I fear for my team, really do. We work in audio processing tech. As a small team of five people residing in a third world country, we will never have a chance to compete with big companies because it looks like ML-based audio processing will soon be a commodity. Sad but it's a reality!
What it feels like to work in AI right now
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Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
#422Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There's still a lot of data entry being done from unstructured text. Where specifics like names and addresses need to be extracted from letters and emails and contracts and other stuff. I've worked on these challenges before using different strategies and GPT blows my mind with what it can do just by asking to grab this data and format it as JSON. Is this data confidential or something you are willing to send to an…
This is very confidential data, which is why the current implementation is run on-premise and of course I'm definitely not using production data to test GPT capabilities.
That's good! There have recently been news of companies leaking trade secrets and confidential data by sharing it with ChatGPT: https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-workers-leaked-compan...
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
#423From my perspective it’s just _confusing_ to work in AI right now. We have some massive models that are doing some really neat stuff, and apparently hundreds of millions of people are using them—but I keep wondering: to do _what_, exactly? I’m not asking what the models can do, I’m asking what people want the models to do every day, all the time. I’ve been shown some neat pictures people made that they thought were c…
It's just a glorified google search. You'd save more time googling what you need and picking 2-3 results to read briefly. People have no clue human intelligence has very little to do with "statistical analysis of old data".
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Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
#424From my perspective it’s just _confusing_ to work in AI right now. We have some massive models that are doing some really neat stuff, and apparently hundreds of millions of people are using them—but I keep wondering: to do _what_, exactly? I’m not asking what the models can do, I’m asking what people want the models to do every day, all the time. I’ve been shown some neat pictures people made that they thought were c…
Note: When I write "Midjourney" below, I mean any AI/ML-based art generation tools.
Art generation is going to be groundbreaking for the advertising industry. Basically, you can hire summer interns from arts academies or liberal arts schools to type cool stuff into Midjourney to generate amazing art for your ads. You don't need to pay for real artists, who, sadly, their original artwork was used to train the model.
The same can be said for low-end graphics arts: Stuff like: Make me a greeting card for this big event. Today, you need to pay a graphic artists to whip something up in 2-72 hours. That will be replace by someone with modest English skills working in a call center somewhere in India or Philippines. They might chat with you for five mins (voice or text chat) to brainstorm ideas. Then, they will "drive" Midjourney and put together a nicely-themed party invite.
On the more advanced side, I do think artists will browse the "best of" portfolios on Midjourney (and others) to get new ideas. They might also use Midjourney to get a head start.
The next logical step beyond Midjourney is to generate the same image, but as a 3D model. I think people (myself included!) really (really, really!) underestimate the cost of creating 3D models for films, adverts, and games. If Midjourney could give you a starting model, you might save hours (or days) of work.
Next-Next: Midjourney can provide basic animations of the same 3D model. Again, you can download in a wide variety of formats, so that you can import and tweak as necessary. Think: Pay to play. Rendered as GIF is cheap as hell, but download advanced CAD format with 50K points in the model might cost 100s of USD. (Remember: You are paying for a SaaS engine, not an expensive, talented artist.) Imagine: "Hey Midjourney, I need a 60 second animation of cute animals, like Animal Crossing, sitting at a table enjoying our new brand of tea called 'It's Great Tea Meet You!'." (Use ChatGPT to generate the first draft of the script.) Writing that just made me think: Ok, now you can add voiceover.
The possibilities for the commercialisation of generating still and moving picture are nearly endless, and many will be useful for the advertising, film, and gaming industry.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
#425From my perspective it’s just _confusing_ to work in AI right now. We have some massive models that are doing some really neat stuff, and apparently hundreds of millions of people are using them—but I keep wondering: to do _what_, exactly? I’m not asking what the models can do, I’m asking what people want the models to do every day, all the time. I’ve been shown some neat pictures people made that they thought were c…
> What am I missing? I'm going to guess (assume) you probably haven't worked in a 'real' business. A place where elbow grease still does the majority of the work and where Windows 8 was only just phased out. The killer app (to me) in case of GPT is GPT itself, not ChatGPT. ChatGPT just allows me to easily test use cases for GPT. There are many interesting use cases for those elbow grease businesses for GPT. For examp…
Data entry is a really interesting one to me. We’ve been replacing a legacy (read > 1 MLoC with no tests), system on and off for a few years. The original system had a ton of double entry or manual data entry and the human error rate is noticeable. If GPT could have automated this with a similar or reduced error rate then we would have considered it a win.
