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> A large issue was in not managing expectations when it came to AI, and we’ve had 2 cycles to learn that hype trains can maglev themselves into a 10-year ditch
by tempodox 4y ago
> A large issue was in not managing expectations when it came to AI, and we’ve had 2 cycles to learn that hype trains can maglev themselves into a 10-year ditch.
With all the hype around language models I don't get the impression that this lesson has been learned particularly well. All those proponents of “AI” remind me more and more of used-car salesmen.
- jiggawatts 4y agoThe difference is that people are actually paying for ChatGPT because it is immediately useful for day-to-day work tasks. As a random example, ChatGPT 4 is noticeably better at grammar checking than Microsoft Word. If I feed it a couple of paragraphs of text, it'll spot several small errors that Word can't. I don't bother sending documents for internal review any more, I just get the AI to do it in seconds!
- fhd2 4y agoWouldn't it potentially leak everything you send it? ChatGPT that is, I heard with the API it's different.
- camel-cdr 4y agoSo does any non self hosted grammar checker.
- eru 4y agoUnless you personally host it yourself, that's maybe true. If someone else in your company hosts it, they are only bound by contracts. You can also use contracts to bind other companies, when you aren't self-hosting.
- jiggawatts 4y agoIt's no worse than using, say, Microsoft Teams or Microsoft 365. I also make sure not to paste anything sensitive into it. The kind of thing I've find it to be useful for is massaging the one-paragraph intros to be more readable. For example, Microsoft docs tend to use the word "you", which doesn't fit into certain styles of design documents. I used to have to rewrite the product overview paragraphs myself to clean them up, now I just ask ChatGPT to do it.
- osigurdson 4y ago>> It's no worse than using, say, Microsoft Teams or Microsoft 365 I think it is worse. There are multiple notices on ChatGPT to this effect.
- stravant 4y agoPaying for ChatGPT and CoPilot. I would say CoPilot saves me 30-50% of the time it would have taken me by hand depending on what kind of coding task I'm working on.