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Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by userbinator »

fluidcruft wrote: post #3

The flip side to this is that if you come to depend on a companies AI, then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you. This is a real problem companies need to address before I even begin to trust or rely on these tools. It's going to lead to massive growth of shadow IT.

then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you.

I suspect that's "a feature, not a bug" in the company's view.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by jxmorris12 »

skybrian wrote: post #4

> I’d imagine my emails are stored somewhere too, as well as the notes I wrote via Google docs. These aren't the same. It's been many years since I worked there, but it was well known that by default, email was automatically deleted after a while unless it was overridden for some reason (as sometimes is required for legal reasons). If you want to save something, Google Docs would be a better choice. ... > I don’t kno…

This is a fair point. I remember the default chat setting was to delete all chats after 24 hours. I think emails had a similar retention policy — they were automatically after a year or something like that.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by pphysch »

Powerful LLMs are one thing, but it seems the current approach for full "agentic" AI like this is just another attempt at Expert Systems.

In time we will probably look at LLMs like we do ALUs; magical superhuman AI at inception, but eventually just another mundane component of human-engineered information systems.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by Chance-Device »

> the thing that scares me about the existence of this data is that it seems well within the capabilities of current technology to train a model that can replicate me, in some sense

There’s already all of your posts on social media accounts, all your emails on various servers, all of your text messages, all the notes you’ve written anywhere in any form that might end up in some database in the future.

It does make me wonder how much of a person could be inferred by an LLM or future AI from that data. It would never be enough though, I think, to do it properly. There are too many experiences and knowledge you have that might influence what you write without being directly expressed.

Will all of our content end up in some database in the future, and someone decides to make agents based on what they can link to specific identities? Interesting thought.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by eikenberry »

fluidcruft wrote: post #3

The flip side to this is that if you come to depend on a companies AI, then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you. This is a real problem companies need to address before I even begin to trust or rely on these tools. It's going to lead to massive growth of shadow IT.

Local, open source models are the answer to this. You never lose access and should be able to grow with you for years.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by fluidcruft »

eikenberry wrote: post #16
fluidcruft wrote: post #3

The flip side to this is that if you come to depend on a companies AI, then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you. This is a real problem companies need to address before I even begin to trust or rely on these tools. It's going to lead to massive growth of shadow IT.

Local, open source models are the answer to this. You never lose access and should be able to grow with you for years.

Yes, but only if on your own hardware or as a service that stays with the individual rather than the company.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by brookst »

Chance-Device wrote: post #15

> the thing that scares me about the existence of this data is that it seems well within the capabilities of current technology to train a model that can replicate me , in some sense There’s already all of your posts on social media accounts, all your emails on various servers, all of your text messages, all the notes you’ve written anywhere in any form that might end up in some database in the future. It does make m…

Seems likely, given the number of models already fine tuned on notable historical figures.

Not sure if it makes it better or worse that most of us are probably mostly useful as virtual focus groups / crowds rather than any particular interest in you or me as individuals.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by fluidcruft »

userbinator wrote: post #11
fluidcruft wrote: post #3

The flip side to this is that if you come to depend on a companies AI, then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you. This is a real problem companies need to address before I even begin to trust or rely on these tools. It's going to lead to massive growth of shadow IT.

then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you. I suspect that's "a feature, not a bug" in the company's view.

Yes, but as an information worker it means and I avoid the company's infrastructure like the plague. There should be a symbiotic solution here, but corporate IT tend to have their heads up their asses.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by belter »

Udemy has recently forced all Instructors to accept the AI mode for their content. So expect soon the courses to be 100% GenAI.

Expect the same coercion, for a future role at any company: "We will record all you do to train your GenAI replacement".

Maybe it will apply to the C-Suite...

https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/ai-algorithmic-and-...

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