AI

[The binman chronicles]

Your IT team, if at any level competent, will not lose their job to this. And if they do, they'll either get rehired or every single service the company offers will suffer.

I use LLMs a lot for some menial tasks/questions/reminders/boilerplating, but without my genuine stupidity, this artificial intelligence will be unable to do anything at all; currently the famed agents hallucinate and make obvious mistakes that anyone with some experience should catch. Yeah, it has some automations/detections that run perfectly fine, but that's nothing new, and slapping "AI" on that doesn't make it actually work any differently.

Ran it through our brand new intern recently (he's not an abuser of AI at least, hey!), if he asks for something I've already showed/told him, it flat out lies to him or gives him an answer that's roughly in the ballpark, but it takes many more prompts to narrow it down, and even then it's not correct for the use case.

Anyway, the most recent trend that has hit the AI-hype landscape is that the owners of the models are starting to limit the usage, or charge per N tokens/prompts/hours/etc., to no surprise. GitHub Copilot, MS's own "AI for your IDE", is now usage based too, not just "pay us 19$ a month and abuse the living hell out of this". Hopefully this leads to more adequate FOSS/self hosted models in the near future at least.

In my experience it is getting better by the day and with Claude churning out code faster than the testers can keep up, it is bound to start taking IT jobs soon.

 

[orchard]

And they provide practically no employment locally as these facilities tend to run on a skeleton staff. It's not really much more than the Bitcoin mining setups.

Yeah, after the initial build, maybe 100 people for something on this scale with its internal power? Shocking really, and don't some states pretty much tax exempt them for like 15-20years ?
The societal impact of these things is astronomical. What sort of longevity will these things have and what subsequent clean-up will be needed ? There are emerging reports of health issues with low frequency emissions that may travel some distance. There's obviously the hydrocarbon emissions to take into consideration and I imagine the potable water requirements for cooling at a site this large would be interesting:

Utah faces significant water security challenges driven by rapid population growth, prolonged drought, and the urgent need to protect the Great Salt Lake. The state is actively implementing conservation measures, agricultural water optimization, and infrastructure upgrades to manage water supply sustainability.
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Key elements of Utah’s water security include:

• Great Salt Lake Crisis: The lake faces severe depletion, with risks of turning into toxic dust by 2028 without continued mitigation efforts, impacting both ecology and public health.
  Wikipedia
• Water Conservation Initiatives: The state has implemented strict policies to reduce municipal use and encourages agricultural efficiency to manage the shrinking supply.
  Abdul Latif Jameel
• Water Infrastructure and Policy: Investments in infrastructure and updated policies are focused on securing long-term water availability amidst drought and rising demand.
  Abdul Latif Jameel

 

[Zezti]

In my line of work, we have to do thorough anti-money laundering checks.
I have witnessed colleagues just submitting a screenshot of them asking AIs like chatgpt to check for them... If one ever hallucinates and gets it wrong, I doubt it will hold up as evidence in court...

 

[Rita_Poon]

weaponised incompetence.

 

[Tommy Chong]

There was an interesting article on last month’s TIME Magazine on the growing backlash against AI if anyone wants to take a gander…