The real win long term remains killing off manual entry any time it’s possible, but GPT offers a nice patch.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
At some point, I became disenchanted with tech and working as a software engineer when I realized that tech doesn't ethically fit into our primitive economic organization right now. It's made me feel bad about myself and the career path I've chosen. Basically, with tech, you can build a product with a very limited amount of people and resources with a potentially infinite customer base. And this means that this produ…
But if people are paying for the product then they value it more than the money right? Tech might bring more inequality, but what is the problem with it if it substantially increases everyones standard of living?
Increased standards if living,
also know as trappings.
You need a phone or computer these days to participate in society, to earn a living and so on and you buy these and further services from big tech.
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
I‘ve been using ChatGPT to: - write and explain me more optimised algorithms for certain cryptographic operations - explain funny mathy bits of papers that I don’t understand - plan me a few days of activities for a city holiday So far it’s been great on all accounts!! I was able to get a faster turnaround time in understanding the papers than I would if I were probing a colleague
This post is a clever joke, right? Right...?
You never read something on a paper and had no clue how to even start to get it?
I talked about snippets of papers to work collueges. Chatgpt can do the same thing.
And why wouldn't it? It's only here to help me to find something I can use for further understanding/googling.
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
#428From my perspective it’s just _confusing_ to work in AI right now. We have some massive models that are doing some really neat stuff, and apparently hundreds of millions of people are using them—but I keep wondering: to do _what_, exactly? I’m not asking what the models can do, I’m asking what people want the models to do every day, all the time. I’ve been shown some neat pictures people made that they thought were c…
> What am I missing? I'm going to guess (assume) you probably haven't worked in a 'real' business. A place where elbow grease still does the majority of the work and where Windows 8 was only just phased out. The killer app (to me) in case of GPT is GPT itself, not ChatGPT. ChatGPT just allows me to easily test use cases for GPT. There are many interesting use cases for those elbow grease businesses for GPT. For examp…
Nice call about "Categorization". I would put a lot of "Data Entry" in the same category. Excellent ideas!
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
#429Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and I get grammatically correct sentences that contains topics or words loosely statistically correlated to what were in my sentences, that may or may not be correct and often are not. It's correct enough to pass the bar exam, medical exams, it scores 90-93 percentile on the SAT. This is way more complex and efficient than what you make it to be imo.
> It's correct enough to pass the bar exam, medical exams, it scores 90-93 percentile on the SAT. So is Google Search, and we had that for a long time now. Is a slightly different and more verbose UI really a game changer? (Let's ignore the fact that Google Search is broken from all the SEO spam and monetization. Especially when we have no evidence that ChatGPT is any more resitant to this than Google was.)
Google Search scores 93% on the SAT? On questions that have no solution online?
Re: What it feels like to work in AI right now
#430Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Need to write a speech as a best man > Write a eulogy for a deceased family member Yeah, if you're okay with sounding like marketing copy written by a robot. Remember last month when Stable Diffusion was supposed to put Disney out of business? Not gonna happen.
Amen. It outrages me that someone would waste my time making me listen to a regurgitated, averaged-out, speech written without any emotional fire or depth at an occasion that is profoundly meaningful. A speech as a best man should be personal, heartfelt, it should be funny and a little cringy maybe, and it should mean something. Same with eulogies; this is a moment to celebrate someone's life, to state what that pers…
That's quite arrogant.
Not everyone has ever written something like it.
Why is it unfair or unpersonal if chatgpt helps you, guides you and gives you a good starting point?
Guess how many people would Google some example and starting with that, what's so wrong to let chatgpt generate a shitty first draft already tailored to your situation?