descent!

mbtrhcs ,

This is a decent explanation of gradient descent but I’m pretty sure the meme is referencing the color gradients often used to highlight when something is AI generated haha

maniclucky ,

Gradient descent is a common algorithm in machine learning (AI* is a subset of machine learning algorithms). It refers to using math to determine how wrong an answer is in a particular direction and adjusting the algorithm to be less wrong using that information.

xthexder , (edited )
@xthexder@l.sw0.com avatar

The way you phrased that perfectly illustrates the current problem AI has: In a problem space as large as natural language, there are nearly an infinite number of ways it can be wrong. So no matter how much data we feed it, there will always be some “brand new sentence” someone asks that breaks it and causes a wrong answer.

maniclucky ,

Absolutely. It’s why asking it for facts is inherently bad. It can’t retain information, it is trained to give output shaped like an answer. It’s pretty good at things that don’t have a specific answer (I’ll never write another cover letter thank blob).

Now, if someone were to have the good sense to have some kind of lookup to inject correct information between the prompt and the output, we’d be cooking with gas. But that’s really human labor intensive and all the tech bros are trying to avoid that.

dexa_scantron ,
@dexa_scantron@lemmy.world avatar

I thought it meant that all the icons/interfaces for AI seem to have a graphical gradient between colors, usually cool colors like blue/purple/pink. (Like the face in the meme)

leisesprecher ,

No. Not at all. It’s about gradient descent, an optimization technique.

sirico ,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

I hope this comment finds you well,

This meme perfectly captures the desperate plea of tech companies trying to get users to embrace their AI features. It’s like they’re saying, “We promise it’s worth it—just look at that gradient!” 😅

I am an person

Rolando ,

I’m sorry, but I don’t feel comfortable writing a reply to this comment because the only possible intelligent replies involve profanity or hate speech. Would you prefer a nice cookie recipe instead?

Got_Bent ,

Fucking Adobe PDF is becoming damn near unusable because of this. Frustrating because I absolutely have to use it all day every day.

Track_Shovel ,
@Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net avatar

PDF X-change has entered the chat

ThePJN ,
@ThePJN@sopuli.xyz avatar

The ability to filter comments actively as you mark them off as completed is magnificent.

You mark a comment, it hides itself. Neat and tidy, fantastic.

Why doesn’t Adobe do this, you ask? Who the fuck knows. Especially since you used to be able to in Acrobat.

Why? Were people complaining it was too helpful?

Track_Shovel ,
@Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net avatar

I’m still learning it. It has a ton of capabilities, but haven’t got to it yet. It’s OCR is kind of meh, even at highest setting

Oha ,

try okular

PolandIsAStateOfMind ,
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar

??? Most of the AI creators are more like “PAYWALL!!! PAAAAYYYWALLLL!!!”

frcl ,

You can ask it anything bro

Ask it to fuck off.

fubarx ,

I actually like it when these code helpers guess from one line what the rest should be and suggest it. It’s even more fun when it keeps guessing and the suggestions get progressively more whacky. Then they just start making completely unrelated shit up.

Once you say no, it goes back to the beginning and meekly repeats the very first suggestion, like a scolded puppy.

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